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Benjaminas Zelkevičius (born 6 February 1944) is a football coach and a former striker from Lithuania. He is currently the technical director at FM Ateitis. Zelkevičius has been manager of the Lithuania national football team on three separate occasions: from 1990–1991, 1995–1997, and 2001–2002. As player he had played 331 matches for the FK Žalgiris Vilnius (50 goals).

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Benjaminas Zelkevičius

Personal information
Date of birth	(1944-02-06) 6 February 1944 (age 78)
Place of birth	Vilnius, Reichskommissariat Ostland (present-day Lithuania)
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Club information
Current team	FM Ateitis (technical director)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1963–1967	Žalgiris Vilnius
1968	Shakhtar Donetsk	19	(3)
1969–1973	Žalgiris Vilnius	181	(29)
Teams managed
1977–1982	Žalgiris Vilnius
1985–1991	Žalgiris Vilnius
1990–1991	Lithuania
1992	FK Austria Wien (assistant)
1995–1997	Lithuania
1997	KAMAZ-Chally
1998	Rotor Volgograd (assistant)
1999	Shinnik Yaroslavl
2000	Baltika Kaliningrad (consultant)
2001–2002	Lithuania
2002–2003	Baltika Kaliningrad
2004–2007	Liepājas Metalurgs
2009	Luch-Energiya Vladivostok
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

He had coached also FK Žalgiris Vilnius and Russian football club FC Baltika Kaliningrad.

During his playing career, he played for FC Shakhtar Donetsk in the Soviet Top League and for FK Žalgiris Vilnius in the Soviet First League.[1]

Post-managing career

From September 2009 through 2010 Zelkevičius was coaching at FM Ateitis youth academy. On 12 August 2019, he became Ateitis' technical director.[2]

Since 2015, Zelkevičius also is chair of the Lithuanian Football Coaches Council.[3]

Honours

• Baltic Cup
  • 1991

Champion of Latvia 2005

References

Preceded by Viktors Lukins	FHK Liepājas Metalurgs manager 2004-2007	Succeeded by Jurijs Andrejevs

На других языках

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- [en] Benjaminas Zelkevičius

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[it] Benjaminas Zelkevičius

Benyaminas Zelkyavichyus (Kaunas, 6 febbraio 1944) è un allenatore di calcio ed ex calciatore lituano, fino al 1990 sovietico.

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[ru] Зелькявичюс, Беньяминас Викторович

Беньями́нас Ви́кторович Зелькя́вичюс (6 февраля 1944, Каунас, Литовская ССР, СССР) — советский футболист, полузащитник, советский и литовский тренер. Мастер спорта СССР. Заслуженный тренер СССР (1989). Заслуженный тренер Литовской ССР. Обладатель награды «За заслуги в литовском футболе» (2018)[1].

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