Dato Ananidze

Left Forward - Free Agent
5 Feb 2028
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59 Edition

The Zugdidi Chronicle

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

Levan Kakabadze runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market13 Sep 2027

Tornike Okriashvili puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zugdidi, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Davit Okriashvili 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 Zugdidi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Temur Kobiashvili stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Temur Kobiashvili and Zugdidi agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Words at Zugdidi training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tornike Okriashvili 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.

Loan watch13 Sep 2027

Tornike Kvilitaia has seen enough of Chikhura

“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 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Match11 Sep 2027

Zugdidi and Samtredia take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Levan Kakabadze has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Zugdidi will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market13 Sep 2027

Chikhura are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Zugdidi will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

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6 Edition

The Zugdidi Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match5 Sep 2026

Zugdidi tear Sapovnela apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑0 against Sapovnela, and it could have been more.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Levan Kakabadze takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market7 Sep 2026

Dato Ananidze 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.

Market7 Sep 2026

Zugdidi say no — this time

The offer from Tskhinvali for Otar Arveladze was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Davit Okriashvili 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 Zugdidi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Otar Gvelesiani 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.

The terraces7 Sep 2026

Zugdidi supporters have found a favourite in Dato Ananidze

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Dato Ananidze 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.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Ninety minutes of Levan Kakabadze at his very best

Marked 8.24. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Zugdidi.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Levan Kakabadze named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Levan Kakabadze has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

In brief

3 Edition

The Zugdidi Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Aug 2026

A one-man rearguard from Davit Okriashvili

There were 12 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Zugdidi taken apart

1‑4 to Kolkheti, 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.

Match12 Aug 2026

The cup run ends for Zugdidi

0‑2 against Torpedo Kutaisi, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Market17 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Levan Kakabadze

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Zugdidi

Davit Okriashvili 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at Zugdidi training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tornike Lobjanidze 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Sioni join the queue for Otar Arveladze

Add another name to the list: Sioni have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Otar Arveladze. The answer from Zugdidi has not changed — yet.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

Nobody left the Zugdidi 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.

In brief