The Tskhinvali Post
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Tskhinvali
Vakhtang Shengelia was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Zurab Mikautadze pulls a muscle — 16 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Market3 Aug 2026
Archil Lobjanidze attracts admirers
The name of Archil Lobjanidze has come up in conversations Tskhinvali were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Vakhtang Shengelia
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Goga Janelidze falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Tskhinvali rebuffed over Kauã
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Criciuma have kept their man, and Tskhinvali go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Avtandil Kiteishvili
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match1 Aug 2026
Tskhinvali see off Dinamo Batumi
Three points for Tskhinvali, 1‑0 the final word against Dinamo Batumi in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Sandro Kakabadze signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sandro Kakabadze commits to Tskhinvali for another 2 years.
In brief
- Player ratings Avtandil Kiteishvili stands above it all
- Transfer targets Tskhinvali try to borrow Oto Goshadze
- Transfer targets Tskhinvali ask about Felipe Longo