Vyacheslav "Slava" Malakeev (; born July 26, 1973) is a football coach in his former team FC Viikingit He also has coached FinlandâÂÂs youth national team and has won best coach of the year (lastly in 2022/23 season).
Malakeev played in the Russian Football National League with FC Torpedo Volzhsky.
He also played in Finnish First Division (Veikkausliiga) and (Ykkönen). He holds Finnish citizenship.