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{{Short description|Governing body of football

 in Georgia}}
{{National football association
| Logo               = Georgian Football Federation logo.svg
| Badge size         = 200px
| Founded            = {{start date and age|1936}}<br />(Soviet Union),<br />{{start date and age|1990}}<br/>([[Georgia (country)|Georgia]])
| FIFA affiliation   = 1992
| Region             = [[UEFA]]
| Region affiliation = 1992
| President          = [[Levan Kobiashvili]]
}}
[[File:Georgian Football Federation 2018.04.25.jpg|260px|right|thumb|GFF headquarters in Tbilisi, [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]].]]
The '''Georgian Football Federation''' ({{small|abbr.}} '''GFF'''; {{lang-ka|საქართველოს ფეხბურთის ფედერაცია}}, ''sakartvelos pekhburtis pederatsia'') was founded in 1936. Based in [[Tbilisi]], it was part of the Football Federation of Soviet Union from 1936 to 1989. The Independent Georgian Football Federation was established on 15 February 1990. It is the governing body of [[Football in Georgia (country)|football in Georgia]]. It organizes the football league, the [[Erovnuli Liga]], and the [[Georgia national football team]].

==List of the presidents of the Georgian Football Federation==
{| class="wikitable"
! {{Abbr|No.|Number}}
! Image
! Name
! Took office
! Left office
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2" |1
| rowspan="2" |[[File:Nodar Akhalkatsi. 1981.jpg|70 px]]
| rowspan="2" |'''[[Nodar Akhalkatsi]]'''
|15 February 1990
|17 September 1994
|-
|17 September 1994
|24 January 1998<ref>[https://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/1998-01-26/16_3/ УМЕР Нодар АХАЛКАЦИ]. www.sport-express.ru. 26 January 1998</ref>
|-
| align="center" rowspan="2" |2
| rowspan="2" |
| rowspan="2" |'''[[Merab Zhordania]]'''
|25 January 1998
|24 August 2002
|-
|24 August 2002
|11 June 2005
|-
| align="center"|3
|
|'''[[Nodar Akhalkatsi Jr.]]'''
|11 June 2005
|13 May 2007
|-
| align="center"|4
|
|'''[[Georgi Nemsadze]]'''
|13 May 2007
|14 May 2007
|-
| align="center"|3 (II)
|
|'''Nodar Akhalkatsi Jr.'''
|17 May 2007
|17 September 2009<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180624092912/http://www.interpressnews.ge/en/sport/11391-nod-akhkts-left-geog.html?ar=A Nodar Akhalkatsi Left Georgia]. www.interpressnews.ge (archived). 17 September 2009</ref>
|-
| align="center"|—
|
|[[Revaz Arveladze]] ''(Acting)''
|17 September 2009
|1 October 2009
|-
| align="center"|5
|
|'''[[Domenti (Zviad) Sichinava]]'''
|1 October 2009
|7 September 2015
|-
| align="center"|—
|
|[[Aleksandre Chivadze]] ''(Acting)''
|7 September 2015
|3 October 2015
|-
| align="center" |6 (I)
| rowspan="3" |
| rowspan="3" |'''[[Levan Kobiashvili]]'''
|3 October 2015
|15 February 2019
|-
|6 (II)
|15 February 2019
|4 February 2023
|-
|6 (III)
|4 February 2023<ref>[https://1tv.ge/news/zedized-mesamed-levan-kobiashvili-fekhburtis-federaciis-prezidentad-airchies-1tvsport/ ზედიზედ მესამედ - ლევან კობიაშვილი ფეხბურთის ფედერაციის პრეზიდენტად აირჩიეს]. https://1tv.ge, 13:20, 04.02.2023.</ref>
|Incumbent
|-
|}

==Sponsors==
* [[Bank of Georgia]]
* Paragraph Tbilisi
* [[Coca-Cola]]
* [[Macron (sportswear)|Macron]]

==See also==
* [[Georgia women's national football team]]
* [[Georgia women's football championship]]
* [[Georgian Basketball Federation]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120515140207/http://www.gff.ge/ Official website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070607000835/http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=geo/index.html Georgia] at FIFA site

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{{UEFA associations}}
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{{Georgia national football team}}

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