On Friday August 21 Mikheil Meskhi stadium will host 40th Tbilisi derby between FC Locomotive and FC Dinamo Tbilisi. The match will start at 20:00 and official web-page of Dinamo Tbilisi will offer text and video live of the match.
Dinamo Tbilisi and Locomotive Tbilisi are traditional rivals. These teams have competed for 39 times in Umaghlesi Liga. From them our team won for 22 times, lost 6 and 11 matches finished with draw. The goal difference is 54/21 in favor of our team.
Dinamo has defeated FC Locomotive with big score twice. On April 30, 1997 our team defeated the rival with the score 4:0. Davit Mujiri performed hattrick. Giorgi Kiknadze also scored. For the second time our team defeated the rival with big score on September 19, 1999. From four scored goals, Mikheil Ashvetia performed double, Klimenti Tsitaishvili and Robert Zirakishvili also scored. Dinamo was defeated with big score once on September 23, 2000. Locomotive won 3:0. The match distinguished with many goals took place on May 10, 2008. Our team defeated Locomotive in the last round with the score 6:5. Mate Vatsadze and Mikheil Khutsishvili performed double. Besides them George Akirem and Levan Khmaladze also scored. The most popular result is 1:0 that was recorded for 13 times. From 11 draw 10 of them finished without goals. Mate Vatsadze has scored 6 goals against Locomotive.
The last match between these teams took place on May 15, 2010 at Mikheil Meskhi stadium. Our team defeated the rival with the score 3:0. Mate Vatsadze performed double. Robertinho also scored in this match.