FC Torpedo Kutaisi

FC Torpedo Kutaisi

Full name	Football Club Torpedo Kutaisi
Nickname(s)	FC Torpedo
Founded	1946
Ground	Givi Kiladze Stadium Kutaisi, Georgia (Capacity: 12,000)
Chairman	Levan Pkhakadze
Manager	Gia Geguchadze
League	Umaglesi Liga
2010–11	4
Home colours Away colours

FC Torpedo Kutaisi is a Georgian professional football club based in Kutaisi, Georgia's second largest city. ‘Torpedo Kutaisi’ was founded in 1946 and in just three years the club became the winner of the Football Championship of that time. By the end of 1964, the Football Federation of the former Soviet Union published a list of the best soccer players and 5 among them - R. Urushadze, I. Losaberidze, S. Kutivadze, J. Kherkhadze, and V. Chkhartishvili were from Torpedo Kutaisi team. Furthermore, Torpedo Kutaisi players of different times were always named among the Top Ten footballers of Georgia. G. Tskhovrebovi, R. Dzodzuashvili, J. Kherkhadze, Kutivadze, T. Sulakvelidze, G. Nodia, T. Kostava and others were among them. Moreover, Ramaz Shengelia was recognized as the number one football player of the former USSR. Torpedo play their home games at Givi Kiladze Stadium.

History

FC Torpedo Kutaisi was founded in 1946 on the base of Kutaisi Automotive Plant. In 1949 club became the winner of the Georgian SSR Championship. In 1959 two football clubs "FC Torpedo Kutaisi" and "FC Locomotive Kutaisi" were united and the name remained "FC Torpedo Kutaisi". In 1962 "FC Torpedo Kutaisi" was firstly became the participant of the Soviet Top League. FC Torpedo Kutaisi has very rich traditions and big history. Many famous Georgian football players began their career in this club. For example, when FC Dinamo Tbilisi won Cup Winners' Cup in 1981, five footballers were the ex-players of FC Torpedo Kutaisi.
When Georgian National Championships started in 1990, club changed its name into "FC Kutaisi". But after the three years, club restored the old name. Last years of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st were the most successful years in the club's history. During the four years [1999-2002] club won the five domestic titles. Besides this, "FC Torpedo Kutaisi" was the first Georgian club won the international football tournament since the independence [Turkmenistan President's Cup in 2002]. During that time the most players of the Georgia national football team were from "FC Torpedo Kutaisi". Besides this, the most famous Georgian managers (Jemal Kherkhadze, David Kipiani, Revaz Dzodzuashvili, Otar Gabelia, Vladimir Gutsaev and others) worked in the club as a head coach and in the staff too.
But, after the season 2004-05, three times Georgian Premier League Champion and two times Georgian National Cup Winner FC Torpedo Kutaisi was dissolved. Its last game was in Borisov, Belarus against FC Bate [First Qualifying Round of UEFA Cup 2005-06] in which FC Torpedo Kutaisi lost 5:0. After this, new football club "FC Kutaisi Torpedo" was founded, but it was not the successor of FC Torpedo Kutaisi and had no titles. "FC Kutaisi Torpedo" was participating in the Georgian Premier League during the two seasons [2005-06 and 2006-07], but due to financial reason it removed from the top league and began playing to Pirveli Liga, which is second level of Georgian League. In the next season [2008-09] "FC Kutaisi Torpedo" was replaced by the new club "FC Torpedo 2008", which was sponsored by the city government. In 2010, when Wissol Petroleum took the sponsorship over "Torpedo 2008", the leadeship of the Georgian oil company decided to restore the succession of FC Torpedo Kutaisi and they did it successfully.

Honours

• Georgian SSR Championship:
  • Champion: 1949
• Georgian Premier League:
  • Champion: 2000, 2001, 2002
  • Silver prize winner: 1999, 2003, 2005
  • Bronze prize winner: 1991, 1994
• Georgian Cup:
  • Champion: 1999, 2001
  • Finalist: 2000, 2002, 2004, 2011
• Turkmenistan President's Cup:
  • Champion: 2002
  • Silver prize winner: 2004

Statistics

FC Torpedo Kutaisi in the Georgian Top League:

#	Season	Match	Win	Draw	Lost	Goals	Points	Place
1	1990	34	20	5	9	62-33	65	4
2	1991	19	11	2	6	34-30	35	3
3	1991-92	38	15	4	19	66-60	49	11
4	1992-93	32	16	4	12	70-54	52	5
5	1993-94	32	15	7	10	56-49	52	3
6	1994-95	30	14	2	14	58-47	44	6
7	1995-96	30	15	7	8	69-49	52	7
8	1996-97	30	14	4	12	70-58	46	5
9	1997-98	30	15	9	6	51-30	54	4
10	1998-99	30	21	4	5	73-27	67	2
11	1999-00	28	19	7	2	70-16	64	1
12	2000-01	32	20	8	4	49-15	68	1
13	2001-02	32	23	5	4	64-18	74	1
14	2002-03	32	22	6	4	65-20	72	2
15	2003-04	32	15	6	11	46-38	51	7
16	2004-05	36	20	10	6	56-31	70	2

FC Torpedo Kutaisi in the Georgian Cup Competition:

#	Season	Match	Win	Draw	Lost	Goals	Achievement
1	1990	6	4	0	2	11-8	¼ Final
2	1991-92	8	4	1	3	12-9	½ Final
3	1992-93	8	2	4	2	14-13	½ Final
4	1993-94	2	0	0	2	1-4	1/16 Final
5	1994-95	4	3	0	1	14-7	⅛ Final
6	1995-96	6	3	2	1	17-7	¼ Final
7	1996-97	4	2	1	1	4-6	⅛ Final
8	1997-98	4	2	1	1	13-3	⅛ Final
9	1998-99	7	5	1	1	19-5	CUP
10	1999-00	7	3	3	1	10-1	Final
11	2000-01	7	5	2	0	9-4	CUP
12	2001-02	7	5	0	2	10-3	Final
13	2002-03	8	5	1	2	16-4	½ Final
14	2003-04	9	6	2	1	23-6	Final
15	2004-05	6	3	1	2	17-10	¼ Final

FC Torpedo Kutaisi in the UEFA club competitions:

#	Season	Tournament	Match	Win	Draw	Lost	Goals	Points	Achievement
1	1998-99	Intertoto Cup	4	2	1	1	9-3	7	II Qualifying Round
2	1999-00	UEFA Cup	4	2	0	2	10-9	6	I Stage
3	2000-01	Champions League	2	1	0	1	2-4	3	II Qualifying Round
4	2001-02	Champions League	4	1	2	1	3-4	5	II Qualifying Round
5	2002-03	Champions League	4	2	0	2	7-7	6	II Qualifying Round
6	2003-04	UEFA Cup	2	0	0	2	0-5	0	I Qualifying Round
7	2005-06	UEFA Cup	2	0	0	2	0-6	0	I Qualifying Round

#	Tournament	Match	Win	Draw	Lost	Goals	Points	Best Achievement
1	Champions League	10	4	2	4	12-15	14	II Qualifying Round
2	UEFA Cup	8	2	0	6	10-20	6	I Stage
3	Intertoto Cup	4	2	1	1	9-3	7	II Qualifying Round

#	Country	Match	Win	Draw	Lost	Goals	Points	Number of clubs
1	Belgium	2	1	0	1	2-2	3	1
2	Belarus	2	0	0	2	0-6	0	1
3	Denmark	2	0	1	1	2-4	1	1
4	Estonia	2	2	0	0	9-2	6	1
5	Serbia	2	1	0	1	2-4	3	1
6	Greece	2	0	0	2	1-7	0	1
7	France	2	0	0	2	0-5	0	1
8	Armenia	2	1	1	0	7-1	4	1
9	Faroe Islands	2	2	0	0	6-2	6	1
10	Czech Republic	2	0	0	2	1-5	0	1
11	Northern Ireland	2	1	1	0	1-0	4	1

Notable Past Players

Name	Position	Country	Years	Appearance	Goals
Revaz Dzodzuashvili	Defender		1964–1967	67	1
Tamaz Kostava	Defender		1973–1976	106	0
Anzor Kavazashvili	Goalkeeper		1972	31	0
Nodar Khizanishvili	Defender		1983	6	0
Murtaz Khurtsilava	Defender		1975–1976	47	4
Sergo Kutivadze	Midfielder		1962–1966	128	9
Otari Gabelia	Goalkeeper		1983–1984	29	0
Manuchar Machaidze	Midfielder		1981–1982	45	6
Givi Nodia	Striker		1965–1966	36	9
Tengiz Sulakvelidze	Defender/ Midfielder		1974–1978	138	2
Guram Tskhovrebov	Defender		1961–1963	57	2
Ramaz Urushadze	Goalkeeper		1961–1964	91	0
Irakli Zoidze	Goalkeeper		2000–2001	36	0
Davit Gvaramadze	Goalkeeper		2000–2001	19	0
Nikoloz Togonidze	Goalkeeper		2001–2002	6	0
Davit Janashia	Striker		1989–1993, 1997–2001, 2002, 2005–2007	182	79
Mikheil Ashvetia	Striker		1993–1994, 2000–2001	40	23
Malkhaz Asatiani	Central Defender/Defensive Midfielder		1999–2003	76	15
Valeri Abramidze	Defender		1998–2002, 2005–2006	?	?
Kakhaber Kvetenadze	Midfielder		1993–2001, 2002–2003	251	30
Zurab Ionanidze	Striker		1992–1993, 1997–2003	171	104
Andriy Poroshyn	Striker		2001–2003	55	23
Mamuka Managadze	Midfielder		1985–1986	20	3
Giorgi Megreladze	Striker		1995–2000, 2004–2005, 2011–2014	161	78

Sponsor

Period	Kit Supplier	Kit Sponsor
2010-2011	Saller	WISSOL
2011-	JAKO	WISSOL

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Maksime Kvilitaia 2 MF Davit Kirkitadze 4 DF Temur Farulava 5 DF Sevasti Todua (Captain) 6 DF Giorgi Guruli 7 DF Tengiz Chikviladze 8 FW Vakhtang Kvaratskhelia 9 FW Revaz Kvernadze 10 MF Giorgi Datunaishvili 10 FW Giorgi Megreladze 11 MF Giorgi Seturidze 12 GK Omar Migineishvili 14 FW Mikheil Rostiashvili

No. Position Player 17 DF Dachi Popkhadze 18 MF Merab Gigauri 19 DF Vazha Lomashvili 21 FW Zaur Khachiperadze 22 MF Tornike Tarkhnishvili 25 MF Givi Chkhetiani 32 DF Teimuraz Parulava 44 DF Nodari Machavariani 81 MF David Digmelashvili

Former players

• Shalva Purtseladze

External links

• Official Web Site of FC Torpedo Kutaisi
• Official Web Site of Georgian Football Federation
• Official Web Site of Professional Football League of Georgia
• UEFA directory