The 2023 Liga 4 (Georgia) season was the 5th edition of fourth tier football in Georgia under its current title. It began on 5 April and ended on 20 November.
It was this year the only national division that 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.
Team changes The following teams changed division after the previous season:
To Liga 4 Relegated from Liga 3
Tbilisi City
Promoted from Regionuli Liga
Gardabani • Gonio • Kolkheti-2 1913 • Varketili Tbilisi-2
From Liga 4 Promoted to Liga 3
Locomotive-2 Tbilisi • Shturmi • Matchakhela
Relegated to Regionuli Liga
Didube Tbilisi • Samegrelo • Magaroeli • Iberia Tbilisi
Teams and locations
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) and Dinamo Zugdidi under different names between 1990 and 2017. Five more spots were occupied by reserve teams of higher league clubs. + Club Position last seasonLocation RegionAlgeti12th MarneuliKvemo KartliBetlemi 4th Keda AdjaraDinamo Zugdidi ZugdidiSamegrelo-Z.Svaneti Gardabani1st in Regionuli Liga B Gardabani Kvemo Kartli Gonio 2nd in Regionuli Liga C Batumi AdjaraKolkheti-2 1913 1st in Regionuli Liga C Poti Samegrelo-Z.Svaneti Margveti 2006 9th Zestaponi Imereti Merani-2 10th Martvili Samegrelo-Z.Svaneti Odishi 11th Zugdidi Samegrelo-Z.Svaneti Samgurali-2 8th Tskaltubo ImeretiSkuri 5th Tsalenjikha Samegrelo-Z.SvanetiSulori 7th Vani Imereti Varketili-2 1st in Regionuli Liga A TbilisiTbilisi WIT Georgia-2 6th Tbilisi Tbilisi Based in Tbilisi
Expelled from Liga 2 on match-fixing allegations in May 2022, denied membership of Liga 3 in early 2023.
League table
Notes: Tbilisi City were suspended after the first half of the season with all their matches annulled. In late September, with seven games still to play Betlemi Keda and Gonio both secured promotion to Liga 3 for the 2024 season. They were joined by Gardabani after a win on the last matchday.
Results
Top scorers Rank Player Club Goals1 Amiran Abuselidze Betlemi282 Levan Ingorokva Gonio223 Davit Krasovski Kolkheti-221
References
External links Georgian Football Federation