Michael Cheika

Michael Cheika
	Cheika representing Australia
Date of birth	4 March 1967 (age 57)
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
School	Marcellin College
Notable relative(s)	Adam Doueihi (cousin)
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	Number 8
Senior career
Years	Team
1985–1989; 1995–1999	Randwick
1989–1991	Castres
1991–1992	CASG Paris
1992–1994	Livorno
1997	New South Wales
	Correct as of 15 May 2023
International career
Years	Team
1988	Australia U21
	Correct as of 15 May 2023
Coaching career
Years	Team
1999–2000	Petrarca Padova
2001–2005	Randwick
2005–2010	Leinster
2010–2012	Stade Français
2013–2015	Waratahs
2014–2019	Australia
2020–2021	Argentina (assistant)
2021–2023	Green Rockets (director)
2022–2023	Argentina
2024–	Leicester Tigers
	Correct as of 19 December 2023
	Rugby league career
Coaching information
Club

Michael Cheika (born 4 March 1967) is an Australian professional dual-code rugby coach and former player who is head coach of Leicester Tigers in England's Premiership Rugby.

Cheika was the coach of the Australia rugby union team from 2014 to 2019, and the Argentina national team between 2022 and the 2023 Rugby World Cup. In 2015, he received the World Rugby Coach of the Year award after leading Australia to the 2015 Rugby World Cup final. He is the only coach to have won the major rugby club competition in each hemisphere, winning the Heineken Cup with Leinster in 2009 and Super Rugby with the New South Wales Waratahs in 2014. During his career, Cheika was also head coach at Padova, Randwick and Stade Français.^[1]

Cheika is a second-generation Lebanese Australian; his parents immigrated to Australia during the 1950s.^[2]^[3]

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