2018–19 Georgian Superliga

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

Superliga
Competition details
Teams 10
Dates 10 November 2018 – May 2019
Final positions
Champions Delta (1st title)
Runners-up Kutaisi
Relegated Rustavi

Dinamo Tbilisi will be 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]
Colours: 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-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
          
 
 
 
 
Kutaisi3
 
 
 
MIA Academy Titebi1
 
Kutaisi3
 
 
 
Dinamo2
 
TSU Hyundai1
 
 
 
Dinamo3
 
Kutaisi2
 
 
 
Delta3
 
Mgzavrebi3
 
 
 
Batumi2
 
Mgzavrebi0
 
 
 
Delta3 Third place
 
Delta3
 
 
 
Olimpi0
 
Mgzavrebi75
 
 
Dinamo65
 

Quarter-finals
Team 1 Series Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg4th leg5th leg
Kutaisi 3–1 MIA Academy Titebi 93–87 96–95 96–10193–870
Mgzavrebi 3–2 Batumi 88–90 75–64 82–8877–9497–76
Delta 3–0 Olimpi 69–60 74–69 81–7100
TSU Hyundai 1–3 Dinamo 78–85 87–73 72–9074–780

Semi-finals
Team 1 Series Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg4th leg5th leg
Kutaisi 3–2 Dinamo 68–60 76–84 76–5663–7178–74
Mgzavrebi 0–3 Delta 76–90 67–75 75–9800

Third place match
Team 1  Score  Team 2
Mgzavrebi 75–65 Dinamo

Finals
Team 1 Series Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg 3rd leg4th leg5th leg
Kutaisi 2–3 Delta 83–90 82–70 83–7475–8678–82

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 leg4th leg5th leg
Cactus 3–2 CIU 75–66 0 069–7490–69

Georgian clubs in European competitions
TeamCompetitionProgress
DinamoChampions LeagueFirst qualifying round

References
  1. Georgian Basketball Federation
  2. Georgian Basketball Federation
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