The BBC has unveiled its programming and presentation line-up for the 2019/20 football season with its coverage kicking off over the first weekend of the Premier League season in August.
Now in its 55th year, Match of the Day returns to BBC One on Saturday, 10 August, to provide fans with all of the highs and lows of the 2019/20 Premier League season.
The most popular weekly football programme on television reaches 7m viewers each weekend and Gary Lineker and the MOTD team will be on hand once again to provide expert insight and analysis on one of the most entertaining leagues in world football.
Taking over the reins from Des Lynam back in 1999, Gary Lineker enters his 20th season as presenter of Match of the Day.
One the UK’s leading sports broadcasters, Gary has led on the BBC’s coverage of numerous World Cup, European Championship and FA Cup tournaments and famously presented the opening show of the 2016/17 season in his underwear after tweeting he would do so if Leicester City won the league the previous season.
Alongside Gary on the first show on August 10 are MOTD favourites Alan Shearer and Ian Wright. Shearer still sits at the top of the Premier League goal scorer charts on 260 and won the league with Blackburn Rovers in 1995. Wright won the league and FA Cup twice with Arsenal.
Joining the BBC Football team this season will be four new and very familiar faces; Peter Crouch, Micah Richards, Tim Cahill and Karen Carney. Former England and Manchester City defender Micah Richards won the Premier League and FA Cup during his career at City.
Former Premier League and England striker Peter Crouch played over 40 times for the Three Lions and scored over 140 league goals in his career. Australia’s all-time record goal scorer, Tim Cahill, has earned over 100 caps for his country and is well known to audiences from his time at Everton and Millwall.
Karen Carney is the second most capped England player of all time and has played for Arsenal, Chelsea and Birmingham where she was the first woman to be inducted into their Hall of Fame.
With over 50 major trophies between them, Jermaine Jenas, Phil Neville, Alex Scott, Martin Keown, Mark Lawrenson, Danny Murphy, Dion Dublin, Garth Crooks, Kevin Kilbane, Leon Osman and Jon Walters return to the studio for the new season, to offer their expert football knowledge and experience.
All will come from a fully 360 degree virtual studio using the latest in real-time computer game rendering technology. All programmes will be based within a ‘BBC Sport football stadium’ and this stadium will be used to create fly through augmented reality graphics such as team formations and data-driven analysis graphics.
Dan Walker, Mark Chapman and Jason Mohammad and Gabby Logan will all be back for the new season and leading on the main talking points in football.
This season MOTD will be available to watch earlier on BBC iPlayer from 7pm on Sundays and MOTD2 from midnight also on Sunday.
Starting in September, MOTDx is a brand new magazine programme focusing on the lifestyle and culture of the Premier League. Chelcee Grimes, Craig Mitch, Reece Parkinson and Liv Cooke will join regular host Jermaine Jenas and will dive into the world of music, fashion, culture and football events.
Following on from the record-breaking audiences that tuned into the Women’s World Cup this summer, the BBC will continue to show a game every weekend of the Women’s Super League on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website starting with Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge on Sunday, 8 September (12.30pm).
Also on the BBC, the Women’s Football Show returns showcasing the best of the action from the WSL, plus the Women’s FA Cup including both semi-finals and final live, and Lionesses games as they build towards the Olympics and Euro 2021 plus other home nations internationals.
The BBC will once again be the home of the men’s FA Cup from the qualifying rounds right through to the final starting with Punjab United v Broadbridge Heath on August 10. BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport website will show six qualifying games before the First Round proper starts on Saturday, November 9.
Over 27m tuned into the BBC‘s FA Cup coverage last year and there will be 15 live free-to-air FA Cup matches during the 2019-20 tournament on TV, plus highlights of every round as the world’s most famous domestic Cup competition builds towards the final on Saturday, May 23 at Wembley Stadium.
Football never stops, and the BBC Sport website/app – bbc.co.uk/sport – and Red Button will continue to offer fans the most comprehensive service across digital platforms and social media.
There will be live coverage of all the big games, starting with live text and radio commentary from the season’s opening match between Liverpool and Norwich City on 9 August.
Fans can read reports on every match across the Premier League, EFL, Scottish Premiership andother main Scottish leagues throughout the season along with previews, the latest breaking news from your club, and reaction from managers and players.
The BBC’s digital coverage of the FA Cup also starts on 9 August with the Extra Preliminary Round and will continue all the way to the final at Wembley next May.
Across the BBC Sport website and app there will also be extensive live text commentary throughout the UEFA Champions League, Europa League and League Cup campaigns.European football will also be in the spotlight with reports, stories and live coverage of selected games from La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1.
BBC Sport online will step up coverage of the women’s game with insight and analysis from top names and increased coverage of the FA Women’s Super League, starting with a derby at Etihad Stadium between Manchester City and Manchester United on 7 September. There will be regular news, reports, online and Red Button streams and highlights of each round of fixtures.
Phil Neville’s England face a mouth-watering clash against Germany at Wembley in November as part of a series of friendly internationals leading up to UEFA Women’s EURO 2021, a tournament for which the Lionesses – as hosts – qualify automatically. There will also be coverage of qualifiers featuring Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as the race to reach the finals in England gets under way.
Fans can get involved with the Player Rater for selected matches, while pundit Mark Lawrenson will again predict the scores of every Premier League match. Garth Crooks’ Team of the Week returns every Sunday evening, when audiences can contest his selection and pick their own top team.
Match Of The Day pundits will provide additional opinion and analysis on all the big talking points while the BBC Sport’s European football experts, including Guillem Balague, will interview some of football’s biggest names and write regular columns. Football fans love a quiz so look out for plenty of those along with other interactive elements such as Team Selector challenges, plus the daily Gossip Column.
There is a wealth of content and ways to engage with programmes via BBC Sport’s social media accounts, which reach more than 32m followers.
BBC Radio 5 Live continues to bring listeners live commentary of more Premier League matches than any other UK broadcaster this season, with around 140 matches.
There will also be extensive radio coverage of the Champions League, Europa League, FA Cup, League Cup, Scottish Premiership, Women’s Super League, England and home nation internationals.
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