Mantas Savėnas (born 27 August 1982) is a former

Lithuania Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, 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, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...

n professional

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who played as a

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. He is currently a coach for FK Panevėžys. Savėnas represented

at under-21 level before establishing himself as a regular player in the Lithuania national team. In the 2005 season Savėnas became

A Lyga The A Lyga is the top division of professional football in Lithuania. It is organized by Lithuanian Football Federation (LFF) (). History The first football league was established in Lithuania in 1924, and in various forms existed until 1939. ...

top scorer with 27 goals and was voted best player in Lithuania, receiving 177 from 200 votes. Following the 2013 season Savenas was voted as the Daugava Rīga best player of the season. In 2014, he was the club's top scorer with 10 goals in 30 appearances.

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* 1982 births Living people Lithuanian men's footballers Lithuania men's international footballers Lithuanian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Russia FC Sibir Novosibirsk players Russian Premier League players FK Daugava (2003) players Expatriate men's footballers in Latvia Lithuanian expatriate sportspeople in Latvia Men's association football midfielders FC Orenburg players FC Nosta Novotroitsk players {{Lithuania-footy-bio-stub