The Zugdidi Chronicle
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Avtandil Kvaratskhelia says Zugdidi went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Aleksandre Gvelesiani in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Zugdidi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Zugdidi count the cost of losing Giorgi Daraselia
35 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Zugdidi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Beka Gamsakhurdia is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Goga Zivzivadze
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Sandro Kvilitaia signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sandro Kvilitaia commits to Zugdidi for another 3 years.
In brief
- Loan watch Nika Mikautadze has seen enough of Sapovnela
- Market Aleksandre Gvelesiani linked with a move away
- The dugout Beka Kakabadze asks for a word with the manager
- Loan watch Sandro Lobjanidze's loan at Sapovnela nearly up