Tornike Kvaratskhelia

Striker - Shukura
6 Sep 2026
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Marked for Tornike Kvaratskhelia

1 Edition

The Shukura Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match1 Aug 2026

Shukura taken apart

0‑5 to Merani, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market3 Aug 2026

Giorgi Kavtaradze 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 Shukura can pretend not to have heard.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Giorgi Kavtaradze signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Giorgi Kavtaradze commits to Shukura for another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Shukura

Mikel Kaloshi and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Door shut on Nikoloz Ninua

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

Boardroom3 Aug 2026

Nobody left the Shukura dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑5 defeat, delivered by Nika Mchedlidze to a room that had heard them before.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Shalva Burjanadze is a square peg at Shukura

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Beaten 5 times: a bad day for Aleksandre Katamadze

5 saves does not settle the argument about whose fault it was, and the argument will run all week. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines whoever caused them.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Tskhinvali Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match1 Aug 2026

Otar Mikautadze leads the rout of Torpedo Kutaisi

4‑0, and Otar Mikautadze took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Tskhinvali tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Otar Mikautadze, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 9.32

A mark of 9.32 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A day Otar Mikautadze will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Mamuka Kiteishvili, 35, rolls back the years — 9.29

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.29 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market3 Aug 2026

Tskhinvali turn down Sumgayit for Zurab Gvelesiani

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Goga Arveladze 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 Tskhinvali this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Mamuka Kiteishvili signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mamuka Kiteishvili commits to Tskhinvali for another 2 years.

The terraces3 Aug 2026

Tskhinvali supporters have found a favourite in Otar Mikautadze

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Otar Mikautadze has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Market3 Aug 2026

Eyes on Tornike Kvaratskhelia again

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

In brief