Cheick Tioté

**Cheick Ismaël Tioté** (; 21 June 1986 – 5 June 2017) was an Ivorian footballer. He played as a defensive midfielder. He played in Europe for Dutch team FC Twente and English club Newcastle United before moving to China to represent Beijing Enterprises.  He won the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations with the Ivory Coast national team.

On 5 June 2017, Tioté died in Beijing, China after suffering from cardiac arrest in training, aged 30.

### Club

- Source:

|rowspan=2 width=140|Club|rowspan=2|Season|colspan=3|League|colspan=2|National Cup|colspan=2|League Cup|colspan=2|Continental|colspan=2|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=3|Anderlecht|2005–06|rowspan=2|Belgian First Division|2|0|1|0|—|1|0|4|0|
|2006–07|2|0|0|0|—|0|0|2|0|||||
|Roda JC (loan)|2007–08|rowspan=4|Eredivisie|26|2|0|0|—|—|26|2|||
|rowspan=4|Twente|2008–09|28|0|3|0|—|10|0|41|0|||
|2009–10|28|1|3|0|—|12|0|43|1|||||
|2010–11|2|0|0|0|—|0|0|2|0|||||
|rowspan=8|Newcastle United|2010–11|rowspan=6|Premier League|26|1|1|0|1|0|—|28|1|
|2011–12|24|0|0|0|0|0|—|24|0|||||
|2012–13|24|0|0|0|1|0|6|0|31|0||||
|2013–14|33|0|1|0|2|0|—|36|0|||||
|2014–15|11|0|1|0|0|0|—|12|0|||||
|2015–16|20|0|1|0|1|0|—|22|0|||||
|2016–17|Championship|1|0|2|0|0|0|—|3|0||||
|Beijing Enterprises Group|2017|China League One|11|0|0|0|—|—|11|0||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=7|Ivory Coast|2009|3|0|
|2010|15|0|||
|2011|4|0|||
|2012|11|0|||
|2013|8|1|||
|2014|10|0|||
|2015|4|0|||

### International goals

- _Scores and results list the Ivory Coast's goal tally first._
|Goal|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|3 February 2013|Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg, South Africa||1–1|1–2|2013 Africa Cup of Nations|

## Honours

**Anderlecht**
- Belgian League: 2005–06, 2006–07
- Belgian Super Cup: 2006

**Twente**
- Eredivisie: 2009–10
- Dutch Super Cup: 2010

**Ivory Coast**
- Africa Cup of Nations: 2015

## Other websites

- Kicker Profile

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Cheick Tioté
- **image**: Cheick Ismael Tiote 8920.JPG
- **caption**: Tioté representing the Ivory Coast national football team, Ivory Coast in 2012
- **fullname**: Cheick Ismaël Tioté
- **birth place**: Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast
- **death place**: Beijing, China
- **height**: 1.80 m
- **position**: Midfielder#Defensive midfielder, Defensive midfielder
- **youthyears1**: 1998–2005
- **youthclubs1**: FC Bibo
- **years1**: 2005–2008
- **clubs1**: RSC Anderlecht, Anderlecht
- **caps1**: 4
- **goals1**: 0
- **years2**: 2007–2008
- **clubs2**: → Roda JC (loan)
- **caps2**: 26
- **goals2**: 2
- **years3**: 2008–2010
- **clubs3**: FC Twente, Twente
- **caps3**: 58
- **goals3**: 1
- **years4**: 2010–2017
- **clubs4**: Newcastle United F.C., Newcastle United
- **caps4**: 139
- **goals4**: 1
- **years5**: 2017
- **clubs5**: Beijing Sport University F.C., Beijing Enterprises Group
- **caps5**: 11
- **goals5**: 0
- **totalcaps**: 238
- **totalgoals**: 4
- **nationalyears1**: 2009–2015
- **nationalteam1**: Ivory Coast national football team, Ivory Coast
- **nationalcaps1**: 55
- **nationalgoals1**: 1