Gareth Southgate was knighted in the New Year Honors
Former England manager Gareth Southgate has been knighted in the New Year Honours.
Southgate, 54, led England to back-to-back European Championship finals and the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup, making him the men’s team’s most successful manager since Sir Alf Ramsey.
Southgate is the fourth former England manager to be knighted, following 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 club football 👏 pic.twitter.com/TsYcKYousb
– England (@England) December 30, 2024
Debbie Hewitt, chairman of the Football Association, said his honor was “highly deserved”, he “embodyed the best of English football” and praised him as “one of our greatest managers of all 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 coach”.
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 Alan Hansen, the former Liverpool star and long-time BBC pundit, was made an MBE for services to football and broadcasting.
Dawn Astle, who set up the Jeff Astle Foundation on behalf of her father, who died of dementia in 2002, to campaign for more research into head injuries in football, has been appointed an MBE.
