Former England manager Gareth Southgate has been knighted in the New Year Honours.
Southgate, 54, led England to two consecutive European Championship finals and the 2018 World Cup semi-finals, making him the most successful manager of the men’s team 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 King’s New Year Honours List for 2025 for his services to association football 👏 pic.twitter.com/TsYcKYOusb
— England (@England) December 30, 2024
Football Association chair Debbie Hewitt said his honour was “richly deserved”, that he “embodied the best of English football” and hailed him as “one of our greatest ever managers”.
She added that Southgate had “inspired players to share his pride in representing England” and that it had been “a privilege to know the man and the manager.”
England lost the final of Euro 2020 on penalties to Italy, while Spain beat them 2-1 in the final of Euro 2024. Former Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel is replacing Southgate in the new year.
David Moyes, most recently the manager of West Ham, has been made an OBE while Alan Hansen, the former Liverpool great and long-time BBC pundit, has been made an MBE 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 made an MBE.
