From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market16 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dila can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Carlos Alberto: 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.” Dila have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Dila
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Blankson Anoff was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Nikoloz Mali's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Zurab Museliani is on it.
Market16 Nov 2026
The Ramaric Etou talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dila know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Dila that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Shota Shekiladze joins up with his country. Dila lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Dila will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
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Crisis
Match7 Nov 2026
A European night to forget for Dila
0‑5. Feyenoord play this football every year and it showed in every part of the pitch. The lesson is expensive and, for a club at this stage, probably necessary.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Dila
Shota Shekiladze and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Blankson Anoff 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Avtandil Janelidze has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“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.
Boardroom9 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Dila 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.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“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 Dila, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Shota Shekiladze is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑5, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Uneasy
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
$1.5M on the table at Dila
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Dila
Emmanuel Boansi 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Shota Shekiladze has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dila 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.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
Market2 Nov 2026
The name of Shota Shekiladze keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dila say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Carlos Alberto is 39, with 1 appearances behind him, and Dila will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Lasha Menteshashvili has written the date down.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Luka Sanikidze knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dila, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The shrug has gone, the language is coming, and he now argues in training like somebody who expects to be here next year. Half a signing's value is this and none of it appears on a fee.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
Dila beaten on the continent
0‑2 against Feyenoord, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Dila are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Dila
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Blankson Anoff was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A season average of 7.21 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The team sheet said everything about Blankson Anoff
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Blankson Anoff.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giorgi Jalaghonia, and the manager let it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Steady
Market19 Oct 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dila can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Dila
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Blankson Anoff was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tray Fuller 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 Dila this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Carlos Alberto
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Zurab Museliani has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dila 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
The Nikoloz Mali talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Dila know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dila, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Dila will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Abdulmalik Olatunji plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tornike Qazaishvili has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Beka Janelidze has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Blankson Anoff, and the manager let it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
13 new faces, and Dila are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Dila game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Ararat-Armenia runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Dila
Tray Fuller 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Ramaric Etou keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Dila say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Davit Kereselidze joins up with his country. Dila lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
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Steady
Match3 Oct 2026
2‑0 against Sparta Prague, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Shota Shekiladze was at the centre of the description.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Blankson Anoff 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Marked 8.59 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.18, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Dila know it.
Squad5 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 Dila this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No place for Mohamed Kanté on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Dila pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Irakli Janelidze, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Crisis
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Santiago Rosales: 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.” Dila have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Dila's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Dila has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Blankson Anoff 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A season average of 7.21 with 9 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Irakli Janelidze after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Dila
Tray Fuller and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gabriel Moulero, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Match19 Sep 2026
A European night to forget for Dila
0‑4. Rosenborg play this football every year and it showed in every part of the pitch. The lesson is expensive and, for a club at this stage, probably necessary.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Dila
Shota Shekiladze 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ramaric Etou, and the manager let it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Marked 8.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Boardroom21 Sep 2026
Nobody left the Dila 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑4, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Match19 Sep 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Whether it was the goalkeeper or the ten in front of him is the argument that will fill every conversation in town this week. 5 saves does not settle it either way.
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Upbeat
Market14 Sep 2026
Dila say no — this time
The offer from Kolkheti for Luka Sanikidze 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Dila
Shota Shekiladze and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Blankson Anoff 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.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Dila asked and Antalyaspor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Temur Kashia has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mikheil Mikautadze has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
The run is over for Dila
4 matches without defeat, and then Kolkheti. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
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Upbeat
Match5 Sep 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Tskhinvali, and it could have been more.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A brace, and Santiago Rosales takes the afternoon — 8.34
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Santiago Rosales provided it, and the 8.34 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market7 Sep 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Dila people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Match5 Sep 2026
Dila make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Dila have 4 straight wins of it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 18 in, 3 out at Dila
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Sep 2026
Dila say no — this time
The offer from Lokomotivi for Gabriel Moulero 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
A row about effort at Dila
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Blankson Anoff was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. San Miguel have kept their man, and Dila go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Upbeat
Match29 Aug 2026
No mercy from Dila
Shukura will want this one forgotten quickly: 8‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Dila were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad31 Aug 2026
4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Ararat-Armenia waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dila is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market31 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Dila did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A move Santiago Rosales would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Santiago Rosales is living that version at Dila, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market31 Aug 2026
Dila spend $1.6M to raise the standard
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $1.6M has been paid because Santiago Rosales is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Dila had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Andijon, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Match29 Aug 2026
Dila make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Dila have 3 straight wins of it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Shota Shekiladze was on a different afternoon to everybody else
10.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Upbeat
Match22 Aug 2026
No mercy from Dila
Lokomotivi will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Dila were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.03 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with Mitre is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market24 Aug 2026
Almirante Brown did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $720.0K for Alexis Martínez, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.
Market24 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Esteghlal Ahvaz have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mohamed Kanté. The answer from Dila has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Noah is saying, and nobody at Dila is enjoying the guessing.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market24 Aug 2026
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Shukura moved on, Emmanuel Boansi reports back to Dila, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Dila spend $720.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $720.0K for Alexis Martínez, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Dila out
Out, 1‑2 to Sioni, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Dila have done the hard part with Almirante Brown, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shukura have kept their man, and Dila go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Dila training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Blankson Anoff 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Badri Gogoberishvili 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Dila get the job done against Guria
A 2‑0 win over Guria, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 7.98. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The pass was always on for Mohamed Kanté
Chances created: 12. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
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Steady
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Zugdidi waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Dila is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Trabzonspor is saying, and nobody at Dila is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Dinamo Tbilisi wanted more than $630.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Warley
Dila asked and Torpedo Kutaisi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mohamed Kanté commits to Dila for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nika Kobiashvili is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Temur Gvelesiani has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Khvicha Mikautadze has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
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Match
Sioni snatch it back from Dila
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Squad
12 new faces, and Dila are still learning each other
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Squad
A falling-out at Dila
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Triumph
Match1 Aug 2026
No mercy from Dila
Chikhura will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Dila were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Shota Shekiladze takes the afternoon — 9.10
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Shota Shekiladze provided it, and the 9.10 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A brace, and Zurab Museliani takes the afternoon — 7.95
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Zurab Museliani provided it, and the 7.95 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
$550.0K on the table at Dinamo Tbilisi. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Shota Shekiladze and Dila agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 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 Dila this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Dila training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Blankson Anoff 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Lasha-Giorgi Titvinidze has come up in conversations Dila were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.