On February 19 Dinamo Tbilisi will play the sixth friendly match on camp against FC Zorya Luhansk. The match in Side will start at 19:00 Tbilisi time. FC Zorya Luhansk was established in 1923. It changed name for several times. At first it was called FC Metallist, then FC Dzerzhynets, Trudovi Rezervy and Zorya-MALS. Our rival plays home matches at Stavutych Arena in Zaporizhia that is for 12 000 spectators. Main colors of the club are white and black. The most successful season for FC Zorya Luhansk was in 1972, when in won Soviet championship. In 1974 and 1975 years it competed for Crystal Cup and won silver medals in both cases. The same result was recorded in 2015/2016 season, when it lost final with Shakhtar 0:2. In 2016/2017 season our rival won bronze medals and took the fourth place in the last season. Zorya played in Europa League and competed with Östersunds FK, Athletic Bilbao and Hertha BSC.
FC Zorya Luhansk has already played 9 matches on camp-four on the first camp and five-on the second. On January 25 it defeated Liepaga-1:0, on January 27 lost with Vojvodina 2- 1:2, on January 30 defeated FK Proleter-1:0, on February 2 draw with GKS Piast Gliwice-2:2, on February 9 it defeated FC Locomotive Tashkent -1:0, on February 12 lost with Kalmar FF 0:1 and the same result on February 14 against Sogdiana, on February 16 draw 0:0 with Shakhtior Karaganda and on February 17 lost with Termalica-3:4.
Ukrinian football specialist Yuriy Vernydub is the head coach of the team since 2011 year. After Soviet championship, Dinamo and Zorya competed in winter 2011 for the first time and match finished without goals. In 2013 Zorya won with the score 4:0, in summer 2017 the match finished with draw 1:1 in Slovenia. For the last time these teams competed on January 25 last year during the camp in Turkey and our rival won with the score 3:0.