FC Samegrelo Chkorotsku
FC Samegrelo is a Georgian football club based in the town of Chkhorotsku. They currently compete in the forth tier of Georgian league system. The team plays their home matches at Chkhorotskhu Bondo Papaskiri central Stadium. History. Founded in 1980, the club have not participated in the Georgian top flight. After several years in Liga 2, in 2016 Samegrelo were relegated to Meore Liga where they spent three seasons. In 2018 the club quit the third division despite being 11th among 20 league teams and has since been a member of Liga 4. In 2020, Samegrelo finished  at the bottom and avoided a further relegation only after the league was subjected to the reorganization which included the increase of teams from 16 to twenty. In the next year the club initially performed so poorly that they seemed hopeless in their survival battle. However, having won seven matches in Relegation Round with a large margin, Samegrelo under head coach Paata Bukia comfortably finished in the fourth place. Name. "Samegrelo" is a Georgian name for the region where Chkhorotsku is situated. External links. On Soccerway Facebook page