(Tbilisi. April 26, 2003. Civil Georgia) – UEFA announced on April 25 that Georgia will not have to stage replay of the EURO 2004 qualifying match against Russia in Tbilisi behind closed doors on April 30.
However, the Georgian Football Federation (GFF) will instead have to pay a fine of ?53,000, and the match will be watched by a limited number of spectators, UEFA reports.
UEFA’s Appeals Body has partially upheld an appeal by the GFF against the initial ruling that Georgia would have to play one match behind closed doors, made by the UEFA Control and Disciplinary Body earlier this month following incidents at the Group 10 qualifying match against the Republic of Ireland in Tbilisi on 29 March.
Georgian-Russian match will be watched by a limited number of fans. UEFA has formally acknowledged the proposal of the GFF that access to the match should be granted to the 11,000 ticket holders from the abandoned qualifier against Russia on 12 October last year, which was abandoned at half-time because of floodlight failure at the Lokomotivi stadium in Tbilisi.