Although Margveti seemed clear favorites in a play-off tie, they surprisingly lost it,[3] which led to the exit of manager Gia Guruli and 13 field players.
Having been among the top three teams throughout the 2024 season, Margveti under head coach Tamaz Gabrichidze sealed their return to the third tier after a seven-year absence.
Due to unavailability of a football ground in the city, the club hires a pitch in the town of Kharagauli, situated in 22 km from Zestaponi, for their official matches.
In 2015, a media row erupted after Ilia Kokaia, the owner of the latter, slammed Margveti 2006 for cronyism and unfair privileges, and suggested that the local authorities were deliberately seeking to sink FC Zestaponi at the expense of this municipal club.
Margveti, also mentioned as Argveti in historic annals, was a duchy between VIII and XI centuries on large swaths of the current Imereti region.