FC Dinamo Tbilisi will compete with FC Torpedo Kutaisi in national championship 23rd round. The match at Dinamo Arena will start at 18:00 at Dinamo Arena. Dinamo official web-page will offer text and video live of the match.
Our rival
FC Torpedo Kutaisi was established in 1946. Torpedo plays home matches at Kutaisi central stadium which envisages 19 400 spectators. After re-branding in the club main symbols of the club are in yellow and green colors. Torpedo Kutaisi reached the first serious success after three years of its establishment when it became the champion of national championship of that time. In 1960-1962 our rival played in Soviet championship zone B. On May 2, 1962 Torpedo played the first match of Soviet championship high league in Kutaisi. It competed with Torpedo Moscow and defeated it with the score 5:1. April 15, 1963 is one of the outstanding dates in the history of Torpedo stadium. On this day Torpedo Kutaisi and Dinamo Tbilisi competed with each other. The match finished with draw-0:0. 40 000 spectators attended this match and this figure is still record for Torpedo central stadium. 1970 season appeared to be unsuccessful for Torpedo Kutaisi. The team moved to Pirveli Liga from Umaghlesi Liga again and started the new season there. In 1988 Torpedo returned to Umaghlesi Liga once more but in this period Georgia departed from USSR and the team continued to play in independent Georgian national championship. After Dinamo Tbilisi this club has become champion of Georgia for many times. In 1999-00 2000-01, 2001-02 Torpedo Kutaisi became champion for three times. 1998–99, 2000–01 the club won Georgian Cup as well.
Coach and Torpedo
Ukrainian football specialist Olexander Shtelin manages the team since October 2015. Shtelin returned to FC Torpedo after 12 years. Under his leadership the team played four matches on European qualifying stage and 14th national championship. In current championship Torpedo has 30 points gained from 22 matches and shares eighth-ninth places with FC Shukura Kobuleti. As for the match tomorrow Olexander Shtelin feels bad and his assistants Mikheil Ashvetia and Giorgi Sukhiashvili will manage the team.
Before Dinamo
After winter pause, Torpedo renewed championship with the loss against FC Merani Martvili 1:2. Then our rival defeated FC Zugdidi 2:0, FC Dila Gori 1:0 and FC Dinamo Batumi with the same score. Then was loss with FC Kolkheti Poti 0:2, draw with FC Tskhinvali 0:0 and loss with FC Chikhura Sachkhere 0:2.
Dinamo - Torpedo | Head to head
Dinamo VS Torpedo is called “Georgian classico” and it always raises interest in society as both teams do their best. On Wednesday Dinamo Tbilisi will play 61st match against Torpedo Kutaisi.
From 60 matches our team has won for 30 times, lost 15 and 15 matches finished with draw. The goal difference is 105/59 in favor of Dinamo Tbilisi.
Dinamo Tbilisi has defeated FC Torpedo with the score 5:1 for 2 times in national championship. For the first time it was on April , 1991 in IV round of II national championship and on September 17, 1995 in III round of XVII national championship. Our team won with four goal difference last year in VIII round match of 2nd stage. The match finished with the score 4:0. On August 27, 2000 Dinamo was defeated with the score 0:3 in II round of XII national championship. Our team has won with the biggest score in Kutaisi. On March 17, 2007 Dinamo defeated Torpedo with the score 5:0 in XVII round match of XVIII national championship. On May 4, 2013 our team defeated the rival with the score 4:0 at Dinamo Arena and became champions of Georgia in this match.
Dinamo and Torpedo has competed with each other for 26 times in Soviet championship. IN Soviet championship Dinamo won 13 matches against Torpedo, lost for 4 times and 9 matches finished with draw. The goal difference is 38/21 in favor of Dinamo Tbilisi. Our team has won with the score 3:1 for three times. These matches took place on April 26, 1996, on May 26, 1969 and on May 25, 1962. On July 31, 1968 Torpedo defeated Dinamo with the score 4:2. On November 30, 1966 Torpedo VS Dinamo finished with draw-3:3 in Kutaisi.
It’s already four years Torpedo hasn’t defeated Dinamo. For the last time our rival gained victory on May 6, 2012. After that Dinamo won 6 matches and 3 matches (all of them in Kutaisi) finished with draw.
The last match took place on October 17, 2015 in Kutaisi finished with the draw 1:1. Bachana Arabuli scored.
Disqualified footballers
Nobody will miss the match tomorrow because of disqualification.
Dinamo – Torpedo | Referee
Giorgi Vadatchkoria will judge Dinamo vs Torpedo at Dinamo Arena. D.Chigogidze and G.Elikashvili will be his assistants. G.Kruashvili and D.Kharitonashvili will be additional assistants. P.Macharadze will be the fourth official.
The last match Giorgi Vadachkoria judged was Dila 1:2 Samtredia on April 2 in Umaghlesi Liga. Referee booked 4 footballers in this match.
The last match Giorgi Vadachkoria judged with the participation of Dinamo was held on December 6, 2015 in which our team defeated FC Sioni with big score 5:2. Vadachkoria showed 2 yellow and 1 red cards in this match.
Here is the statistical data of the matches he has judged:
Giorgi Vadachkoria (8.06.1977)
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Umaglesi Liga - 157 matches / 634 yellow cards / 28 red cards / 42 penalties
Pirveli Liga – 15 matches / 39 yellow cards / 2 red card / 5 penalties
Meore Liga – 62 matches / 179 yellow cards / 3 red card / 24 penalties
Georgian Cup – 13 matches / 49 yellow cards / 2 red cards/ 1 penalty
Georgian Super Cup – 3 matches / 20 yellow cards / 1 red cards / 1 penalty
UEFA Europa League qualifying– 5 matches / 17 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 1 penalty
UEFA European Championship qualifying U21– 5 matches / 16 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 FC Torpedo
We suppose that tomorrow FC Sioni Bolnisi will play with the following lineup:
Kvaskhvadze – Adamadze, Mamasakhlisi, Tabatadze, Kimadze – Nergadze, Klimiashvili, Babunashvili, Kukhianidze-Kapanadze, Shindagoridze