The Zugdidi Chronicle
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Zurab Kobiashvili
75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zugdidi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Aug 2026
Archil Kiteishvili 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Shukura 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Zugdidi
Otar Chakvetadze 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
A bad afternoon for Zugdidi against Dinamo Batumi
0‑1 to Dinamo Batumi, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Aleksandre Janelidze gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Irakli Kvilitaia 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Sandro Mikautadze
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 Aug 2026
Mikheil Kobiashvili placed on the list
Zugdidi have made Mikheil Kobiashvili available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
In brief
- Market Still no signature from Avtandil Kvaratskhelia
- Player ratings Aleksandre Janelidze spends the afternoon fouling