On November 9 FC Dinamo Tbilisi will compete with FC Rustavi in Crystalbet Erovnuli Liga 34th round. The match in Rustavi will start at 14:00.
Our rival
FC Rustavi was established in 20015 year. Main colors of the club are red, white and black. In 2016 season FC Rustavi successfully finished Pirveli Liga and played in Erovnuli Liga-2 in 2017 year. Our rival finished the championship on the first place and moved to Erovnuli Liga. From 36 matches FC Rustavi won 26 matches, lost 5 and finished 5 matches with draw. The goal difference was 72/25. Before finishing restoration of Rustavi stadium the team will play home matches in Tbilisi at Mikheil Meskhi reserve stadium. During summer pause there were many changes in the team. Several new footballers were added to the team. The coach staff also changed. In the current Crystalbet Erovnuli Liga Badri Kvaratskhelia leads the team. Before rehabilitation of Poladi stadium our rival will play home matches at Football Technical Center stadium in Rustavi. Two footballers from Dinamo – goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili and midfielder Paata Kiteishvili are on lease in FC Rustavi. Dinamo footballer Lasha Kochladze continued career in FC Rustavi. Giorgi Papava returned to our team from Rustavi.
Coach
Varlam Kilasonia leads the team since April. At this stage our rival has 37 points gained in 33 matches and is on the 9th place in the table.
Dinamo - Rustavi | Head-to-head
FC Dinamo Tbilisi and FC Rustavi competed only for 7 times. From them our team won 5 matches, lost once and one finished with draw. The first match was held on March 5, 2018 at Dinamo Arena finished with the victory of FC Rustavi- 2:1. Budu Zivzivadze scored with penalty. On May 6 our team defeated Rustavi with Akaki Shulaia’s and Otar Kiteishvili’s goals -2:0. On August 3 Dinamo won with the score 2:1. Akaki Shulaia and Nika Ninua scored. On October 7 and it finished with Dinamo’s victory 3:0. Budu Zivzivadze (2) and Akaki Shulaia scored. On April 7 the match finished with Dinamo’s victory 3:1. Levan Shengelia (2) and Akaki Shulaia scored. On May 28 our team won with Levan Kutalia’s goal-1:0. The last match between these teams took place on August 25 at Dinamo Arena and finished with draw 2:2. Levan Shengelia and Nika Ninua scored.
Referee and disqualified footballers
Tariel Rukhaia will be the referee of the match. D.Gabisonia and Z. Menteshashvili will be his assistants. I. Kherkhadze and A.Aptsiauri will be additional referees. G. Vadatchkoria will be the fourth official. Nobody will miss the match because of disqualification.