FC Telavi

The club was founded in 2016 by the former football players: Irakli Vashakidze, Soso Grishikashvili and Aleksandre Amisulashvili. [1] The club successfully completed their first season in Regionuli Liga in 2016 and earned a place in III division. The next year they finished 2nd in Group White and in promotion play-offs defeated Guria 3-2 on aggregate.

In 2018 Telavi took a foothold in Liga 2 coming 5th in the final table. The following year they booked another promotion play-off, beat Rustavi in both games (2-1 and 1-0) and advanced to Erovnuli Liga.

During their very first season in the top flight the club was widely praised for decent performance. Having lost just two games out of 18, FC Telavi finished in the 6th place.[2]

Source [3] [4]

Season	League	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GF	GA	P	Cup	Europe	Notes	Manager
2017	Liga 3	2	36	22	8	6	86	33	74	Third Round		Promoted	Giorgi Dekanosidze
2018	Erovnuli Liga 2	5	36	12	12	12	45	43	48	Semi-finals			Denis Khomutov
2019	Erovnuli Liga 2	3	36	19	6	11	70	36	63	Fourth Round		Promoted	Revaz Gotsiridze
2020	Erovnuli Liga	6	18	4	12	2	21	14	24	Quarter finals			Revaz Gotsiridze

As of February 2020[5]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  GEO Anton Tolordava 4 DF  GEO Piruz Marakvelidze 5 DF  GEO Ilia Beriashvili 6 MF  GEO Beka Varshanidze 7 MF  GEO Mikheil Basheleishvili 8 MF  GEO Lasha Kukujanashvili 9 MF  GEO Irakli Rukhadze 10 MF  GEO Nikoloz Basheleishvili 11 MF  GEO Guram Samushia 11 MF  GEO Tsotne Mosiashvili 14 DF  GEO Mirian Jikia 16 MF  GEO Aleksandre Koshkadze

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 MF  ARM Hovhannes Poghosyan 18 MF  UKR Vladyslav Krayev 20 DF  NGA Raphael Chukwurah 21 GK  GEO Luka Sanikidze 22 GK  GEO Oto Goshadze 23 DF  MKD Vladimir Dimitrovski 24 DF  GEO Tornike Tzotsenidze 25 FW  GEO Lasha Kokhreidze 27 FW  UKR Yaroslav Kvasov 28 FW  GEO Giorgi Kandelaki 33 DF  GEO Vako Bachiashvili 35 DF  GEO Grigol Chabradze