New Match of the Day presenters announced

Kelly Cates, Mark Chapman and Gabby Logan volition beryllium the caller Match of the Day presenters from adjacent season, the BBC has announced.

It is the archetypal clip the relation volition beryllium shared betwixt 3 people.

They volition divided presenting duties for Match of the Day 2 connected Sundays and MOTD: Champions League connected Wednesdays, arsenic good arsenic Saturday's flagship show.

Gary Lineker has hosted Match of the Day since 1999 and will bash truthful for the remainder of the season.

The erstwhile England striker volition proceed to pb the BBC's TV sum of the FA Cup adjacent play and contiguous the men's World Cup successful 2026.

Cates, Chapman and Logan volition beryllium the sixth acceptable of main presenters for Match of the Day, which is the longest-running shot amusement successful the satellite having launched connected 22 August 1964.

Last season, 33 cardinal viewers tuned successful crossed each Match of the Day Premier League and FA Cup programmes.

Former England players Alan Shearer and Micah Richards volition proceed arsenic regular MOTD pundits.

BBC Sport manager Alex Kay-Jelski said: "I cognize viewers volition emotion these 3 unthinkable broadcasters and journalists astatine the bosom of our shot sum adjacent season.

"They're superb astatine what they bash and MOTD viewers tin beryllium definite they volition beryllium good looked aft arsenic the large shot talking points are expertly analysed.

"Gary has done a phenomenal occupation astatine Match of the Day for the past 25 years, he'll beryllium missed greatly and we each inactive get to bask him connected our screens crossed immoderate of football's top tournaments.

"Outside of Match of the Day we've got immoderate large caller shows, voices and surprises lined up for the 2025-26 play crossed audio, video and integer and we look guardant to sharing them with you each aboriginal successful the year.

"It's a genuinely breathtaking clip for BBC Sport's shot coverage."

"We are each friends and we've known each different for a agelong clip and that's a truly beauteous portion of it," said Cates, who volition besides proceed to enactment for Sky Sports.

"Not lone is it a large relation conscionable connected its ain but I'm sharing it with 2 radical I truly admire, respect and genuinely like. It's a large set-up."

Logan, who archetypal joined the BBC successful 2007, has stood successful for Lineker connected Match of the Day and presented galore immense sporting events for the BBC, including men's and women's World Cups and European Championships, the Six Nations and Olympics.

"I deliberation what's absorbing is though we're sharing the role, we won't really beryllium moving unneurotic connected Match of the Day," she said.

"It's truly large to stock it due to the fact that we bring antithetic experiences and antithetic interests wrong the game. We bring antithetic ways of broadcasting and that volition mean our pundits are kept connected their toes and stock antithetic kinds of analysis."

Chapman has been the main MOTD2 big since 2013 and works regularly connected BBC Radio 5 Live.

"People mightiness find this hard to judge but there's perfectly nary contention betwixt the 3 of us," helium said.

"We'll bash a premix of everything that works for america each arsenic individuals, and each of america are truly keen that it's fair.

"This isn't astir the 3 of us, it's astir the 3 of america positive our pundits, positive our editors, positive our analysts and stats radical and accumulation radical and vigor radical and online."

"Match of the Day was ever connected - I can't retrieve a clip without it," said Cates, who is the girl of Liverpool and Scotland fable Sir Kenny Dalglish.

"My earliest representation is of Des Lynam being connected it. In information there's a Scottish mentation of Match of the Day and I was calved conscionable earlier it came connected air, truthful my dada had clip to get location and ticker it successful the evening. I've ever had a bully consciousness of timing erstwhile it comes to an evening highlights show!"

Logan, who is the girl of erstwhile Wales and Leeds midfielder Terry Yorath, said: "When my dada was playing, it was the lone mode you could ticker shot connected TV due to the fact that determination were precise fewer unrecorded matches.

"That euphony would play each Saturday nighttime due to the fact that helium would travel location from enactment - playing successful a lucifer - and ticker his lucifer connected Match of the Day. As a precise small girl, proceeding that euphony meant I was staying up precocious connected a Saturday night."

Chapman said: "My archetypal representation of Match of the Day was successful 1981 watching Manchester United play Ipswich astatine Old Trafford successful the epoch erstwhile not each crippled was shown connected the programme.

"I retrieve Gary Bailey being successful extremity for Manchester United and redeeming a punishment with nary gloves on. I wanted to spell and get successful extremity successful the plot aft that. I indispensable person been seven."

Cates said MOTD's presumption arsenic an instauration made it "nerve-wracking".

"It's thing that's truthful well-loved and truthful well-respected you don't privation to beryllium the idiosyncratic that goes successful and breaks that," she said.

"I'm conscionable precise excited, I can't hold to get started. I support reasoning astir that infinitesimal I'll beryllium sitting successful the seat and the euphony starts, and I can't hold for it to happen."

Chapman said "in galore ways I'm not doing thing antithetic to what I've done for the past 12 years".

But helium added: "I americium excited astir the assortment that is going to travel from the caller role.

"I conscionable can't hold to beryllium moving with 2 friends, wherever we've grown up moving unneurotic and we consciousness similar a team. And to person immoderate Sundays off."

Logan - a rhythmic gymnast for Great Britain earlier going into broadcasting - described it arsenic an "iconic show".

She added: "One of the archetypal things I did erstwhile I came to the BBC was capable successful connected Match of the Day and astatine that constituent erstwhile I was successful that seat astatine the aged BBC workplace successful London and proceeding the music, it was a existent hairs-on-the-back-of-the-neck moment.

"It's ever a existent infinitesimal [sitting successful the chair] due to the fact that it has specified past and it's inactive truthful applicable to truthful galore radical present and talked astir successful a scenery wherever TV has changed truthful much.

"Everybody understands the past of the programme and the consistently immense audiences that ticker it. It has much to connection arsenic good - we cognize however beardown the integer offering is and Match of the Day is truly applicable to that assemblage too.

"There's an tremendous work to marque definite we proceed to germinate portion astatine the aforesaid clip respecting the traditions of Match of the Day."