Regionuli Liga

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Regionuli Liga
Founded1990; 34 years ago (1990)
Country 
Liga 4
Domestic cup(s)Georgian Cup
Websitehttps://www.gff.ge/en
https://www.gff.ge/en/championships/regional-league/group-east

Regionuli Liga (Georgian: რეგიონული ლიგა), run by Georgian Football Federation since 1990, is the fifth and lowest division of the Georgian league system after Erovnuli Liga, Erovnuli Liga 2, Liga 3 and Liga 4. Its participants are both professional clubs and reserve teams of higher league members.

Prior to the introduction of Liga 4 in 2019, Regionuli Liga was the fourth tier.

Structure

As the name implies, the league is based on regional principle. Depending on the number of participating clubs, it is divided into several groups. In 2017, there were forty teams allocated in three groups.[1] The next year two zones were created for teams based in western Georgia and two more for the eastern regions. This regulation lasted three seasons until 2021, when the league was split into two groups, although the next year it switched back to three groups.

The number of promoted clubs per season also varies. Usually only the group winners gain automatic promotion, although several second-placed and third-placed teams, too, directly or through play-offs have advanced to the fourth tier in recent years.[2] In another case, play-off ties against Liga 3 teams determined the fate of Liga 4 two slots.[3]

The seasons are played on Spring-Autumn system.

Current season

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Locations of Regionuli Liga football clubs in 2024

For the 2024 season 27 clubs from the southern and eastern parts of Georgia and three Tbilisi-based teams from Abkhazia formed A and B groups, while zone C consists of thirteen clubs from the western regions.[4] Each club plays each of the other clubs twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season four teams will gain promotion to Liga 4. Three group winners will be joined by one of the runners-up based on play-off results among the three second-placed teams.

Clubs represented in Regionuli liga for the 2024 season are listed below in alphabetical order.

top division
:

  • Dinamo Sokhumi
    in 2005–06;
  • Egrisi Senaki
    in 1995–96;
  • Iveria Khashuri
    in 1990–97;
  • Magaroeli Chiatura in 1993–94 and 1997–98;
  • Sapovnela Terjola in 1993–94, 1994–95 and 2015–16;
  • Tskhumi Sokhumi
    in 1990–93.
Groups Teams
A
Iveria Khashuri • Jvarosnebi Tbilisi • Kareli • Kaspi 1936 • Norchi Dinamo 2016 • Samtskhe Akhaltsikhe • Spaeri-2 • UG 35 • Vazisubani Tbilisi
B
Tskhumi Sokhumi
C
 Chele Kobuleti • BSU Batumi • Chibati Lanchkhuti • Egrisi Senaki • Imereti Khoni • Enguri Jvari • Magaroeli Chiatura • Kolkheti-2 1913 • Martve Kutaisi • Meshakhte Tkibuli-2 • Sapovnela Terjola • Sairme Bagdati • Torpedo-2

Notes:

Past seasons

Group Winners

Year Teams
2017
Saburtalo Tbilisi-2 • Varketili Tbilisi
2018
Dinamo Batumi-2 • Tbilisi City • Gareji Sagarejo
2019 Torpedo Kutaisi-2 • Skuri Tsalenjikha • WIT Georgia Tbilisi-2 • Didube 2014 Tbilisi
2020
Dinamo Tbilisi
-2
2021
Samgurali Tskaltubo-2 • Locomotive Tbilisi
-2
2022 Kolkheti-2 1913 • Gardabani • Varketili Tbilisi-2
2023
Mertskhali Ozurgeti • Gagra-2 • Didube 2014 Tbilisi

Year Teams
2017
Saburtalo Tbilisi-2 • Samgurali Tskaltubo-2 • Varketili Tbilisi
2018 Egrisi Senaki • Gareji Sagarejo • Odishi 1919 • Spaeri Tbilisi • Tbilisi City
2019 Didube 2014 Tbilisi • Iberia Tbilisi • Merani Tbilisi-2 • Skuri Tsalenjikha • Sulori Vani • WIT Georgia Tbilisi-2 • Zestafoni
2020 Dinamo Tbilisi-2 • Irao Tbilisi • Margveti 2006 • Matchakhela Khelvachauri • Merani Martvili-2 • Shturmi Sartichala • Tbilisi • Torpedo Kutaisi-2
2021 Locomotive Tbilisi-2 • Samgurali Tskaltubo-2
2022 Gardabani • Gonio • Kolkheti-2 1913 • Varketili Tbilisi-2
2023
Mertskhali Ozurgeti • Zana Abasha

Notes: Aragvi Dusheti and Samgurali Tskaltubo-2 beat their upper league rivals in the 2017 play-offs.[6] So did Gareji Sagarejo a year later. All the other clubs were promoted directly. In 2018 and 2019, the second phase of competition was held in Promotion Groups. As a result, in comparison with the initial phase, the final table of these seasons sustained some changes.[7]

References

  1. ^ "რეგიონული ლიგა: "საბურთალო 2"-მა საწადელი თითქმის აისრულა". worldsport.ge (in Georgian), 27 October 2017.
  2. ^ "ლიგა 3–ში მარგვეთის გავლით". fcsamgurali.ge (in Georgian), 28 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Play-offs in 2018". gff.ge (in Georgian).
  4. ^ "Regionuli Liga West". irff.ge (in Georgian). Retrieved 29 March 2024.
  5. ^ "Regional League, Group East". gff.ge.
  6. ^ "ლიგა 3-ს ახალი წევრები ჰყავს". mysports.ge (in Georgian), 29 November 2017.
  7. ^ "2019 წლის რეგიონლიგა". fczestafoni.ge (in Georgian).