Benjaminas Zelkevičius
Personal information
Date of birth (1944-02-06) 6 February 1944
Place of birth Vilnius, Reichskommissariat Ostland
(present-day Lithuania)
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team 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)
Managerial career
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

Benjaminas Zelkevičius (born 6 February 1944) is a Lithuanian football coach and a former player who is technical director at FM Ateitis. He has been manager of the Lithuania national team on three separate occasions: from 1990 to 1991, 1995 to 1997, and 2001 to 2002. He played as a striker, making 331 appearances and scoring 50 goals for Žalgiris Vilnius.

He has coached also Žalgiris Vilnius and Russian club Baltika Kaliningrad. During his playing career, he played for FC Shakhtar Donetsk in the Soviet Top League and for 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

Champion of Latvia 2005

References

  1. ↑ "Zelkevichius Benjaminas". KLISF. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
  2. ↑ "Iš futbolo nesitraukia – Zelkevičius deda naują žingsnį savo karjeroje". DELFI (in Lithuanian). 12 August 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  3. ↑ "Lietuvos nacionalinės futbolo rinktinės naujojo trenerio rinkimai". Alytaus gidas (in Lithuanian). 18 December 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2019.


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