Sergey Sergeyevich Frantsev (russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Фра́нцев; born 17 March 1959) is a Russian professional football coach.

Managerial career

Nõmme Kalju

On 5 November 2015, Frantsev was named as manager of the Estonian

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

club Nõmme Kalju. After finishing third both in

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and

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Frantsev and Kalju finally won the league title in

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. Kalju also won the pre season

Estonian Supercup The Estonian Supercup ( et, Eesti Superkarikas) is Estonian football's annual super cup, contested between the champions of the previous Meistriliiga season and the holders of the Estonian Cup. If the Meistriliiga champions also won the Estoni ...

in 2019. The club's best result under Frantsev in European competitions was the third qualifying round in the 2016–17 UEFA Europa League, beating

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on the way. Frantsev was sacked on 25 April 2019 due to a poor start to the 2019 season.

Honours

Individual

Manager of the Month: August 2014, October 2014, October 2016, July 2017, March 2019, June/July 2018,

References

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* 1959 births Living people Soviet men's footballers FC Avangard Kursk players Russian football managers FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg managers FC Baltika Kaliningrad managers FC Torpedo Minsk managers FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod managers JK Sillamäe Kalev managers Nõmme Kalju FC managers Russian expatriate football managers Expatriate football managers in Belarus Expatriate football managers in Estonia Men's association football players not categorized by position Herzen University alumni {{Russia-footy-bio-stub