About FC Tskhinvali

FC Tskhinvali was a Georgian football club named after the city of Tskhinvali in South Ossetia, founded in 1936 as Spartaki. It later played as Liakhvi and Tskhinvali before reverting to Spartaki in 2007 and taking the name Tskhinvali again in 2015.

Because of the Georgian–Ossetian conflict, the club could not play in Tskhinvali itself and hosted its matches in Georgian-controlled cities, mostly Gori, Tbilisi and Rustavi. In the mid-2010s it spent four seasons in the Georgian top flight.

Tskhinvali's only European appearance came in the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League, where FC Botoșani beat it in the first qualifying round, with the home leg played in Tbilisi. A severe financial crisis followed, and in early 2020 the club was disqualified from Liga 3 and dissolved.