Chris Beaumont

{{Short description|English footballer (born 1965)}}

{{About|the English footballer|the Australian artist|Christopher Beaumont}}

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{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Chris Beaumont

| fullname = Christopher Paul Beaumont

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|12|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = Sheffield, England

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=11}}

| position = Midfielder

| years1 = 1987–1988 | clubs1 = Denaby United | caps1 = ? | goals1 = ?

| years2 = 1988–1989 | clubs2 = Rochdale | caps2 = 34 | goals2 = 7

| years3 = 1989–1996 | clubs3 = Stockport County | caps3 = 258 | goals3 = 39

| years4 = 1996–2001 | clubs4 = Chesterfield | caps4 = 158 | goals4 = 6

| years5 = 2001–2002 | clubs5 = Ossett Town | caps5 = 37 | goals5 = 6

| totalcaps = 487

| totalgoals = 58

}}

Christopher Paul Beaumont (born 5 December 1965) is an English retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder for several teams in the Football League. Perhaps his best remembered spell was with Chesterfield which saw Beaumont score the winning goal in the 1996-97 FA Cup quarter final against Wrexham.{{cite web

|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/beaumont-puts-spireites-in-sight-of-twin-towers-football-1272028.html

|title=Beaumont puts Spireites in sight of twin towers: Football

|work=The Independent

|date=10 March 1997 |accessdate=28 September 2012}} He also came on as a substitute in the semi-final against Middlesbrough at Old Trafford and set up Jamie Hewitt's dramatic equaliser to take the tie to a replay.{{cite news

|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-hewitt-keeps-the-chesterfield-dream-alive-1267030.html

|title=Hewitt keeps the Chesterfield dream alive

|work=The Independent

|date=13 April 1997 |accessdate=1 May 2010

| location=London

| first=Phil

| last=Shaw}} Beaumont played for the Spireites over 150 times and left the club in 2001 which resulted in a spell at Ossett Town. Beaumont used to run a post office but now works at a local secondary school in Sheffield. He is known to attend frequent Stockport County matches when time allows.[http://www.chesterfield-fc.co.uk/page/MainFeature/0,,10435~1012053,00.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100520012945/http://www.chesterfield-fc.co.uk/page/MainFeature/0%2C%2C10435~1012053%2C00.html|date=20 May 2010}}, Chesterfield F.C.