Lasha Kvaratskhelia

Central Defender - Tskhinvali
15 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Lasha Kvaratskhelia

4 Edition

The Tskhinvali Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Mamuka Shengelia agrees terms with Sioni

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Tskhinvali people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Tskhinvali say no — this time

The offer from Dila for Lasha Kvaratskhelia was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market

Guram Kiteishvili asks to leave Tskhinvali

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Tskhinvali sell Sandro Daraselia for $1.8M

Sandro Daraselia has left for Saburtalo in a $1.8M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

A falling-out at Tskhinvali

Vakhtang Qazaishvili and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Mikheil Mikautadze was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Julen Cordero

Tskhinvali asked and Samtredia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Davit Arveladze

At 20 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.

Match

Tskhinvali get the job done against Sioni

A 1‑0 win over Sioni, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Tskhinvali Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Terms done: Sandro Daraselia is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Saburtalo waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Tskhinvali is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Match

Tskhinvali out of the cup

Shukura ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Tskhinvali say no — this time

The offer from Sapovnela for Vakhtang Qazaishvili was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Match

4 matches without a win for Tskhinvali

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Tskhinvali are no longer polite ones.

Market

Eyes on Lasha Kvaratskhelia again

The phone has started ringing about Lasha Kvaratskhelia again, and this time the name on the line is Dila. Tskhinvali are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Tempers go at Tskhinvali

Sandro Daraselia 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.

Player ratings

Nothing got past Sandro Daraselia

21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.

Match

Tskhinvali cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Transfer targets

Dila tell Tskhinvali: Lasha-Giorgi Titvinidze is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

In brief