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Match of the Day: 21x21

12th January 1985

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.

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Synopsis

BBC's football highlights and analysis. "The longest-running football television programme in the world" as recognised by Guinness World Records in 2015.

Title Match of the Day
First Air Date Aug 22, 1964
Last Air Date Feb 26, 2025
Episodes 3195
Seasons 61
Companies BBC Sport
Keywords sports, football (soccer)