 First football players from Zestafoni were students of the local gymnasium (currently secondary school #1).According to our data, Zestafoni football team held its first match with one of the clubs of western Georgia (according to different sources Senaki or Ozurgeti) in 1918, during a celebration organized to commemorate Independence of Georgia.First international match held in Zestafoni was also during the independence period, in 1920.