They managed to seal a place for next season, although a year later ended up rooted to the bottom being winless during the entire relegation campaign.
Severe financial shortages badly affected Metalurgi who remained rock bottom during the entire 2003–04 season.
During this five-year period, Metalurgi played 152 league and cup games in total, including 64 matches in the top tier.
[4] By 2004, Margveti, too, had already ceased to exist due to bankruptcy, but another local club, FC Zestaponi, was rising who would shortly make the city one of the centers of Georgian football for nearly a decade.
[5] Zviad Endeladze, the only Georgian player who has won the European Golden Shoe, was a member of Metalurgi during the team's two-year tenure in the Umaglesi Liga.