Regionuli Liga

Founded	1990; 34 years ago (1990)
Country	Georgia
Confederation	UEFA
Number of teams	37
Level on pyramid	5
Promotion to	Liga 4
Domestic cup(s)	Georgian Cup
Website	https://www.gff.ge/en https://www.gff.ge/en/championships/regional-league/group-east

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 fifth 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

Shturmi-2

Meshakhte-2

Chibati

Bakhmaro-2

Rustavi-2 Gorda

Sapovnela

Shukura-2

Gareji-2

Samegrelo

Kaspi 1936

Martve

Imereti

Egrisi

BSU

Mertskhali

Zana

Abuli

Samtskhe

Liakhvi

Dinamo S Tskhumi

Magaroeli

Kareli

Kolkhi

Iveria

Tbilisi

Tbilisi teams:
Aragvelebi
Didube 2014
Gagra-2
Gldani
Iberia 2010
Irao-2
Norchi Dinamo 2016
Plato
Sulakvelidze Academy
Vazisubani
Yuji 35

Locations of Regionuli Liga football clubs in 2023

For the 2023 season 21 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. 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 2023 season are listed below in alphabetical order.^[4] Six of them have in the past participated in the top division:

• Dinamo Sokhumi in 2005–06;
• Iveria Khashuri in 1990–97;
• Magaroeli Chiatura in 1993–94 and 1997–98;
• Mertskhali Ozurgeti in 1990–92 and 2003–04;
• Sapovnela Terjola in 1993–94, 1994–95 and 2015–16;
• Tskhumi Sokhumi in 1990–93.

Notes:

• Dinamo Sokhumi, Kolkhi Gulripshi, Liakhvi Achabeti and Tskhumi Sokhumi are based in Tbilisi due to problems related to the territorial integrity of Georgia.

Past seasons

Group Winners

Promoted teams

Notes: Aragvi Dusheti and Samgurali Tskaltubo-2 beat their upper league rivals in the 2017 play-offs.^[5] 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.^[6]