FC Dinamo Tbilisi ( ka, დინამო თბილისი, ) is a Georgian professional
football club based in
Tbilisi
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,
Georgia
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Georgia may also refer to:
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* Related to the ...
, that competes in the
Erovnuli Liga
The Erovnuli Liga ( ka, ეროვნული ლიგა - lit. National League) is the top division of professional football in Georgia. Since 1990, it has been organized by the Professional Football League of Georgia and Georgian Football F ...
, the top flight of Georgian football.
Dinamo Tbilisi was one of the most prominent clubs in Soviet football and a major contender in the
Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991.
The professional top level ...
almost immediately after it was established in
1936
Events
January–February
* January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
. The club was then part of one of the leading sport societies in the
Soviet Union
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, the
All-Union Dynamo sports society which had several other divisions besides football and was sponsored by the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs. Its main claim to European fame was winning the
Cup Winners' Cup
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in
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
, beating
FC Carl Zeiss Jena
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of
East Germany
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2–1 in the final in Düsseldorf. It remains the only club based in Georgia to have ever lifted a trophy in European competition. Throughout its history, FC Dinamo Tbilisi produced many famous Soviet players:
Boris Paichadze
Boris Paichadze ( ka, ბორის პაიჭაძე, ; russian: Борис Соломонович Пайчадзе; 3 February 1915 – 9 October 1990) was a Georgian footballer, who played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi. The largest stadium in Ge ...
,
Avtandil Gogoberidze
Avtandil Nikolozis dze Gogoberidze ( ka, ავთანდილ ნიკოლოზის ძე ღოღობერიძე, russian: Автандил Николаевич Гогоберидзе; 3 August 1922, Sukhumi – 20 November 19 ...
,
Shota Iamanidze,
Mikheil Meskhi
Mikheil Meskhi (Georgian: მიხეილ მესხი; Russian: Михаил Шалвович Месхи; born 12 January 1937 in Tbilisi; died 22 April 1991 in Tbilisi) was a Georgian footballer. Nicknamed the "Georgian Garrincha" for hi ...
,
Slava Metreveli
Slava Kalistratovich Metreveli ( ka, სლავა კალისტრატეს ძე მეტრეველი; russian: Слава Калистратович Метревели, 30 May 1936 – 7 January 1998) was a Soviet and G ...
,
Murtaz Khurtsilava
Murtaz Kalistratovich Khurtsilava ( ka, მურთაზ ხურცილავა, russian: Муртаз Калистратович Хурцилава, born 5 January 1943) is a former Georgian association football defender.
Khurtsilava wa ...
,
Manuchar Machaidze,
David Kipiani
David Kipiani ( ka, დავით ყიფიანი; 18 November 1951 – 17 September 2001) was a Georgian football midfielder and manager. Kipiani principally played as a playmaker and is considered one of Georgia's greatest playe ...
,
Vladimir Gutsaev,
Aleksandre Chivadze
Aleksandre Chivadze ( ka, ალექსანდრე გაბრიელის ძე ჩივაძე; russian: Александр Габриэлович Чивадзе) (born 8 April 1955 in Klukhori), is a former Georgian and So ...
,
Vitaly Daraselia
Vitaly Kukhinovich Daraselia ( ka, ვიტალი დარასელია; 9 January 1957 – 13 December 1982) was a Georgian football player.
Playing career Club
Daraselia was born to a Georgian father and Abkhaz mother on 9 January 1 ...
,
Ramaz Shengelia
Ramaz Shengelia ( ka, რამაზ შენგელია; 1 January 1957 – 21 June 2012) was a Georgian and Soviet football player.
Club career
Born in Kutaisi, Shengelia started career in his hometown club Torpedo Kutaisi in 1968. He sp ...
, and
Tengiz Sulakvelidze
Tengiz Grigoriyevich Sulakvelidze ( ka, თენგიზ სულაქველიძე; born 23 July 1956 in Kutaisi) is a former Georgian footballer.
Honours
* International Master of Sports: 1980.
* Honored Master of Sports of the U ...
. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, it would later produce some of the finest Georgian players such as
Temur Ketsbaia
Temuri Ketsbaia ( ka, თემურ ქეცბაია; born 18 March 1968) is a Georgian former professional football player and current manager. He is the current manager of the Cyprus national team.
Club career
After beginning his prof ...
,
Shota Arveladze
Shota Arveladze ( ka, შოთა არველაძე; born 22 February 1973) is a Georgian professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of EFL Championship club Hull City.
Arveladze played at Dinamo T ...
,
Giorgi Kinkladze,
Kakha Kaladze
Kakhaber "Kakha" Kaladze ( ka, კახაბერ (კახა) კალაძე, ; born 27 February 1978) is a Georgian politician and former footballer who serves as the Mayor of Tbilisi since November 2017. A versatile player, he was ...
, and
Levan Kobiashvili
Levan Kobiashvili ( ka, ლევან კობიაშვილი, born 10 July 1977) is a Georgian former professional footballer and the current president of the Georgian Football Federation and a member of Parliament of Georgia.
He pla ...
.
Dinamo Tbilisi was one of a handful of teams in the
Soviet Top League
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The professional top level ...
(along with
Dynamo Kyiv
Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club as a separate business entity was officia ...
and
Dynamo Moscow
MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ...
) that were never relegated. Their most famous coach was
Nodar Akhalkatsi, who led the team to the Soviet title in
1978, two
Soviet Cup
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s (
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 ...
and
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
), and the
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
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in
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...
. He was also one of three co-coaches of the
Soviet Union national football team
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After the breakup of the Union the team was transformed i ...
during the
FIFA World Cup
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in
1982. FC Dinamo Tbilisi are also 16–time
Georgian league champions and 13–time
Georgian Cup
The Georgian Cup (, ''Sakartvelos tasi'') is the main cup competition in Georgia (country), Georgian football (soccer), football.
The competition is a knockout (single elimination) tournament.
Soviet era cup winners
Previous winners are:
* 194 ...
holders (the current records).
History
The beginning: 1920s
The history of FC Dinamo Tbilisi began in autumn 1925 when the
Dinamo sports society set out to form a football club, at a time when football was gradually becoming one of the most greatest and popular sports in the world.
In 1927, FC Dinamo Tbilisi established a Junior club, "
Norchi Dinamoeli" (young Dinamo). The Juniors club provided the senior with many young skillful players, including the first goalkeeper who played for Dinamo in the
USSR championship, the first captain Shota Savgulidze, defender Mikhail Minaev, forward Vladimer Berdzenishvili and other famous players.
In the early years, no official championship existed in Georgia, so the teams played friendly games against each other. The first match was played with
Azerbaijan
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team Dinamo Baku on 26 January 1926, with the more experienced Azerbaijan squad winning 1–0. The Dinamo team starred: D. Tsomaia, A. Pochkhua, M. Blankman, I. Fedorov, N. Anikin, A. Gonel, A. Pivovarov, O. Goldobin, A. Galperin, S. Maslenikov, and V. Tsomaia.
Three days later, Dinamo played another Azerbaijani team, "Progress", and easily beat them 3–0.
Despite their success in the middle years of the 1930s, the
Football Federation of the Soviet Union
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placed FC Dinamo Tbilisi in the
first league instead of the
Top League
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. Dinamo continued to show good form against the top teams, winning 9–5 in Tbilisi against probably the best team in the USSR championship,
Dynamo Moscow
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. They later beat
Dinamo Leningrad 3–2, winning 5 matches out of 6 plus a draw against Stalinec Moscow. This was enough for Dinamo to qualify for the top league.
World War II: 1930s and 1940s
The second championship started in autumn
1936
Events
January–February
* January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...
. Altogether Dinamo played 1424 matches in the
Soviet Union Championship. The first match was against
Dynamo Kyiv
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, finishing 2–2, with goals by Nikolas Somov and
Boris Paichadze
Boris Paichadze ( ka, ბორის პაიჭაძე, ; russian: Борис Соломонович Пайчадзе; 3 February 1915 – 9 October 1990) was a Georgian footballer, who played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi. The largest stadium in Ge ...
. The team sheet was: A. Dorokhov, S. Shavgulidze (E. Nikolaishvili), B. Berdzenishvili, N. Anikin, V. Jorbenadze, G. Gagua, I. Panin, M. Berdzenishvili, B. Paichadze, M. Aslamazov, and N. Somov.
The first victory in the USSR championship was in the match against
Spartak Moscow Spartak Moscow may refer to the following teams based or formerly based in Moscow, Russia:
* FC Spartak Moscow, an association football club
* HC Spartak Moscow, a professional ice hockey team
* Spartak GM Moscow, a semi-professional rugby club
* WB ...
on 25 September with Mikheil Berdzenishvili scoring the winning goal. Dinamo finished the season in 3rd place. They challenged for the title, but this faded after the 2–3 loss against
Krasnaia Zaria Leningrad. Dinamo also played an unforgettable match in Moscow against
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* FC Spartak Moscow, an association football club
* HC Spartak Moscow, a professional ice hockey team
* Spartak GM Moscow, a semi-professional rugby club
* WB ...
in the
Soviet Cup
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quarter-final, when Dinamo beat them 6–3. They reached the first edition of the Soviet Cup
final
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** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...
, but lost 0–2 to
Lokomotiv Moscow
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. Their first international match was against the Spanish team
Baskonia in 1937, which Dinamo lost 0–2.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Dinamo was one of the top Soviet football teams, even though they did not win a title. They were often referred to as the "crownless champions" with the team including S. Shavgulidze, A. Dorokhov, S. Shudra, B. Frolov, M. Berdzenishvili,
A. Kiknadze, V. Paniukov, V. Berezhnoi, G. Gagua, V. Jorbenadze, and G. Jejelava.
1950s
In the 1950s, the team was led by
Avtandil Gogoberidze
Avtandil Nikolozis dze Gogoberidze ( ka, ავთანდილ ნიკოლოზის ძე ღოღობერიძე, russian: Автандил Николаевич Гогоберидзе; 3 August 1922, Sukhumi – 20 November 19 ...
who spent 17 years with Dinamo. He still holds the record for games played and goals scored for Dinamo, with 341 matches and 127 goals. In the same period, the following players starred for Dinamo: G. Antadze, Vladimer Marghania, N. Dziapshipa, M. Minaev, A. Zazroev, V. Eloshvili, and
Avtandil Chkuaseli.
A prominent place in Dinamo history belongs to Andro Jordania, a coach who is considered as one most important figures in the club's history. His period in charge was seen as "the Renaissance" of Dinamo's traditions, which laid the ground for the major successes connected with his name. The club's Digomi practice ground is named after him.
First Soviet successes: 1960s
The first major success came in the
1964 Soviet Top League when Dinamo won the
Soviet Top League
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The professional top level ...
, with the team unbeaten in the last 15 matches. At the end, Dinamo was tied with
Torpedo Moscow
Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pre ...
so the teams played an additional match in
Tashkent
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,
Uzbekistan
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, which Dinamo won 4–1. Georgian supporters celebrated the victory by naming their team ''"Golden Guys"''.
A popular French magazine, ''
France Football
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'', wrote: "Dinamo has great players. Their technique, skills, and playing intellect enables us to name them the best Eastern representatives of 'South American Football Traditions'. If Dinamo were able to participate in the
UEFA European Cup, we are certain, they would bring the hegemony of Spanish-Italian teams to an end." However, no Soviet team appeared in the European Cup at that time.
The line-up of the winning team in 1964 was:
Sergo Kotrikadze,
Giorgi Sichinava, Guram Petriashvili, Jemal Zeinklishvili,
Guram Tskhovrebov, Vakhtang Rekhviashvili,
Shota Iamanidze,
Slava Metreveli
Slava Kalistratovich Metreveli ( ka, სლავა კალისტრატეს ძე მეტრეველი; russian: Слава Калистратович Метревели, 30 May 1936 – 7 January 1998) was a Soviet and G ...
,
Vladimer Barkaia,
Mikheil Meskhi
Mikheil Meskhi (Georgian: მიხეილ მესხი; Russian: Михаил Шалвович Месхи; born 12 January 1937 in Tbilisi; died 22 April 1991 in Tbilisi) was a Georgian footballer. Nicknamed the "Georgian Garrincha" for hi ...
,
Ilia Datunashvili, and Alexander Apshev. Coach:
Gavriil Kachalin.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the quality of the Dinamo team was further enhanced by several skillful players:
Mikheil Meskhi
Mikheil Meskhi (Georgian: მიხეილ მესხი; Russian: Михаил Шалвович Месхи; born 12 January 1937 in Tbilisi; died 22 April 1991 in Tbilisi) was a Georgian footballer. Nicknamed the "Georgian Garrincha" for hi ...
,
Slava Metreveli
Slava Kalistratovich Metreveli ( ka, სლავა კალისტრატეს ძე მეტრეველი; russian: Слава Калистратович Метревели, 30 May 1936 – 7 January 1998) was a Soviet and G ...
,
Murtaz Khurtsilava
Murtaz Kalistratovich Khurtsilava ( ka, მურთაზ ხურცილავა, russian: Муртаз Калистратович Хурцилава, born 5 January 1943) is a former Georgian association football defender.
Khurtsilava wa ...
,
Revaz Dzodzuashvili,
Kakhi Asatiani
Kakhi Asatiani ( ka, კახი ასათიანი, 1 January 1947 – 20 November 2002) was a Georgian association football player and manager.
Career
During his career he played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi (1965–1975), Asatiani earned 16 ...
,
Gocha Gavasheli, Guram Petriashvili, Piruz Kanteladze, and the Nodia brothers, Givi and Levan.
European years: 1970s
Dinamo's first appearance in Europe was in
1972
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against Dutch team
Twente
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in the
UEFA Cup
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. Dinamo won the game 3–2, with two goals scored by
Givi Nodia
Givi Georgiyevich Nodia ( ka, გივი ნოდია; russian: Гиви Георгиевич Нодия; 2 January 1948 – 7 April 2005) was a Soviet Georgian association football player.
Honours
* Soviet Top League bronze: 1967, 1969, 1 ...
and one by
David Kipiani
David Kipiani ( ka, დავით ყიფიანი; 18 November 1951 – 17 September 2001) was a Georgian football midfielder and manager. Kipiani principally played as a playmaker and is considered one of Georgia's greatest playe ...
. The following players appeared on the field in this historic match:
David Gogia,
Revaz Dzodzuashvili,
Vakhtang Chelidze
Vakhtang ( ka, ვახტანგ) is a masculine given name in Georgian language. The name derives from an ancient Persian language, Persian expression, "vahrka-tanū," meaning of which translates into "wolf-bodied." Some sources argue that th ...
,
Murtaz Khurtsilava
Murtaz Kalistratovich Khurtsilava ( ka, მურთაზ ხურცილავა, russian: Муртаз Калистратович Хурцилава, born 5 January 1943) is a former Georgian association football defender.
Khurtsilava wa ...
,
Shota Khinchagashvili
Shota Yuriyevich Khinchagashvili ( ka, შოთა ხინჩაგაშვილი; born 9 January 1951 in Dusheti) is a retired Georgian football player.
Honours
* Soviet Top League winner: 1978.
* Soviet Cup winner: 1976, 1979.
* UEFA Cu ...
,
Guram Petriashvili,
Manuchar Machaidze,
Kakhi Asatiani
Kakhi Asatiani ( ka, კახი ასათიანი, 1 January 1947 – 20 November 2002) was a Georgian association football player and manager.
Career
During his career he played for FC Dinamo Tbilisi (1965–1975), Asatiani earned 16 ...
,
Vladimir Gutsaev,
Levan Nodia,
Givi Nodia
Givi Georgiyevich Nodia ( ka, გივი ნოდია; russian: Гиви Георгиевич Нодия; 2 January 1948 – 7 April 2005) was a Soviet Georgian association football player.
Honours
* Soviet Top League bronze: 1967, 1969, 1 ...
, and
David Kipiani
David Kipiani ( ka, დავით ყიფიანი; 18 November 1951 – 17 September 2001) was a Georgian football midfielder and manager. Kipiani principally played as a playmaker and is considered one of Georgia's greatest playe ...
. In the second match Twente won the game 2–0 and progressed to the next round.
In 1973 Dinamo won their first International tournament. After beating
Atlético Madrid and
Benfica, the club won the Columbus's Caravela Trophy.
In 1976
Nodar Akhalkatsi was appointed as Dinamo's head coach. It was under his leadership that Dinamo achieved greatest success. The club was referred to as the "Great Team" between 1976 and 1982, characterised by a mobile, fast and technical style of play.
In this period Dinamo won the
Soviet Cup
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for the first time in their history, convincingly defeating Armenian side
Ararat Yerevan
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Since 1999, the club is ...
3–0 in the
final
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** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...
, with goals scored by
David Kipiani
David Kipiani ( ka, დავით ყიფიანი; 18 November 1951 – 17 September 2001) was a Georgian football midfielder and manager. Kipiani principally played as a playmaker and is considered one of Georgia's greatest playe ...
,
Piruz Kanteladze and
Revaz Chelebadze
Revaz Chelebadze ( ka, რევაზ ჩელებაძე) (born 2 October 1955) was a retired Georgian football player. He was nicknamed Chele (an allusion to Pelé), for his brilliant technical play and ability to score goals. The ...
. In
1978 the club won the
Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991.
The professional top level ...
for a second time. Next year Dinamo won the Soviet Cup again by defeating Russian side
Dynamo Moscow
MGO VFSO "Dynamo" (russian: МГО ВФСО «Динамо»), commonly known as Dynamo Moscow (russian: Динамо Москва) is a Russian sports club based in Moscow. Founded by Felix Dzerzhinsky on 18 April 1923, Dynamo Moscow was the first ...
in the
final
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** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...
. In
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
the club played its first match in the
UEFA European Cup tournament. In the first round Dinamo knocked out English side
Liverpool
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, at the time one of the strongest teams in European football. After losing the first match at
Anfield
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1–2, Dinamo comfortably beat the opponent 3–0 in Tbilisi and advanced to the next round, where they were eliminated by German champions
Hamburg
(male), (female) en, Hamburger(s),
Hamburgian(s)
, timezone1 = Central (CET)
, utc_offset1 = +1
, timezone1_DST = Central (CEST)
, utc_offset1_DST = +2
, postal ...
. In the 1970s Dinamo also eliminated famous Italian sides
Inter Milan
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and
Napoli
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
in European competitions.
,
,
,
Last Soviet days: 1980s
The highlight of Dinamo's history was winning the
1980–81 European Cup Winners' Cup
The 1980–81 season of the European Cup Winners' Cup was won by Dinamo Tbilisi in the final against Carl Zeiss Jena. Dinamo Tbilisi's side defeated English Second Division side West Ham United away before beating Carl Zeiss Jena in a final watc ...
, including knocking out clubs like
West Ham United
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(4–1, 0–1) and
Feyenoord Rotterdam (3–0, 0–2), and beating East German side
Carl Zeiss Jena 2–1 in the
final
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* Final (competition), the last or championship round of a sporting competition, match, game, or other contest which decides a winner for an event
** Another term for playoffs, describing a sequence of con ...
on 13 May 1981.
Vitaly Daraselia
Vitaly Kukhinovich Daraselia ( ka, ვიტალი დარასელია; 9 January 1957 – 13 December 1982) was a Georgian football player.
Playing career Club
Daraselia was born to a Georgian father and Abkhaz mother on 9 January 1 ...
and
Vladimir Gutsaev scored goals in the final.
Helmut Schön
Helmut Schön (15 September 1915 – 23 February 1996) was a German football player and manager. He is best remembered for his exceptional career as manager of the West German national team in four consecutive World Cup tournaments, including ...
,
1974 FIFA World Cup winning coach said: ''"It is to be said directly, Dinamo deserved the victory. This team has top-quality performers."''
Next year in
1982 as reigning champions Dinamo advanced to the semi-finals in the Cup Winners' Cup tournament, where they were eliminated by Belgian side
Standard Liège
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They are one of the most ...
. In the 1980s numerous skillful players appeared on the team, but for various reasons they were not able to do their best:
Grigol Tsaava, Mikheil Meskhi (Junior),
Otar Korghalidze,
Gia Guruli,
Mamuka Pantsulaia
Mamuka Pantsulaia ( ka, მამუკა ფანცულაია; 9 October 1967 – 26 February 2019) was a Georgian footballer who played as a forward and made one appearance for the Georgia national team.
Career
Pantsulaia played for ...
,
Merab Jordania
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Club career
Jor ...
, Levan Baratashvili and many other talented players.
In 1983 a crisis began. It was hard for the club to go through the first rounds of the Soviet Cup. They also performed poorly in the
championship
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Championship systems
Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship.
Title match system
In this system ...
. From 1983 to 1989 the team appeared only
once in the UEFA tournaments.
Dinamo Tbilisi played its last game in the
Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991.
The professional top level ...
on 27 October 1989 against Dynamo Kyiv. Dinamo played its first and last official matches in the Soviet championship with Dynamo Kyiv, with both matches ending 2–2.
1990s
In 1990 the
Georgian Football Federation
The Georgian Football Federation ( GFF; ka, საქართველოს ფეხბურთის ფედერაცია, ''sakartvelos pekhburtis pederatsia'') was founded in 1936. Based in Tbilisi, it was part of the Football Fede ...
refused to participate in the
Soviet Union championship. That meant that no Georgian football clubs would appear in Soviet tournaments. From that moment the more recent history of FC Dinamo Tbilisi began.
During this time, as a means of distancing from the Soviet past, the club was renamed Iberia Tbilisi. This move was largely opposed by the supporters and by 1992 the club reverted to its initial name.
The club played its first match in the
Georgian National championship against
Kolkheti Poti on 30 March 1990. Dinamo lost the historic match, 0–1. Ultimately the club recovered from this setback and won the first Georgian National championship. The club also won the next 9 championships.
In 1992 came Dinamo's first double: the team won the league and the
Georgian Cup
The Georgian Cup (, ''Sakartvelos tasi'') is the main cup competition in Georgia (country), Georgian football (soccer), football.
The competition is a knockout (single elimination) tournament.
Soviet era cup winners
Previous winners are:
* 194 ...
, beating
Tskhumi Sokhumi in the final. In
1993
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Dinamo played its first international official match representing independent Georgia. Dinamo won the home match against
Linfield 2–1, with goals from
Shota Arveladze
Shota Arveladze ( ka, შოთა არველაძე; born 22 February 1973) is a Georgian professional football manager and former player who was most recently the manager of EFL Championship club Hull City.
Arveladze played at Dinamo T ...
and
Gela Inalishvili. The second leg in
Belfast
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ended 1–1. However the club was disqualified for attempting to bribe the referee in the first leg.
Despite continued success in national cups and championships, the club had no success in European club tournaments.
In 1996 Dinamo passed 3 rounds in the
UEFA Cup
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. They beat
CS Grevenmacher 4–0, 2–2,
Molde FK
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2–1, 0–0 and
Torpedo Moscow
Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pre ...
1–0, 1–1. In the next round the club was unable to overcome Portuguese side
Boavista and left the tournament.
Dinamo came very close to advancing in the
1998–99 UEFA Champions League group stages, but were eliminated by
Athletic Bilbao on the away goals rule, 2–1, 0–1. The migration of key players to European clubs caused negative results. It became harder and harder for the club to win the Georgian Championship or Georgian Cup.
2000s
In the early 2000s, famous Georgian businessman
Badri Patarkatsishvili
Arkady Shalvovich "Badri" Patarkatsishvili ( ka, ბადრი პატარკაციშვილი 31 October 1955 – 12 February 2008) was a Jewish-Georgian businessman who also became extensively involved in politics. He contested th ...
purchased FC Dinamo Tbilisi. In 2003 the club won the
Georgian Championship and
Georgian Cup
The Georgian Cup (, ''Sakartvelos tasi'') is the main cup competition in Georgia (country), Georgian football (soccer), football.
The competition is a knockout (single elimination) tournament.
Soviet era cup winners
Previous winners are:
* 194 ...
.
In 2004 Dinamo, under the leadership of Croatian coach
Ivo Šušak
Ivo Šušak (born 10 June 1948) is a Croatian football manager. He was the head coach of Dinamo Vinkovci, Zagreb, Osijek, Maribor, and Dinamo Tbilisi. He was also the head coach of Croatia under-21 team and the Georgian national team.
Career
...
, won the
CIS Cup in Moscow, beating Latvian side
Skonto 3–1 in the final. In the same year, Dinamo successfully made it through the
UEFA Cup
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qualifying rounds, after defeating
BATE Borisov (1–0, 3–2),
Slavia Prague
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(2–0, 1–3) and
Wisła Kraków
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(2–1, 3–4) and qualified for the group stage, where their opponents were
Newcastle United,
Sporting CP
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,
Sochaux
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Geography
Sochaux lies east of Montbéliard, and southeast of Paris.
Population
Inhabitants are known as ''Sochaliens''.
Economy
S ...
and
Panionios
Panionios G.S.S. Football Club (Greek: ΠΑΕ Πανιώνιος Γ.Σ.Σ.), the ''Pan- Ionian Gymnastics Club of Smyrna'' (Πανιώνιος Γυμναστικός Σύλλογος Σμύρνης, ''Panionios Gymnastikos Syllogos Smyrnis'') ...
. Dinamo lost all four games and finished bottom in the group.
In the following season Dinamo were again
Georgian champions and they won the Georgian championship again in
2008
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, when the head coach of Dinamo was Czech
Dušan Uhrin
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.
In 2009 the club beat
Olimpi Rustavi and won the
Georgian Cup
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The competition is a knockout (single elimination) tournament.
Soviet era cup winners
Previous winners are:
* 194 ...
.
2010s
In January 2011, FC Dinamo Tbilisi was purchased by Georgian businessman
Roman Pipia. That year, the club successfully played in the
UEFA Europa League
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qualifying rounds, but they were not able to overcome
AEK Athens
A.E.K ( el, AEK , formally Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople''), known as A.E.K, is a major Greek multi-sport club based in Nea Filadel ...
in the play-off round.
After a bad performance in the Georgian championship of
2011–12, Dinamo could not qualify for any UEFA competitions for the first time.
The new owner immediately started the modernization of the club starting with the reconstruction of the Digomi training ground. The
Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena
Boris Paichadze Dinamo Arena ( ''Boris P’aich’adzis erovnuli st’adioni''), formerly known as Boris Paichadze National Stadium, is a stadium in Tbilisi, Georgia, and the home stadium of Dinamo Tbilisi, Georgia national rugby union team and ...
was reconstructed as well. The pitch surface was changed with a new specially adapted surface for the local climate. Renovated Youths Football Academy also began.
The club were beaten 5–0 by
Tottenham Hotspur
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in the
Europa League
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play-off round in the 1st leg and again 3–0 the following week at
White Hart Lane
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, thus crashing out 8–0 on aggregate.
After that in national competitions Dinamo won the double in the 2013, 2014 and 2016 seasons.
Stadium
Construction of the
Dinamo stadium started in autumn 1929 although the project was soon suspended. The construction was renewed in 1933 (chief architect – Archil Kurdiani). Finally it finished on 12 October 1935 and envisaged 23 000 spectators.
In 1960–1962 the stadium was reconstructed and the number of spectators increased to 36 000. After reconstruction the stadium was officially opened on 27 July 1962. Dinamo Tbilisi hosted FC Dynamo Leningrad in the Soviet championship and defeated it with minimal score 1–0.
The demand for a new and bigger stadium had increased due to the successful performance of Dinamo Tbilisi. This was the Communist time, when every problem had to be solved by the USSR supreme government body. The leader and the first secretary of Georgian Communist Party
Eduard Shevardnadze
Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze ( ka, ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე}, romanized: ; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia fo ...
was able to persuade official Moscow, that Georgia needed a bigger and better stadium for home matches. By the time the stadium was built, it had the third biggest capacity in the
Soviet Union
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. It could fit 78,000 supporters and fulfill every standard and requirement of the
Soviet Football Federation
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as well as the
UEFA
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.
The first official match played after the stadium was built occurred on 29 September 1976. This was the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 1/16 final match between Dinamo Tbilisi and
Cardiff City. Dinamo won the opening game 3–0.
The next reconstruction of the stadium was held in 2006 (architects-Gia Kurdiani and Archil Kurdiani Junior) and the number of spectators was changed to 54,549. The stadium was opened with the European championship
qualifying match. On 6 September 2006 the Georgia national team hosted the
France national team and was defeated with the score 3–0. In 2012 the turf of Dinamo Arena was changed. Energy and irrigation systems were also fully rehabilitated. There was new lighting to satisfy demands for high standards. The VIP box was fully changed and fixed according to UEFA standards.
Even though the stadium's maximum capacity was 78,000, Georgian football fans can remember matches with more accommodation. For instance, in 1979 Dinamo was hosting one of the best British teams –
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...
. The first match was played in England at
Anfield
Anfield is a football stadium in Anfield, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, which has a seating capacity of 53,394, making it the seventh largest football stadium in England. It has been the home of Liverpool F.C. since their formation in 189 ...
, and Liverpool won 2–1. The attendance was 110,000 and their support played an important role in winning. Dinamo beat Liverpool 3–0 and qualified in the next round. In the Soviet Union Dinamo stadium kept the record with an average attendance of 45,000.
The record attendance was repeated in
1995
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for
Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
Places
Historical states and entities
* Related to the ...
vs
Germany
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. The football clubs
Spartak Moscow Spartak Moscow may refer to the following teams based or formerly based in Moscow, Russia:
* FC Spartak Moscow, an association football club
* HC Spartak Moscow, a professional ice hockey team
* Spartak GM Moscow, a semi-professional rugby club
* WB ...
and
Dynamo Kyiv
Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club as a separate business entity was officia ...
often played their autumn international matches at this stadium.
Hundreds of Georgian, European and even South American stars played in Dinamo stadium. In 1985 the stadium hosted the qualifying stage of the
Juniors World Cup.
Cláudio Taffarel
Cláudio André Mergen Taffarel (; born 8 May 1966) is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and is the goalkeeping coach of English Premier League club Liverpool and the Brazil national team. During an 18-year career he p ...
and
Muller
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A–H
* A. Charles Muller (born 1953), translator
*Bauke Muller (born 1962), Dutch bridge player
* Bennie Muller (born 1938), Dutch footballer
*Bill Muller (1965–2007), US journalis ...
played for the
Brazil national team.
In 1995 the stadium was renamed Boris Paichadze National Stadium after a major Georgian international
footballer
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. It is home to the
Georgia national football team
The Georgia national football team ( ka, საქართველოს ეროვნული საფეხბურთო ნაკრები, tr) represents the country of Georgia in men's international football matches, and it is c ...
.
Holding lit torches, 80,000 fans came in 1981 to congratulate the team on their European Cup Winners Cup triumph.
The stadium hosted the
2015 UEFA Super Cup match between
Barcelona
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and
Sevilla
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. Barcelona won 5–4 in extra time.
Football kits and sponsors
Players
Current squad
Out on loan
Honours
Dinamo Tbilisi is by far the most successful football club in
Georgia
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* Georgia (country), a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia
* Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the Southeast United States
Georgia may also refer to:
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* Related to the ...
, having won the championship 18 times and the cup 13 times. Dinamo also was one of the major football clubs in Soviet football that has never been relegated from the top league, and alongside Ukrainian
Dynamo Kyiv
Football Club Dynamo Kyiv (, ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Kyiv. Founded in 1927 as a Kyivan football team of republican branch of the bigger Soviet Dynamo Sports Society, the club as a separate business entity was officia ...
was the only club in Soviet era to win European competition.
Domestic
Georgian
*
Erovnuli Liga
The Erovnuli Liga ( ka, ეროვნული ლიგა - lit. National League) is the top division of professional football in Georgia. Since 1990, it has been organized by the Professional Football League of Georgia and Georgian Football F ...
** Winners (19):
1990
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,
1991
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,
1991–92,
1992–93
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,
1993–94,
1994–95,
1995–96,
1996–97,
1997–98,
1998–99,
2002–03,
2004–05,
2007–08,
2012–13
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,
2013–14,
2015–16,
2019
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,
2020
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,
2022
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(record)
*
Georgian Cup
The Georgian Cup (, ''Sakartvelos tasi'') is the main cup competition in Georgia (country), Georgian football (soccer), football.
The competition is a knockout (single elimination) tournament.
Soviet era cup winners
Previous winners are:
* 194 ...
** Winners (13):
1991–92,
1992–93
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,
1993–94,
1994–95,
1995–96,
1996–97,
2002–03,
2003–04,
2008–09,
2012–13
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,
2013–14,
2014–15,
2015–16 (record)
*
Georgian Super Cup
** Winners (9): 1996, 1997, 1999, 2005, 2008, 2014, 2015, 2021, 2023 (record)
Soviet
*
Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991.
The professional top level ...
** Winners (2):
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
,
1978
*
Soviet Cup
The Soviet Cup, or USSR Cup (russian: Кубок СССР),, be, Кубак СССР, uz, СССР Кубоги, kk, КСРО Кубогы, ka, სსრკ თასი, az, ССРИ кубоку, lt, TSRS taurė, ro, Cupa URSS ( Moldov ...
** Winners (2):
1976
Events January
* January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
* January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
* January 11 – The 1976 ...
,
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
European
*
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
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** Winners (1):
1980–81
Other international competitions
*
Commonwealth of Independent States Cup
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(level 1)
** Winners: (1)
2004
Individual player awards
Soviet Footballer of the Year
*
David Kipiani
David Kipiani ( ka, დავით ყიფიანი; 18 November 1951 – 17 September 2001) was a Georgian football midfielder and manager. Kipiani principally played as a playmaker and is considered one of Georgia's greatest playe ...
– 1977
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Ramaz Shengelia
Ramaz Shengelia ( ka, რამაზ შენგელია; 1 January 1957 – 21 June 2012) was a Georgian and Soviet football player.
Club career
Born in Kutaisi, Shengelia started career in his hometown club Torpedo Kutaisi in 1968. He sp ...
– 1978
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Aleksandre Chivadze
Aleksandre Chivadze ( ka, ალექსანდრე გაბრიელის ძე ჩივაძე; russian: Александр Габриэлович Чивадзе) (born 8 April 1955 in Klukhori), is a former Georgian and So ...
– 1980
* Ramaz Shengelia – 1981
Georgian Footballer of the Year
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Temur Ketsbaia
Temuri Ketsbaia ( ka, თემურ ქეცბაია; born 18 March 1968) is a Georgian former professional football player and current manager. He is the current manager of the Cyprus national team.
Club career
After beginning his prof ...
– 1990
*
Giorgi Kinkladze – 1993
European Championship winners
Three players have won the
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
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European Championship whilst at Dinamo Tbilisi:
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Givi Chokheli
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Zaur Kaloev
Zaur Kaloevi ( ka, ზაურ კალოევი; 24 March 1931 – 23 December 1997) was a famous Georgia (country), Georgian footballer.
During his career he played for FC Spartaki Tbilisi, Spartaki Tbilisi (1950–1951), FC Dinamo Tbilis ...
*
Mikheil Meskhi
Mikheil Meskhi (Georgian: მიხეილ მესხი; Russian: Михаил Шалвович Месхи; born 12 January 1937 in Tbilisi; died 22 April 1991 in Tbilisi) was a Georgian footballer. Nicknamed the "Georgian Garrincha" for hi ...
Olympic gold medalists
One player has won the Seoul
1988
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Olympic gold medal whilst in Dinamo Tbilisi:
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Gela Ketashvili
Gela Giorgis dze Ketashvili ( ka, გელა გიორგის ძე კეტაშვილი, russian: Гела Георгиевич Кеташвили) (born 27 September 1965 in Tbilisi) is a retired Soviet and Georgian footbal ...
Managerial history
All managers of FC Dinamo Tbilisi:
European campaigns
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1972–73
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UEFA Cup
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FC Twente
Football Club Twente () is a Dutch professional football club from the city of Enschede, sometimes known internationally as Twente Enschede. The club was formed in 1965 by the merger of 1926 Dutch champions Sportclub Enschede with Enschedese ...
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1973–74
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UEFA Cup
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Slavia Sofia
PFC Slavia Sofia ( bg, ПФК Славия София) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently competes in the top tier of the Bulgarian football league system, the First League. Slavia's home groun ...
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OFK Beograd
OFK Beograd ( sr-Cyrl, ОФК Београд – Омладински фудбалски клуб Београд, English: ''Belgrade Youth Football Club'') is a Serbian professional football club based in Belgrade, more precisely in Karaburm ...
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Tottenham Hotspur
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1976–77
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UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
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Cardiff City
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MTK Budapest
Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre is a multi-sports club from Budapest, founded in 1888. It has sections for football, handball, basketball, volleyball, futsal, ice hockey, water polo, cycling, gymnastics, athletics, fencing, canoeing, boxing, wrestlin ...
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1977–78
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UEFA Cup
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Inter Milan
Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale () or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy. Inter is ...
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KB
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Grasshoppers
Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago.
Grasshop ...
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1978–79
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UEFA Cup
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Napoli
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
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Hertha BSC
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1979–80
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European Cup
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Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a populat ...
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Hamburg
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1980–81
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UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
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Kastoria
Kastoria ( el, Καστοριά, ''Kastoriá'' ) is a city in northern Greece in the region of Western Macedonia. It is the capital of Kastoria regional unit, in the geographic region of Macedonia. It is situated on a promontory on the weste ...
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Waterford
"Waterford remains the untaken city"
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West Ham United
West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club that plays its home matches in Stratford, East London. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club plays at the London Stadium, hav ...
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Feyenoord
Feyenoord Rotterdam () is a Dutch professional football club (association football), football club in Rotterdam, which plays in the Eredivisie, the top tier in Dutch football. Founded as Wilhelmina in 1908, the club changed to various names bef ...
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FC Carl Zeiss Jena
FC Carl Zeiss Jena is a German football club based in Jena, Thuringia. Formed in 1903 and initially associated with the Carl Zeiss AG factory, they were one of the strongest clubs in East Germany from the 1960s to the 1980s, winning the DDR-Ober ...
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1981–82
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UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
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Grazer AK
Grazer AK, founded 18 August 1902 as Grazer Athletiksport Klub (in Austria the abbreviation GAK is more common), is an Austrian sports club, from the city of Graz in the federal state of Styria (''Steiermark''). The football section used to be on ...
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Bastia
Bastia (, , , ; co, Bastìa ) is a commune in the department of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France. It is located in the northeast of the island of Corsica at the base of Cap Corse. It also has the second-highest population of any commune on the is ...
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Legia Warsaw
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, 1–0
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Standard Liège
Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège (; nl, Standard Luik ; german: Standard Lüttich ) or simply Standard in Belgium, is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Liège.
They are one of the most ...
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, 0–1
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1982–83
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UEFA Cup
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Napoli
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
, 2–1
, 0–1
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1987–88
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UEFA Cup
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, R1
,
,
Lokomotiv Sofia
Lokomotiv 1929 ( bg, Локомотив 1929) is a Bulgarian professional association football club based in Sofia, which currently plays in the First League, the top tier of Bulgarian football.
Founded as Railway Sports Club in 1929, and refou ...
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Victoria București
Victoria București was a Romanian football club, dissolved right after the Romanian Revolution of 1989.
History
The club was sponsored by the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs (the "Miliția", Police). In 1985 Victoria played for the first ...
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, 2–1
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Werder Bremen
Sportverein Werder Bremen von 1899 e. V. (), commonly known as Werder Bremen (), Werder or simply Bremen, is a German professional sports club based in Bremen, Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. Founded on 4 February 1899, they are best known for the ...
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, 1–2
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1993–94
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UEFA Champions League
The UEFA Champions League (abbreviated as UCL, or sometimes, UEFA CL) is an annual club football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and contested by top-division European clubs, deciding the competi ...
, Preliminary round
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Linfield
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, 1–1
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1994–95
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UEFA Cup
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, Preliminary round
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Universitatea Craiova
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FC Tirol Innsbruck
FC Tirol Innsbruck was an Austrian association football club from Innsbruck, Tyrol which existed between 1993 and 2002, when bankruptcy was declared.
History
It was – after the establishment of FC Swarovski Tirol in 1986 – the s ...
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1995–96
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UEFA Cup
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Botev Plovdiv
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1996–97
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UEFA Cup
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Grevenmacher
Grevenmacher (; ) is a commune with town status in eastern Luxembourg, near the border with Germany. It gives its name to and is the capital of the canton of Grevenmacher, and, until its abolition in 2015, the district of Grevenmacher. The town ...
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Molde
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Torpedo Moscow
Football Club Torpedo Moscow (russian: link=no, ФК "Торпедо" Москва, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional football club based in Moscow that was founded in 1924 and returned to the Russian Pre ...
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Boavista
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1997– 98
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UEFA Champions League
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Crusaders
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Bayer Leverkusen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen (), Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The club competes in the Bundesliga, t ...
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UEFA Cup
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MPKC Mozyr
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SC Braga
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1998–99
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UEFA Champions League
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Vllaznia
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Athletic Bilbao
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1998–99
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UEFA Cup
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Willem II
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1999–2000
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UEFA Champions League
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Zimbru Chișinău
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2000
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UEFA Intertoto Cup
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Standard Liège
Royal Standard de Liège, commonly referred to as Standard Liège (; nl, Standard Luik ; german: Standard Lüttich ) or simply Standard in Belgium, is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Liège.
They are one of the most ...
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2001–02
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UEFA Cup
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BATE Borisov
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2002–03
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UEFA Cup
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TVMK Tallinn
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Slovan Liberec
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UEFA Champions League
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KF Tirana
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2004–05
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UEFA Cup
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BATE Borisov
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Slavia Prague
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Wisła Kraków
Towarzystwo Sportowe Wisła Kraków Spółka Akcyjna, commonly referred to as Wisła Kraków (), is a Polish professional football club based in Kraków. It currently competes in the I liga, the second level of Polish football league system. ...
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Sochaux () is a commune in the Doubs department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in eastern France.
Geography
Sochaux lies east of Montbéliard, and southeast of Paris.
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Inhabitants are known as ''Sochaliens''.
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Sporting Clube de Portugal, founded Sporting Club de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP, often known abroad as Sporting Lisbon , is a Portuguese professional sports club based in Lisbon. It is best known for the professional foot ...
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A.E.K ( el, AEK , formally Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως; Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupόleos, ''Athletic Union of Constantinople''), known as A.E.K, is a major Greek multi-sport club based in Nea Filadel ...
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Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as Tottenham () or Spurs, is a professional football club based in Tottenham, London, England. It competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. The team has playe ...
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Feyenoord
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European record
UEFA club rankings
Seasons
Key
* P = Played
* W = Games won
* D = Games drawn
* L = Games lost
* F = Goals for
* A = Goals against
* Pts = Points
* Pos = Final position
* ERL =
Erovnuli Liga
The Erovnuli Liga ( ka, ეროვნული ლიგა - lit. National League) is the top division of professional football in Georgia. Since 1990, it has been organized by the Professional Football League of Georgia and Georgian Football F ...
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Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991.
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* SFL = Soviet First League
*R1 = First round
*R2 = Second round
*R3 = Third round
*QF = Quarter-finals
*SF = Semi-finals
*GS = Group stage
*QR1 = First Qualifying Round
*QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
*QR3 = Third Qualifying Round
Soviet Union
Georgia
References
External links
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Dinamo Tbilision Soccerway
Dinamo Tbilisi resultsDinamo Tbilisi head-to-head results in Soviet yearsat wildstat.com
Dinamo Tbilisi head-to-head results since independenceat wildstat.com
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FC Dinamo Tbilisi,
Football clubs in Tbilisi, Dinamo Tbilisi
Association football clubs established in 1925
Dinamo Tbilisi
Soviet Top League clubs
Police association football clubs, Dinamo Tbilisi
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup winning clubs, Dinamo