FC Margveti Zestaponi

Margveti Zestaponi

Full name	FC Margveti Zestaponi
Founded	1990; 34 years ago (1990)
Dissolved	2000
Ground	Zestaponi, Georgia
Home colours Away colours

Margveti Zestaponi was a Georgian association football club based in Zestaponi between 1990 and 2000.

History

In 1990 the Georgian Football Federation was founded to hold their own football competition and leave the Soviet football league system. Clubs like FC Dinamo Tbilisi and FC Guria Lanchkhuti gave up their place in the Soviet Top League to join.

At that time Zestaponi had their own club FC Metallurg Zestaponi. A new club, formed as Margveti Zestaponi, joined Pirveli Liga and was promoted in the first season. Margveti was a member of Umaglesi Liga and achieved their best season in 1995–96 by finishing runner-up. But in the 1997–98 season, Margveti finished at the bottom and was relegated.

FC Margveti Zestaponi faced financial problems and was declared bankrupt in 2000.

A new club using the city legend team name Metalurgi Zestaponi was formed in 1999. In 2006 Margveti-2006 was founded in the lower division and recently in Meore Liga, but it is a different (municipal) club.

Notable players

Zviad Endeladze became the club's most famous player after scoring 40 goals in a single season. With this achievement he joined the European Golden Shoe winners.[1]

City rival

Although Metallurgi Zestaponi, Margveti Zestaponi and FC Zestaponi came from the same city, they never met in the league, and both clubs came from the succession of Metallurgi Zestaponi.

Seasons

Season	League	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GF	GA	P	Cup	Europe	Notes	Manager
1990	Pirveli Liga	2	38	28	3	7	102	44	87	Round of 32	N/A	Promoted
1991	Umaglesi Liga	8	19	8	3	8	32	32	27
1991–92	Umaglesi Liga	8	38	14	11	13	60	58	53	Round of 16
1992–93	Umaglesi Liga	6	32	15	5	12	49	54	50	Semi-finals
1993–94	Umaglesi Liga Champ.Group	8	18	4	3	11	22	41	15
1994–95	Umaglesi Liga	9	30	10	6	14	35	53	36	Round of 32
1995–96	Umaglesi Liga	2	30	22	2	6	85	37	68	Semi-finals
1996–97	Umaglesi Liga	7	30	12	2	16	44	66	38	Quarter-finals	UEFA Cup Preliminary round
1997–98	Umaglesi Liga	16	30	2	7	21	21	75	13	Round of 32		Relegated
1998–99	Pirveli Liga West	2	24	18	4	2	78	24	58	Round of 32
1999-00	Pirveli Liga	1	22	18	4	0	71	18	58	Round of 16

Reserve

Season	League	Pos.	Pl.	W	D	L	GF	GA	P	Notes	Manager
1995–96	Pirveli Liga West	17	38	12	3	23	54	83	39

Eurocups

Season	Competition	Round	Country	Club	Score
1996–97	UEFA Cup	1Q		Sliema Wanderers	3–1 (A),[2] 0–3 (H)[3]

References

1. "European topscorers". www.eusm.eu. Archived from the original on 2022-03-18. Retrieved 2022-02-18.
2. "Sliema vs Margveti". uefa.com.
3. "Margveti vs Sliema". uefa.com.

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