Benjaminas Zelkevičius


Benjaminas Zelkevičius 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.
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.

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.
Since 2015, Zelkevičius also is Chair of the Lithuanian Football Coaches Council.

Honours

Champion of Latvia 2005