On Saturday May 2 Dinamo Tbilisi will compete with FC Torpedo Kutaisi. XXVI national championship XXVI round will start at 17:00 at Dinamo Arena. Channel 2 of the Public Broadcaster will ensure live broadcast of the match. Official web-page of our team 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. This was the best period in Torpedo’s history.
Coach and Torpedo
In January at the beginning of the second stage Giorgi Daraselia was appointed as the head coach of FC Torpedo Kutaisi. Under his leadership our rival is on 8-9th place together with FC Shukura Kobuleti with 34 points gained in 25 matches.
Before Dinamo
FC Torpedo started the second stage with loss. It was defeated by FC Samtredia in Georgian Cup match-1:2. After that was draw with FC Kolkheti-0:0, loss with FC Dila Gori-1:2, draw with FC Merani-1:1 and second leg match against Samtredia-0:0. Then our rival gained four victories –FC Wit Georgia-1:0, FC Tskhinvali-2:0, FC Samtredia-3:1, FC Dinamo Batumi-3:2. Then was draw with FC Zugdidi-0:0, victory with FC Guria-3:1 and loss with FC Chikhura-1:2.
Dinamo vs Torpedo - Head to head
From 58 matches our team has won for 29 times, lost 15 and 14 matches finished with draw. The goal difference is 101/56 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.
The last match that took place on November 2, 2014 in Kutaisi finished with the victory of our team-2:1. Nikoloz Sabanadze performed double.
Disqualified footballers
Otar Kakabadze from our team will miss the match tomorrow because of disqualification. Otar has received too many yellow cards.
Dinamo vs Torpedo – Referee
Levan Kvaratskhelia will judge Dinamo vs Torpedo tomorrow. Z. Menteshashvili and Z. Berulava will be his assistants. A. Nonikashvili and Sh.Kukhilava will be additional assistants. L. Silagava will be the fourth official.
The last match Levan Kvaratskhelia judged was held on April 24. Kolkheti vs Metalurg finished with the score 3:0. Kvaratskhelia booked the players once in this match.
The last match Levan Kvaratskhelia judged with the participation of Dinamo was held on March 29, 2012 in which our team competed with FC Dila Gori and finished it with the score 0:0. Kvaratskhelia booked players for 5 times.
Here is the statistical data of the matches he has judged:
Levan Kvaratskhelia (18.05.1979)
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Umaglesi Liga - 77 matches / 300 yellow cards / 18 red cards / 17 penalties
Pirveli Liga – 26 matches / 77 yellow cards / 7 red card / 4 penalties
Georgian Cup – 15 matches / 58 yellow cards / 5 red cards/ 5 penalties
UEFA Europa League qualifiers– 1 matches / 7 yellow cards / 0 red cards / 1 penalty
UEFA U21 qualifiers – 2 matches / 10 yellow cards / 1 red cards / 1 penalty
UEFA U17qualifiers – 3 matches / 17 yellow cards / 1 red card / 2 penalties
International Friendly Match– 3 match / 17 yellow cards / 3 red cards / 2 penalties
Presumable lineup of Torpedo
We suppose that today Torpedo Kutaisi will play with the following lineup:
Shekriladze-Adamadze, Chelidze, Mirtskhulava, Kimadze-Kankia, Klimiashvili, Kirkitadze, Kvernadze-Tughushi, Kvaratskhelia