On June 23 FC Dinamo Tbilisi will host FC Sioni Bolnisi in Erovnuli Liga 16th round match. The match at Dinamo Arena will start at 20:00.
Our Rival
FC Sioni Bolnisi plays in Georgian national championship from 1995. The team plays home matches in Bolnisi at Tamaz Stepania’s stadium with the capacity of 3300 spectators. Although because of reconstruction works of the stadium Mikheil Meskhi-2 will host the team in this season. The main symbols of the club are in white and yellow colors. FC Sioni Bolnisi achieved the biggest success in its history in 2005/2006 when FC Sioni won national championship and played at qualifying round of UEFA Champions League. In 2013/2014 our rival took the third place in national championship. The team played on Europa League and competed with Flamurtari Vlore. FC Sioni lost home match 2:3 and won away match 2:1 but this score wasn’t enough to move to the next stage.
In 2015/2016 season FC Sioni left Umaghlesi Liga. In 2017 it defeated FC Dinamo Batumi in play-off and returned to Erovnuli Liga.
Coach and Sioni
Koba Zhorzhikashvili is the head coach of FC Sioni Bolnisi since January 2017. The team finished 2017 season successfully and took the 3rd place in Erovnuli Liga 2. In 2017 it defeated FC Dinamo Batumi in play-off and returned to Erovnuli Liga. In the current season our rival is on the 9th place with 13 points gained in 15 rounds.
Dinamo – Sioni
These teams have competed with each other for 58 times in national championship. From these matches Dinamo Tbilisi has won for 47 times, lost 4 matches and 7 finished in draw. The goal difference is 142/32 in favor of our team. From 47 matches Dinamo Tbilisi has defeated its rival with big score for 18 times. The match held in 1996 is worth mentioning when our team won with the score 8:0. Giorgi Demetradze (4), Levan Tskitishvili (2), Aleksandre Iashvili and Levan Khomeriki scored. The team achieved the same success in 1998 when they beat FC Sioni Bolnisi with the score 8:1. Levan Khomeriki, Rati Aleksidze and Giorgi Shengelia performed double. Levan Tskitishvili and Giorgi Mikadze also scored. In 2000 Dinamo Tbilisi defeated FC Sioni with the biggest score-9:0. Robert Zirakishvili (3), Giorgi Mikadze (3), Davit Datvadze (2) and Sandro Gadelia scored at Dinamo Arena. The last match between these teams took place on April 21, 2018 after two years pause. The match at Mikheil Meskhi stadium finished with the victory of our team 2:1. Guja Rukhaia and Nika Ninua scored.
Referee and disqualified footballers
Giorgi Avazashvili will judge the match tomorrow. S.Spicin and A.Kokaia will be his assistants. B.Gluschuk will be the fourth official. Nobody will miss the match because of disqualification.