Match of the Day
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8.6
1964
News
, Talk
BBC's football highlights and analysis. "The longest-running football television programme in the world" as recognised by Guinness World Records in 2015.
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- Cast:
- Gary Lineker , Gabby Logan , Ian Wright , Alan Shearer
Episode 74 : 10th July 2016: Euro 2016 Day 23: Final: Portugal v France
July. 10,2016
Portugal v France Highlights
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Episode 73 : 7th July 2016: Euro 2016 Day 22: Semi Final: Germany v France
July. 07,2016
Germany v France Highlights
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Episode 72 : 6th July 2016: Euro 2016 Day 21: Semi Final: Portugal v Wales
July. 06,2016
Portugal v Wales Highlights
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Episode 71 : 3rd July 2016: Euro 2016 Day 20: Quarter Final: France v Iceland
July. 03,2016
France v Iceland Highlights
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Episode 70 : 2nd July 2016: Euro 2016 Day 19: Quarter Final: Germany v Italy
July. 02,2016
Germany v Italy Highlights
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Episode 69 : 1st July 2016: Euro 2016 Day 18: Quarter Final: Wales v Belgium
July. 01,2016
Wales v Belgium Highlights
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Episode 68 : 30th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 17: Quarter Final: Poland v Portugal
June. 30,2016
Poland v Portugal Highlights
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Episode 67 : 27th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 16: Round of 16
June. 27,2016
Italy v Spain, England v Iceland Highlights
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Episode 66 : 26th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 15: Round of 16
June. 26,2016
France v Ireland, Germany v Slovakia, Hungary v Belgium Highlights
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Episode 65 : 25th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 14: Round of 16
June. 25,2016
Switzerland v Poland, Wales v Northern Ireland, Croatia v Portugal Highlights
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Episode 64 : 22nd June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 13
June. 22,2016
Iceland v Austria, Hungary v Portugal, Italy v Ireland, Sweden v Belgium Highlights
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Episode 63 : 21st June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 12
June. 21,2016
Ukraine v Poland, Northern Ireland v Germany, Czech Republic v Turkey, Croatia v Spain Highlights
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Episode 62 : 20th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 11
June. 20,2016
Russia v Wales, Slovakia v England Highlights
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Episode 61 : 19th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 10
June. 19,2016
Romania v Albania, Switzerland v France Highlights
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Episode 60 : 18th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 9
June. 18,2016
Belgium v Ireland, Iceland v Hungary, Portugal v Austria Highlights
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Episode 59 : 17th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 8
June. 17,2016
Mark Chapman introduces the best of the action from the day's three group matches, including defending champions Spain against Turkey. Spain are seeking an unprecedented third successive European title and, despite their early exit from the last World Cup, remain among the favourites in France. There are also highlights from the other Group D game between Czech Republic and Croatia and the Group E clash between Sweden and 2012 runners-up Italy.
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Episode 57 : 15th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 6
June. 15,2016
Highlights of the day's two group games, in which host nation France took on Albania in Marseille and Russia played Slovakia. France have won all four European Championship meetings against Albania, albeit in qualifying matches, but Albania were victorious in the last encounter, a friendly in 2015. Russia's game with Slovakia could be important for fellow Group B members England and Wales.
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Episode 56 : 14th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 5
June. 14,2016
Jacqui Oatley, Manu Petit, Norman Whiteside and Eni Aluko round-up the day's action, including Austria v Hungary and Portugal v Iceland.
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Episode 55 : 13th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 4
June. 13,2016
Jacqui Oatley presents highlights of the day's Euro 2016 action as the Republic of Ireland face Sweden, Spain take on the Czech Republic and Belgium play against Italy.
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Episode 54 : 12th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 3
June. 12,2016
Jacqui Oatley presents highlights of the day's Euro 2016 action. Northern Ireland make their tournament bow against Poland, Germany face Ukraine, while Turkey take on Croatia.
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Episode 53 : 11th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 2
June. 11,2016
Gary Lineker presents highlights of day two matches at Euro 2016 in France.
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Episode 52 : 10th June 2016: Euro 2016 Day 1
June. 10,2016
Gary Lineker presents highlights of the opening game of Euro 2016.
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Episode 51 : 21st May 2016: FA Cup Final: Manchester United v Crystal Palace
May. 21,2016
Highlights of the 2016 FA Cup final between Manchester United and Crystal Palace at Wembley Stadium.
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Episode 48 : 2nd May 2016
May. 02,2016
Dan Walker presents highlights of the Premier League match between Chelsea and Tottenham.
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Episode 46 : 24th April 2016: FA Cup Semi-Final
April. 24,2016
Action and reaction from the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley between Crystal Palace and Watford, introduced by Eilidh Barbour with commentary by Simon Brotherton and Martin Keown.
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Episode 45 : 23rd April 2016
April. 23,2016
Mark Chapman introduces the best of the action and reaction from the day's Premier League fixtures, including Liverpool at home to Newcastle, Bournemouth against Chelsea and Aston Villa versus Southampton.
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Episode 42 : 2nd April 2016
April. 02,2016
Dan Walker presents highlights of Saturday's Premier League matches. Tottenham travel to Liverpool, while north London rivals Arsenal host Watford.
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Episode 39 : 5th March 2016
March. 05,2016
Gary Lineker introduces the best of the action and reaction from the day's eight Premier League fixtures. Title rivals Tottenham and Arsenal met in the north London derby in the early kick-off, while Leicester City and Manchester City were seeking to further their championship hopes when they faced Watford and Aston Villa respectively.
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Episode 36 : 22nd February 2016: FA Cup Fifth Round
February. 22,2016
Highlights from the FA Cup as Manchester United make the trip to League One Shrewsbury in the fifth round of the competition. It will be the first ever meeting between the clubs.
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Episode 35 : 21st February 2016: FA Cup Fifth Round
February. 21,2016
Highlights from Sunday's fifth-round FA Cup ties, featuring Blackburn v West Ham, Tottenham v Crystal Palace and Chelsea v Man City.
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Episode 34 : 20th February 2016: FA Cup Fifth Round
February. 20,2016
Dan Walker introduces highlights from Saturday's fifth-round FA Cup ties, featuring Arsenal v Hull, Reading v West Brom, Watford v Leeds and Bournemouth v Everton.
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Episode 30 : 31st January 2016: FA Cup Fourth Round
January. 31,2016
Highlights of the day's fourth-round FA Cup ties. Lower-league clubs left in the competition will be hoping to make a name for themselves against Premier League opposition.
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Episode 29 : 30th January 2016: FA Cup Fourth Round
January. 30,2016
Gabby Logan presents highlights of the latest FA Cup fourth-round ties, including Arsenal v Burnley at the Emirates Stadium and Nottingham Forest v Watford at the City Ground and Portsmouth v Bournemouth at Fratton Park. The Gunners continued their bid to lift the trophy for the third season in a row, while fellow Premier League sides Watford and Bournemouth faced potentially tricky away ties.
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Episode 26 : 13th January 2016
January. 13,2016
Gary Lineker introduces the best of the action and reaction from the week's ten Premier League matches, including a mouthwatering clash between Liverpool and Arsenal at Anfield and a meeting of two of the Premier League's early-season form sides Tottenham and Leicester City.
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Episode 25 : 10th January 2016: FA Cup Third Round
January. 10,2016
Highlights from the weekend's FA Cup third round matches. Tottenham face Leicester City, Chelsea play Scunthorpe United and Swansea travel to Oxford United.
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Episode 24 : 9th January 2016: FA Cup Third Round
January. 09,2016
Third Round Highlights - Saturday matches. Highlights from the day's FA Cup third-round matches. The Premier League and Championship clubs make their bow in this season's competition.
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Episode 18 : 5th December 2015
December. 05,2015
Highlights including Man United v West Ham, Chelsea v Bournemouth and Stoke v Man City.
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Episode 15 : 14th November 2015: David Beckham's All Star Match for Children
November. 14,2015
Highlights of Unicef's Match for Children from Old Trafford. David Beckham captains a Great Britain and Ireland XI against an all-star Rest of the World team led by retired Portugal international Luís Figo to raise money for the children's charity. Beckham is reunited with his former Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson, who returns to the dugout where he spent 26 years as manager. Beckham and Figo are joined by some of football's biggest names, while former Real Madrid and Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti takes charge of the World XI.
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Seasons
Season 41
Match of the Day returns to the BBC for the new season, as part of a new football package on the BBC.
Season 40
In August 2003, it is announced that the BBC has won back the right to show Premiership highlights from 2004, for three years.
Season 38
With Saturday night highlights now being shown on ITV's The Premiership, Match of the Day reverted to covering live FA Cup and England matches as well as some UEFA Cup games.
Season 37
ITV won back the Premier League highlights as part of a three year deal. They also obtained Nationwide League rights whilst the BBC regained the FA Cup and England games. It was a major blow to the BBC, but Match of the Day continued to show live FA Cup and European games.
Season 36
Before the season began, on 2 August, Des Lynam resigned from the BBC and moved to ITV to become their main football presenter. Gary Lineker took over as the main presenter for the show.
Season 35
Des Lynam presented 36 of the 45 League and Cup programmes plus eight more UEFA Cup shows. Gary Lineker also fronted five editions with Ray Stubbs hosting the remaining four.
Season 34
A new four year deal secured Premier League highlights on the BBC. Mark Lawrenson joined Trevor Brooking and Alan Hansen as a regular pundit during the second half of the season.
Season 32
When Alex Ferguson's side were discussed on Match of the Day on the opening day of the season Des remarked that "United were scarcely recognizable from the team we've known over the past couple of seasons, what's going on do you feel?" Alan Hansen famously replied: "You can't win anything with kids... he's got to buy players, it's as simple as that."
Season 29
With the new season came a new Premier League, a new contract and a new show, fronted by Des Lynam. Des was joined by new regular pundits, Alan Hansen and Trevor Brooking, and the show reverted to the classic format of extended highlights from three main games. Now, however, as well as all the extra analysis, viewers were also able to see the goals from all the other matches as well.
Season 28
After several years of speculation it was announced in February that a new, breakaway FA Premier League was going to be formed. ITV were expected to win the TV rights but the BBC and BSkyB combined to place a counter bid and had strong influence within the new organisation. In May 1992 the rights were decided and each club had one vote. BSkyB were awarded live matches on Sundays and Mondays and the BBC gained the Saturday night highlights as part of a five year deal. The two companies also joined forces to sign a new five year deal to cover FA Cup and International matches. ITV would be covering the Football League and the League Cup.
Season 27
In the third season of the new contract there were 20 editions of Match of the Day but they were still restricted to covering FA Cup matches.
Season 26
Des Lynam continued to present the show, joined by Jimmy Hill and Terry Venables as regular pundits.
Season 25
Match of the Day celebrated its 25th anniversary and had to cope with the fact that, for the first time since its inception in 1964, it couldn't broadcast any League football. Instead, the team settled into the four year contract with the intention of breathing new life into the FA Cup. With the new contract came a totally revamped show.
Season 24
The focus was still on the big clubs and the shows were very irregular. They followed the same format as the previous year with a mixture of live League games on Sunday afternoons and highlights shows for the FA Cup. This was also Jimmy Hill's final season as presenter after a record 15 years in charge of the show.
Season 23
With highlights out of fashion there were only 14 editions of Match of the Day all season and the only League action came in the seven live games on Sunday afternoons.
Season 22
In 1985 the television rights came up for renegotiation and BBC and ITV offered £16m for four years. This was in return for 19 live games plus weekend highlights. The Football League met on Valentine's Day and rejected it. Football was, however, in a weak negotiating position as the game was rife with hooliganism and the two sides became deadlocked. The result was a total black-out for the first part of the season which annoyed fans and concerned the sponsors. The Football League finally backed down and agreed a deal that gave them less money per game than before on a short term two and a half year contract. The remaining six months was worth £1.3m with a two year £6.2m extension confirmed in June. The supporters were delighted and Match of the Day resumed in January. It concentrated mainly on FA Cup highlights and the occasional live League match on a Sunday.
Season 21
The show celebrated its 20th anniversary and matches were still being broadcast on Fridays. Most other sports were now seen live on television so the production team wanted to continue the football experiment as well. Jonathan Martin, the Head of Sport at the time, recalled that the experiment was disappointing: "We only got six or seven million viewers on a Friday night which was poor for the slot so we moved to Sundays in the following year." This was to be the last time that Match of the Day contained weekly League highlights until the beginning of the 1992-93 season.
Season 20
Match of the Day was back on Saturday nights as a highlights show but was supplemented by live matches on Friday evenings. The BBC and ITV had been allocated seven games each with the commercial channel choosing to broadcast theirs on Sunday afternoons. This was a radical change in strategy by all involved as prior to this new two year contract the only regular live domestic football had been the FA Cup Final, England against Scotland and the European Cup Final. Match of the Day was cancelled from 15 October to 19 November due to strike action at the BBC.
Season 18
The programme returned to Saturday nights. Only two games were allowed to be shown per show.
Season 17
After 16 seasons in the Saturday night slot, Match of the Day moved to Sunday afternoons.
Season 16
For the first time Match of the Day was allowed to screen additional games, and on 13 weekends there were highlights from three different matches.
Season 15
In November ITV signed a secret three year deal with the Football League to show edited highlights on Saturday nights instead of Sundays in an attempt to break away from the joint negotiating strategy and replace Match of the Day.
A ruling by the Office of Fair Trading prevented ITV's exclusive contract being signed but a compromise was reached.
For the duration of the next four year contract it was agreed that the BBC and ITV would have to alternate their programme coverage with Match of the Day switching to Sunday afternoons for the 1980-81 and 1982-83 seasons.
Season 14
Match of the Day celebrates its 500th edition, marked with a special Radio Times cover and a new set of opening titles with hundreds of school children holding up cards that depicted Jimmy Hill's face and the Match of the Day logo.
Season 10
Match of the Day appoints Jimmy Hill as the new presenter, after signing him from LWT. He was the first to both present the programme and offer expert analysis.
Season 9
The current contractual agreement meant that Match of the Day had to lead with a Division Two fixture, and twice with a match from Division Three.
Season 7
1970 saw the introduction of the Goal of the Month competition, which led to thousands of postcards being sent to the BBC.
Season 6
From 1969, the programme becomes live and studio based, rather than being pre-recorded at the ground of the featured match, and there were now two games seen each week.
Season 4
Once again, protracted negotiations during the summer ensured the return of the show. In order to secure the deal the BBC had to agree to broadcast five matches from Division Two and two from Divisions Three or Four as well as the 23 Division One games that they wanted.
Season 3
In the year that saw England win the World Cup, Match of the Day moves to BBC ONE.
Season 2
Despite attempts by some clubs to prevent its return due to fear over ticket sales, Match of the Day returned to the BBC in October 1965 two months after the start of the new season.
The duration of each programme had been reduced to 45 minutes in length and it could no longer be broadcast before 10.00pm.
Season 1
Match of the Day begins on 22 August 1964, for coverage of Liverpool versus Arsenal. Kenneth Wolstenholme opens the programme with the words: "Welcome to Match of the Day, the first of a weekly series coming to you every Saturday on BBC TWO. As you can hear we're in Beatleville for this Liverpool versus Arsenal match." The programme began on BBC TWO where it remained until 1966.
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