Levan Maisashvili | |
Birth Place: | Georgia |
Ru Currentposition: | Head coach |
Coachteams1: | Lelo Saracens (Assistant coach) |
Coachyears1: | 1994–2001 |
Coachteams2: | Georgia U-19 (Assistant coach) |
Coachyears2: | 2000–2003 |
Coachteams3: | Lelo Saracens |
Coachyears3: | 2001–2020 |
Coachteams4: | Georgia U-19 |
Coachyears4: | 2003–2006 |
Coachteams5: | Georgia U-18 |
Coachyears5: | 2006–2007 |
Coachteams6: | Georgia U-20 |
Coachyears6: | 2007–2008 |
Coachteams7: | Georgia XV |
Coachyears7: | 2008–2014 |
Coachteams8: | Georgia U-19 |
Coachyears8: | 2009 |
Coachteams9: | Emerging Georgia |
Coachyears9: | 2014–2018 |
Coachteams10: | Georgia (Assistant coach) |
Coachyears10: | 2018–2019 |
Coachteams11: | Georgia (interim) |
Coachyears11: | 2020 |
Coachteams12: | Georgia |
Coachyears12: | 2021–2023 |
Coachteams13: | Black Lion |
Coachyears13: | 2021–2023 |
Coachteams15: | Black Lion (interim) |
Coachyears15: | 2023–2024 |
Levan Maisashvili is a Georgian professional rugby union coach. He was the head coach of the Georgia and the Black Lion side that participates in the EPCR Challenge Cup and Rugby Europe Super Cup.[1] [2] While coach of the Georgian national team during the 2021 July rugby union tests, Maisashvili contracted COVID-19 and was seriously ill in hospital.[3] He was in hospital for two months, after being placed on a ventilator with 'serious lung damage' having contracted the illness on 2 July 2021.[4]
In 2023, he decided to leave the position of the national team head coach following the team's poor performance at 2023 Rugby World Cup.[5]