FC Spaeri ( Georgian: საფეხბურთო კლუბი სპაერი) is a Georgian professional

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club based in

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. The club competes in Liga 2, the second tier of Georgian football. Along with

Gagra Gagra ( ka, გაგრა; Russian language, Russian and ) is a town in Abkhazia/Georgia (country), Georgia, sprawling for 5 km on the northeast coast of the Black Sea, at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains. Its subtropical climate made Ga ...

, they are the only 2nd division club to have won the

Georgian Cup The Georgian Cup ( ka, საქართველოს თასი) is the main annual association football knockout cup competition in Georgia. It is organized by the Georgian Football Federation (GFF) and is open to clubs of all divisions. Th ...

History

Spaeri was established in 2017 by five individuals working in the Special State Protection Service. The team mostly consisted of the servicemen of this organization and initially participated in the Tbilisi Open League - the then 5th (now 6th) and lowest level of the league pyramid before becoming a member of the

Regionuli Liga 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 par ...

. Spaeri finished the 2018 season as runners-up and obtained the right to take part in the newly created Liga 4. Having won 21 games out of 27, they claimed the 2019 Liga 4 title and won automatic promotion to Liga 3. Their debut in the third division was impressive with Spaeri vying for a promotion play-off place up until the last matchday. Eventually, the club came two points short of third place. The team improved their performance in 2021 and, following an unbeaten run in 20 league games, won the 2021 Liga 3 title six rounds before the end of the season. Initially, they did not seem encouraging in the second division. With a single point in their initial four matches, Spaeri were sitting bottom of the table. However, the team quickly recovered, produced the longest unbeaten streak of the season and qualified for the promotion

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by coming 2nd in the league. Forward Levan Papava became the top scorer of the league with 17 goals netted during the regular season. He added a brace in a dramatic promotion-relegation tie against Erovnuli Liga side

but the team failed to secure promotion as Gagra won on penalties. Spaeri took part in

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a year later as well, only to lose to

Telavi Telavi (; ) is the main city and administrative center of the eastern Georgian province of Kakheti. As of the 2017 Census, its population was 19,751. The city is located on the foothills of the Tsiv-Gombori Range at above sea level. History Th ...

. In 2024, Spaeri managed to win the

, defeating

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in the final. Doing so, they qualified for their first time ever to European football, securing a spot in the

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second qualifying round. When ''Flashscore'' summed up European cup seasons in June 2025, it named Spaeri's triumph among the ten biggest "cupsets". In their debut performance in the

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, the team produced a dominant display over

Torpedo Kutaisi FC Torpedo Kutaisi ( Georgian: საფეხბურთო კლუბი ტორპედო ქუთაისი) is a Georgian professional football club based in Kutaisi, Georgia's third largest city. The team competes in the Erovnuli ...

to reach the final where they fell to a late defeat against Dila.

Seasons

European competitions

Current squad

''8 March 2025'' ''( c)''

Managers

Other teams

Spaeri has a youth academy with its teams taking part in different leagues and tournaments. The

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called Spaeri-2 competes in

Stadium

The Spaeri Stadium, located in an eastern suburb of

, was officially opened in September 2018. Тhe pitch has an artificial turf.

Honours

League *

Erovnuli Liga 2 The Georgian Erovnuli Liga 2 ( ka, ეროვნული ლიგა 2; ), organized since 1990 by the GFF, serves as the second division of professional football in Georgia. The league was introduced for the 2017 season under the current ...

** Runners-up (1):

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

** Third place (1):

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

* Liga 3 ** Winners (1):

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

* Liga 4 ** Winners (1):

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

** Runners-up (1): 2018 (East A) * Tbilisi Open League ** Winners (1): 2017 Cup *

** Winners (1):

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

Georgian Super Cup The Georgian Super Cup is a super cup tournament in Georgian football. Founded in 1996 as a two-team competition, the current version has been contested since 2023 by four teams, those being the first, second, and third placed teams in the Erovnul ...

** Runners-up (1): 2025

References

External links

Results on Flashscore

Profile on Soccerway

Page on Facebook
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