Davit Gogilashvili

Iberia 1999

Full name	Football Club Iberia 1999
Nickname	Red Eagles
Founded	20 August 1999; 27 years ago (1999-08-20) as Saburtalo
Ground	Mikheil Meskhi Stadium
Capacity	27,223
Chairman	Tariel Khechikashvili
Manager	Levan Korgalidze (acting)
League	Erovnuli Liga
2025	Erovnuli Liga, 1st of 10 (champions)
Website	fciberia1999.ge
Home colours Away colours

FC Iberia 1999 (Georgian: იბერია 1999), formerly known as FC Saburtalo, is a Georgian football club, based in the Saburtalo District of Tbilisi, the capital of the country.

Since the introduction of the Erovnuli Liga in 2017, they have been the most decorated Georgian team with seven top titles.^{[citation needed]}

Saburtalo was founded on 20 August 1999, in Tbilisi. In 2005, the club was bought by Iberia Business Group and its owner Tariel Khechikashvili, who later became the Minister of Sport & Youth Affairs of Georgia.

Following the 2014–15 season, Saburtalo won their respective Pirveli Liga group with a nineteen-point margin and advanced to the Umaglesi Liga.

In 2018, Saburtalo who had not won any silverware during the previous three seasons in the top-flight, claimed the champion's title for the first time under coach Gia Chiabrishvili.

A year later, they successfully completed their cup campaign after a 3–1 win over Locomotive in the final. In 2020, Saburtalo beat champions Dinamo Tbilisi to lift the Georgian Super Cup.

Next seasons saw the team winning two more cup trophies and two league titles with 2022 being the only year when Saburtalo failed to win any domestic tournament. The team won their second league title under coach Levan Korgalidze in 2024, followed by another triumph a year later.

Iberia 1999 were eliminated from the 2026–27 UEFA Champions League qualifying before reaching the Europa League play-off round, thereby securing a place in the Conference League league phase as the first Georgian club to compete in the competition.

Season	League	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GF	GA	P	Cup	Europe	Manager
as Saburalo
2013–14	Erovnuli Liga 2	8	26	9	5	12	38	34	32	DNP		Temur Shalamberidze
2014–15	Erovnuli Liga 2	1↑	36	28	3	5	92	25	82	First round		Giorgi Chiabrishvili
2015–16	Umaglesi Liga	8	30	11	6	13	47	61	39	First round
2016	Umaglesi Liga	3	12	5	4	3	17	12	19	First round		Pablo Franco
2017	Erovnuli Liga	4	36	18	6	12	61	42	60	Fourth round		Giorgi Chiabrishvili
2018	Erovnuli Liga	1	36	24	7	5	64	29	79	Third round
2019	Erovnuli Liga	3	36	21	7	8	67	36	70	Winners	Champions League - 2QR Europa League - 3QR
2020	Erovnuli Liga	5	18	7	6	5	28	21	27	Semi-final	Europa League - 1QR	Temur Shalamberidze Levan Korgalidze
2021	Erovnuli Liga	4	36	15	8	13	52	40	57	Winners		Khvicha Shubitidze
2022	Erovnuli Liga	6	36	13	8	15	51	49	47	Semi-final	Conference League - 2QR	Lasha Nozadze
2023	Erovnuli Liga	6	36	14	9	13	58	49	51	Winners		Omari Tetradze Giorgi Mikadze
as Iberia 1999
2024	Erovnuli Liga	1	36	23	6	7	74	46	75	Round of 16	Conference League - 3QR	Giorgi Mikadze Levan Korgalidze
2025	Erovnuli Liga	1	36	24	8	4	60	24	80	Runners-up	Champions League - 1QR	Levan Korgalidze Gia Geguchadze Guga Nergadze
2026	Erovnuli Liga									Quarterfinals	Champions League - 2QR Conference League LP	Guga Nergadze Andriy Demchenko

Saburtalo made their debut in a UEFA competition in 2019 after being paired with Moldovan side Sheriff Tiraspol in the UEFA Champions League first qualifying round. They cruised to an away 3–0 victory, although survived an early scare in the return leg after conceding three goals within the opening ten minutes.

The team twice reached the third qualifying round of UEFA competitions before securing their first qualification for the league stage in 2026.

As of 27 August 2026

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Agg.
2019–20	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Sheriff Tiraspol	1–3	3–0	4−3
		2QR	Dinamo Zagreb	0−2	0−3	0−5
	UEFA Europa League	3QR	Ararat-Armenia	0−2	2−1	2−3
2020–21	UEFA Europa League	1QR	Apollon Limassol	—N/a	1–5	—N/a
2022–23	UEFA Europa Conference League	1QR	Partizani	0–1	1–0 (a.e.t.)	1−1 (5–4 p)
		2QR	FCSB	1–0	2–4	3–4
2024–25	UEFA Europa Conference League	2QR	Partizani	2–0	0–0	2–0
		3QR	İstanbul Başakşehir	0–1	0–2	0–3
2025–26	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Malmö FF	1–3	1–3	2−6
	UEFA Europa Conference League	2QR	FCI Levadia	2–2 (a.e.t.)	0–1	2–3
2026–27	UEFA Champions League	1QR	Flora	2–2	3–2	5−4
		2QR	Slovan Bratislava	0–2	1–1	1−3
	UEFA Europa League	3QR	Larne	2–1 (a.e.t.)	0–0	2–1
		PO	Jagiellonia Białystok	1–2	0–4	1–6
	UEFA Conference League	LP	Copenhagen	—N/a
			Red Star Belgrade		—N/a
			Getafe		—N/a
			Sint-Truiden	—N/a
			Jablonec	—N/a
			Mjällby AIF		—N/a

Notes

• QR: Qualifying round

As of 27 August 2026

Legend: GF = Goals For. GA = Goals Against. GD = Goal Difference.

As of 14 September 2026

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GEO Tornike Megrelishvili 3 DF  CRO Phillip Čančar 4 DF  LUX Vahid Selimović 5 DF  GEO Jemali-Giorgi Jinjolava (captain) 6 MF  GEO Nikoloz Dadiani 7 FW  GEO Daniel Kvartskhava 8 MF  GEO Bakar Kardava 9 FW  GEO Amiran Dzagania 10 FW  GEO Zviad Natchkebia 11 MF  GEO Andria Bartishvili (on loan from Kolkheti) 14 MF  NGR Ibrahim Alhassan 15 DF  GEO Luka Mamulashvili 16 GK  GEO Revaz Kurtanidze 17 FW  NGR Stephen Ende (on loan from Sabah) 18 MF  BRA Lucas Café 19 FW  GEO Nika Sikharulashvili

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 FW  GEO Saba Marsagishvili 22 DF  URU Sebastián Figueredo (on loan from Leganés) 23 MF  UKR Eldar Kuliyev 24 FW  GEO Vakho Bedoshvili (on loan from Pari Nizhny Novgorod) 25 DF  GEO Aleksandre Amisulashvili 26 FW  GEO Giorgi Beridze 27 MF  GEO Giorgi Kutsia (on loan from Veres Rivne) 29 FW  GEO Lado Chikhradze 30 DF  GEO Nikoloz Bochorishvili 31 GK  GEO Giorgi Makaridze 32 FW  GEO Davit Gogilashvili 33 DF  FRA Jean-Marc Tiboue 35 MF  GEO Saba Avdoevi 39 DF  GEO Giorgi Chanturia 40 DF  GEO Giorgi Kobuladze

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Season	Div.	Player	Goals
2013–14	2nd	Laurenzo Larky	5
2014–15	2nd	Guram Goshteliani	26
2015–16	1st	Giorgi Kharaishvili	12
2016	1st	Giorgi Kharaishvili	5
2017	1st	Giorgi Kharaishvili	13
2018	1st	Vagner Gonsalves	20
2019	1st	Giorgi Diasamidze	11
2020	1st	Beka Kavtaradze	11
2021	1st	Iuri Tabatadze Dmitri Mandrîcenco	11
2022	1st	Irakli Sikharulidze	12
2023	1st	Cheikne Sylla	12
2024	1st	Giorgi Kokhreidze	16
2025	1st	Iuri Tabatadze	11

This is the list of footballers who have played for the team and had international caps for their respective countries.

The reserve team currently competes in the 3rd division after a one-year tenure in Erovnuli Liga 2 in 2025.

The U19s won their youth league in 2016 and 2022, while the U17 team secured three titles in the early 2020s.

The club has one of the top football academies in the country. Their youth teams play at the Bendela stadium named after young footballer Zaza Bendeliani who as an Abkhazia war hero was posthumously granted the Vakhtang Gorgasali Order in 1993.

Saburtalo is the name of one of Tbilisi's districts where the team academy and stadium Bendela are located, while the term Iberia 1999 refers to the Latin name Iberia given to the kingdom of Kartli which existed in Georgia in the period of Classical Antiquity; it has no connection to the Iberian Peninsula (Spain, Portugal, Andorra, Gibraltar).

On 27 February 2024, the team's name was changed to Iberia 1999.

The club uses the Mikheil Meskhi Stadium in Tbilisi for their home matches.

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