FC Magaroeli is a Georgian football club based from the city Chiatura. Since the 2023 season they have been competing in Regionuli Liga, the fifth tier of Georgian football.
The team has twice participated in the top tier.
History Formed in 1923, Chiatura won the Georgian championship in 1975, and also clinched the domestic Cup title in 1978 and 1979. The club spent four seasons in the Soviet Second league.
In the 1992/93 season the club finished second in Pirveli Liga which paved the way for Umaglesi Liga in 1993/94. Magaroeli participated in the top flight also in 1997/98.
Between 2004 and 2017 the club spent 13 successive seasons in Liga 2. At one point the club came close to another promotion. After winning the 2007–08 season with a 23-point margin, they beat Gagra on penalties in champions play-offs, although Chiatura eventually had to give up their Umaglesi Liga place after their failure to meet the criteria existing for top-flight clubs.
While the team stayed in top half of the table for four consecutive seasons, they were involved in survival battles in 2016. In this season Magaroeli were deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player. In play-offs they failed to overcome Meshakhte Tkibuli and left the league.
The next year they won the regular season in Liga 3, although displayed a poor performance in the promotion tournament.
In 2018, Chiatura finished in 12th place in a 20-team league and along with all other bottom-half clubs were relegated to the newly formed Liga 4.
The team came 2nd in 2020. Even though this result fell short of the promotion, some changes of the league format announced in January 2021 by GFF awarded Magaroeli a Liga 3 place for the upcoming season.
The club was struggling in the next two years. In both cases they finished in the drop zone and suffered back-to-back relegations.
Seasons + Year League Pos P W D L GFGA Pts 2005-06 Pirveli Liga14/18 3410717385637 2006-07 Pirveli Liga6/18 341699493257 2007-08 Pirveli Liga A Group1/10 272142561767 2008-09 Pirveli Liga A Group6/11 3012315384839 2009-10 Pirveli Liga11/15 289316365830 2010-11 Pirveli Liga16/17 328519286929 2011-12Pirveli Liga Group A 3/10 1811 4 3 3016 37 2012-13 Pirveli Liga Group A5/12 33 13 6 14 4266 45 2013-14Pirveli Liga Group B 6/14 26 12 4 10 4446 40 2014-15 Pirveli Liga Group B 5/10 36 17 3 16 5352 54 2015-16 Pirveli Liga 12/18 34 9 15 10 4148 42 2016 Pirveli Liga Group Red6/916 7 2 7 1521 20 2017 Liga 3 Red Group1/10 1812 4 2 3214 40 Promotion Group7/10 18 5 2 11 1533 17 2018Liga 312/20 38 12 15 11 3947 47 2019 Liga 48/10 27 8 4 15 2945 28 2020 Liga 4 White Group2/8 14 6 6 2 2311 24 2021Liga 3 13/14 26 5 6 15 2346 21 2022Liga 4 15/16 30 6 6 18 3775 24 2023Regionuli Liga 10/13246513276423 2024 Regionuli Liga 10/13 2463 1529821 2025 Regionuli Liga C 8/16 30135 12547244
Players As of April 2022
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Honours Georgian Soviet Championship Champion: 1975 Georgian Soviet Cup Champion: 1978, 1979 Pirveli Liga: Champion: 1997, 2008 Bronze prize winner: 1992, 1996, 2012 Meore Liga Winner: 2017 (Red Group) Liga 4 Runners-up: 2020
Stadium The club hosts their league games at the Temur Maghradze stadium, which has a capacity of 11,650.
Name The club several times changed the name from Chiatura to Magaroeli and back. The latter literally means a miner implying the existing Chiatura mine complex in this town.
References
External links Page on Facebook Profile on Soccerway