August 16, 2024 — As the Premier League kicks off this weekend the flagship football show celebrates its 60th birthday.
Host Gary Lineker is also celebrating his own special anniversary presenting the world’s most famous football show for 25 years since 1999.
With 33 million viewers last season across the Premier League and FA Cup, Match of the Day remains part of the staple diet of football fans who still get a huge buzz from hearing that iconic theme tune on a Saturday night.
The show continually evolves for changing viewing habits bringing it’s unique and unmatched analysis and commentary across all platforms.
Whether watching live or increasingly on iPlayer, audiences follow all the action free to air and across BBC Sport’s digital platforms, with more than 150 million MOTD clip views last season across social media and the BBC Sport website, along with spin-off shows such as MOTD Top-10.
Match of the Day at 60 will be celebrated across the BBC including an interactive timeline created by BBC History celebrating the key milestones for the show. A specially curated documentary, MOTD@60, delves into the archive and all the historic moments and looks at how the changes through the years have made MOTD what it is today will be on BBC One on Monday 26 August at 10.30pm and also available on iPlayer.
Next week, The One Show is going behind the scenes to uncover how the iconic show is put together live every Saturday from how the running order is decided to how match edits are made.
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BBC One
