A swimming pool cleaning apparatus that includes a housing with a substantially hollow cavity that runs along the longitudinal axis of the housing; a handle means mounted to the housing for providing directional control and movement of the housing; a wheel means movably mounted to the housing for facilitating forward, backward, and angular movement of the housing along a swimming pool surface; a debris agitator means rotatably attached to the housing to facilitate water movement through the housing and the removal of debris from the swimming pool surface; a scraping means attached to the bottom of the housing for scraping the swimming pool surface; and a debris collection means detachably connected to the housing that filters debris from pool water and that allows filtered pool water to exit from the debris collection means.