Stuart Fleetwood

Cardiff City

Fleetwood started his career at Cardiff City at the age of 12 when he joined the club's youth programme, and eventually made one first team appearance in two and a half seasons as a professional. On 3 October 2005 Fleetwood was involved in a car accident on his way back from a Cardiff reserve match against Hereford United along with fellow players Nicky Fish, Lloyd Jenkins and Anthony Taylor. The accident occurred on the A40 in Monmouth and all four players had to be cut out of the wreckage of their Vauxhall Corsa after being hit by an articulated lorry. He was later released with minor injuries. He fell out of favour with the club during the 2005–06 season and was placed on the transfer list by the club. Fleetwood was still suffering the psychological effects of his car crash earlier in the season and he was arrested near Ninian Park for drink-driving where he was found to have more than double the legal limit of alcohol in his blood; he was banned from driving for twenty months and fined £455.

Hereford United

He signed for Hereford United in January 2006, who beat off competition from Hamilton Academical, and made a good start, scoring four goals in five league games. He featured as a substitute in the Conference play-off final win over Halifax Town, and subsequently signed a new one-year contract. He made a promising start to the season by scoring Hereford's first Football League goal since 1997 and a further goal against Chester. In the…

Fleetwood has won several caps for the Wales under-21 side, making his debut in 2004 against Latvia U21. His last call up was at Hereford although manager Graham Turner criticised the Welsh FA over the handling of the call up as Hereford did not find out he would be playing for the under-21 side until Fleetwood was already travelling to join the squad and was therefore unavailable for their clash with Rochdale. He has also played for Wales at various other youth levels. On 30 October 2007, he was called up to the Wales semi-professional under-23 squad to face Italy in the European challenge trophy.

Fleetwood initially joined Gloucester City as the club's Head of Academy in March 2023, before additionally taking on the role of first team coach later that year. After the departure of Gloucester manager Tim Flowers and his assistant Yan Klukowski in September 2023, Fleetwood left to become manager of Southern League Premier Division South club Swindon Supermarine in his first managerial role. On 13 November 2025, Fleetwood was appointed manager of Melksham Town. On 5 March 2026, Fleetwood departed the club.

Fleetwood was born in Gloucester, Gloucestershire. As a youngster Fleetwood was a talented rugby union fly-half and was part of the Newent team that won the Gloucester Schools Cup. However he eventually decided that football was the better route after he scored 104 goals in one season for Newent youth. He qualifies to play for Wales due to his father Keith, who was born in St Mellons, Cardiff.