Vyacheslav Melnikov

Melnikov in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Melnikov
Date of birth	(1954-03-07) 7 March 1954 (age 70)
Place of birth	Pavlovo, Pavlovsky District, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1964–1974	Torpedo Pavlovo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1975	Volga Gorky	30	(1)
1976–1986	Zenit Leningrad	259	(30)
Managerial career
1991	Zenit St. Petersburg (assistant)
1992–1994	Zenit St. Petersburg
1996	Torpedo Pavlovo
1997	Zenit St. Petersburg (assistant)
1998	Gazovik-Gazprom Izhevsk
1999–2001	Zenit St. Petersburg (director)
2002–2003	Zenit St. Petersburg (reserves)
2004–2005	Zenit-2 St. Petersburg
2006–2007	Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk
2008	Dynamo St. Petersburg
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Melnikov (Russian: Вячеслав Михайлович Мельников; born 7 March 1954) is a Russian professional football coach and a former player.

• Soviet Top League champion: 1984.
• Soviet Top League bronze: 1980.
• Soviet Cup finalist: 1984.
• USSR Federation Cup finalist: 1986.

Under his management, FC Zenit Saint Petersburg was relegated from the Russian top-tier Russian Top Division in 1992.

• Vyacheslav Melnikov at FootballFacts.ru (in Russian)

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