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 44 : MOTD - FA Cup Final Highlights
June. 03,2023
Watch the best of the action from Wembley as Manchester City take on Manchester United for the first time in an FA Cup final.
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Episode 43 : MOTD - 28th May 2023
May. 27,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the final day of the 2022/23 Premier League season, with plenty still to be decided in England’s top division.
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Episode 42 : MOTD - 20th May 2023
May. 20,2023
Gary Lineker presents highlights of the day’s six Premier League games, including relegation-threatened sides Nottingham Forest and Everton's matches against Arsenal and Wolves.
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Episode 41 : MOTD - 13th May 2023
May. 13,2023
Gary Lineker and guests review highlights from Saturday's Premier League fixtures, including vital games at both ends of the table.
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Episode 40 : MOTD - 6th May 2023
May. 06,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of today’s Premier League games, including Liverpool v Brentford, Bournemouth v Chelsea and Manchester City v Leeds United.
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Episode 39 : MOTD - 29th April 2023
April. 29,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of today’s four Premier League games, including two London derbies. Title-chasing Arsenal host Chelsea, and West Ham travel to Crystal Palace.
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Episode 38 : MOTD - 26th April 2023
April. 26,2023
Gary Lineker presents highlights of the midweek Premier League fixtures, including title-chasing Arsenal’s trip to face defending champions Manchester City.
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Episode 37 : MOTD - 22nd April 2023
April. 22,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights and analysis of today’s Premier League games, including Leicester City v Wolves, Liverpool v Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace v Everton.
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Episode 36 : MOTD - 15th April 2023
April. 15,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights and analysis of today’s seven Premier League games, including Manchester City v Leicester, Southampton v Crystal Palace and Everton v Fulham.
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Episode 35 : MOTD - 8th April 2023
April. 08,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights and analysis of the day’s eight Premier League games, including Manchester United v Everton and Spurs against surprise top-four rivals Brighton.
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Episode 34 : MOTD - 5th April 2023
April. 05,2023
Highlights of the midweek Premier League game, including Chelsea v Liverpool, Brighton v Bournemouth and West Ham v Newcastle.
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Episode 33 : MOTD - 1st April 2023
April. 01,2023
Arsenal hosted Leeds, while back-to-back champions Manchester City were at home to Liverpool, the team they took the title off two years ago. Other games included Chelsea v Aston Villa and Fulham’s trip to relegation-threatened Bournemouth.
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Episode 32 : MOTD - 18th March 2023
March. 18,2023
Highlights of the latest round of Premier League matches with Manchester City, Tottenham and Liverpool all in action.
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Episode 30 : MOTD - 4th March 2023
March. 04,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of Arsenal v Bournemouth, Manchester City v Newcastle, Wolves v Tottenham and Chelsea v Leeds.
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Episode 29 : MOTD - 25th February 2023
February. 25,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the latest round of Premier League matches, with Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City all in action.
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Episode 28 : MOTD - 18th February 2023
February. 18,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the latest round of Premier League matches, including Liverpool’s trip to St James’ Park to face Eddie Howe’s Newcastle United.
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Episode 27 : MOTD - 11th February 2023
February. 11,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of Saturday's Premier League matches, including West Ham v Chelsea, Leicester v Tottenham and Bournemouth v Newcastle.
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Episode 26 : MOTD - 4th February 2023
February. 04,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the latest round of Premier League games, including the clash between Everton and title hopefuls Arsenal at Goodison Park.
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Episode 25 : MOTD - FA Cup Forth-Round Highlights
January. 28,2023
All the goals and highlights from the FA Cup fourth-round ties that have taken place so far this weekend, including Manchester City's game against Arsenal on Friday.
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Episode 24 : MOTD - 21st January 2023
January. 21,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of a busy day of Premier League football, featuring the blockbuster contest between Liverpool and Chelsea at Anfield.
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Episode 23 : MOTD - 14th January 2023
January. 14,2023
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of the Manchester derby, plus Liverpool’s visit to Brighton and an East Midlands derby between Nottingham Forest and Leicester City.
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Episode 22 : MOTD - FA Cup Third-Round Highlights - Sunday
January. 08,2023
Mark Chapman introduces the goals and drama from Sunday’s eight third-round ties, including the titanic clash between Manchester City and Chelsea and Leeds’s trip to Cardiff.
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Episode 21 : MOTD - FA Cup Third-Round Highlights - Saturday
January. 07,2023
Highlights and reaction from 23 third-round ties, including Liverpool v Wolves, Manchester United v Everton and Brentford v West Ham.
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Episode 20 : MOTD - 4th January 2023
January. 04,2023
Highlights from the midweek Premier League matches, including Arsenal v Newcastle, Manchester United v Bournemouth and Everton v Brighton.
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Episode 19 : MOTD - 31st December 2022
December. 31,2022
Highlights of Saturday’s Premier League fixtures, including Manchester City v Everton, Newcastle v Leeds and Wolves v Manchester United.
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Episode 18 : MOTD - 26th December 2022
December. 26,2022
Premier League football returns after a six-week break for the World Cup, with seven Boxing Day fixtures, including Arsenal v West Ham, Brentford v Spurs and Aston Villa v Liverpool.
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Episode 17 : MOTD - FA Cup Second-Round Highlights
November. 27,2022
Highlights of all the games in the second round of the FA Cup.
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Episode 16 : MOTD - 12th November 2022
November. 12,2022
Gary Lineker introduces highlights and analysis from Saturday’s eight Premier League matches, including Newcastle v Chelsea and Manchester City v Brentford.
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Episode 15 : MOTD - FA Cup First-Round Highlights
November. 06,2022
Manish Bhasin and guests present all the action and analysis from a bumper day of FA Cup action as the first round gets underway.
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Episode 14 : MOTD - 5th November 2022
November. 05,2022
Gary Lineker introduces highlights and analysis from Saturday’s five Premier League matches, including defending champions Manchester City hosting Fulham. Elsewhere, Leicester travel to Merseyside to face Everton, while Leeds United welcome Bournemouth to Elland Road, and Wolves face Brighton.
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Episode 13 : MOTD - 29th October 2022
October. 29,2022
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of eight Premier League matches, including Manchester City’s visit to Leicester and Graham Potter's return to Brighton for the first time with Chelsea.
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Episode 12 : MOTD - 22nd October 2022
October. 22,2022
Gary Lineker introduces highlights and analysis from Saturday’s four Premier League matches, including Manchester United’s trip to London to face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Liverpool travel to Nottingham Forest, Manchester City host Brighton, and Crystal Palace head north to play Everton.
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Episode 11 : MOTD - 19th October 2022
October. 19,2022
A bonus midweek feast of Premier League highlights includes the clash between Manchester United and Tottenham at Old Trafford and West Ham’s trip to Liverpool.
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Episode 10 : MOTD - 15th October 2022
October. 15,2022
Gary Lineker introduces highlights and analysis of the day’s Premier League fixtures, including Tottenham v Everton and Crystal Palace’s visit to struggling Leicester.
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Episode 9 : MOTD - 8th October 2022
October. 08,2022
Gary Lineker introduces highlights and analysis of Saturday’s five Premier League fixtures, including Tottenham’s trip to Brighton and champions Manchester City v Southampton.
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Episode 8 : MOTD - 1st October 2022
October. 01,2022
Gary Lineker introduces highlights from Saturday’s seven Premier League matches, including the north London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham.
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Episode 7 : MOTD - 17th September 2022
September. 17,2022
Gary Lineker presents highlights and analysis of Saturday’s Premier League matches, including Leicester City’s trip to Tottenham Hotspur. Wolves host Man City, and Newcastle face Bournemouth.
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Episode 6 : MOTD - 3rd September 2022
September. 03,2022
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of all the day’s Premier League action, including Manchester City’s trip to Aston Villa and the Merseyside derby from Goodison Park.
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Episode 5 : MOTD - 31st August 2022
August. 31,2022
Highlights of ten midweek Premier League matches, including Manchester City v Nottingham Forest and Liverpool v Newcastle United.
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Episode 4 : MOTD - 27th August 2022
August. 27,2022
Gary Lineker and his guests analyse Saturday's Premiership action, including Crystal Palace v Manchester City, Liverpool v Bournemouth and Chelsea v Leicester.
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Episode 3 : MOTD - 20th August 2022
August. 20,2022
Gary Lineker introduces highlights of Saturday’s Premier League action, including Tottenham v Wolves, Everton v Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth v Arsenal.
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Episode 2 : MOTD - 13th August 2022
August. 13,2022
Gary Lineker introduces highlights from the second round of the new Premier League season, including newly promoted Bournemouth’s trip to champions Manchester City.
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Episode 1 : MOTD - 6th August 2022
August. 06,2022
Gary Lineker introduces highlights from the opening round of the new Premier League season, including the game between Newcastle and Nottingham Forest.
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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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