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Deividas Šemberas
	Šemberas with Alania in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Deividas Šemberas
Date of birth	2 August 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth	Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back, defensive midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1996–1998	Žalgiris Vilnius
1998–2001	Dynamo Moscow
2002–2012	CSKA Moscow
2012–2013	Alania Vladikavkaz
2014–2015	Žalgiris Vilnius
Total
International career
1996–2013	Lithuania
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Deividas Šemberas (born 2 August 1978) is a Lithuanian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder. Between 1996 and 2013, he earned 82 international caps for Lithuania.

Club career

Šemberas started his career in his home town of Vilnius, playing for FK Žalgiris from 1996 to 1998. Subsequently, he moved to Russian Premier League club Dynamo Moscow, for which he appeared in 88 games, scoring two goals. After four years at Dynamo, he joined rival team CSKA Moscow, where he stayed until 2012. In his ten years at CSKA, he won the Russian Premier League four times and the Russian Cup six times with his team. On 18 May 2005, he won the 2004–05 UEFA Cup with CSKA after they defeated Sporting CP 3–1 in the final. During the final, Šemberas came on as a substitute for Daniel Carvalho in the 82nd minute.^[1] He was named Lithuanian Footballer of the Year 2005 by the Lithuanian Football Federation.

On 13 July 2012, Šemberas moved to Alania Vladikavkaz.^[2] After the club was relegated at the end of the 2012–13 season, he left the club in February 2014 and re-joined his old club FK Žalgiris.^[3] He was appointed as the team's captain and won the Lithuanian double, consisting of the A Lyga title and the Lithuanian Football Cup, in the seasons 2014 and 2015, before retiring from professional football.

International career

Šemberas made his debut for the Lithuania national team in 1996 in a friendly match against Indonesia. Between 1996 and 2013, he earned 82 caps for his country.^[4]

Managerial career

On 3 December 2015, Šemberas was appointed as the president of the A lygos klubų asociacija, the association that organizes the game operations of the A Lyga.^[5]

Im November 2018, FK Žalgiris announced Šemberas as their new sporting director, alongside fellow former Lithuanian national Deividas Česnauskis.^[6] In May 2020, the club announced that Šemberas left his position at FK Žalgiris.^[7]

In March 2021, he was appointed as the president of the Vilnius Regional Football Association (VRFS).^[8]

Personal life

Until 2010, Šemberas was married to Agnė Armoškaitė-Šemberienė, with whom he had one son (born in 2002).^[9]^[10] In 2018, he married Oksana Zlatkovaitė, with whom he has a daughter (born in 2019).^[11]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition^{[citation needed]}
Club	Season	League			Cup		Europe		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Dinamo Moscow	1998	Russian Premier League	14	0	0	0	3	0	-		17	0
	1999		24	0	0	0	—		-		24	0
	2000		24	1	2	0	2	0	-		28	1
	2001		26	1	2	0	4	0	-		28	1
	Total		88	2	4	0	9	0	-	-	96	2
CSKA Moscow^[12]	2002	Russian Premier League	28	0	3	0	2	0	-		33	0
	2003		21	0	3	0	1	0	1	0	26	0
	2004		24	0	3	0	10	0	1	0	38	0
	2005		28	0	8	0	11	0	1	0	48	0
	2006		24	0	7	0	8	0	0	0	39	0
	2007		24	0	4	0	6	0	1	0	35	0
	2008		24	0	3	0	6	0	-		33	0
	2009		26	1	3	0	8	0	1	1	37	1
	2010		26	0	1	0	11	0	1	0	39	0
	2011–12		29	0	2	0	7	0	0	0	38	0
	Total		254	1	37	0	70	0	6	1	367	2
Alania Vladikavkaz	2012–13	Russian Premier League	27	0	0	0	-		—		27	0
	2013–14	Russian National Football League	19	0	1	0	-		—		20	0
	Total		46	0	1	0	—		—		47	0
Žalgiris Vilnius	2014	A Lyga	28	4	3	0	2	0	—		33	4
	2015	A Lyga	25	3	2	1	2	0	—		29	4
	Total		53	7	5	1	4	0	—		62	8
Career total			441	10	47	1	83	0	6	1	572	12