Gareth Southgate, the former England manager, has been knighted in the New Year ceremony.
Southgate, 54, led England to two consecutive European Championship finals and the 2018 World Cup semi-final, making him the most successful men's team coach since Sir Alf Ramsey.
Southgate is the fourth former England manager to receive a knighthood, after Ramsey, Sir Walter Winterbottom and Sir Bobby Robson.
Sir Gareth Southgate
Our former manager and player has been awarded a knighthood in the 2025 King's New Year Honors List for his services to football đź‘Ź pic.twitter.com/TsYcKYOusb
– England (@England) December 30, 2024
Football Association president Debbie Hewitt said his honor was “highly deserved”, that he “embodied the best of English football” and praised him as “one of our greatest ever coaches”.
She added that Southgate had “inspired the players to share his pride in representing England” and that it was “an honor to know the man and the coach”.
England lost the Euro 2020 final on penalties to Italy, while Spain beat them 2-1 in the Euro 2024 final. Former Chelsea coach Thomas Tuchel will replace Southgate in the new year.
David Moyes, most recently West Ham manager, was awarded an OBE, while Alan Hansen, the former Liverpool star and long-time BBC pundit, was awarded an OBE for services to football and broadcasting.
Dawn Astle, who set up the Jeff Astle Foundation to campaign for more research into head injuries in football on behalf of her father, who died of dementia in 2002, has been awarded an MBE.
