The Zugdidi Chronicle
Match22 Aug 2026
Guram Chakvetadze leads the rout of Kolkheti
3‑0, and Guram Chakvetadze took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Zugdidi tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market24 Aug 2026
Dinamo Tbilisi come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Zugdidi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
Aleksandre Kobiashvili hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Zugdidi can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
Lokomotivi watching Zurab Qazaishvili
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Zugdidi have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Levan Shengelia beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Zugdidi
Jaba Lobjanidze and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Guram Chakvetadze was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.46. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Zurab Qazaishvili gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Goga Daraselia stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Goga Daraselia and Zugdidi agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- The dugout Mamuka Tsitaishvili: “That is the standard”
- The dugout Avtandil Kvaratskhelia dropped after a run of poor form
- Squad Player of the week: Zurab Qazaishvili