Glasgow-born Kelly Cates is to take over the Match of the Day hot seat at the end of the season, alongside Mark Chapman and Gabby Logan.
The presenter, daughter of Celtic, Scotland and Liverpool legend Sir Kenny Dalgleish, takes on the mantle from former England striker Gary Lineker as he steps down after 25 years at the helm of the BBC’s famous English football highlights show.
Kelly, who married in Glasgow in 2007, has been a mainstay on Sky Sports, where she fronts its football coverage, having rejoined the channel in 2016. The Glasgow-born presenter was part of the BBC’s Olympic coverage, and is also a BBC Radio 5 Live reporter.
She previously fronted highlights programme Football On 5, which was retitled Football League Tonight, and has been hosting the Premier League’s weekly The Kelly And Wrighty Show with footballer Ian Wright and the Sky Bet Not Just Football podcast with Christine Lampard and Hayley McQueen.
Kelly has experience in a variety of other broadcasting roles, including presenting for Setanta Sports and ESPN, reporting for ITV at the 2010 World Cup and being part of Channel 4’s 2012 Paralympics coverage.
She has previously spoken about sexism in football, after then-Sky Sports presenters Andy Gray and Richard Keys claimed female officials “don’t know the offside rule”. She posted on X, formerly Twitter: “Just read about something called ‘the offside rule’. Too much for my tiny brain. Must be damaged from nail polish fumes.”
She was also at the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, when she was 13, and spoke in a 2017 documentary, Kenny, about her father having difficulties addressing his grief over the tragedy, in which 97 people died.
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