Ares Kutaisi

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Ares Kutaisi

Union	Georgia Rugby Union
Founded	2015; 9 years ago (2015)
Location	Kutaisi, Georgia
Ground(s)	Aia Arena
President	Giorgi Chikhladze
Coach(es)	Sergo Freudze
League(s)	Didi 10
2023–24	4th
Official website
stat.rugby.ge

Ares Kutaisi (officially Aa(i)p Rugby Club "Ares" Kutaisi) is a professional rugby union club from Kutaisi, Georgia. They compete in the Georgian Didi 10.^[1]

Founded in 2015 Ares Kutaisi play at the Aia Arena, sharing the stadium with RC Aia Kutaisi, Bagrat Kutaisi and RC Dinosaurs Tskaltubo. The won the Georgian Regional League in 2016 winning promotion the Georgian First League.^[2] They won the league in 2019 however they were not promoted until 2020 where again they topped the table winning 15 out of 15 games before the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[3]

• Georgian First League
  • Winners (2): 2018–19, 2019-20
• Georgian Regional League
  • Winners (1): 2015-16

Role[4]	Name
Manager/President	Giorgi Chikhladze
Head Coach	Sergo Freudze
Assistant Coach	Zura Goglichadze
	Giorgi Tsirekidze
Strength & Conditioning Coach	Tazo Laghadze
Physio	Murtazi Gureshidze
Doctor	Juba Vardanidze
Video Analysis	Teimuraz Gorgidze

• Rugby Union in Georgia