FC Dinamo Tbilisi and FC Dinamo Batumi will compete in mini final for the third place at Mikheil Meskhi stadium. The match will start at 15:00 and official web page of our team as well as Adjara TV will offer live stream of the match.
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.
Coach and Dinamo Batumi
Georgian football specialist Levan Khomeriki is the head coach of FC Dinamo Batumi since April 2016. In 2015/2016 season his team finished Umaghlesi Liga on the eighth place. In the current championship our rival took the second place in red group.
Before Dinamo
In the current championship our rival took the second place in red group. From 12 played matches in red group, FC Dinamo Batumi gathered 20 points. In bronze semifinal our rival defeated FC Torpedo Kutaisi on aggregate. The match in Kutaisi finished with Torpedo’s victory 2:1. In the second leg FC Dinamo Batumi defeated Torpedo with the score 1:0 in Kobuleti.
Dinamo Batumi – Dinamo Tbilisi | Head to Head
From 49 played matches in national championship our team won for 35 times, lost 6 matches and 8 finished with draw. The goal difference is 104/43 in favor of Dinamo.
Our team won with the score 3:1 and 3:0 for six times. Five matches finished with the score 2:0 and 6 matches with-1:0. 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 2, 2016 at Chele Arena in Kobuleti. Our team won with Jaba Jighauri’s and Giorgi Guruli’s goal 2:1.
Disqualified footballers
Nobody will miss the match tomorrow because of disqualification.
Dinamo Batumi – Dinamo Tbilisi | Referee
Giorgi Vadachkoria will judge Dinamo Batumi vs Dinamo Tbilisi at Mikheil Meskhi stadium. L.Todria and B.Tchitchinadze will be his assistants. G. Kikacheishvili and J.Khorava will be additional assistants. I.Kvirikashvili will be the fourth official.
The last match Giorgi Vadachkoria judged was Skuri 0:0 Meshakhte on December 5 in Pirveli Liga. Referee booked 2 footballers in this match.
The last match Giorgi Vadachkoria judged with the participation of Dinamo was held on November 18, 2016 in which our team defeated FC Locomotive with the score 4:0. Vadachkoria booked footballers thrice.
Here is the statistical data of the matches he has judged:
Giorgi Vadachkoria (8.06.1977)
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UmaglesiLiga - 176 matches / 702 yellow cards / 37 red cards / 47 penalties
PirveliLiga – 27 matches / 80 yellow cards / 9 red card / 6 penalties
MeoreLiga – 62 matches / 179 yellow cards / 3 red card / 24 penalties
Georgian Cup – 17 matches / 64 yellow cards / 2 red cards/ 3 penalties
Georgian Super Cup – 3 matches / 20 yellow cards / 1 red cards / 1 penalty
UEFA Europa League qualifying– 6 matches / 20 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 2 penalties
UEFA European Championship qualifying U21– 6 matches / 19 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 0 penalties
UEFA European Championship qualifying U19– 1 matches / 3 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 1 penalty
UEFA European Championship qualifying U17 – 4 matches / 18 yellow cards / 1 red cards / 1 penalty
International friendly matches– 3 match / 6 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 0 penalties
Presumable lineup of Dinamo Batumi
We suppose that Dinamo Batumi will play with the following lineup:
Timofeev – Tvildiani, Sukhiashvili, Kvirkvelia, Gegechkori – Tarkhnishvili, Kvantaliani, Shonia, Gogitidze – Lobzhanidze, Marianovich