FC Dinamo Tbilisi and FC Dinamo Batumi will compete in Erovnuli Liga XV round match. The 52ndmatch between these teams will be held at Dinamo Arena and it will start at 21:00.
Our rival
Football club Dinamo Batumi was established in 1923. In 1990 it was renamed as FC Batumi. In 1994 it returned former name again. The main colors of the club are white and blue. The team plays home matches in Kobuleti at Chele Arena. Dinamo Batumi played in Georgian Cup final in 1993, 1995 and 1996. In 1997 the club gained bronze medal and was defeated in the final match. In 1998 our rival took the second place in national championship, won Georgian Cup and Super Cup. The team played on Euro arena in 1995 for the first time (Cup Winners Cup). The match against Obilic Belgrad finished with the score 3:2 on aggregate in favor of Dinamo Batumi. After that it competed with Celtic Glasgow and was defeated with the score 2:7 on aggregate. Our rival played on Euro arena for three seasons after that. In 2008 the team moved to Pirveli Liga. In 2012 Dinamo Batumi returned to Umaghlesi liga, then left it again in the end of the season and returned after a year. Last summer FC Dinamo Batumi played on Europa League as vice-champions of Georgia. On the first stage our rival competed with AC Omonia Nicosia. The match in Zestafoni finished in favor of Batumi team 1:0, although the second leg was lost with the score 2:0. In 2016 Dinamo Batumi defeated our team in mini final and won bronze medals. It will play on Europa League as well.
Coach and Dinamo Batumi
Georgian veteran footballer Amiran Mujiri is the head coach of FC Dinamo Batumi since May 2017. Under his leadership our rival played 0:0 against FC Chikhura and defeated FC Shukura Kobuleti with the score 4:2. FC Dinamo Batumi is on the 8th place with 16 points.
Before Dinamo
Our rival started 2017 championship with the loss against FC Locomotive 1:2. Then it defeated FC Dila Gori 1:0 and lost with FC Kolkheti Poti with the same score in Georgian Cup 1/16 final. Then it lost with FC Samtredia 0:1, defeated FC Chikhura 1:0, FC Shukura 2:0, lost with FC Dinamo Tbilisi 0:1, C Saburtalo 0:2 and FC Torpedo 1:3. After that our rival defeated FC Kolkheti 1:0, lost with FC Locomotive 1:2, FC Dila 2:3, FC Samtredia 0:2, played draw 0:0 with FC Chikhura and defeated FC Shukura Kobuleti-4:2.
Dinamo Tbilisi – Dinamo Batumi | Head to Head
From 51 played matches in national championship our team won for 36 times, lost 7 matches and 8 finished with draw. The goal difference is 105/44 in favor of Dinamo.
Ten matches between these teams finished with the score 1:0. Our team won with the score 3:1, 3:0 and 2:0 for six times. On September 18, 1994 Dinamo defeated Dinamo Batumi with the score 5:3. Achi and Shoti scored three and two goals in this match. The same score was recorded on November 11, 2012. Our team lost with big score in XVI championship IX round match. The match in 2004 finished with the victory of our rival-0:3. Dinamo Tbilisi won with the biggest score on September 29, 2007. XIX championship VII round match finished with the score 7:0. Kobakhidze and Akirem performed double. Besides them Khutsishvili, Spasojevic and Khmaladze scored.
The last match between these teams was held on April 9, 2017 in Kobuleti. The match at Chele Arena finished with the victory of our team 1:0. Beka Mikeltadze scored.
Disqualified footballers
Dinamo’s defender Lasha Totadze will miss the match tomorrow because of disqualification.
Dinamo TB – Dinamo BT | Referee
Papuna Macharadze will judge the match tomorrow between the two Dinamo. Z.Menteshashvili and G.Elikashvili will be his assistants. B.Gluschuk will be the fourth official.
The last match Papuna Macharadze has judged was held on May 23 in Erovnuli Liga - Locomotive 1:2 Kolkheti. Referee showed 5 yellow cards.
Papuna Macharadze hasn’t judged matches with the participation of Dinamo until now.
Here is the statistical data of the matches he has judged:
Papuna Macharadze (35 years old)
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Erovnuli Liga – 4 matches / 11 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 0 penalties
Erovnuli Liga 2 – 53 matches / 182 yellow cards / 15 red cards / 17 penalties
Georgian Cup – 9 matches / 35 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 3 penalties
Presumable lineup of Dinamo Batumi
We suppose that Dinamo Batumi will play with the following lineup:
Takidze – Tvildiani, Sukhiashvili, Partenadze, Gogitidze – Tarkhnishvili, Plamarion, Tevdoradze, Shonia, Poniava-Kvasov