Match of the Day
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8.6
1964
News
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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 40 : 16th May 2015
May. 16,2015
Gary Lineker introduces highlights from the day's seven Premier League matches in the penultimate week of the season.
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Episode 39 : 9th May 2015
May. 09,2015
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of seven Premier League matches including Manchester United's trip to Crystal Palace and the relegation showdown between Hull and Burnley.
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Episode 38 : 2nd May 2015
May. 02,2015
Gary Lineker introduces highlights from all of the day's Premier League matches, including Liverpool v QPR and Manchester United v West Brom.
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Episode 37 : 25th April 2015
April. 25,2015
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the day's eight Premier League matches, including Manchester City's clash against Aston Villa. Plus Burnley v Leicester and QPR v West Ham.
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Episode 36 : 18th April 2015
April. 18,2015
Gabby Logan introduces highlights of the day's five Premier League matches, including title-chasing Chelsea against Manchester United, Everton's home game with Burnley and relegation-threatened Leicester versus Swansea. Meanwhile, Stoke welcome Southampton and Crystal Palace meet West Brom.
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Episode 35 : 11th April 2015
April. 11,2015
Gary Lineker presents highlights of the day's Premier League games, which include Tottenham against Aston Villa.
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Episode 34 : 4th April 2015
April. 04,2015
Dan Walker is joined by Alan Shearer and Ruud Gullit for highlights of the day's seven Premier League matches. In the lunchtime kick-off, Arsenal host Liverpool.
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Episode 33 : 21st March 2015
March. 21,2015
Gary Lineker is joined by Alan Shearer and Phil Neville for highlights from the day's seven Premier League matches, including Manchester City v West Brom and Newcastle v Arsenal.
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Episode 32 : 14th March 2015
March. 14,2015
Gary Lineker presents highlights of six Premier League games, including reigning champions Manchester City's trip to Burnley and Arsenal's home match against West Ham.
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Episode 31 : 7th March 2015
March. 07,2015
Highlights of the Premier League game between QPR and Tottenham at Loftus Road, introduced by Jacqui Oatley. Spurs have won only once in six visits to Loftus Road during the Premier League era. However, they beat their relegation-threatened London neighbours 4-0 at White Hart Lane earlier this season.
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Episode 30 : 4th March 2015
March. 04,2015
Gary Lineker introduces highlights from all of the Premier League's midweek fixtures, including West Ham v Chelsea, Manchester City v Leicester and Tottenham v Swansea.
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Episode 29 : 28th February 2015
February. 28,2015
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the day's six Premier League games, including Manchester United's clash at home to Sunderland.
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Episode 28 : 21st February 2015
February. 21,2015
Gary Lineker is joined by Alan Shearer and Robbie Savage for highlights of the day's seven Premier League games, including Burnley's trip to title contenders Chelsea.
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Episode 27 : 11th February 2015
February. 11,2015
Gabby Logan presents highlights of the night's six fixtures in the Premier League, including Manchester City v Stoke and Crystal Palace v Newcastle.
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Episode 26 : 7th February 2015
February. 07,2015
Gary Lineker presents highlights of the day's seven matches in the Premier League, including the north London and Merseyside derbies.
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Episode 25 : 31st January 2015
January. 31,2015
Highlights of eight Premier League games, including Chelsea v Manchester City, Manchester United v Leicester City, Liverpool v West Ham and Crystal Palace v Everton.
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Episode 24 : 17th January 2015
January. 17,2015
Gary Lineker is joined by Philip Neville and Ruud Gullit to look back at action from the day's seven Premier League games, including Burnley v Crystal Palace and Chelsea v Swansea.
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Episode 23 : 10th January 2015
January. 10,2015
Gary Lineker introduces the best of the action and reaction from the day's eight Premier League matches, including the visit of defending champions Manchester City to Everton and Chelsea's home game against Newcastle.
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Episode 22 : 3rd January 2015
January. 03,2015
Highlights from the day's FA Cup third round matches. The Premier League and Championship clubs make their bow in this season's competition. All will be desperate to get their names into the hat for the fourth round draw, but some are destined to be the victims of a famous cup upset.
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Episode 21 : 1st January 2015
January. 01,2015
Gary Lineker with highlights of the day's ten Premier League games, including Tottenham v Chelsea, Liverpool v Leicester, Manchester City v Sunderland and Hull v Everton.
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Episode 20 : 28th December 2014
December. 28,2014
Gary Lineker with highlights of the day's nine Premier League games, including Southampton v Chelsea, Tottenham v Manchester United, West Ham v Arsenal and QPR v Crystal Palace.
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Episode 19 : 26th December 2014
December. 26,2014
Highlights of the day's Premier League games, which see all 20 top-flight sides in action. There is a London derby at Stamford Bridge, where Chelsea take on West Ham.
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Episode 18 : 20th December 2014
December. 20,2014
Gary Lineker presents highlights of the day's seven Premier League games, including Manchester City v Crystal Palace, Manchester United v Aston Villa and Southampton v Everton.
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Episode 17 : 13th December 2014
December. 13,2014
Dan Walker presents highlights of the day's seven Premier League games, including title-chasing Chelsea's match with Hull City at Stamford Bridge and Newcastle's visit to Arsenal.
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Episode 16 : 6th December 2014
December. 06,2014
Gary Lineker presents highlights of the day's Premier League games with Alan Shearer and Ruud Gullit. Includes Chelsea v Newcastle, Arsenal v Stoke and Manchester City v Everton.
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Episode 15 : 3rd December 2014
December. 03,2014
Gary Lineker presents highlights of the night's four Premier League fixtures, including Chelsea v Tottenham and Arsenal v Southampton, as well as Tuesday's six top flight games.
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Episode 14 : 29th November 2014
November. 29,2014
Gary Lineker is joined by Paul Ince and Danny Murphy for highlights of the day's eight top flight games, including QPR v Leicester, Manchester United v Hull and Liverpool v Stoke.
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Episode 13 : 22nd November 2014
November. 22,2014
Gary Lineker presents highlights from all of the day's seven Premier League fixtures, including Manchester United's visit to Arsenal and Chelsea hosting West Brom.
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Episode 12 : 8th November 2014
November. 08,2014
Gary Lineker presents highlights from all of the day's Premier League fixtures, including Chelsea's visit to Liverpool and Manchester United hosting Crystal Palace.
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Episode 11 : 1st November 2014
November. 01,2014
Gary Lineker introduces highlights from seven Premier League matches, including Newcastle United v Liverpool, Chelsea v QPR, Arsenal v Burnley and Everton v Swansea.
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Episode 10 : 25th October 2014
October. 25,2014
Gary Lineker introduces highlights from six Premier League matches, as Manchester City face West Ham at the Etihad Stadium. Analysis comes from Ruud Gullit and Danny Murphy.
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Episode 9 : 18th October 2014
October. 18,2014
Gabby Logan with highlights from the day's seven matches as the Premier League returns following the international break. Alan Shearer and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink provide analysis.
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Episode 8 : 4th October 2014
October. 04,2014
Gary Lineker introduces highlights from the day's six Premier League games, with Alan Shearer and Robbie Savage. Manchester City visit Aston Villa and Liverpool host West Brom.
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Episode 7 : 27th September 2014
September. 27,2014
Gary Lineker is joined by Phil Neville and Ruud Gullit for highlights of the day's eight Premier League fixtures, including the Merseyside and north London derbies.
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Episode 6 : 20th September 2014
September. 20,2014
Gary Lineker is joined by Neil Lennon and Martin Keown for highlights of the day's six Premier League fixtures, including Newcastle taking on Hull and Liverpool's trip to West Ham.
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Episode 5 : 13th September 2014
September. 13,2014
Gary Lineker introduces highlights from the Premier League, with fixtures including Arsenal v Manchester City, Liverpool v Aston Villa, Chelsea v Swansea and Stoke v Leicester.
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Episode 4 : 30th August 2014
August. 30,2014
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the day's eight Premier League games, including Everton v Chelsea, Burnley v Manchester United and Stoke v Manchester City.
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Episode 3 : 23rd August 2014
August. 23,2014
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the day's six Premier League games. Everton take on Arsenal, Chelsea host Leicester City and Aston Villa meet Newcastle.
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Episode 2 : 16th August 2014
August. 16,2014
Gary Lineker is joined by Alan Shearer and Ruud Gullit for highlights from the opening day of the 2014-15 Premier League season as Match of the Day returns for its 50th year.
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Episode 1 : 10th August 2014: FA Community Shield
August. 10,2014
Jason Mohammad introduces highlights of the annual season curtain-raiser as Premier League champions Manchester City take on FA Cup winners Arsenal at Wembley. The last five Community Shields have produced 20 goals, with clubs from Manchester prevailing in four of them.
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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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