Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 6 February 1944 | ||
Place of birth | Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Playing position | Manager | ||
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 | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Benjaminas Zelkevičius (born 6 February 1944) is a football coach and a former striker from Lithuania. 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).
He had coached also FK Žalgiris Vilnius and Russian football club 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.
Champion of Latvia 2005