2025 Erovnuli Liga

The 2025 Erovnuli Liga season or Crystalbet Erovnuli Liga 2025 (formerly known as Umaglesi Liga) is the 37th season of top tier football in Georgia. Iberia 1999 are the defending champions.

Erovnuli Liga

Season	2025
Dates	28 February – 6 December 2025
Champions	Iberia 1999 (3rd title)
Relegated	Kolkheti 1913
Champions League	Iberia 1999
Conference League	Dila Gori Torpedo Kutaisi Dinamo Tbilisi
Matches	180
Goals	485 (2.69 per match)
Top goalscorer	Bjørn Johnsen (21 goals)
← 2024 2026 → All statistics correct as of 6 December 2025.

Teams and stadiums

Changes

Gareji was promoted from the 2024 Erovnuli Liga 2 thus making a debut appearance in Erovnuli Liga. Samtredia has been relegated to 2025 Erovnuli Liga 2 after a two-year spell in top flight.

Tbilisi

Dila Gori

Dinamo Batumi

Gareji

Kolkheti-1913

Samgurali Tskaltubo

Telavi

Torpedo Kutaisi

Tbilisi teams:
Dinamo
Gagra
Iberia 1999

Locations of the 2025 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		David Petriashvili Stadium	2.130
Gareji	Sagarejo	Central stadium	2,000
Iberia 1999[a]	Tbilisi	Mikheil Meskhi Stadium	22,754
Kolkheti-1913	Poti	GFF Technical Centre, Kobuleti	1,000
Samgurali Tskaltubo	Tsqaltubo	Football Centre	300
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	Diego Longo	Nika Gagnidze	Nike	Marsbet
Dinamo Batumi	Giorgi Chiabrishvili	Mamuka Kobakhidze	Macron	Crocobet Lixin Group
Dinamo Tbilisi	Vladimer Kakashvili	Aleksandre Kalandadze	Puma	adjarabet.com Marsbet
Gagra	Zeljko Ljubenovic	Mate Vatsadze	Puma	N/A
Gareji	Giorgi Mikadze	Nikoloz Galakhvaridze	Nike	Communicom
Iberia 1999	Guga Nergadze	Gizo Mamageishvili	Givova	Audi
Kolkheti-1913	Kakhaber Chkhetiani	Giorgi Akhaladze	Macron	N/A
Samgurali	Thiago Gomes	Demur Chikhladze	Hummel	Halyk Bank Crocobet
Telavi	Valeri Gagua	Dachi Tsnobiladze	Jako	N/A
Torpedo Kutaisi	Dirk Schuster	Vladimer Mamuchashvili	Macron	New Vision University

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Replaced by	Position in table	Date of appointment
Dinamo Tbilisi	Ferdinand Feldhofer	Mutual consent	10 December 2024	Pre-season	Vladimer Kakashvili	Pre-season	18 December 2024
Torpedo Kutaisi	Steve Kean		21 December 2024		Dirk Schuster		5 January 2025
Gareji	Tengiz Kobiashvili		13 April 2025	10th	Giorgi Mikadze	10th	17 April 2025
Samgurali	Rodolfo Vanoli		5 May 2025	6th	Thiago Gomes	7th	9 May 2025
Iberia 1999	Levan Korgalidze		31 July 2025	1st	Gia Geguchadze	1st	31 July 2025
Kolkheti-1913	Kakhaber Chkhetiani		11 August 2025	10th	Davit Kvirkvelia	10th	11 August 2025
Iberia 1999	Gia Geguchadze		20 September 2025	2nd	Guga Nergadze	2nd	2 October 2025
Gagra	Giorgi Oniani		13 October 2025	6th	Zeljko Ljubenovic	6th	16 October 2025

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Iberia 1999 (C)	36	24	8	4	60	24	+36	80	Qualification for Champions League first qualifying round
2	Dila Gori	36	25	3	8	63	35	+28	78	Qualification for Conference League first qualifying round[a]
3	Torpedo Kutaisi	36	18	9	9	63	41	+22	63
4	Dinamo Tbilisi	36	15	12	9	51	34	+17	57
5	Gagra	36	12	7	17	44	55	−11	43[b]
6	Dinamo Batumi	36	11	10	15	40	59	−19	43[b]
7	Samgurali Tskaltubo	36	12	6	18	54	53	+1	42
8	Telavi (R)	36	9	9	18	36	59	−23	36	Qualification for Relegation play-offs
9	Gareji (R)	36	7	13	16	41	54	−13	34
10	Kolkheti-1913 (R)	36	5	7	24	33	71	−38	22	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; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. The 2025 Georgian Cup winner was Dila Gori, so the third Conference League berth will go to the fourth place team.
2. head-to-head points: Gagra-7, Dinamo Batumi-4

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 GAR IBE KOL SMG TEL TKU Dila Gori — 1–1 2–1 2–0 2–1 0–1 2–0 4–3 6–1 0–1 Dinamo Batumi 0–3 — 1–0 2–1 1–1 2–3 2–0 2–0 2–0 1–0 Dinamo Tbilisi 2–1 1–1 — 1–1 1–0 1–2 3–0 2–1 2–1 2–0 Gagra 0–0 1–1 0–4 — 1–1 0–1 1–1 0–2 3–0 1–2 Gareji 0–1 0–0 1–2 0–1 — 1–1 4–1 2–1 0–0 1–1 Iberia 1999 1–0 1–1 1–0 3–1 2–1 — 4–0 2–1 2–0 2–0 Kolkheti-1913 1–2 0–2 0–0 0–2 0–1 2–2 — 2–1 1–0 2–2 Samgurali 0–1 3–0 0–0 0–2 3–1 0–0 0–1 — 7–0 0–1 Telavi 2–3 1–2 1–1 0–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 1–3 — 1–3 Torpedo Kutaisi 1–2 1–0 2–0 2–1 0–2 0–1 2–1 1–1 1–2 — 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 GAR IBE KOL SMG TEL TKU Dila Gori — 2–0 2–2 5–0 2–0 0–6 1–0 2–1 1–0 1–0 Dinamo Batumi 1–2 — 1–4 1–2 1–4 0–2 3–2 1–2 1–3 2–2 Dinamo Tbilisi 2–0 1–1 — 0–1 0–0 2–1 3–1 1–1 3–0 2–2 Gagra 0–1 4–1 4–2 — 4–1 1–3 1–3 2–0 1–2 0–2 Gareji 3–2 0–1 0–1 2–2 — 0–4 2–2 1–4 3–3 1–3 Iberia 1999 2–1 0–0 1–0 2–1 1–1 — 0–2 2–0 2–3 0–0 Kolkheti-1913 1–4 2–2 1–3 1–2 1–3 0–1 — 2–3 0–1 2–4 Samgurali 1–2 4–0 2–1 1–1 2–2 0–1 2–0 — 1–0 2–4 Telavi 0–2 1–2 0–0 4–0 0–0 0–2 1–1 3–0 — 2–2 Torpedo Kutaisi 0–1 5–1 1–1 2–1 2–1 3–1 4–0 6–2 1–1 — Source: Erovnuli Liga Results, Erovnuli Liga Fixtures, Soccerway Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Relegation play-offs

10 December 2025

13:30

Meshakhte	1–1	Telavi
Timi 39'		Devdariani 56'

Agrano Vachadze Stadium, Ambrolauri

Referee: Guram Machitidze

14 December 2025

18:00

Telavi	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Meshakhte
Martin 31' (pen.)		Fobi 74'
Penalties
Tsnobiladze Arabuli Basheleishvili Parkinashvili	2–4	Ugrekhelidze Khorkheli Kurdadze Ghurtskaia Abuladze

David Petriashvili Stadium, Tbilisi

Referee: Goga Kikacheishvili

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10 December 2025

16:00

Gareji	0–2	Spaeri
		Basilashvili 25' Gegiadze 71'

Mikheil Meskhi 2 Stadium, Tbilisi

Referee: Jeneri Khorava

14 December 2025

19:00

Spaeri	1–2	Gareji
Basilashvili 28'		Papava 53' (pen.), 63' (pen.)

Spaeri Stadium, Tbilisi

Referee: Giorgi Kruashvili

Statistics

Top scorers

As of match played 6 December 2025

Rank	Player	Club	Goals[1]
1	Bjørn Johnsen	Torpedo Kutaisi	21
2	Giorgi Pantsulaia	Samgurali	17
3	Tornike Morchiladze	Dinamo Tbilisi	12
4	Iuri Tabatadze	Iberia 1999	11
	Levan Papava	Gareji
6	Shota Shekiladze	Dila Gori	10
7	Aleksandre Andronikashvili	Dila Gori	9
8	Giorgi Abuashvili	Kolkheti-1913	8
	Aboubacar Konté	Dila Gori
10	Jalen Blesa	Dinamo Batumi	7
	Luka Khorkheli	Samgurali
	Giorgi Kharebashvili	Gagra
	Komnen Andrić	Torpedo Kutaisi
	Amiran Dzagania	Iberia 1999

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Result	Date	Ref.
Shota Shekiladze	Dila Gori	Telavi	6–1 (H)	28 March 2025	[2]
Aleko Basiladze	Torpedo Kutaisi	Samgurali	6–2 (H)	13 September 2025	[3]
Bjørn Johnsen4	Torpedo Kutaisi	Dinamo Batumi	5–1 (H)	8 November 2025	[4]

• ⁴ Player scored Poker (4 goals)

Clean sheets

As of match played 6 December 2025

Rank	Player	Club	Clean sheets
1	Giorgi Makaridze	Iberia 1999	18
2	Davit Kereselidze	Dila	14
3	Levan Tandilashvili	Telavi	9
4	Filip Kljajić	Torpedo Kutaisi	8
5	Nodar Kalichava	Samgurali	7
6	Luka Kharatishvili	Dinamo Batumi	6
	Roman Stepanov	Gagra
	Luka Kutaladze	Gareji
9	Giorgi Loria	Dinamo Tbilisi	5
10	Mikheil Makatsaria	Dinamo Tbilisi	3
	Yaroslav Kotlyarov	Kolkheti-1913
	Ștefan Sicaci	Dinamo Tbilisi
	Lazare Kupatadze	Dinamo Batumi