Regionuli_Liga

Regionuli Liga

Regionuli Liga

Football league


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.

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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

Kaspi 1936
Kaspi 1936
Torpedo-2 Martve
Torpedo-2 Martve
BSU
BSU
Enguri
Enguri
Chele
Chele
Liakhvi
Liakhvi
Dinamo Gagra
Dinamo Gagra
Kareli
Kareli
Dmanisi
Dmanisi
Tbilisi teams: AragvelebiAragvi-2GldaniGrandiIberia 2010JvarosnebiLocomotive-3 Orbi-2Norchi Dinamo 2016Spaeri-2VazisubaniUG 35
Tbilisi teams:
Aragvelebi
Aragvi-2
Gldani
Grandi
Iberia 2010
Jvarosnebi
Locomotive-3
Orbi-2
Norchi Dinamo 2016
Spaeri-2
Vazisubani
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Locations of Regionuli Liga football clubs in 2024

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:

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Past seasons

Group Winners

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Notes: Aragvi Dusheti and Samgurali Tskaltubo-2 beat their upper league rivals in the 2017 play-offs.[6] So did Gareji Sagarejo 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]


References

  1. "რეგიონული ლიგა: "საბურთალო 2"-მა საწადელი თითქმის აისრულა". worldsport.ge (in Georgian), 27 October 2017.
  2. "Play-offs in 2018". gff.ge (in Georgian).
  3. "Regionuli Liga West". irff.ge (in Georgian). Retrieved 29 March 2024.

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