On March 16 Dinamo Arena will host Erovnuli Liga 3rd round match. FC Dinamo Tbilisi will compete with FC Samtredia. The match will start at 17:00.
Our rival
FC Samtredia was established in 1936. For years FC Locomotive Samtredia successfully played in Soviet championship second league. Afterwards the club played under different names (Samtredia, Sanavardo, Iberia) in Georgian championship. The team plays home matches at Erosi Manjgaladze stadium with the capacity of 3000 spectators. The main colors of the club are in white and blue. Samtredia achieved the biggest victory in 1994-1996 years. In 1995 the team took the second place in national championship. After 20 years our rival played Georgian Cup final and lost with FC Dinamo Tbilisi with the score 0:5. FC Samtredia finished the last championship (2016 autumn) on the first place and won gold medals for the first time in its history. In 2017 FC samtredia played on Champions League qualifying stage for the first time in its history. It competed with FC Karabakh and lost with the score 0:6 on aggregate. In the last season FC Samtredia won bronze medals.
Coach and Samtredia
Young Georgian football specialist Ucha Sosiashvili is the head coach of FC Samtredia since September 2017. Under his leadership the team won bronze medals. In 2017 season.
Before Dinamo…
FC Samtredia started new season with the victory against FC Locomotive-2:1. In the second round it lost with FC Sioni Bolnisi 0:1.
Dinamo – Samtredia
Dinamo and Samtredia have played 37 matches against each other. Our rival played the first three championships with the name Sanavardo. In 1998-2001 the club was called-Iberia. Our team has defeated FC Samtredia for 27 times, lost 6 and 4 match finished with draw. The goal difference is 86/24 in favor of our team. Dinamo defeated Samtredia with 5 and more goal difference for 5 times. In 1991 Dinamo defeated the rival with the score 6:0. Kavelashvili performed hattrick and Ketsbaia, Inalishvili and Revishvili also scored. In 1996 our team won with the same score. Iashvili (2), Kerdzevadze, Demetradze, Inalishvili and Khomeriki scored. In two years Dinamo won with the score 7:2. Besides Ashvetia’s and Shengelia’s double, Kiknadze, Mujiri and Lursmanashvili also scored. In 2000 the match between these teams finished with the score 5:0. Gadelia, Datvadze, Sakhvadze, Gogoladze and Zirakishvili scored. In 2011 Dinamo defeated Samtredia with the score 7:1. Levan Khmaladze and Donald Juice performed doubles. Jelich, Arziani and Khumarashvili (auto-goal) also scored. The majority of matches have finished with the score 1:0 (for 8 times). From them Dinamo won five matches and Samtredia won thrice. The last match between these teams in Erovnuli Liga was held on October 23, 2017 in Tbilisi. Dinamo lost this match with the score 1:0.
Referee and disqualified footballers
Giorgi Kruashvili will be referee tomorrow. S. Spicin and I. Ukleba will be his assistants. D.Sanodze and Sh.Kukhilava will be additional assistants. A.Aptsiauri will be the fourth official. Nobody will miss the match tomorrow because of disqualification.