Liga 4 (Georgia)

Liga 4, organized by Georgian Football Federation, is the fourth division of Georgian football league. It was founded in 2019 as a part of comprehensive reorganization of the league system.

Liga 4
Founded2019 (2019)
Country Georgia
ConfederationUEFA
Number of teams16
Level on pyramid4
Promotion toLiga 3
Relegation toRegionuli Liga
Domestic cup(s)Georgian Cup
Current championsDinamo-2 Tbilisi
(2021)
Websiteliga.gff.ge

Structure

In 2018 GFF decided to equally divide the twenty-team Liga 3 into two leagues by introducing Liga 4 for the 2019 season. Out of ten clubs the top two were promoted to Liga 3 and the bottom two were supposed to be relegated to Regional league.

However, in February 2020 the league regulation sustained new changes which saved the doomed teams from relegation and enlarged the tournament with four Regionuli Liga clubs.[1]

In January 2021 GFF announced that the number of clubs participating in the upcoming season would be increased to twenty.[2]

Seasons run based on Spring-Autumn system.

Current season
Location of Liga 4 football clubs

There are two members of the league that have taken part in the top division: Sulori Vani (1991-92) and Magaroeli Chiatura (1992-93 and 1997-98).

Based on their performance the previous year, the following sixteen teams will be competing in the 2022 season.

Teams in 2022
ClubPosition last seasonLocationRegion
Algeti5th in Relegation RoundMarneuliKvemo Kartli
Betlemi5thKedaAdjara
Didube14th in Liga 3TbilisiTbilisi
Iberia8thTbilisiTbilisi
Locomotive-21st in Reg.Liga EastTbilisiTbilisi
Magaroeli13th in Liga 3ChiaturaImereti
Margveti 200610thZestafoniImereti
Matchakhela 6th in Relegation RoundKhelvachauriAdjara
Merani-22nd in Relegation RoundMartviliSamegrelo-Z.Svaneti
Odishi 19191st in Relegation RoundZugdidiSamegrelo-Z.Svaneti
Samegrelo4th in Relegation RoundChkhorotskuSamegrelo-Z.Svaneti
Samgurali-21st in Reg.Liga WestTskaltuboImereti
Shturmi3rd in Relegation RoundSartichalaKvemo Kartli
Skuri9thTsalenjikhaSamegrelo-Z.Svaneti
Sulori7thVaniImereti
WIT Georgia-26thTbilisiTbilisi

Seasons

Previous years

In the first season ten teams played 27 games each. Eventually, two clubs from Tbilisi finished in top places awarding them promotion to the upper league.[3]

The 2020 season was due to start in April, but Covid-2019 postponed it for four months. In July GFF decided to form White and Red Groups with winners getting automatic promotion and bottom two clubs going down.[4] 16 teams were split into two groups. The football season started in August and lasted five months with each team playing 14 games only. Two winners and two runners-up were promoted to Liga 3.

The next year after the first phase Promotion and Relegation Groups were created. In the end the first four teams of the former advanced to Liga 3 while the bottom four of the latter dropped down a further level to Regionuli Liga.

2019Spaeri Tbilisi • Tbilisi City
2020Varketili Tbilisi • Didube Tbilisi • Merani-2 Tbilisi • Magaroeli Chiatura
2021Dinamo-2 Tbilisi • Zestafoni • Borjomi • Irao Tbilisi

Relegated teams
2019N/A
2020N/A
2021Torpedo-2 Kutaisi • Tbilisi • Imereti Khoni • Egrisi Senaki

Participation per club

27 teams have played in this league since 2019.

Team Par.
Algeti3
Egrisi3
Imereti3
Odishi 19193
Samegrelo3
Betlemi2
Borjomi2
Iberia2
Magaroeli2
Team Par.
Skuri2
Sulori2
Varketili2
WIT Georgia-22
Zestafoni2
Didube1
Dinamo-21
Gareji1
Irao1
Team Par.
Margveti 20061
Matchakhela1
Merani-2 Martvili1
Merani-2 Tbilisi1
Shturmi1
Spaeri1
Tbilisi1
Tbilisi City1
Torpedo-21

References
  1. ""ზესტაფონი" ლიგა-4-ში იასპარეზებს". 13 Feb 2020.
  2. "სიახლე საქართველოს ჩემპიონატში". popsport.com (in Georgian). 25 Jan 2021.
  3. "Liga 4 in 2019". gff.ge.
  4. "ეროვნული ლიგა-4 ორ ჯგუფად დაიყო". fczestafoni.ge (in Georgian). 23 Jul 2020.
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