| Clubname: | Iberia |
| Fullname: | Football Club Iberia 1999 |
| Nickname: | Red Eagles |
| Ground: | Mikheil Meskhi Stadium Tbilisi, Georgia |
| Capacity: | 25,453 |
| Chairman: | Tariel Khechikashvili |
| Manager: | Levan Khorgalidze |
| League: | Erovnuli Liga |
| Season: | 2024 |
| Position: | 1st, Champions |
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FC Iberia 1999 (formerly known as FC Saburtalo) is a Georgian football club,[1] based in Tbilisi, the capital of the country.
Saburtalo was founded on 20 August 1999, in Tbilisi.[2] 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.
Saburtalo has one of the top football academies in the country. The club has a full-size stadium, called Bendela, with the capacity of 1,800 spectators.
In March 2016, Manolo Hierro was appointed as the sporting director of the club.[3]
Saburtalo is the name of one of Tbilisi's districts. On 27 February 2024, the team's name was changed to Iberia 1999.[4] [5]
| Competition | Titles | Seasons | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domestic | scope=col | Erovnuli Liga | 2 | 2018, 2024 |
| scope=col | Erovnuli Liga 2 | 1 | 2014–15 | |
| scope=col | Georgian Cup | 3 | 2019, 2021, 2023 | |
| scope=col | Georgian Super Cup | 1 | 2020 | |
| Season | League | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | GF | GA | P | Cup | Europe | Notes | Manager | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| as Saburalo | |||||||||||||||
| 2013–14 | Erovnuli Liga 2 | 8 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 38 | 34 | 32 | DNP | Temur Shalamberidze | ||||
| 2014–15 | Erovnuli Liga 2 | align=right bgcolor=gold | 1 | 36 | 28 | 3 | 5 | 92 | 25 | 82 | First round | Promoted | Giorgi Chiabrishvili | ||
| 2015–16 | Erovnuli Liga | 8 | 30 | 11 | 6 | 13 | 47 | 61 | 39 | First round | |||||
| 2016 | Erovnuli Liga | 3 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 19 | First round | Lost Bronze play-offs to Dinamo Tbilisi | Pablo Franco | |||
| 2017 | Erovnuli Liga | 4 | 36 | 18 | 6 | 12 | 61 | 42 | 60 | Fourth round | Giorgi Chiabrishvili | ||||
| 2018 | Erovnuli Liga | align=right bgcolor=gold | 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 | Teimuraz Shalamberidze Levan Korgalidze | |||
| 2021 | Erovnuli Liga | 4 | 36 | 15 | 8 | 13 | 52 | 40 | 57 | Winners | Conference League - 2QR | Khvicha Shubitidze | |||
| 2022 | Erovnuli Liga | 6 | align=right | 36 | align=right | 13 | 8 | 15 | 51 | 49 | 47 | Semi-final | Lasha Nozadze | ||
| 2023 | Erovnuli Liga | 6 | 36 | 14 | 9 | 13 | 58 | 49 | 51 | Winners | Conference League | Omari Tetradze Giorgi Mikadze | |||
| as Iberia 1999 | |||||||||||||||
| 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 | 1–5 | |||
| 2022–23 | UEFA Europa Conference League | 1QR |  Partizani | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1−1 | |
| 2QR |  FCSB | 1–0 | 2–4 | 3–4 | |||
| 2024–25 | UEFA 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 |