Gareth Southgate was knighted in the New Year’s Honours

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, becoming the most successful manager of the men’s team since Sir Alf Ramsey.

Southgate is the fourth former England manager to be knighted, following Ramsey, Sir Walter Winterbottom and Sir Bobby Robson.

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Our former coach and player has been knighted in the King’s New Year’s 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 his honor was “well-deserved”, that he “embodied the best of English football” and hailed him as “one of our greatest ever managers”. .

He added that Southgate had “inspired the players to share their pride in representing England” and that it had been “a privilege to meet 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, the last West Ham manager, 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.