The invention discloses a method for manufacturing a tin-stibium-nickel alloy cathode material of a lithium ion battery, comprising the following steps of: taking a carbon fiber cloth as a substrate; and adopting an electrodeposition process to plate tin-stibium-nickel alloys on the substrate, wherein a tin-stibium-nickel electrodeposition solution comprises 0.1-0.5 mol / L of soluble tin salt, 0.1-0.5 mol / L of soluble stibium salt, 0.1-0.5 mol / L of soluble nickel salt, 0.08-0.12 mol / L of ammonium salt, 0.08-0.12 mol / L of surface active agent. The electrodeposition process is utilized to manufacture the tin-stibium-nickel alloys, and a ternary alloy structure buffers volume change of the cathode material in the process of lithium insertion / extraction. Double-active components can insert / extract lithium at different levels, thus improving the insertion / extraction efficiency; and non-active components are introduced to reduce the volume expansibility in the process of lithium insertion / extraction. In addition, the carbon fiber cloth has a lithium storage function, so that the flexibility of the carbon fiber cloth also buffers the volume change of the alloys on the substrate effectively. Therefore, the manufactured tin-stibium-nickel alloys can improve the capacity and cyclical stability of the lithium ion battery. The method is simple in operation, can be carried out in water, is environmentally-friendly, and is in no need of high temperature and high pressure as well as inert gas protection. Performances can be controlled, and the thickness of an alloy layer can be changed by changing electrodeposition current density and time, thus regulating and controlling the weight or capacity of the material.