Marked for Mamuka Gamsakhurdia
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Goga Kobiashvili
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tskhinvali lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Jaba Chakvetadze out for 28 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tskhinvali will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Otar Arveladze: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Tskhinvali have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 59 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Merani to sit and watch. I want to come back to Tskhinvali and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 11 matches say the rest.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 42. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad21 Sep 2026
33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Tskhinvali lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Sep 2026
There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 96 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Dato Mikautadze 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Nika Arveladze. 3‑2 against Saburtalo, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.54 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.28 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Merani to sit and watch. I want to come back to Tskhinvali and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 6 matches say the rest.