2024 Erovnuli Liga

The 2024 Erovnuli Liga season or Crystalbet Erovnuli Liga 2024 (formerly known as Umaglesi Liga) was the 36th season of top tier football in Georgia. Dinamo Batumi were the defending champions. The season began on March the 1st and ended on December the 8th. The league was won by Iberia 1999. This was second time they won the league, with first being in 2018.

Erovnuli Liga

Season	2024
Dates	1 March[1] – 8 December 2024
Champions	Iberia 1999 (2nd title)
Relegated	Samtredia
Champions League	Iberia 1999
Conference League	Dila Gori Torpedo Kutaisi
Matches	180
Goals	465 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bjørn Johnsen (23 goals)
← 2023 2025 → All statistics correct as of 16 December 2024.

Teams and stadiums

Changes

Kolkheti-1913 was promoted from the 2023 Erovnuli Liga 2 thus returning to top tier after a five year absence. Shukura Kobuleti has been relegated to 2024 Liga 4 due to failing licensing process, thus being relegated after a single season in top flight.

Tbilisi

Dila Gori

Dinamo Batumi

Kolkheti-1913

Samgurali Tsqaltubo

Samtredia

Telavi

Torpedo Kutaisi

Tbilisi teams:
Dinamo
Gagra
Iberia 1999

Locations of the 2024 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	54,549
Gagra		Ilia Kokaia Football Center	500
Iberia 1999[a]		David Petriashvili Stadium	2,130
Kolkheti-1913	Poti	GFF Technical Centre, Kobuleti	1,000
Samgurali Tsqaltubo	Tsqaltubo	26 May Stadium Football Centre	3,500 300
FC Samtredia	Samtredia	Erosi Manjgaladze Stadium	3,000
FC Telavi	Telavi	Caucasus Arena	1,000
Torpedo Kutaisi	Kutaisi	Ramaz Shengelia Stadium	19,400

1. Former FC Saburtalo

Personnel and kits

Team	Head coach	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Dila	Ricardo Costa	Nika Gagnidze	Nike	Marsbet
Dinamo Batumi	Giorgi Chiabrishvili	Mamuka Kobakhidze	Macron	Crocobet Lixin Group
Dinamo Tbilisi	Ferdinand Feldhofer	Aleksandre Kalandadze	Puma	adjarabet.com Marsbet
Gagra	Giorgi Oniani	Mate Vatsadze	Puma	N/A
Iberia 1999	Levan Korgalidze	Lazare Kupatadze	Givova	Audi
Kolkheti-1913	Kakhaber Chkhetiani	Davit Megrelishvili	Macron	N/A
Samgurali	Rodolfo Vanoli	Tedo Kikabidze	Hummel	Halyk Bank Crocobet
Samtredia	Vladimer Kakashvili	Davit Ubilava	Kelme	N/A
Telavi	Pambos Christodoulou	Dachi Tsnobiladze	Jako	N/A
Torpedo	Steve Kean	Merab Gigauri	Macron	New Vision University

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Position in table	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Position in table	Date of appointment
Dinamo Tbilisi	Andrés Carrasco	Mutual consent	5th	7 June 2024[2]	Ferdinand Feldhofer	5th	16 June 2024
Dila Gori	Rui Mota	Signed by FC Noah	1st	14 June 2024	Ricardo Costa	1st	8 July 2024
Iberia 1999	Giorgi Mikadze	Fired	3rd	5 July 2024	Levan Korgalidze	3rd	5 July 2024
Samtredia	Dimitar Kapinkovski	Mutual consent	10th	21 August 2024	Vladimer Kakashvili	10th	24 August 2024
Telavi	Armen Adamyan	Fired	8th	3 September 2024	Pambos Christodoulou	8th	3 September 2024
Samgurali	Mikheil Ashvetia	Mutual consent	6th	9 October 2024	Rodolfo Vanoli	6th	11 October 2024
Dinamo Batumi	Andriy Demchenko	Fired	4th	9 October 2024	Giorgi Chiabrishvili	4th	18 October 2024

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Iberia 1999 (C)	36	23	6	7	74	46	+28	75	Qualification for the Champions League first qualifying round
2	Torpedo Kutaisi	36	21	7	8	58	40	+18	70	Qualification for the Conference League first qualifying round
3	Dila Gori	36	19	11	6	58	30	+28	68
4	Dinamo Batumi	36	15	10	11	42	41	+1	55
5	Samgurali Tsqaltubo	36	11	11	14	51	49	+2	44
6	Kolkheti-1913	36	9	14	13	48	58	−10	41
7	Dinamo Tbilisi	36	9	12	15	33	44	−11	39
8	Gagra (O)	36	11	5	20	36	53	−17	38	Qualification to Relegation play-offs
9	Telavi (O)	36	8	10	18	32	43	−11	34
10	Samtredia (R)	36	5	12	19	33	61	−28	27	Relegation to Erovnuli Liga 2

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

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 IBE KOL SMG SAM TEL TKU Dila Gori — 0–0 2–1 2–0 3–1 1–1 1–1 3–0 1–0 1–1 Dinamo Batumi 0–2 — 2–0 0–1 2–3 1–0 1–0 3–1 1–1 3–2 Dinamo Tbilisi 2–2 1–2 — 2–0 1–0 0–0 2–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 Gagra 0–1 1–3 0–2 — 4–0 2–0 0–0 2–1 2–0 0–1 Iberia 1999 1–4 3–0 1–0 3–1 — 0–2 1–2 2–2 1–0 3–3 Kolkheti-1913 1–3 2–2 2–2 2–1 1–2 — 3–3 2–0 3–1 2–5 Samgurali 0–1 0–1 3–1 2–0 2–3 1–1 — 4–0 2–1 1–3 Samtredia 0–0 2–2 0–0 1–3 0–3 1–1 2–0 — 1–2 0–0 Telavi 0–1 0–1 4–0 1–0 0–3 1–1 2–1 0–0 — 0–0 Torpedo Kutaisi 1–0 1–0 0–0 2–1 2–3 3–2 3–1 4–1 1–0 — Source: Erovnuli Liga Results, Soccerway Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Round 19–36 Home \ Away DIL DBT DTB GAG IBE KOL SMG SAM TEL TKU Dila Gori — 1–2 1–0 0–0 1–3 1–2 2–1 3–2 1–1 1–1 Dinamo Batumi 0–2 — 1–1 3–2 0–1 0–0 0–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 Dinamo Tbilisi 1–1 1–2 — 0–1 0–2 3–2 0–1 1–1 5–1 1–2 Gagra 0–5 1–1 0–0 — 1–2 3–1 1–3 2–1 2–0 0–3 Iberia 1999 3–2 3–0 3–0 1–1 — 1–1 1–1 3–1 1–1 3–0 Kolkheti-1913 2–2 0–1 3–0 2–1 2–6 — 1–1 0–0 0–0 3–1 Samgurali 0–1 3–3 1–2 4–2 3–4 3–0 — 1–0 2–2 2–1 Samtredia 0–1 0–1 1–1 2–0 0–1 1–3 2–2 — 2–1 2–1 Telavi 1–0 2–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 3–0 0–0 5–2 — 1–2 Torpedo Kutaisi 1–5 1–0 2–0 2–0 2–1[a] 2–0 1–0 2–1 1–0 — Source: Erovnuli Liga Results, Erovnuli Liga Fixtures, Soccerway Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win. Notes: Postponed

Relegation play-offs

12 December 2024

13:00

Sioni Bolnisi	1–1	Gagra
Makatsaria 44'		Tchamba 83'

Tamaz Stepania Stadium, Bolnisi

Referee: Irakli Kvirikashvili

16 December 2024

18:00

Gagra	2–2 (a.e.t.)	Sioni Bolnisi
Kimadze 52' Nozadze 104' (o.g.)		Rekhviashvili 45+2' Tsirdava 94'
Penalties
Gabiskiria Augusto Kharebashvili Nadareishvili Lomtadze Tchavtchanidze Ubilava Tchamba	7–6	Sitchinava Tsirdava Potskhveria Ugrekhelidze Khabelashvili Rekhviashvili Shonia Kapanadze

David Petriashvili Stadium, Tbilisi

Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili

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12 December 2024

13:00

Telavi	2–1	Rustavi
Tsnobiladze 45+6' Georgijević 60'		Kilasonia 83'

Caucasus Arena, Telavi

Referee: Giorgi Kikacheishvili

16 December 2024

15:00

Rustavi	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Telavi
Nakano 12'		Zhividze 116'

GFF Technical Centre, Rustavi

Referee: Aleko Aptsiauri

Statistics

Top scorers

As of match played 8 December 2024

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[3]
1	Bjørn Johnsen	Torpedo Kutaisi	23
2	Tayrell Wouter	Dila Gori	19
3	Giorgi Kokhreidze	Iberia 1999	16
4	Cheikne Sylla	Iberia 1999	14
5	Giorgi Kharebashvili	Gagra	11
	Luka Khorkheli	Samgurali
7	Levan Kutalia	Dinamo Batumi / Samgurali	10
	Kirill Klimov	Kolkheti-1913
9	Shota Shekiladze	Dila Gori	9
	Giorgi Abuashvili	Kolkheti-1913

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Luka Khorkheli	Samgurali Tsqaltubo	Kolkheti-1913	3–0 (H)	24 August 2024	[4]
Giorgi Kokhreidze4	Iberia 1999	Kolkheti-1913	6–2 (A)	22 September 2024	[5]
Levan Kutalia	Samgurali Tsqaltubo	Gagra	6–2 (H)	10 November 2024	[6]

• ⁴ Player scored Poker (4 goals)

Clean sheets

As of match played 8 December 2024

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Davit Kereselidze	Dila Gori	15
2	Filip Kljajić	Torpedo Kutaisi	10
3	Oleksandr Vorobey	Gagra	9
4	Giorgi Loria	Dinamo Tbilisi	7
	Nodar Kalichava	Samgurali Tsqaltubo
	Yaroslav Kotlyarov	Kolkheti-1913
7	Giorgi Makaridze	Iberia 1999	6
8	Lazare Kupatadze	Iberia 1999	5
	Tornike Megrelishvili	Samtredia
	Levan Tandilashvili	Telavi