On April 24 FC Dinamo Tbilisi will compete with FC Tskhinvali in national championship 25 round match. The match at Mikheil Meskhi reserve stadium will start at 16:00. Official web-page of our team will offer text and video live of the match.
Our rival
Tskhinvali football club which was established in 1936 changed the name for several times during its history. It changed the name for several times. FC Tskhinvali called as FC Spartak participated in Soviet championship and Soviet Cup. The club had its best season in 1987 when FC Spartak won Soviet Cup-the match against FC Mertskhali Ozurgeti finished with the score 1:0. At first Tskhinvali football club participated under the name of Liakhvi in Georgian national championship (in 1990–2003 years). In 2003-2007 it changed the name and became FC Tskhinvali. From 2007 the club was renamed in FC Spartak again. 2009-2010 seasons were the best for FC Spartak Tskhinvali in Georgian championship. The club took the fifth place in the table and played in ½ final match of Davit Kipiani Cup.
Because of situation in Samachablo the club changed the place for home matches and played in Gori instead of Tskhinvali, although in the new season the team plays home matches of Umaghlesi Liga in Tbilisi at Mikheil Meskhi stadium.
Coach and Spartak
From November 2013 Kakhi Kacharava is the head coach of Spartak. The team finished the last season on the tenth position with 20 points. In the current season our rival is on the fifth position with 39 points after 24 rounds.
Before Dinamo…
FC Tskhinvali started second stage with the defeat with FC Wit Georgia on Georgian Cup-4:5. After that was loss with FC Dila 0:1, four victories with FC Merani Martvili-2:0, FC Wit Georgia-1:0, FC Wit Georgia on Georgian Cup-4:1 and FC Samtredia-2:1, defeats with FC Torpedo-2:0, FC Dinamo Batumi-1:0, FC Zugdidi-2:3, FC Dinamo Tbilisi in the first leg of Georgian Cup-0:2. After that FC Tskhinvali defeated FC Guria-3:0 and FC Chikhura-3:1.
Tskhinvali vs Dinamo - Head to head
Dinamo Tbilisi has always had priority in 18 played matches. From them our team has won 13 matches, lost 1 and 4 matches ended in draw. The goal difference is 44/11 in favor of Dinamo. The only match Dinamo lost was on April 18, 2010 in XXI national championship XXX round when our team was defeated with the score 1:2. Our team has defeated FC Tskhinvali with big score for several times. On September 15, 2007 in XIX championship V round and on November 29, 2008 in XX championship XIII round Dinamo VS FC Tskhinvali ended with the score 3:0. On August 16, 2009 in XXI championship I round Dinamo defeated FC Tskhinvali with the score 5:0. On October 24, 2014 our team won the match with the score 6:1 at Dinamo Arena. Giorgi Papunashvili performed hattrick. Besides him Lasha Parunashvili, Irakli Dzaria and Mate Tsintsadze also scored.
The last match between these teams took place on April 7 when FC Dinamo defeated FC Tskhinvali with the score 2:0 in Georgian Cup semi-final match. Mate Tsintsadze and Davit Volkov scored.
Disqualified footballers
Dinamo player Giorgi Papunashvili will miss this match because of disqualification.
Tskhinvali vs Dinamo – Referee
Syrian referee Abdullah Baslehlo will judge national championship XXV round match between FC Tskhinvali and FC Dinamo Tbilisi. L. Varamishvili and Z. Menteshashvili will be his assistants. G. Dograshvili and Sh. Kukhilava will be additional assistants. B. Gluschuk will be the fourth official.
The last match Abdullah Baslehlo judged was Pirveli Liga match between Locomotive 6:9 Machakhela. In this match he showed 4 yellow and 1 red cards.
The last match Abdullah Baslehlo judged with the participation of Dinamo was on November 18, 2014 when FC Dinamo Tbilisi competed with FC Shukura in Georgian Cup match in Kobuleti and finished the match with draw-1:1. 0. In this match he showed 2 yellow cards.
Here is the statistical data of the matches he has judged:
Abdullah Baslehlo
Date of Birth: March 8, 1976
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Umaghlesi Liga – 24 matches / 110 yellow cards / 6 red cards / 7 penalties
Pirveli Liga – 19 matches / 89 yellow cards / 7 red card / 14 penalties
Meore Liga – 16 matches / 59 yellow cards / 4 red card / 8 penalties
Georgian Cup – 4 matches / 20 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 1 penalty
Presumable lineup of FC Spartak
We suppose that FC Spartak will play with the following lineup
Nadiradze-Maisashvili, Makharoblidze, Jishkariani, Kilasonia-Tarkhnishvili, Tsertsvadze,
Markozashvili, Ivanishvili-Kacharava, Shindagoridze