FC Dinamo Tbilisi will play Erovnuli Liga 7th round match at Mikheil Meskhi reserve stadium against FC Sioni Bolnisi. The match will start at 16:30.
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 7th place with 7 points gained in 6 rounds.
Before Dinamo…
FC Sioni started 2017 year season with loss against FC Saburtalo 1:3. After that our rival defeated FC Samtredia 1:0, played draw 0:0 with FC Kolkheti and lost with FC Dila Gori 2:3 and FC Rustavi 0:2. In the last round FC Sioni defeated FC Locomotive with the score 2:1.
Dinamo VS Sioni
These teams have competed with each other for 57 times in national championship. From these matches Dinamo Tbilisi has won for 46 times, lost 4 matches and 7 finished in draw. The goal difference is 140/31 in favor of our team.
From 45 won 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 May 14, 2016. The match in Bolnisi at Tamaz Stepania stadium finished with the victory of our team 2:1. Saba Lobzhanidze and Giorgi Kvilitaia scored.
Referee and disqualified footballers
Arsen Nonikashvili will judge the match tomorrow. Z.Menteshashvili and L.Varamishvili will be his assistants. A.Aptsiauri will be the fourth official. Nobody will miss the match because of disqualification.