Levan Maisashvili

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]

Levan Maisashvili

Place of birth	Georgia
Rugby union career
Position(s) Head coach Current team Black Lion Coaching career Years Team 1994–2001 Lelo Saracens (Assistant coach) 2000–2003 Georgia U-19 (Assistant coach) 2001–2020 Lelo Saracens 2003–2006 Georgia U-19 2006–2007 Georgia U-18 2007–2008 Georgia U-20 2008–2014 Georgia XV 2009 Georgia U-19 2014–2018 Emerging Georgia 2018–2019 Georgia (Assistant coach) 2020 Georgia (interim) 2021–2023 Georgia 2021–2023 Black Lion 2023–2024 Black Lion (interim)

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] Currently he is a high performance director of Georgian Rugby Union.