Career
Currently he is the manager of Latvia national under-19 football team Babičevs has played 51 match for Latvia internationally. His first club was 9. maijs where he played under Juris Docenko.
In 1987 Babičevs joined Zvejnieks Liepāja for which he played 2 matches in the second Soviet league.
In 1988 he switched to Royal Air Force Jelgava. With Royal Air Force he played for four seasons in different divisions of Soviet football, and in 1992 – in Latvian Virslīgeorgia
In 1992 Royal Air Force played a golden match against Skonto Football Club and lost 2:3. After the seasons Babičevs switched to the side of the victors – he joined Skonto.
With Skonto came the most successful years of Vladimirs" career – the club was by far the strongest in Latvia and Babičevs soon became one of the key players of Skonto.
In he was the best goalscorer in the Latvian league with 14 goals and was selected the best forward in the league. In mid-nineties Babičevs" switched to midfield and in he was selected the best midfielder of the Latvian league. In Babičevs was the only Skonto player to score against Football Club Barcelona in the Union of European Football Associations Champions League qualifiers.
In 1999, Babičevs got to play rather little – both because of competition and of his injuries.
Before the 2000 season Babičevs together with several other Skonto players who the club didn"t count with for the upcoming season left for Policijas FK. In the middle of the season Babičevs joined the only foreign club of his career – Torpedo-ZIL in Russia but he didn"t play in any matches for the club In 2001 Babičevs joined FK Rīgeorgia
In 2003 he switched to another new club – FK Jūrmala. Babičevs made his national team debut on 2 June as Latvia lost 1:2 at home against Northern Ireland.
On 15 November he scored his first goal for Latvia as in a rather poor match it beat Liechtenstein 1:0.
In his international career Babičevs wasn"t as much of a goalscorer as playing in different clubs – over 51 matches for Latvia he scored 4 goals. His last match for Latvia came in 1999 as it drew 2:2 away against Georgia. In the middle of the 2006 season Babičevs was signed as head coach of FK Jūrmala but his contract wasn"t renewed at the end of the season as the club failed to finish in the 4th place in the Latvian league.
On 23 January 2008 it was announced that Babičevs, who after leaving FK Jūrmala was director of John F Kennedy Olimps, was appointed assistant coach for the club
From 2008 to 2011 he was the manager of FK Jūrmala-VV once again. In September 2011 he left the club as the results were poor.
In March 2012 Babičevs was appointed as the manager of Latvia national under-19 football team