for 2006. Return to Cherno More In June 2008, Iliev made a comeback for his first team Cherno More. On 2 October 2008, Georgi scored the 2nd goal for the Sailors in the UEFA Cup match against VfB Stuttgart in the away 2–2 draw at the Mercedes-Benz Arena. Iliev took over the captaincy of Cherno More when Aleksandar Aleksandrov was transferred to Levski Sofia in 2009. On 26 October 2009, he made his 100th league appearance for Cherno more in a 1–1 draw against Slavia Sofia, scoring the only goal. On 18 April 2012, Iliev scored a hat-trick in the 7–1 win over Kaliakra Kavarna. Shijiazhuang Yongchang Iliev signed with Chinese side Shijiazhuang Yongchang on 6 January 2014 on a two-year deal for a reported fee of €100,000. He finished 2014 season in the China League One as the club's top scorer with 9 goals, helping his team to gain promotion to the Chinese Super League for first time in club's history. On 5 April 2015 he scored his first goal for Shijiazhuang in Chinese Super League in a 1–2 away loss to Jiangsu Sainty. Second return to Cherno More Iliev returned for his third stint with his hometown club in 2016. In his 300th match for Cherno More in the country's top flight he scored twice against Dunav Ruse on 26 October 2018 to become the second highest scoring player in the history of Cherno More. The game also marked Iliev's 423rd appearance in First Professional Football League, surpassing another Cherno More legend, Todor Marev, as the footballer with the 4th highest number of appearances in the league's history. Release from Cherno More and return to Lokomotiv Plovdiv Iliev, along with five other senior players, was omitted from the team squad for Cherno More's away game against eventual champions Ludogorets on the last day of the 2018-19 season. After the match, which Ludogorets won 4–1 to become Bulgarian champions for the eight consecutive year, Cherno More's manager Ilian Iliev confirmed that the players have been released after failing a polygraph test concerning their conduct in the 1–3 defeat against title-hopefuls CSKA Sofia on 4 May in Varna. The manager claimed undertaking the test was "unpleasant, but voluntary." Georgi Iliev strongly contested the accusations stemming from the results, calling them "a filthy lie", and insisting on his and his colleagues' innocence. The six players undertook second polygraph test, which they