The Zugdidi Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Shota Ananidze out for 130 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Zugdidi will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Giorgi Okriashvili takes the afternoon — 8.98
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Giorgi Okriashvili provided it, and the 8.98 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market7 Sep 2026
The Saburtalo deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Shota Ananidze reports back to Zugdidi with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Levan Ananidze, 15, plays like he has been here for years — 7.61
A mark of 7.61 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 15-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Nika Tsitaishvili yet — 8.15
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.15 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market7 Sep 2026
Avtandil Ananidze puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zugdidi, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Zugdidi
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Zugdidi are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Mamuka Mchedlidze runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match5 Sep 2026
Zugdidi are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
In brief
- Match 8 goals as Zugdidi and Sapovnela go for it
- Squad Nika Tsitaishvili in a row with a teammate
- Match Honours even between Zugdidi and Sapovnela