Algimantas Briaunys (born 3 November 1964) is a

Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...

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footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

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. He played the position of

. He won a total of four international caps for the

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Coaching career

From 2003 to 2004, Briaunys was manager of

FK Atlantas FK Atlantas was a Lithuanian football team from the port city of Klaipėda. The club's name has changed several times. It was established in 1962 as ''Granitas'', and became ''PSK Aras'' in 1993. Since 1996, when FK Sirijus Klaipėda was abso ...

.Algimantas Briaunys (g. 1964 m.) - LFE
lfe.lt In 2005, he then worked as goalkeeper coach for

FC Flora FC Flora, commonly known as Flora Tallinn, or simply as Flora, is a professional football club based in Tallinn, Estonia, that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. The club's home ground is Lilleküla Stadium. For ...

and later from 2006 to 2008 for

FCI Levadia Tallinn Football Club Infonet Levadia Tallinn, commonly known as FCI Levadia, or simply as Levadia, is a professional football club based in Tallinn, Estonia, that competes in the Meistriliiga, the top flight of Estonian football. The club's home grou ...

. In 2009, Briaunys was appointed manager of

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. He left in 2010 and became assistant manager of

in 2011 and later also goalkeeper coach at the club. At the end of 2011, Briaunys was hired as goalkeeper coach of

JK Sillamäe Kalev JK Sillamäe Kalev, commonly known as Sillamäe Kalev, or simply as Sillamäe, is a football club, based in Sillamäe, Estonia. Founded in 1957, Sillamäe Kalev was one of the founding members of the Meistriliiga. The club competed in the Meis ...

and in September 2012, he was appointed manager of the club. He left the manager post in April 2013 and continued as goalkeeper coach of the club. In July 2019, he joined

Palanga Palanga (; bat-smg, Palonga; pl, Połąga; german: Polangen) is a seaside resort town in western Lithuania, on the shore of the Baltic Sea. Palanga is the busiest summer resort in Lithuania and has sandy beaches (18 km, 11 miles long ...

as assistant manager and in September 2019, he became manager for the rest of the season after the departure of Viačeslavu Geraščenka.A lygos autsaiderė "Palanga“ pakeitė trenerį
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Honours

;Flora *

Meistriliiga Meistriliiga (, known as the A. Le Coq Premium Liiga for sponsorship reasons) is the highest division of the Estonian Football Association annual football (soccer), football championship. The league was founded in 1992, and was initially semi-p ...

champion: 1993–94, 1994–95 *

runner-up: 1995–96 *

Estonian Cup The Estonian Cup ( et, Eesti Karikas) is the national knockout competition in Estonian football. In 2012, the competition was unofficially rebranded as Evald Tipner's Cup. The winner will compete in UEFA Europa Conference League first qualifyi ...

winner: 1994–95 ;Žalgiris *

A Lyga The A Lyga is the top division of professional football in Lithuania. The A Lyga is an abbreviation of Aukščiausia lyga meaning Highest League. It is organized by Lithuanian Football Federation LFF ( lt, Lietuvos Futbolo Federacija). The Aukš� ...

runner-up: 1996–97, 1997–98 *

Lithuanian Football Cup The Lithuanian Football Federation Cup ( lt, Lietuvos futbolo federacijos taurė), also known as Hegelmann LFF Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a Lithuanian football cup competition contested in a knockout tournament format. The winner of the cup ...

winner: 1997 ;Liepājas Metalurgs *

Latvian Higher League Latvian Higher League or Virslīga is a professional football league and the top tier of association football in Latvia. Organised by the Latvian Football Federation, the Higher League is contested by 10 clubs. The full name of the league is Op ...

runner-up:

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

bronze:

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

;Atlantas *

runner-up:

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

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* 1964 births People from Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast Living people Soviet footballers FK Atlantas players FK Sirijus Klaipėda players Lithuanian footballers FC Asmaral Moscow players Lithuanian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Russia Russian Premier League players FC Halychyna Drohobych players Expatriate footballers in Ukraine FC Flora players Expatriate footballers in Estonia Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Estonia F.C. Copenhagen players Expatriate footballers in Denmark Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark JK Tervis Pärnu players FK Žalgiris players FK Liepājas Metalurgs players Expatriate footballers in Latvia Lithuania international footballers Lithuanian football managers Lithuanian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Russia Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Russia JK Sillamäe Kalev managers Expatriate football managers in Estonia Association football goalkeepers {{Lithuania-footy-bio-stub