The Zugdidi Chronicle
Squad31 Aug 2026
Jaba Ananidze keeps Zugdidi in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market31 Aug 2026
Mikheil Kvaratskhelia 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.
Market31 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Zugdidi leaking at the back
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Match29 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Zugdidi
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Zugdidi are no longer polite ones.
Market31 Aug 2026
Sandro Lobjanidze is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Zugdidi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Zugdidi
Jaba Ananidze 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Torpedo Kutaisi take the points off Zugdidi
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Zugdidi training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mikheil Kvaratskhelia 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.
In brief
- Squad Zugdidi lose Guram Shengelia
- The dugout No hiding place for Giorgi Kobiashvili
- The dugout Mamuka Kakabadze answers for it