Match of the Day
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1964
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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 50 : FA Cup Final Highlights: Arsenal v Chelsea
August. 01,2020
The best of the action from Wembley as Arsenal and Chelsea fight for glory in football's oldest cup competition.
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Episode 49 : MOTD - 26th July 2020
July. 26,2020
Gary Lineker presents highlights of the final round of Premier League fixtures, with the curtain coming down on the 2019/20 campaign almost 12 months after it began.
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Episode 48 : MOTD - 22nd July 2020
July. 22,2020
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the days Premier League matches.
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Episode 47 : MOTD - 18th July 2020
July. 18,2020
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Episode 46 : MOTD - 16th July 2020
July. 16,2020
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the day's matches in the Premier League.
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Episode 45 : MOTD - 15th July 2020
July. 15,2020
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the day's matches in the Premier League.
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Episode 44 : MOTD - 11th July 2020
July. 11,2020
Gary Lineker introduces the goals, action and talking points from Saturday's five Premier League fixtures, with Liverpool and Manchester City among the teams in action. Liverpool entertain Burnley at Anfield looking to extend their winning streak.
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Episode 43 : MOTD - 9th July 2020
July. 09,2020
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Episode 42 : MOTD - 8th July 2020
July. 08,2020
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Episode 41 : MOTD - 4th July 2020
July. 04,2020
Gary Lineker presents highlights from all of Saturday's Premier League matches.
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Episode 40 : MOTD - 2nd July 2020
July. 02,2020
Gary Lineker presents highlights from the midweek matches in the Premier League, including the clash between Manchester City and Liverpool.
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Episode 39 : MOTD - 25th June 2020
June. 25,2020
Highlights from the night's midweek Premier League matches, including a clash between Chelsea and Manchester City.
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Episode 38 : MOTD - 24th June 2020
June. 24,2020
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Episode 37 : MOTD - 20th June 2020
June. 20,2020
All the goals and highlights from the latest Premier League matches, as football welcomes back the 2019-20 top-flight season. Today's fixtures include Watford v Leicester, Brighton v Arsenal and West Ham v Wolves.
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Episode 36 : MOTD - 7th March 2020
March. 07,2020
Gary Lineker introduces the goals, action and talking points from Saturday's seven Premier League fixtures, with title-chasing Liverpool among the teams in action.
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Episode 35 : FA Cup Fifth Round Highlights
March. 05,2020
All the goals, best action and talking points from this week's FA Cup fifth-round ties, including Thursday's clash between Derby County and 12-time winners Manchester United.
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Episode 34 : MOTD - 29th February 2020
February. 29,2020
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of Saturday's Premier League matches, including Watford versus Liverpool, Bournemouth versus Chelsea and West Ham versus Southampton.
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Episode 33 : MOTD - 22nd February 2020
February. 22,2020
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of Saturday's Premier League games, including the clash of Leicester and Manchester City, the teams who have posed the biggest threat to leaders Liverpool this season.
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Episode 32 : MOTD - 15th February 2020
February. 15,2020
Highlights from the latest round of Premier League games, with leaders Liverpool travelling to relegation-threatened Norwich and Southampton meeting Burnley. Liverpool beat Norwich 4-1 in the opening game of the season.
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Episode 31 : MOTD - 8th February 2020
February. 08,2020
Dan Walker introduces the goals, action and talking points from the day's two Premier League fixtures as Everton take on Crystal Palace and Brighton entertain Watford.
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Episode 30 : MOTD - 1st February 2020
February. 01,2020
Gary Lineker introduces the goals, action and talking points from the day's eight Premier League fixtures, with title-chasing Liverpool among the teams in action. Jurgen Klopp's table-toppers entertain Southampton.
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Episode 29 : FA Cup Fourth Round Highlights (2)
January. 26,2020
Watch all the goals and major action from the day's fourth-round ties. Manish Bhasin presents. Can any of the remaining lower league sides cause an upset, as AFC Wimbledon and Millwall did last season by knocking out Premier League opposition?
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Episode 28 : FA Cup Fourth Round Highlights (1)
January. 25,2020
The best action and reaction from the fourth-round ties in the FA Cup, with the winners progressing to the last 16.
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Episode 27 : MOTD - 22nd January 2020
January. 22,2020
Gary Lineker presents highlights from two days of Premier League action, featuring the London derby between Chelsea and Arsenal. Elsewhere, Manchester City visited Sheffield United, Leicester City hosted West Ham and Manchester United faced Burnley.
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Episode 26 : MOTD - 18th January 2020
January. 18,2020
Gary Lineker presents highlights of today's eight Premier League fixtures, as champions Manchester City aim to keep pace in the title race at home to Crystal Palace. Elsewhere, Chelsea travel to Newcastle.
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Episode 25 : MOTD - 11th January 2020
January. 11,2020
Gary Lineker introduces the goals, action and talking points from Saturday's seven Premier League fixtures, which includes title-chasing Liverpool in action against Tottenham. Elsewhere, Manchester United host Norwich City.
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Episode 24 : FA Cup Third Round Highlights (2)
January. 05,2020
All the goals and highlights from today's matches from the FA Cup third round, the point at which the Premier League and Championship sides enter the fray. Last season's giant-killers included League Two Newport and non-league Barnet.
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Episode 23 : FA Cup Third Round Highlights (1)
January. 04,2020
Highlights from Saturday's FA Cup third round matches. The Premier League and Championship sides enter the competition this weekend so there should be plenty of exciting action.
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Episode 22 : MOTD - 1st January 2020
January. 01,2020
Mark Chapman presents highlights of the nine New Year's Day Premier League games, including Manchester City versus Everton and Arsenal against Manchester United.
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Episode 21 : MOTD - 28th December 2019
December. 28,2019
Gary Lineker introduces highlights from Saturday's seven Premier League games plus Friday night's clash between Wolves and reigning champions Manchester City.
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Episode 20 : MOTD - 26th December 2019
December. 26,2019
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of Boxing Day's nine Premier League games, including Leicester City against Liverpool. The other fixtures include Tottenham's clash with Brighton, Bournemouth against Arsenal and Manchester United versus Newcastle.
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Episode 19 : MOTD - 21st December 2019
December. 21,2019
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of Saturday's seven Premier League games, including the mouthwatering clash between Manchester City and Leicester City. The day's other games include Everton versus Arsenal and Aston Villa versus Southampton.
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Episode 18 : MOTD - 14th December 2019
December. 14,2019
Gary Lineker introduces the talking points from Saturday's six Premier League fixtures, which include Liverpool in action against struggling Watford. Elsewhere, Chelsea host Bournemouth, while Leicester welcome Norwich to the King Power Stadium.
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Episode 17 : MOTD - 7th December 2019
December. 07,2019
Gary Lineker introduces the goals, action and talking points from the day's five Premier League fixtures, with the Manchester derby between City and United the headline fixture. Elsewhere, Liverpool travel to Bournemouth.
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Episode 16 : MOTD - 4th December 2019
December. 04,2019
Highlights and analysis of eight midweek Premier League fixtures, including the 201st Merseyside league derby and Manchester United's clash with Tottenham at Old Trafford.
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Episode 15 : MOTD - 30th November 2019
November. 30,2019
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of Saturday's Premier League games, including Newcastle versus Man City, Brighton versus Liverpool, Chelsea versus West Ham and Tottenham versus Bournemouth.
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Episode 14 : MOTD - 23rd November 2019
November. 23,2019
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of today's eight Premier League games, featuring the mouth-watering contest between champions Manchester City and Chelsea. Elsewhere, Liverpool travelled to Crystal Palace and West Ham faced Tottenham.
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Episode 13 : MOTD - 9th November 2019
November. 09,2019
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of today's six Premier League games, including the eagerly anticipated clash between Leicester City and Arsenal. Elsewhere, Chelsea host Crystal Palace, and Burnley meet West Ham.
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Episode 12 : MOTD - 2nd November 2019
November. 02,2019
Gary Lineker introduces a bumper day's action from the Premier League as eight games take place. Title-chasing Liverpool head to Villa Park to take on Dean Smith's Aston Villa side, whilst defending champions Manchester City face Southampton.
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Episode 11 : MOTD - 26th October 2019
October. 26,2019
Gary Lineker introduces the talking points from the day's five Premier League fixtures, with champions Manchester City and Chelsea among the clubs in action. Manchester City play promoted Aston Villa, while Chelsea travel to Burnley.
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Episode 10 : MOTD - 19th October 2019
October. 19,2019
Gary Lineker introduces highlights from today's eight Premier League fixtures, featuring champions Manchester City's trip to the capital to take on Crystal Palace. Elsewhere Tottenham hosted struggling Watford, and Leicester City faced Burnley.
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Episode 9 : MOTD - 5th October 2019
October. 05,2019
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of Saturday's six Premier League games, including Brendan Rodgers's return to Anfield as his Leicester side visit Liverpool. Elsewhere, Brighton host Tottenham, Burnley meet Everton, and Norwich take on Aston Villa.
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Episode 8 : MOTD - 28th September 2019
September. 28,2019
Gary Lineker presents highlights from today's eight Premier League games, including Liverpool's visit to face Sheffield United. The Blades may be Premier League new boys this season but they have already given evidence that they will be no pushovers.
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Episode 7 : MOTD - 21st September 2019
September. 21,2019
Manchester City host Watford in a rerun of last season's FA Cup final. Tottenham travel to Leicester, while Crystal Palace face Wolves. Friday night's south coast derby between Southampton and Bournemouth is also reviewed.
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Episode 6 : MOTD - 14th September 2019
September. 14,2019
Gary Lineker presents the best of the action from the day's seven Premier League fixtures, featuring reigning champions Manchester City's clash at newly-promoted Norwich. Elsewhere, Frank Lampard's Chelsea faced a tricky trip to Wolverhampton.
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Episode 5 : MOTD - 31st August 2019
August. 31,2019
Manchester City host new-look Brighton, whom they beat on the final day of last season to secure the league title. Liverpool make the short trip to Burnley, while Chelsea face promoted Sheffield United.
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Episode 4 : MOTD - 24th August 2019
August. 24,2019
Gary Lineker presents highlights of all seven of today's matches which also saw Manchester United welcome Crystal Palace to Old Trafford and top-flight new boys Sheffield United take on 2015-16 Premier League champions Leicester City.
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Episode 3 : MOTD - 17th August 2019
August. 17,2019
All the highlights from Saturday's top-flight fixtures, including Tottenham's visit to Manchester City. Liverpool travelled to Southampton while Arsenal hosted Burnley and Steve Bruce's Newcastle visited Norwich.
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Episode 1 : Community Shield Highlights
August. 04,2019
The best of the action from the first headline clash of the new football season, as double winners Manchester City take on European champions Liverpool at Wembley.
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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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