FC Samtredia
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Full name | Football Club Samtredia | ||
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Founded | 1936 | as Sanavardo Samtredia||
Ground | Erosi Manjgaladze Stadium, Samtredia, Georgia | ||
Capacity | 3,000 | ||
Chairman | |||
Coach | Giorgi Tsetsadze | ||
League | Erovnuli Liga | ||
2020 | 7th | ||
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FC Samtredia (Georgian: სკ სამტრედია), commonly known simply as Samtredia, is a Georgian association football club based in the city of Samtredia.
The club competes in Erovnuli Liga, the first tier of Georgian football. Their home ground is Erosi Manjgaladze Stadium.
Samtredia has won the national league title and Super Cup.
History[]
In the Soviet leagues[]
Established in 1936, Samtredia spent years in the Georgian championship before the club obtained the right to participate in Soviet Second League, the third tier of the Soviet football system. Several times Lokomotivi Samtredia finished their season as runners-up, twice won the league, although eventually failed to win the knock-out stages of the competition against winners of other two zones.[1]
Season | League | Pos | Notes |
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1973 | II, zone 4 | 12 | |
1974 | II, zone 3 | 9 | |
1975 | II, zone 1 | 10 | |
1976 | II, zone 1 | 13 | |
1977 | II, zone 4 | 12 | |
1978 | II, zone 4 | 8 | |
1979 | II, zone 4 | 2 | |
1980 | II, zone 9 | 1 | Play-off, lost |
1981 | II, zone 9 | 2 | |
1982 | II, zone 9 | 2 | |
1983 | II, zone 9 | 4 | |
1984 | II, zone 9 | 4 | |
1985 | II, zone 9 | 10 | |
1986 | II, zone 9 | 7 | |
1987 | II, zone 9 | 1 | Play-offs, lost |
1988 | II, zone 3 | 8 | |
1989 | II, zone 9 | 4 |
Below are all-time results of FC Samtredia during these 17 consecutive seasons in the Second league.
M | W | D | L | GD |
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626 | 300 | 121 | 205 | 992-813 |
Following the 1989 season the Samtredian team as well as all other Georgian clubs withdrew from their relevant Soviet leagues after Georgian Football Federation broke ties with the Soviet Football Federation and formed an independent championship.
After Independence[]
Sanavardo Samtredia became member of a new national Umaglesi liga. While twice, in 1993/94 and 1995/96, they finished in the 4th place, in 1994/1995 the club ended the season with the silver, which implied qualification for the preliminary round of UEFA Cup. The debut in European football competitions turned out unsuccessful, though.[2]
In 2014/15 Samtredia reached the final of David Kipiani Cup. In previous rounds they had knocked out four opponents, including contenders for the title Dinamo Batumi, Torpedo Kutaisi and Chikhura, but resistance offered to Dinamo Tbilisi proved insufficient.[3]
The most fruitful period for Samtredia was in mid-2010s when they finished among top three teams of Umaglesi liga for three seasons in a row. Moreover, in 2016, under head coach Giorgi Tsetsadze they became champions for the first time in their history after victory over Chikhura Sachkhere in the championship playoffs.[4] Samtredia completed the season with the double after they beat Georgian Cup holders Torpedo Kutaisi in the Super Cup game.[5]
In 2019 the club took part in Liga 2, although returned to the top division after one season. Manager Kakhaber Kacharava, who guided Samtredia back to the top flight, had to quit the club in September 2020 after just one point earned in last five league games and a shock Cup defeat from Liga 3 minnows Tbilisi City.[6]
New head coach Giorgi Mikadze steered Samtredia away from the relegation zone, although in February 2021 he was replaced by Giorgi Tsetsadze, who had once brought the club to their only champion's title.[7]
Season | Div | Position | Notes | Top scorers | Cup |
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2006/07 | 2nd | 11th of 18 | |||
2007/08 | 2nd | 8th of 10 | |||
2008/09 | 2nd | 1st of 11 | Promoted | 1/8 | |
2009/10 | 1st | 7th of 10 | ![]() |
1/8 | |
2010/11 | 1st | 10th of 10 | Relegated | ![]() |
1/16 |
2011/12 | 2nd | 9th of 10 | ![]() |
1/16 | |
2012/13 | 2nd | 5th of 12 | ![]() |
1/8 | |
2013/14 | 2nd | 1st of 14 | Promoted | ![]() |
1/16 |
2014/15 | 1st | 6th of 16 | ![]() |
Runners-up | |
2015/16 | 1st | 2nd of 16 | ![]() |
1/4 | |
2016 | 1st | 1st of 14 | Winner | ![]() |
1/4 |
2017 | 1st | 3rd of 10 | ![]() |
1/8 | |
2018 | 1st | 9th of 10 | Relegation play-off, lost | ![]() |
1/8 |
2019 | 2nd | 2nd of 10 | Promotion play-off, won | ![]() |
1/8 |
2020 | 1st | 7th of 10 | ![]() |
1/8 | |
2021 | 1st | 1/16 |
European record[]
Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
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1995–96 | UEFA Cup | PR | ![]() |
0–2 | 0–1 | 0–3 |
2016–17 | UEFA Europa League | 1QR | ![]() |
2–1 | 1–5 | 3–6 |
2017–18 | UEFA Champions League | 2QR | ![]() |
0–1 | 0–5 | 0–6 |
2018–19 | UEFA Europa League | 1QR | ![]() |
0–1 | 0–2 | 0–3 |
Notable players[]
Born in Samtredia, Kаkha Kaladze began his football career at the age of 11 in FC Samtredia's junior team as a striker.
Current squad[]
As of 31 July 2021[8]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Managers[]
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Honours[]
Pirveli Liga
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Georgian Cup
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Sponsors[]
Since 2019 Archi development company has been a general sponsor of FC Samtredia.[10]
Name[]
Throughout their history Samtredia have also been named Lokomotivi, Sanavardo, Juba and Iberia[11] with the current name regained in 2006.
Samtredia literally means a place where pigeons reside and comes from Georgian word mtredi - pigeon.
References[]
- ^ "Samtredia in 1970-80s". Wildstat.
- ^ "Samtredia vs Vardar 1995 History". uefa.com.
- ^ "Dinamo beat Samtredia to make it three in a row". uefa.com.
- ^ "Chikhura vs Samtredia 11 Dec 2016". Socceway.
- ^ "Samtredia wins the Super Cup". 27 Feb 2017.
- ^ "Kacharave leaves Samtredia". goal.ge (in Georgian).
- ^ "Gia Tsetsadze: I have returned to my most favourite team". 1tv.ge (in Georgian).
- ^ "Players". Erovnuliliga. Retrieved 17 August 2019.
- ^ Georgia - List of Champions - RSSSF
- ^ "Archi becomes general sponsor of Samtredia (in Georgian)". sportall.ge.
- ^ "The history of FC Samtredia". fcsamtredia.com. 6 December 2015. Archived from the original on 18 December 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
External links[]
- FC Samtredia
- Football clubs in Georgia (country)
- 1936 establishments in Georgia (country)
- Association football clubs established in 1936
- Sport in Imereti