Michael Cheika
Cheika representing Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 4 March 1967 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| School | Marcellin College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notable relative | Adam Doueihi (cousin) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Cheika (born 4 March 1967) is an Australian professional rugby league and rugby union coach, and former rugby union player. He is currently an assistant coach of the Sydney Roosters of the National Rugby League (NRL).
In rugby union, Cheika was the coach of the Australia national 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 club competition in each hemisphere, winning the Heineken Cup with Leinster in 2009 and Super Rugby with the New South Wales Waratahs in 2014. Cheika has also been head coach of Padova, Randwick, Stade Français and Leicester Tigers.
In rugby league, he coached Lebanon in the 2021 Rugby League World Cup, and will coach them again in the 2026 World Cup.