Cheryl Salisbury
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 Salisbury with Australia in 2009 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Cheryl Ann Salisbury[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 8 March 1974 | ||
| Place of birth | Newcastle, Australia | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position | Centre back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Lambton | |||
| AIS | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1996 | Panasonic Bambina | ||
| 1997 | Takarazuka Bunnys | ||
| 2002 | Memphis Mercury | ||
| 2003 | New York Power | 13 | (3) |
| 2008–2010 | Newcastle Jets | 7 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 1994–2009 | Australia[2] | 151 | (38) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 9 March 2009 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 3 July 2011 | |||
Cheryl Ann Salisbury (born 8 March 1974) is an Australian former association football player. She represented Australia internationally as a defender from 1994 until 2009, winning 151 caps.
She most recently played as a defender for the New York Power in the WUSA and for the Newcastle United Jets in the W-League. She went on to become coach of the Broadmeadow Magic team in the Northern NSW Herald Women's Premier League competition.[citation needed]
Salisbury was captain of the Australian female national team, the Matildas from 2003 until she retired in 2009.[3] As at February 2025, she is Australia's fourth equal highest female international goalscorer, with 38 goals in representative fixtures. Salisbury became only the second Australian female to play 100 A-internationals[citation needed], which she achieved during the 2004 Summer Olympics. In 1999, Salisbury and 12 teammates posed for a nude calendar photoshoot to raise money for the national women's football team.[citation needed]
On 27 January 2009, she announced she would retire after the game against Italy at Parramatta Stadium. The game finished as a 2–2 draw, with Salisbury scoring a penalty. The veteran of 151 international appearances received a standing ovation as she was substituted with six minutes remaining.[4]
In 2009, Salisbury was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame, in the Hall of Champions category.[5]
In 2017, Salisbury was awarded the Alex Tobin Medal by the Professional Footballers Australia,[6] and in 2019 she became the first women's footballer to be inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.[7]
Honours
Country
Australia
- OFC Women's Nations Cup: 1994, 1998, 2003
- In 2020, a river-class ferry on the Sydney Ferries network was named in her honour.[8]
