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Regionuli Liga

Regionuli Liga
Founded1990; 34 years ago (1990)
Country Georgia
ConfederationUEFA
Number of clubs40
Level on pyramid5
Promotion toLiga 4
Domestic cup(s)Georgian Cup
Websitegff.ge

Regionuli Liga (Georgian: რეგიონული ლიგა), run by Georgian Football Federation since 1990, is the fifth and lowest division of the Georgian league system after Erovnuli Liga, Erovnuli Liga 2, Liga 3 and Liga 4. Its participants are both professional clubs and reserve teams of higher league members.

Prior to the introduction of Liga 4 in 2019, Regionuli Liga was the fourth tier.

Structure

As the name implies, the league is based on regional principle. Depending on the number of participating clubs, it is divided into several groups. In 2017, there were forty teams allocated in three groups.[1] The next year two zones were created for teams based in western Georgia and two more for the eastern regions. This regulation lasted three seasons until 2021, when the league was split into two groups, although the next year it switched back to three groups.

The number of promoted clubs per season also varies. Usually only the group winners gain automatic promotion, although several second-placed and third-placed teams, too, directly or through play-offs have advanced to the fourth tier in recent years.[2] In another case, play-off ties against Liga 3 teams determined the fate of Liga 4 two slots.[3]

The seasons are played on Spring-Autumn system.

Current season

For the 2024 season 27 clubs from the southern and eastern parts of Georgia and three Tbilisi-based teams from Abkhazia formed A and B groups, while zone C consists of thirteen clubs from the western regions.[4] Each club plays each of the other clubs twice, once at home and once away. At the end of the season four teams will gain promotion to Liga 4. Three group winners will be joined by one of the runners-up based on play-off results among the three second-placed teams.

Clubs represented in Regionuli liga for the 2024 season are listed below in alphabetical order.[5] Six of them have in the past participated in the top division:

Groups Teams
A
Abuli AkhalkalakiAragvi-2 DushetiDinamo GagraDinamo SokhumiGldani TbilisiIveria KhashuriJvarosnebi TbilisiKareliKaspi 1936Norchi Dinamo 2016 TbilisiSamtskhe AkhaltsikheSpaeri-2 TbilisiUG 35 TbilisiVazisubani Tbilisi
B
Aragvelebi TbilisiDmanisiGardabani-2Gareji-2 SagarejoGrandi Tbilisi • Iberia 2010 Tbilisi • Liakhvi AchabetiLocomotive-3 TbilisiOrbi-2 TbilisiRustavi-2Shturmi-2 SartichalaSporti GardabaniTskhumi Sokhumi
C
Chele Academia KobuletiBSU BatumiChibati LanchkhutiEgrisi SenakiImereti KhoniJvariMagaroeli ChiaturaKolkheti 1913-2 PotiMartve KutaisiMeshakhte-2 TkibuliSapovnela TerjolaSairme BagdatiTorpedo-2 Kutaisi

Notes:

Past seasons

Group Winners

Western group winners are indicated first

Year Teams
2017 BakhmaroSaburtalo-2Varketili
2018 Salkhino MartviliDinamo-2 BatumiTbilisi CityGareji
2019 Torpedo-2SkuriWIT Georgia-2Didube 2014
2020 Torpedo-2Merani-2 MartviliIraoDinamo-2 Tbilisi
2021 Samgurali-2Locomotive-2
2022 Kolkheti 1913-2GardabaniVarketili-2
2023 MertskhaliGagra-2Didube 2014
2024 Kolkheti 1913-2IveriaAragvelebi

Promoted teams

By alphabetical order

Year Teams
2017 AragviBakhmaroMatchakhelaSaburtalo-2Samgurali-2Varketili
2018 EgrisiGarejiOdishi 1919SpaeriTbilisi City
2019 Didube 2014 • Iberia • Merani-2 TbilisiSkuriSuloriWIT Georgia-2Zestafoni
2020 Dinamo-2 TbilisiIraoMargveti 2006MatchakhelaMerani-2 MartviliShturmi • Tbilisi • Torpedo-2
2021 Locomotive-2Samgurali-2
2022 GardabaniGonioKolkheti 1913-2Varketili-2
2023 Didube 2014Gagra-2MertskhaliZana
2024 Aragvelebi • Iberia 2010 • IveriaKolkheti 1913-2

Notes: Aragvi and Samgurali-2 beat their upper league rivals in the 2017 play-offs.[6] So did Gareji a year later. All the other clubs were promoted directly. In 2018 and 2019, the second phase of competition was held in Promotion Groups. As a result, in comparison with the initial phase, the final table of these seasons sustained some changes.[7]

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