BBC's Match of the Day returns once more this season, with the weekend's Premier League action set for a Saturday night highlights slot.
The long-running BBC highlights show first aired in 1964 and has been on our screens ever since, showing extended highlights of every Saturday game, with spin-off Match of the Day 2 rounding up Sunday’s games.
Since January 2018, the BBC have had exclusive rights to Premier League highlights, stretching from Match of the Day and Match of the Day 2 to Football Focus and Final Score, and the main show will return this Saturday night after the news, with an all-star cast of former players set to give the best analysis on the Beeb.
Time
What time is Match of the Day on?
Match of the Day will be on at 10:25pm on BBC One this weekend.
What time is Match of the Day 2 on?
Match of the Day will be on this Saturday at 10:30pm on BBC One this weekend. It will be repeated at 7.40am on Sunday.
Presenter
Who is presenting Match of the Day this weekend?
Gary Lineker is set to present Match of the Day this weekend.
Former England striker Lineker has been the face of Match of the Day since replacing Des Lynam in 1999. Almost a quarter of a century later, Lineker is still going strong and has become synonymous with the programme. When he stepped away due to a dispute over some of his comments on Twitter in March this year, several of his fellow presenters and pundits followed him, but the former Tottenham and Barcelona striker was soon back on our screens.
Who is presenting Match of the Day 2 this weekend?
Mark Chapman is set to present Match of the Day 2 this weekend.
Chapman has been associated with the BBC for some time, having initially presented on BBC Radio 5 Live before becoming a stand-in presenter on Match of the Day 2 in 2009. Chapman has more often than not been the main presenter on the Sunday night show but has also stood in for Lineker if the former England international has work commitments elsewhere. Chapman also now splits his duties with the BBC with presenting Sky Sports’ live Carabao Cup coverage.
Pundits
Which pundits are set to feature on Match of the Day this weekend?
The BBC haven't announced who will be on Match of the Day on Saturday or on Match of the Day 2 this Sunday.
Watch Match of the Day this weekend
Use a VPN to watch Match of the Day from outside your country
If you’re out of the country on a Saturday night (go you!) then annoyingly your domestic on-demand services won’t work – the broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!). You'll be blocked from watching it, which is not ideal if you’ve paid up for a subscription and still want to catch the action without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.
But assistance is on hand. To get around that, all you have to do is get a Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs. A VPN creates a private connection between your device and t'internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and won't automatically block the service you've paid for. All the info going between is entirely encrypted – and that's a result.
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