Английская Википедия:FC Kolkheti-1913 Poti

FC Kolkheti-1913 is a Georgian football club based in Poti. Following the 2023 season, the club earned promotion to the Erovnuli Liga, the top division of Georgian football.

Being registered in 1913, Kolkheti is considered one of the oldest clubs in the South Caucasus.^[1] Since the formation of independent Georgian leagues in 1990, they have spent 24 seasons in the top flight.

History

Domestic leagues

The Soviet period

The football club from Poti under the name Kolkhida (Colchis) for many years was a member of the Georgian Soviet championship until early 1960s. From 1962 to 1990, they spent 24 seasons in fourth and third divisions of the Soviet football system, including last consecutive eleven years in zone 9 of the Second league, with the 2nd place in 1989 being the best result.^[2]

Earning league trophies

When GFF formed the national league in early 1990, Kolkheti-1913 took part in an opening game against Iberia Tbilisi. The historic match held at Boris Paichadze stadium ended 1–0 in favour of the guest team.^[3] Therefore, Kolkheti became the first club to win a game in the history of Georgian national leagues.

Throughout the first decade, the Kolkhs were considered one of the strongest rivals. Apart from 1992/93, when they finished in 9th place, the club completed each season among top five teams with twice, in 1993-94 and 1996–97, coming second.^[4] In this period the team also earned the bronze medals three times.

This success of the club was largely contributed to their sponsors from mid-1990s, the naval port of Poti.

Crisis begins

In 2006, after a foreign business company took over the port administration, the football club abruptly lost a significant income.^[5] Despite being 10th among 16 clubs in 2005/06, due to the severe financial crisis Kolkheti had to quit the league.^[6]

The club climbed back to Umaglesi Liga following the 2009/10 season, but returned to the second league three years later.^[7] In 2011, a sponsorship deal with the naval port resumed to a less extent, which lasted for four years.^[8]

Battle for survival

Kolkheti were back in the top division in 2014-15, although further financial difficulties hit the club in 2018, which pushed them to the verge of bankruptcy. As Kolkheti amassed a large amount of debts, they were deducted six points. Eventually, the team was relegated.^[9]

While in Liga 2, Kolkheti still could not afford to pay off debts. In an emergency statement, the club appealed for urgent help.^[10] Meanwhile, they were slapped with another 6 points deduction.^[11] The overall situation badly affected the team. Three managers were sacked for unsatisfactory results within initial five months of the season.^[12] The tide remained unchanged, though. Only in the last matchday did Kolkheti manage to avoid automatic relegation, but after being thrashed by Samgurali Tskaltubo in play-offs they slumped to the third division.^[13]

Disappointment and triumph

In the initial two seasons Kolkheti were among primary promotion-chasers, although in both cases they suffered a setback in pursuit for an automatic promotion spot. The play-off results proved also unsuccessful despite the team's unbeaten aggregate score in the regular time. First they failed to beat WIT Georgia on penalties,^[14] and a year later lost in extra time to Rustavi on away goals.^[15]

In 2022, too, Kolkheti ended up in the 2nd place. However, due to changes made in the competition format before this season, the club ended their three-year tenure in this division and won automatic promotion back to Liga 2.^[16] This year another event occurred which had a big impact on Kolkheti. On 29 August, the municipal club was handed over to a company linked to football manager Mamuka Jugeli.^[17]

Kolkheti achieved a remarkable success in the 2nd division in 2023. While reaching the national cup semifinals, the team emerged victorious after a dramatic hard-fought battle against Gareji for the first place, which enabled them to return to the Erovnuli Liga after a five-year absence.^[18]

European competitions

Based on successful performance in Umaglesi Liga, Kolkheti-1913 represented Georgia on UEFA Cup for four consecutive seasons from 1996 until 2000.

The only victory achieved in this competition against Dinamo Minsk was insufficient for qualifying for the next round. Having lost the first leg 0–1, Kolkheti conceded an early goal at home and scored twice afterwards, but the away goals rule gave a final advantage to their opponents.^[19]

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
1996	UEFA Intertoto Cup	GS	Шаблон:Flagicon Zemun	2–3	-	5th
			Шаблон:Flagicon FF Jaro	-	0–2
			Шаблон:Flagicon Guingamp	1–3	-
			Шаблон:Flagicon Dinamo București	-	0–2
1997–98	UEFA Cup	1Q	Шаблон:Flagicon Dinamo Minsk	2–1	0–1	2–2
1998–99	UEFA Cup	1Q	Шаблон:Flagicon Red Star Belgrade	0–4	0–7	0–11
1999	UEFA Intertoto Cup	1R	Шаблон:Flagicon Cementarnica 55	0–4	2–4	2–8

Seasons


Year	Div.	Pos	P	W	D	L	GF–GA	Pts	Cup
1990	1st	5_/18	34	19	5	10	53-31	62	Quarterfinals
1991	1st	4_/20	19	10	3	6	30-19	33	—
1991/92	1st	5_/20	38	15	11	12	49-45	56	Round of 32
1992/93	1st	9_/17	32	12	6	14	47-45	42	Round of 16
1993/1994	1st, Group West	1_/8	14	9	2	3	36-21	29	Semifinals
1993/1994	1-10 Places	2_/10	18	14	2	2	51-20	44	Semifinals
1994/95	1st	3_/16	30	20	3	7	72-28	63	Round of 32
1995/96	1st	3_/16	30	22	2	6	69-38	68	Quarterfinals
1996/97	1st	2_/16	30	20	4	6	75-28	64	Quarterfinals
1997-98	1st	3_/16	30	17	6	7	56-27	57	Quarterfinals
1998/99	1st	4_/16	30	15	7	8	57-36	52	Round of 16
1999/2000	1st, Group B	2_/8	14	8	1	5	19-15	25	Quarterfinals
1999/2000	1-8 Places	5_/8	14	7	3	4	18-10	37	Quarterfinals
2000/01	1st	6_/12	22	8	7	7	22-18	31	Quarterfinals
2000/01	1-6 Places	5_/6	10	2	2	6	10-19	24	Quarterfinals
2001/02	1st	5_/12	22	10	5	7	32-29	35	Round of 16
2001/02	1-6 Places	4_/6	10	2	2	6	9-16	26	Round of 16
2002/03	1st	6_/12	22	9	3	10	28-33	30	Round of 16
2002/03	1-6 Places	6_/6	10	0	5	5	5-23	20	Round of 16
2003/04	1st	9_/12	22	7	3	12	18-35	24	Round of 16
2003/04	7-12 Places	8_/12	10	6	3	1	14-6	33	Round of 16
2004/05	1st	9_/10	36	9	5	22	32-63	32	Quarterfinals
2005/06	1st	10_/16Шаблон:Down-arrow Шаблон:Efn	30	9	5	16	26-35	32	Quarterfinals
2006/07	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
2007/08	2nd	5_/10	27	11	7	9	36-33	40	1st Round
2008/09	2nd	5_/11	30	13	6	11	45-40	45	Round of 16
2009/10	2nd, Group A	2_/15Шаблон:Up-arrow	28	19	4	5	63-21	61	Quarterfinals
2010/11	1st	7_/10	36	10	10	16	25-47	40	Round of 16
2011/12	1st	8_/12	22	6	8	8	19-24	26	Round of 16
2012/13	1st	10_/10	22	0	4	18	11-43	4	Round of 16
2012/13	Relegation round	6_/6Шаблон:Down-arrow	32	3	8	21	22-56	17	Round of 16
2013/14	2nd, Group A	2_/13Шаблон:Up-arrow	24	17	4	3	51-13	55	2nd Round
2014/15	1st	10_/16	30	9	10	11	31-31	37	2nd Round
2015/16	1st	12_/16	30	7	6	17	21-41	27	2nd Round
2016	1st, Group Red	4_/7	12	6	0	6	10-18	18	Quarterfinals
2017	1st	9_/10	36	6	8	22	31-73	26	5th Round
2018	1st	10_/10Шаблон:Down-arrow	36	4	8	24	26-76	14Шаблон:Efn	3rd Round
2019	2nd	9_/10Шаблон:Down-arrow	36	10	4	22	31-80	28Шаблон:Efn	3rd Round
2020	3rd	2_/10	18	12	2	4	47-18	38	2nd Round
2021	3rd	2_/10	26	14	7	5	54-28	49	2nd Round
2022	3rd	2_/16Шаблон:Up-arrow	30	21	6	3	76-29	69	3rd Round
2023	2nd	1_/16Шаблон:Up-arrow	36	23	8	5	70-28	77	Semifinals

Notes

Шаблон:Noteslist

Overall

Seasons spent in Georgian leagues since 1990:

• Umaglesi Liga / Erovnuli Liga (1st tier): 24

• Pirveli Liga / Erovnuli Liga 2 (2nd tier): 6

• Meore Liga / Liga 3 (3rd tier): 3

Correct up to 2023 season

Current squad

As of 2 March 2024^[20]

Out on loan

Шаблон:Fs start Шаблон:Fs player Шаблон:Fs end

Managers

Name	Nat.	From	To
Soso Pilia	Шаблон:Flagicon	November 2012	June 2013
Zaza Inashvili	Шаблон:Flagicon	July 2013	October 2015
Gela Sanaia	Шаблон:Flagicon	October 2015	August 2017
Oleksandr Shtelin	Шаблон:Flagicon	September 2017	December 2017
Konstantin Galkin	Шаблон:Flagicon	February 2018	March 2018
Nugzar Tvaradze	Шаблон:Flagicon	March 2018	September 2018
Viktor Demidov	Шаблон:Flagicon	September 2018	December 2018
Paata Metreveli	Шаблон:Flagicon	February 2019	April 2019
Soso Pilia	Шаблон:Flagicon	April 2019	June 2019
Giorgi Krasovski	Шаблон:Flagicon	June 2019	August 2019
Nugzar Tvaradze	Шаблон:Flagicon	August 2019	October 2019
Vladimer Chkonia	Шаблон:Flagicon	October 2019	December 2019
Davit Makharadze	Шаблон:Flagicon	February 2020	October 2020
Nugzar Tvaradze	Шаблон:Flagicon	October 2020	December 2020
Giorgi Krasovski	Шаблон:Flagicon	February 2021	June 2021
Gia Gigatadze	Шаблон:Flagicon	June 2021	May 2022
Davit Kvirkvelia	Шаблон:Flagicon	June 2022

Honours

• Georgian Soviet Championship

Winners (2): 1978, 1988^[21]

• Soviet Second League Zone IX (Caucasus)

Runner-up (1): 1989

Third place (4): 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987

• Umaglesi Liga

Runners-up (2): 1993-94 and 1996-97

Third place (3): 1994-95, 1995-96, 1997-98

• Pirveli Liga/Erovnuli Liga 2

Winners (1): 2023

Runners-up (2): 2009-2010, 2013-2014 (A Group)

• Liga 3

Runners-up (3): 2020, 2021, 2022

Stadium

The Fazisi arena was built in 1961. Its reconstruction got under way in 2013, but it took seven years before the works were completed. Meanwhile, Kolkheti-1913 held their home games on Rugby Arena in Poti or in some neighbouring cities. Football returned to Fazisi in October 2019.^[22]

References

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External links

Шаблон:Erovnuli Liga teamlist

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