2018–19 Georgian Superliga

The 2018–19 Georgian Superliga was the 19th season of the Georgian Superliga since its establishment.

Superliga
Teams	10
Dates	10 November 2018 – May 2019
Final positions
Champions	Delta (1st title)
Runners-up	Kutaisi
Relegated	Rustavi
← 2017–18 2019–20 →

Dinamo Tbilisi were the defending champions.

Format

Regular season consisted in a double-legged round-robin competition where the eight best teams qualified for the playoffs.

Teams

The league was expanded to ten teams. Two clubs have been promoted from A-league, TSU Tbilisi as champion and MIA Academy Titebi as runner-up, and after winning a promotion/relegation playoff against Sokhumi.

Regular season

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Kutaisi	18	14	4	1548	1428	+120	32	Qualification to playoffs
2	Mgzavrebi	18	13	5	1511	1369	+142	31
3	Delta	18	12	6	1448	1332	+116	30
4	TSU Hyundai	18	10	8	1489	1471	+18	28
5	Dinamo	18	10	8	1366	1352	+14	28
6	Olimpi	18	8	10	1418	1450	−32	26
7	Batumi	18	8	10	1397	1465	−68	26
8	MIA Academy Titebi	18	7	11	1463	1488	−25	25
9	Cactus (O)	18	5	13	1404	1554	−150	23	Qualification to relegation playoffs
10	Rustavi (R)	18	3	15	1333	1468	−135	21	Relegated

Source: [1]
(O) Play-off winner; (R) Relegated.

Results

Home \ Away	BAT	CAC	DEL	DIN	KUT	MGZ	TIT	OLI	RUS	TSU
Batumi	—	89–85	69–85	66–79	97–89	76–89	76–86	69–61	87–65	82–71
Cactus	90–81	—	61–83	73–88	83–90	88–102	69–84	78–74	87–80	65–85
Delta	70–78	87–64	—	99–77	91–80	67–70	87–86	64–66	86–79	79–72
Dinamo	73–80	83–70	73–62	—	68–79	71–88	60–73	80–79	77–61	89–98
Kutaisi	88–68	93–84	87–89	81–66	—	78–80	81–77	108–78	87–75	80–73
Mgzavrebi	92–71	94–85	81–74	65–68	82–86	—	87–78	70–83	72–75	96–61
MIA Academy Titebi	89–82	86–71	72–90	62–86	66–75	86–91	—	70–93	96–81	86–93
Olimpi	100–83	89–95	77–72	65–77	82–87	72–84	86–83	—	84–71	73–75
Rustavi	70–73	76–81	62–73	67–62	87–94	71–91	81–86	90–59	—	77–96
TSU Hyundai	83–70	89–75	78–90	84–89	82–85	79–77	99–96	94–97	77–65	—

Source: [2]
Legend: Blue = home team win; Red = away team win.

Playoffs

All the rounds will be played in a best-of-five games format, (2-2-1) format.

Bracket

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	Kutaisi	3
	MIA Academy Titebi	1
					Kutaisi	3
					Dinamo	2
	TSU Hyundai	1
	Dinamo	3
									Kutaisi	2
									Delta	3
	Mgzavrebi	3
	Batumi	2
					Mgzavrebi	0
					Delta	3			Third place
	Delta	3
	Olimpi	0
									Mgzavrebi	75
									Dinamo	65

Quarter-finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg	5th leg
Kutaisi	3–1	MIA Academy Titebi	93–87	96–95	96–101	93–87	0
Mgzavrebi	3–2	Batumi	88–90	75–64	82–88	77–94	97–76
Delta	3–0	Olimpi	69–60	74–69	81–71	0	0
TSU Hyundai	1–3	Dinamo	78–85	87–73	72–90	74–78	0

Semi-finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg	5th leg
Kutaisi	3–2	Dinamo	68–60	76–84	76–56	63–71	78–74
Mgzavrebi	0–3	Delta	76–90	67–75	75–98	0	0

Third place match

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Mgzavrebi	75–65	Dinamo

Finals

Team 1	Series	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg	5th leg
Kutaisi	2–3	Delta	83–90	82–70	83–74	75–86	78–82

Relegation playoffs

The winner of the playoffs between the ninth qualified and the runner-up of the A-League will join the next Superleague season with Vera, champion of the second-tiered league.

Team 1	Series	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg	3rd leg	4th leg	5th leg
Cactus	3–2	CIU	75–66	0	0	69–74	90–69

Georgian clubs in European competitions

Team	Competition	Progress
Dinamo	Champions League	First qualifying round

References

1. Georgian Basketball Federation
2. Georgian Basketball Federation

External links

• Official Georgian Basketball Federation website