Season | 2023 |
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Dates | 6 April – 20 November |
Champions | Gonio |
Promoted | Gonio Betlemi Gardabani |
Relegated | Kolkheti-2 Dinamo Zugdidi |
Matches played | 182 |
Goals scored | 681 (3.74 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Amiran Abuselidze (28 goals) |
Biggest home win | Gonio 14–1 Dinamo Zugdidi (28 June) |
Biggest away win | Dinamo Zugdidi 0–8 Betlemi (29 April) Dinamo Zugdidi 0–8 Gonio (7 November) |
Highest scoring | Gonio 14–1 Dinamo Zugdidi (28 June) |
Longest winning run | Betlemi (13 matches) |
Longest unbeaten run | Gonio (19) |
Longest winless run | Dinamo Zugdidi (14) |
Longest losing run | Dinamo Zugdidi (14) |
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The 2023 Liga 4 was the fifth season of fourth-tier football in Georgia under its current title. It began on 5 April and ended on 20 November. [1]
It was the only national division this year where no play-offs were held. The season consisted of 30 rounds with each team playing 26 matches. The top three teams gained promotion to Liga 3 while the two lowest-finishing teams were relegated to Regionuli Liga.
The following teams changed division after the previous season:
Relegated from Liga 3
Tbilisi City
Promoted from Regionuli Liga
Gardabani • Gonio • Kolkheti-2 1913 • Varketili Tbilisi-2
Promoted to Liga 3
Locomotive-2 Tbilisi • Shturmi • Matchakhela
Relegated to Regionuli Liga
This season was supposed to start with sixteen participating teams, but Shevardeni 1906 were disqualified first, followed by Tbilisi City later on.
After the summer break fourteen teams continued to take part in the tournament with two of them previously being members of the first tier: Sulori Vani (1991, 1991–92) [2] and Dinamo Zugdidi under different names between 1990 and 2017. [3] Five more spots were occupied by reserve teams of higher league clubs.
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a Based in Tbilisi
b Expelled from Liga 2 on match-fixing allegations in May 2022, denied membership of Liga 3 in early 2023. [4]
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
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1 | Gonio (C, P) | 26 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 75 | 15 | +60 | 67 | Promotion to Liga 3 |
2 | Betlemi (P) | 26 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 99 | 16 | +83 | 65 | |
3 | Gardabani (P) | 26 | 16 | 4 | 6 | 53 | 28 | +25 | 52 | |
4 | Odishi | 26 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 44 | 32 | +12 | 49 | |
5 | Margveti 2006 | 26 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 55 | 40 | +15 | 48 | |
6 | Samgurali-2 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 13 | 51 | 49 | +2 | 33 | |
7 | Merani-2 | 26 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 38 | 37 | +1 | 33 | |
8 | Sulori | 26 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 26 | 39 | −13 | 32 | |
9 | Algeti | 26 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 48 | 74 | −26 | 34 | |
10 | WIT Georgia-2 | 26 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 51 | 51 | 0 | 29 | |
11 | Varketili-2 | 26 | 9 | 1 | 16 | 38 | 48 | −10 | 28 | |
12 | Skuri | 26 | 7 | 2 | 17 | 33 | 69 | −36 | 23 | |
13 | Kolkheti-2 (R) | 26 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 48 | 58 | −10 | 22 | Relegation to Regionuli Liga |
14 | Dinamo Zugdidi (R) | 26 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 22 | 125 | −103 | 5 |
Notes:
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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1 | Amiran Abuselidze | Betlemi | 28 |
2 | Levan Ingorokva | Gonio | 22 |
3 | Davit Krasovski | Kolkheti-2 | 21 |
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