The Zugdidi Chronicle
Market26 Oct 2026
Avtandil Kashia asks to leave Zugdidi
“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.
Match26 Oct 2026
Zugdidi are in real trouble now
Position 14, 7 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Zugdidi
Fabby Clark 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Lorenzo Del Vecchio falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
Levan Tsitaishvili has seen enough of Sapovnela
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Zugdidi, and 1 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Levan Gamsakhurdia signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Levan Gamsakhurdia commits to Zugdidi for another 3 years.
In brief
- Squad Archil Arveladze gets it from the manager
- Loan watch Kakha Gvelesiani's loan at Shukura nearly up