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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.
Episode 43 : 19th May 1973
May. 19,1973
International Match of the Day. Introduced by David Coleman featuring action from the two final matches in this week's Home International tournament. England v Scotland from Wembley Stadium. David Coleman is the commentator at this match, the oldest international fixture in the world.
Episode 42 : 12th May 1973
May. 12,1973
International Match of the Day featuring. Northern Ireland v England from Goodison Park, Liverpool. Wales v Scotland from the Racecourse Ground, Wrexham. David Coleman introduces two match action on the opening day of the 'Home International' week.
Episode 41 : 5th May 1973
May. 05,1973
Cup Final Match of the Day. David Coleman introduces action, analysis, news and interviews about Wembley's 50th Cup Final from the Winners' Banquet Hotel in the heart of London's West End. The Leeds United v Sunderland Cup Final action is analysed by Brian Clough, Manager of Derby County, Bobby Charlton, England's most-capped international, saying farewell to soccer as a player this month, and Arsenal and Scotland goalkeeper Bob Wilson.
Episode 40 : 28th April 1973
April. 28,1973
David Coleman introduces action and analysis on the final Saturday of the 1972/73 Football League Season. Chelsea v Manchester United, Southampton v Leeds United. Goal of the Season: a parade of the best goals shown on BBC1 throughout the season and a chance to win £300-worth of Premium Bonds as first prize. The winner to be announced on next Saturday's Cup Final Grandstand.
Episode 39 : 21st April 1973
April. 21,1973
David Coleman introduces two-match action, news and interviews from the end-of-the-season Football League scene. Newcastle United v Liverpool, Everton v Arsenal.
Episode 38 : 14th April 1973
April. 14,1973
Introduced by David Coleman. Action highlights from two matches involving championship issues. West Ham United v Leeds United, Liverpool v West Bromwich Albion, Action, analysis, news, interviews.
Episode 37 : 7th April 1973
April. 07,1973
FA Cup Semi-finals. Action highlights from one of today's semi-final ties in which Leeds, Wolves, Arsenal and Sunderland compete for the final place at Wembley Stadium on 5 May. Leeds United v Wolverhampton Wanderers. News, views, analysis from both semi-finals and the result of the March 'Goal of the Month' competition.
Episode 36 : 31st March 1973
March. 31,1973
Two-match soccer action involving teams near the top of their Divisions in the Football League. Arsenal v Derby County, Nottingham Forest v Burnley, Goal of the Month. The monthly competition parade of the best goals seen on BBCtv during March. Worth £100 in premium bonds to the winner.
Episode 35 : 24th March 1973
March. 24,1973
Two-match action involving championship and relegation issues in the Football League. Bournemouth v Grimsby Town, West Bromwich Albion v Southampton.
Episode 34 : 17th March 1973
March. 17,1973
Match of the Day featuring the FA Cup Quarter-finals. David Coleman and Barry Davies are the match commentators at two of FA Cup Sixth Round ties. Chelsea v Arsenal, Sunderland v Luton Town. David Coleman introduces action, news and views from the last eight teams in this year's FA Cup competition.
Episode 33 : 10th March 1973
March. 10,1973
Introduced by David Coleman. Queens Park Rangers v Aston Villa, Birmingham City v Manchester United.
Episode 32 : 3rd March 1973
March. 03,1973
David Coleman introduces two-match action from the First Division and the result of February's Goal of the Month competition. Derby County v Leeds United, Everton v Liverpool.
Episode 31 : 24th February 1973
February. 24,1973
FA Cup: Fifth Round. Action highlights from three of today's Fifth Round ties with commentators David Coleman , Barry Davies and John Motson. Carlisle United v Arsenal, Wolverhampton Wanderers v Millwall, Derby County v Queens Park Rangers. David Coleman introduces Cup action, analysis and news with the February parade of 'Goals of the Month'.
Episode 30 : 17th February 1973
February. 17,1973
Introduced by David Coleman. Two-match action, analysis, news and views from the busy Saturday Football League scene. Bournemouth v Bolton Wanderers, Ipswich Town v Manchester United.
Episode 29 : 10th February 1973
February. 10,1973
David Coleman introduces action and analysis from two First Division matches. Liverpool v Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City.
Episode 28 : 3rd February 1973
February. 03,1973
The FA Cup: Fourth Round. Newcastle United v Luton Town, Liverpool v Manchester City, Sheffield Wednesday v Crystal Palace. David Coleman introduces Cup action, news and views with the winner of the January 'Goal of the Month' competition.
Episode 27 : 27th January 1973
January. 27,1973
Two matches from Divs 1 and 2. Introduced by David Coleman with the Goal of the Month competition. Queens Park Rangers v Burnley, Leeds United v Stoke City.
Episode 26 : 20th January 1973
January. 20,1973
David Coleman introduces soccer action from two First Division grounds plus analysis, news and interviews.
Manchester United v West Ham United
Norwich City v Leeds United
Episode 25 : 13th January 1973
January. 13,1973
Match of the Day featuring The FA Cup.
Action highlights from three of today's outstanding FA Cup third round ties.
Arsenal v Leicester City
Norwich City v Leeds United
Leyton Orient v Coventry City
Analysis, news and interviews as 64 clubs set out on the Wembley Cup Final trail.
Episode 24 : 6th January 1973
January. 06,1973
Barry Davies introduces action from two famous First Division grounds and the result of the December 'Goal of the Month.'
Arsenal v Manchester United
Derby County v Norwich City
Action and analysis from the first Football League Saturday of 1973.
Episode 23 : 30th December 1972
December. 30,1972
Barry Davies introduces two-match action and the best goals of the month.
Tottenham Hotspur v Wolverhampton Wanderers
Liverpool v Crystal Palace
Episode 22 : 23rd December 1972
December. 23,1972
Action and analysis from two First Division matches.
Manchester United v Leeds United
West Bromwich Albion v Ipswich Town
Action, news and views from the Saturday Football League scene.
Episode 21 : 16th December 1972
December. 16,1972
Two-match First Division action and the news and views of the day.
West Ham United v Stoke City
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Chelsea
Episode 20 : 9th December 1972
December. 09,1972
Action, analysis, news and views from the Football League Saturday programme.
Derby County v Coventry City
Luton Town v Queens Park Rangers
Episode 19 : 2nd December 1972
December. 02,1972
David Coleman introduces two-match action and the result of the November 'Goal of the Month' competition.
Liverpool v Birmingham City
Coventry City v Everton
Episode 18 : 25th November 1972
November. 25,1972
Action from two important First Division matches and one Second Division match. Plus the outstanding goals on show for November's 'Goal of the Month' competition.
Leeds United v Manchester City
West Bromwich Albion v Stoke City
Cardiff City v Fulham
Episode 17 : 18th November 1972
November. 18,1972
David Coleman introduces two-match action, analysis and the views which matter from the Football League Saturday.
West Ham United v Derby County
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Ipswich Town
Episode 16 : 11th November 1972
November. 11,1972
David Coleman introduces top soccer action from the Football League programme.
Manchester United v Liverpool
Aston Villa v Blackpool
Episode 15 : 4th November 1972
November. 04,1972
Match of the Day features action highlights from two First Division matches and the £100 result of October's 'Goal of the Month' competition. Crystal Palace v Everton, Southampton v Norwich City.
Episode 14 : 28th October 1972
October. 28,1972
Match of the Day features top soccer action from the First Division and the October 'Goal of the Month' £100 competition. Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea v Newcastle United.
Episode 13 : 21st October 1972
October. 21,1972
Action from two First Division matches with the Saturday Football League news and views which matter. Leeds United v Coventry City, Tottenham Hotspur v Chelsea.
Episode 12 : 14th October 1972
October. 14,1972
Action, analysis, news and interviews from the Football League Saturday scene. Sheffield Wednesday v Burnley, Arsenal v Ipswich Town.
Episode 11 : 7th October 1972
October. 07,1972
News, views, analysis and the result of the September 'Goal of the Month' competition. Liverpool v Everton, Fulham v Aston Villa.
Episode 10 : 30th September 1972
September. 30,1972
Two-match action and the £100 'Goal of the Month' competition. Luton Town v Burnley, Derby County v Tottenham Hotspur. Barry Davies introduces the eye-catching goals scored during September with the opportunity to win £100-worth of Premium Bonds.
Episode 9 : 23rd September 1972
September. 23,1972
Barry Davies introduces action, analysis, news and views from the Saturday Football League programme. Newcastle United v Leeds United, Watford v Notts County.
Episode 8 : 16th September 1972
September. 16,1972
Match of the Day features action from two First Division matches and the news-views from another Saturday in the Football League season. Goals, action replay and professional comment. Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur, Ipswich Town v Stoke City.
Episode 7 : 9th September 1972
September. 09,1972
Leicester City v Everton, Manchester United v Coventry City
Episode 6 : 2nd September 1972
September. 02,1972
Two-match action from today's Football League programme and the top three goals from the August 'Goal of the Month' competition. Blackpool v Millwall, Arsenal v Chelsea.
Episode 5 : 26th August 1972
August. 26,1972
Match of the Day featuring two of the day's outstanding fixtures from the First Division of the Football League and 'Goal of the Month': The return of television's most popular soccer competition in which you are invited to pick the three best goals from Match of the Day's August coverage. Norwich City v Derby County, Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United.
Episode 4 : 19th August 1972
August. 19,1972
Match of the Day features two-match First Division action and the news and views from the second Saturday of the new Football League season. Sheffield United v Newcastle United, Derby County v Chelsea.
Episode 3 : 12th August 1972
August. 12,1972
League Soccer Begins: Match of the Day features action from two outstanding First Division matches on the first Saturday of the 1972-73 Football League season. Leicester City v Arsenal, Liverpool v Manchester City. Analysis, interviews and news with the best goals counting for the highly popular Goal of the Month competition.
Episode 2 : 5th August 1972
August. 05,1972
Match of the Day features The Watney Cup Final. Bristol Rovers v Sheffield United, Action highlights from the final of the Watney Cup tournament - the attractive pre-season event between the highest-scoring soccer clubs in all four divisions of the Football League.
Episode 1 : 29th July 1972
July. 29,1972
Match of the Day kicks off with the first of football's 1972/73 action highlights - from two of today's first-round ties in the Watney Cup Competition. Eight of the leading goal-scoring teams from the four divisions of the Football League - Sheffield United, Wolves, Blackpool, Burnley, Bristol Rovers, Notts County, Peterborough, Lincoln - are taking part in this knock-out competition.
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 5
Grandstand presenter David Coleman begins regularly presenting Match of the Day.
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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