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Craig Jonathan Short (born June 25, 1968 in Bridlington, England) is a football player who plays as a central-defender for Sheffield United in the Premiership.

Along with his brother Chris, he started his professional career at Pickering Town in the 1986-87 season. In October the following year they both moved to Scarborough together, and in June 1989, Notts County, together. However, as his brother was dogged by injury, Craig managed to ascend to greater things.

After 4 seasons for Notts County he moved to Derby County at the beginning of the 1992-93 season. He completed more than one hundred games for both Derby and his next club, Everton who he joined three seasons later. He left the Merseyside club in 1999, joining Blackburn Rovers for £1.7 million. Short endeared himself to the Rovers' faithful by scoring 2 goals in a 5-0 drubbing of deadly local rivals Burnley in 2001. He sat on the bench during the most high-profile match of his career thus far, the 2002 League Cup final against Tottenham Hotspur, which Blackburn won 2-1. However, he did gain European experience in the season, playing 2 games in the UEFA Cup.

He missed out on three months of play in both of the following seasons, but did enough for the team to ensure his signing of a new contract beyond the 2004-05 season. In the summer of 2005 he was allowed to move on to Sheffield United and was an important member of United's successful promotion campaign.

He retired at the end of the 2005-06 season to open a sailing school in the Lake District but was tempted out of retirement with the chance to return to the Premiership. He has signed the one-year contract offered to him by manager Neil Warnock.

• Craig Short career stats at Soccerbase