On August 25 FC Dinamo Tbilisi will host FC Rustavi in Crystalbet Erovnuli Liga 25th round. The match at Dinamo Arena will start at 21:00.
Our rival
FC Rustavi was established in 20015 year. Main colors of the club are red, white and black. In 2016 season FC Rustavi successfully finished Pirveli Liga and played in Erovnuli Liga-2 in 2017 year. Our rival finished the championship on the first place and moved to Erovnuli Liga. From 36 matches FC Rustavi won 26 matches, lost 5 and finished 5 matches with draw. The goal difference was 72/25. Before finishing restoration of Rustavi stadium the team will play home matches in Tbilisi at Mikheil Meskhi reserve stadium. During summer pause there were many changes in the team. Several new footballers were added to the team. The coach staff also changed. In the current Crystalbet Erovnuli Liga Badri Kvaratskhelia leads the team. Before rehabilitation of Poladi stadium our rival will play home matches at Football Technical Center stadium in Rustavi. Two footballers from Dinamo – goalkeeper Giorgi Mamardashvili and midfielder Paata Kiteishvili are on lease in FC Rustavi. Dinamo footballer Lasha Kochladze continued career in FC Rustavi. Giorgi Papava returned to our team from Rustavi.
Coach
Varlam Kilasonia leads the team since April. At this stage our rival has 288 points gained in 24 matches and is on the 7th place in the table.
Head-to-head
FC Dinamo Tbilisi and FC Rustavi competed only for 6 times. From them our team won 5 matches and lost once. The first match was held on March 5, 2018 at Dinamo Arena finished with the victory of FC Rustavi- 2:1. Budu Zivzivadze scored with penalty. On May 6 our team defeated Rustavi with Akaki Shulaia’s and Otar Kiteishvili’s goals -2:0. On August 3 Dinamo won with the score 2:1. Akaki Shulaia and Nika Ninua scored. On October 7 and it finished with Dinamo’s victory 3:0. Budu Zivzivadze (2) and Akaki Shulaia scored. On April 7 the match finished with Dinamo’s victory 3:1. Levan Shengelia (2) and Akaki Shulaia scored. The last between these teams took place on May 28. Our team won with Levan Kutalia’s goal-1:0.
Referee and disqualified footballers
Irakli Kvirikashvili will be the referee of the match. L.Varamishvili and Z. Menteshashvili will be his assistants. G. Vadatchkoria will be the fourth official. Nobody will miss the match because of disqualification.