Michael Cheetham

Michael Cheetham

Personal information
Date of birth	(1967-06-30) 30 June 1967
Place of birth	Nijmegen, Netherlands
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987-1988	Basingstoke Town
1988-1989	Ipswich Town	4	(0)
1989-1994	Cambridge United	132	(22)
1994-1995	Chesterfield	5	(0)
1995-1996	Colchester United	37	(3)
1996-1997	Sudbury Town
1997-1999	Cambridge City
1999-2007	A.F.C. Sudbury
Managerial career
	A.F.C. Sudbury
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Michael Cheetham is a retired English footballer most notable for his time at Cambridge United in the early 1990s.

Career

Ipswich Town manager Bobby Robson paid to buy him out of the army to enable him to start his football career at Portman Road where he went on to make 4 appearances.

After a loan spell at Cambridge United in 1989, he signed permanently at The Abbey Stadium for a fee of £50,000 in 1990 and went on to be a permanent fixture in the side that gained successive promotions to the old Division Two under controversial manager John Beck. Winger Cheetham played a total of 132 games for the club, scoring 22 goals before joining Chesterfield on a free transfer in 1994.

After just 5 appearances at Saltergate, Cheetham moved back to East Anglia with Colchester United where he ended his league career by playing a further 37 games, scoring 3 goals.

After dropping out of professional football he had spells at Cambridge City, Sudbury Town and AFC Sudbury where he had a spell at manager.

Honours

Club

Cambridge United

• Football League Third Division Winner (1): 1990–91
• Football League Fourth Division Playoff Winner (1): 1989–90

References

• Michael Cheetham career statistics at Soccerbase
• Profile AFC Sudbury