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 semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup, making him the most successful men’s team manager 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 was awarded a Knighthood in the King’s New Year Honors List for 2025 for his services to association football 👏 pic.twitter.com/TsYcKYOusb
– England (@England) December 30, 2024
Football Association president Debbie Hewitt said the honor was “well deserved”, that he “embodied the best of English football” and hailed him as “one of our greatest managers of all time”. time “.
She added that Southgate had “inspired the 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 Euro 2020 final on penalties to Italy, while Spain beat them 2-1 in the Euro 2024 final. Former Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel will replace Southgate in the new year.
David Moyes, most recently manager of West Ham, was made an OBE while former Liverpool and long-serving BBC pundit Alan Hansen was 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.
