2023 Erovnuli Liga

Erovnuli Liga
Season	2023
Dates	25 February – 2 December 2023
Champions	Dinamo Batumi (2nd Georgian title)
Relegated	Shukura Kobuleti
Champions League	Dinamo Batumi
Conference League	Dinamo Tbilisi; Saburtalo Tbilisi (via Georgian Cup); Torpedo Kutaisi
Matches played	180
Goals scored	560 (3.11 per match)
Top goalscorer	Flamarion; Zoran Marušić; Zurab Museliani; (17 goals)
	← 2022 2024 → All statistics correct as of 2 December 2023.

The 2023 Erovnuli Liga or Crystalbet Erovnuli Liga 2023 (formerly known as Umaglesi Liga) was the 35th season of top-tier football in Georgia. Dinamo Tbilisi were the defending champions.

Teams and stadiums

Changes

Shukura Kobuleti and FC Samtredia were promoted from the 2022 Erovnuli Liga 2. Locomotive Tbilisi and Sioni Bolnisi have been relegated to 2023 Erovnuli Liga 2.

Tbilisi

Tbilisi teams:
Dinamo
Gagra
Saburtalo

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Locations of the 2023 Erovnuli Liga teams

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Dila Gori	Gori	Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium	5,000
Dinamo Batumi	Batumi	Adjarabet Arena	20,000
Dinamo Tbilisi	Tbilisi	Boris Paichadze Stadium Tengiz Burjanadze Stadium, Gori	54,549 5,000
Gagra		Ilia Kokaia Football Center David Petriashvili Stadium	500 2,130
Saburtalo Tbilisi		GFF Technical Centre, Rustavi	1,000
Samgurali Tsqaltubo	Tsqaltubo	David Abashidze Stadium, Zestaponi	4,558
FC Samtredia	Samtredia	Erosi Manjgaladze Stadium	3,000
Shukura Kobuleti	Kobuleti	David Abashidze Stadium, Zestaponi Joni Bakuradze Sport Base Stadium, Batumi	4,558 8,000
FC Telavi	Telavi	GFF Technical Centre, Rustavi	1,000
Torpedo Kutaisi	Kutaisi	Ramaz Shengelia Stadium Erosi Manjgaladze Stadium, Samtredia	19,400 5,000

Personnel and kits

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Dila	Irakli Modebadze	Davit Maisashvili	Nike	Marsbet
Dinamo Batumi	Andriy Demchenko	Mamuka Kobakhidze	Macron	Crocobet Lixin Group
Dinamo Tbilisi	Andrés Carrasco	Giorgi Papava	Puma	adjarabet.com Marsbet
Gagra	Giorgi Oniani	Vasil Khositashvili	Puma	N/A
Saburtalo	Giorgi Mikadze	Levan Kakubava	Saller	Audi
Samgurali	Oleksandr Poklonskyi	Papuna Poniava	Hummel	Halyk Bank Crocobet
Samtredia	Dimitar Kapinkovski	Givi Ioseliani	Kelme	N/A
Shukura	Revaz Dzodzuashvili	Mishiko Sardalishvili	Jako	Crocobet
Telavi	Tamaz Odikadze (interim)	Mirian Jikia	Jako	N/A
Torpedo	Steve Kean	Irakli Dzaria	Macron	New Vision University

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Dinamo Batumi (C)	36	21	11	4	83	41	+42	74	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Dinamo Tbilisi	36	21	8	7	93	49	+44	71	Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round
3	Torpedo Kutaisi	36	16	12	8	55	37	+18	60
4	Dila Gori	36	17	9	10	56	39	+17	60
5	Samgurali Tsqaltubo	36	16	9	11	53	51	+2	57
6	Saburtalo Tbilisi	36	14	9	13	58	49	+9	51	Qualification for the Conference League second qualifying round^[a]
7	Gagra	36	10	8	18	47	65	−18	38
8	Telavi (O)	36	10	7	19	34	62	−28	37	Qualification to Relegation play-off
9	Samtredia (O)	36	9	6	21	50	62	−12	33	Qualification to Relegation play-off
10	Shukura Kobuleti (R)	36	4	5	27	38	112	−74	11^[b]	Relegated to Liga 4 due to failure to meet licensing requirements

Source: Erovnuli Liga, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored (only if two teams); 6) Goal difference; 7) Goals scored.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ Saburtalo Tbilisi qualified for the Conference League second qualifying round by winning the 2023 Georgian Cup.
^ Shukura deducted 6 points due to violating the league's financial rules

Results

Each team will play the other nine teams home and away twice, for a total of 36 games each.

Round 1–18

Home \ Away	DIL	DBT	DTB	GAG	SAB	SMG	SAM	SHU	TEL	TKU
Dila Gori	—	1–1	1–2	1–0	1–1	0–3	1–0	2–0	6–1	5–0
Dinamo Batumi	0–2	—	2–2	3–1	3–1	2–0	3–2	2–1	2–0	1–1
Dinamo Tbilisi	1–2	1–2	—	0–0	1–3	2–0	4–0	4–4	6–1	2–1
Gagra	0–0	1–4	3–5	—	1–2	3–4	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–0
Saburtalo Tbilisi	0–0	3–3	2–1	3–0	—	5–1	2–0	2–1	3–0	0–0
Samgurali	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	—	2–1	4–1	1–0	0–0
FC Samtredia	1–2	1–2	0–2	1–2	3–3	0–2	—	0–2	1–0	0–2
Shukura Kobuleti	2–3^[a]	1–3	1–2	3–4	2–3	2–1	2–2	—	1–2	0–2
Telavi	2–2	1–4	2–2	0–0	0–3	0–1	0–1	0–0	—	1–0
Torpedo Kutaisi	0–0	0–0	2–3	3–1	0–3	1–3	1–0	1–2	2–1	—

Source: Erovnuli Liga Results Erovnuli Liga Fixtures
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ Postponed due to weather conditions

Round 19–36

Home \ Away	DIL	DBT	DTB	GAG	SAB	SMG	SAM	SHU	TEL	TKU
Dila Gori	—	1–3^[a]	0–3^[b]	1–0	3–0	2–0	1–3	5–1	3–1	0–1
Dinamo Batumi	1–1	—	2–2	3–0	2–1	4–1	1–1	5–0	3–0	2–2
Dinamo Tbilisi	3–1	6–2	—	0–1	1–0	5–2	3–0	4–2	4–0	1–1
Gagra	0–0	0–2	1–6	—	2–1	0–0	4–3	1–0	4–1	1–2
Saburtalo Tbilisi	1–2	0–0	0–3	5–0	—	2–2	0–0	5–1	0–1	1–3
Samgurali	1–0	3–2	0–2	2–2	1–0	—	0–3	5–0	0–1	0–0
FC Samtredia	1–2	1–3	3–2	3–1	0–0	2–3	—	4–2	0–2	2–3
Shukura Kobuleti	1–2	0–6	2–3	9–0	1–2	2–2	0–9	—	0–2	0–0
Telavi	2–1	2–1	2–2	0–1	3–0	2–1	1–1	0–1	—	1–2
Torpedo Kutaisi	1–0	0–3	2–2	4–1	5–0	0–0	2–0	9–0	2–1	—

Source: Erovnuli Liga Results Erovnuli Liga Fixtures
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Notes:

^ Postponed
^ Postponed

Relegation play-offs

6 December 2023

13:00

Samtredia	4–1	Gareji Sagarejo
Mishov 6' Pavisic 25' Akhvlediani 38' Natchkebia 43'		Kharebashvili 67'

Erosi Manjgaladze Stadium, Samtredia

Referee: Aleko Aptsiauri

10 December 2023

13:00

Gareji Sagarejo	3–1	Samtredia
Ugrekhelidze 14' Papuashvili 36' Kharebashvili 47'		Natchkebia 8'

Central stadium, Sagarejo

Referee: Irakli Kvirikashvili

6 December 2023

17:00

Spaeri Tbilisi	1–1	Telavi
Gegiadze 36'		Rukhadze 61'

Spaeri Stadium, Tbilisi

Referee: Giorgi Avazashvili

10 December 2023

18:00

Telavi	4–0	Spaeri Tbilisi
Ashortia 15' (pen.), 53' Rukhadze 21' Kantaria 28'

Caucasus Arena, Telavi

Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili

Statistics

Top scorers

As of matches played on 2 December 2023

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Flamarion	Dinamo Batumi	17
	Zoran Marušić	Dinamo Tbilisi
	Zurab Museliani	Gagra
2	Ousmane Camara	Dinamo Tbilisi	14
2	Giorgi Arabidze	Torpedo Kutaisi	14
3	Imran Oulad Omar	Dinamo Tbilisi	13
4	Paata Gudushauri	Dinamo Batumi	12
	Vladimer Mamuchashvili	Dinamo Batumi
	Cheykne Sylla	Saburtalo
	Davit Skhirtladze	Dinamo Tbilisi

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Flamarion	Dinamo Batumi	Gagra	1–4 (A)	18 March 2023	^[1]
Giorgi Nikabadze	Samgurali Tsqaltubo	Torpedo Kutaisi	1–3 (A)	14 May 2023	^[2]
Zurab Museliani	Shukura Kobuleti	Gagra	3–4 (A)	1 June 2023	^[3]
Imran Oulad Omar	Dinamo Tbilisi	Gagra	1–6 (A)	13 August 2023	^[4]
Zoran Marušić	Dinamo Tbilisi	Samgurali Tsqaltubo	5–2 (H)	19 August 2023	^[5]
Cyrille Tchamba	Saburtalo Tbilisi	Gagra	5–0 (H)	2 September 2023	^[6]
Giorgi Tsitaishvili	Dinamo Batumi	Shukura Kobuleti	0–6 (A)	2 October 2023	^[7]
Nikola Ninković	Torpedo Kutaisi	Shukura Kobuleti	9–0 (H)	28 November 2023	^[8]
Zurab Museliani ⁷	Gagra	Shukura Kobuleti	0–9 (A)	2 December 2023	^[9]

⁷ Player scored 7 goals

Clean sheets

As of matches played on 2 December 2023

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Yevhen Kucherenko	Dila Gori	12
2	Roin Kvaskhvadze	Torpedo Kutaisi / Dinamo Batumi	11
3	Lazare Kupatadze	Saburtalo Tbilisi	9
3	Oleksandr Vorobey	Gagra	9
4	Levan Shovnadze	Samgurali Tsqaltubo	7
5	Oto Goshadze	Torpedo Kutaisi	6
5	Filip Kljajić	Torpedo Kutaisi	6
6	Nodari Kalichava	Samgurali Tsqaltubo	4
	David Yurchenko	Telavi
	Luka Kutaladze	Dinamo Tbilisi / Samgurali Tsqaltubo
	Giorgi Loria	Dinamo Tbilisi

References

^ "Gagra 1-4 Dinamo Batumi". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 18 March 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
^ "Samgurali Tsqaltubo 1-3 Torpedo Kutaisi". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
^ "Shukura Kobuleti 3-4 Gagra". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 1 June 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
^ "Gagra 1-6 Dinamo Tbilisi". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 13 August 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
^ "Dinamo Tbilisi 5-2 Samgurali Tsqaltubo". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 19 August 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
^ "Saburtalo Tbilisi 5-0 Gagra". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 2 September 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.
^ "Shukura Kobuleti 0-6 Dinamo Batumi". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 2 October 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
^ "Torpedo Kutaisi 5-0 Shukura Kobuleti". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 28 November 2023. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
^ "Shukura Kobuleti 0-9 Gagra". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 2 December 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.

[table_note_res_ECL2Q0.86433152801559-1] Saburtalo Tbilisi qualified for the Conference League second qualifying round by winning the 2023 Georgian Cup.

[table_hth_SHU0.86433152801559-2] Shukura deducted 6 points due to violating the league's financial rules

[table_note_1_SHU_DIL0.12345730891612-3] Postponed due to weather conditions

[table_note_1_DIL_DBT0.054947990949707-4] Postponed

[table_note_1_DIL_DTB0.054947990949707-5] Postponed

[6] "Gagra 1-4 Dinamo Batumi". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 18 March 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.

[7] "Samgurali Tsqaltubo 1-3 Torpedo Kutaisi". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 14 May 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.

[8] "Shukura Kobuleti 3-4 Gagra". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 1 June 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.

[9] "Gagra 1-6 Dinamo Tbilisi". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 13 August 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.

[10] "Dinamo Tbilisi 5-2 Samgurali Tsqaltubo". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 19 August 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.

[11] "Saburtalo Tbilisi 5-0 Gagra". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 2 September 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023.

[12] "Shukura Kobuleti 0-6 Dinamo Batumi". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 2 October 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.

[13] "Torpedo Kutaisi 5-0 Shukura Kobuleti". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 28 November 2023. Retrieved 28 November 2023.

[14] "Shukura Kobuleti 0-9 Gagra". soccerway.com. Soccerway. 2 December 2023. Retrieved 2 December 2023.

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