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FC Margveti 2006 is a Georgian association football club from Zestafoni, which competes in Liga 4, the fourth division of Georgian football system.

FC Margveti 2006

Full name	FC Margveti 2006 Zestafoni
Nickname(s)	Margvelebi
Founded	2006
Ground	Murtaz and Soso Abashidze stadium, Kharagauli
Manager	Tamaz Gabrichidze
League	Liga 4
2021	10th in Liga 4 Promotion Group

History

Clubs of Zestafoni

Since 1990, when independent leagues were formed, the city of Zestafoni has been represented by several clubs in Georgian football divisions.

● FC Margveti spent eight seasons in Umaglesi Liga in 1990s, twice reaching semifinals of the national Cup and once finishing the second, which paved the way for participation in UEFA Cup preliminary round. However, facing a severe financial crisis, the club went bust in 2000.

● Metalurgi, bearing the name of a Soviet-time football club from Zestafoni, re-emerged instead. Being participant of two top flight seasons between 2001 and 2003, they, too, ceased to exist for the same reason.

● FC Zestafoni, founded in 2004, achieved a remarkable success in late 2000s and early 2010s, becoming a dominant force along with Dinamo Tbilisi. The two-times champions and the Cup title holders, however, due to various reasons faded away gradually after 2014. In the 2021 season they gained promotion to Liga 3.

Margveti 2006

Margveti 2006 were formed as a municipal club on the basis of a local football school, where at one point 268 pupils were engaged in football, participating in different regional and republican competitions.[1] As for the professional club, they have taken part in the third division and below only.

Margveti came close to gaining promotion to Pirveli Liga in 2015/16 and 2016 seasons.[2] Ucha Sosiashvili, famous for his Dila Gori triumph in 2015 as a manager, became head coach in August 2017 for several months.[3]

In contrast with the previous seasons, in 2017 the club was involved in the relegation round. Although Margveti seemed clear favourites in a play-off tie, they surprisingly lost it,[4] which led to the exit of manager Gia Guruli and 13 field players. The team was a member of Regionuli Liga for the next three years before they managed to take the second place in 2020 in Group A West and advance to Liga 4.[5]

Once there, the club successfully competed in the first stage well enough to qualify for Promotion Group, where due to the financial crisis their performance sharply deteriorated.

Seasons

Season	League	Pos	MP	W	D	L	GF–GA	P	Notes
2012/13	Meore Liga West	5th of 13	24	14	1	9	70-37	43
2013/14	Meore Liga West	2nd of 13	24	15	6	3	52-21	51
2014/15	Meore Liga West	7th of 15	28	14	2	12	54-46	44
2015/16	Meore Liga West	2nd of 14	26	22	0	4	80-23	66
2016	Meore Liga A Group West	1st of 7	12	8	4	0	28-5	28
2017	Liga 3 Red Group	7th of 10	18	5	6	7	21-28	21
	Relegation round	5th of 10	18	8	5	5	27-17	29	Play-off, lost
2018	Regionuli Liga, Group A West	2nd of 8	14	11	1	2	45-15	34
	Promotion Group, West	5th of 8	14	6	2	6	26-37	20
2019	Regionuli Liga, Group A West	5th of 10	9	4	1	4	14-21	13
	Promotion Group, West	10th of 10	18	0	0	18	9-85	0
2020	Regionuli Liga, Group A West	2nd of 9	16	9	4	3	45-31	31	Promoted
2021	Liga 4, Red Group	4th of 10	18	8	5	5	36-33	29
	Promotion Group	10th of 10	18	2	3	13	18-51	9

Players

As of April 2022

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GEO Aleksandre Giorgadze 2 DF  GEO Bakur Gulua 3 DF  GEO Davit Machavariani 5 DF  GEO Irakli Gvetadze 6 MF  GEO Lasha Bubulashvili (captain) 7 MF  GEO Shota Andriadze 8 MF  GEO Gia Panchulidze 9 MF  GEO Giorgi Tevdoradze 10 MF  GEO Dato Bebiashvili 11 FW  GEO Tengiz Khelidze

No. Pos. Nation Player 12 GK  GEO Vazha Kakhetelidze 13 MF  GEO Zurab Saghinadze 15 DF  GEO Luka Bebiashvili 17 MF  GEO Irakli Khetsuriani 18 DF  GEO Tornike Shalamberidze 19 FW  GEO Tornike Darsavelidze 20 DF  GEO Zaal Zuzadze 21 FW  GEO Goderdzi Gagoshidze 24 GK  GEO Anzor Peradze

Stadium

Due to unavailability of a football ground in the city, the club hires a pitch in the neighbouring Kharagauli district. The construction of a municipal stadium, which was repeatedly announced, is yet to commence.

City derby

Relations with FC Zestafoni can hardly be described as easy. In 2015, a media row erupted after Ilia Kokaya, the owner of the latter, slammed Margveti 2006 for cronyism and unfair privileges, and suggested that the local authorities were deliberately seeking to sink FC Zestafoni at the expense of this municipal club. Margveti hit out at him by dismissing all the allegations.[6]

During the 2018, 2019 and 2021 seasons these two clubs played in the same division. Initially Margveti won two games (1-0 and 2-0), but then lost next seven matches in a row with a 4-35 aggregate goal difference.

Name

Margveti, also mentioned as Argveti in historic annals, was a duchy between VIII and XI centuries on large swaths of current Imereti region.

External links

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On Soccerway

References

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