Biography
Gary Winston Lineker (; born 30 November 1960) is an English sports broadcaster and former professional footballer. Lineker is the only player to have been the top goalscorer in England with three clubs: Leicester City, Everton and Tottenham Hotspur. He also played for Barcelona in Spain, and won 80 caps for England. His media career began with the BBC, where he has presented the flagship football programme Match of the Day since the late 1990s, the longest tenure of any MOTD presenter. Lineker is also the BBC's lead presenter for live football matches, including coverage of international tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup. He has also worked for Al Jazeera Sports, Eredivisie Live, NBC Sports Network, and BT Sport's coverage of the UEFA Champions League.
Lineker began his football career at Leicester City in 1978, and finished as the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984–85. He then moved to league champions Everton, where he won both the PFA Players' Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year awards in his debut season, before moving to Spanish club Barcelona. Lineker placed 2nd in the 1986 Ballon d’Or for his performances at Everton after transferring to Barcelona. With the Spanish side, he won the 1987–88 Copa del Rey and the 1989 European Cup Winners' Cup. He joined Tottenham Hotspur in 1989, and won his second FWA Footballer of the Year and won the FA Cup, his first and only major trophy in English football. Lineker's final club was Nagoya Grampus Eight; he retired in 1994 after two seasons at the Japanese side.
Lineker made his England debut in 1984, earning 80 caps and scoring 48 goals over an eight-year international career, which made him England's second-highest international goalscorer on his retirement. He remains England's fourth-highest scorer, behind Harry Kane, Wayne Rooney and Bobby Charlton, and his international goals-to-games ratio remains one of the best for the country. His six goals in the 1986 FIFA World Cup made him the tournament's top scorer, receiving the Golden Boot. Lineker was again integral to England's progress to the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup, scoring another four goals. He still holds England's record for goals in the FIFA World Cup.
Lineker never received a yellow or red card during his career, and he also never won a top-flight league title. He was honoured in 1990 with the FIFA Fair Play Award. In a senior career which spanned 16 years and 654 competitive games, Lineker scored a total of 331 goals, including 283 goals at club level. After his retirement from football he was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame. A keen supporter of Leicester City, he led a consortium in 2002 that invested in his old club, saving it from bankruptcy, and was appointed honorary vice-president.
Filmography
all 75
self 57
TV Shows 38
Movies 37
Narrator 1
Voice 1
Writer 1
Joe Lycett vs Sewage (2024)
Messi's World Cup: The Rise of a Legend (2024)
Captains of the World (2023)
Lionel Messi: Destiny (2023)
Hurst: The First and Only (2022)
Messi (2022)
Inside the Superbrands (2022)
Robbo: The Bryan Robson Story (2021)
Sitting on a Fortune (2021)
Gods of Snooker (2021)
Gods of Snooker (2021)
Anton Ferdinand: Football, Racism and Me (2020)
Ted Lasso (2020)
The First Team (2020)
The Boys in Green (2020)
Match of Their Day (2020)
Match of the Day Top 10 (2020)
Greavsie (2020)
Gary Lineker: My Grandad's War (2019)
The Final Table (2018)
Football's Greatest Moments (2018)
Barry Davies: The Man, The Voice, The Legend (2018)
Managing England: The Impossible Job (2018)
Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager (2018)
Mo Salah: A Football Fairytale (2018)
Football's 47 Best Worst Songs (2018)
Countdown to the Full Motty (2018)
Grandes Momentos del Fútbol: El bueno, el malo y el Diego (2018)
Matthews (2017)
The Hand of God: 30 Years On (2016)
Rooney: The Man Behind the Goals (2015)
Barça Dreams (2015)
Schwarz, Rot, Gold und Fußballfieber (2015)
Gascoigne (2015)
The Crazy Gang - When Wimbledon Won The Cup (2014)
Once More for Bobby (2014)
Marvellous (2014)
W1A (2014)
The Magnificent Eleven (2013)
Marrying Mum and Dad (2012)
Ant and Dec's Christmas Show (2009)
Sir Bobby Robson: A Knight to Remember (2009)
Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-lot (2009)
All Star Mr & Mrs (2008)
Phineas and Ferb (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
The One Show (2006)
Underground Ernie (2006)
When Lineker Met Maradona (2006)
The Very Best of They Think It's All Over (2005)
Top of the Pops Reloaded (2005)
Who Do You Think You Are? (2004)
Match of the Day 2 (2004)
The Gadget Show: Shop Smart, Save Money (2004)
Hell's Kitchen (2004)
Jeffrey Archer: The Truth (2002)
Sport Relief (2002)
When Snooker Ruled the World (2002)
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001)
The Saturday Show (2001)
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything (2000)
They Think It's All Over (1995)
The Frank Skinner Show (1995)
Room 101 (1994)
An Evening With Gary Lineker (1994)
All in the Game (1993)
Splitting Heirs (1993)
Bernard and the Genie (1991)
Pebble Mill (1991)
Have I Got News for You (1990)
The Worlds Greatest Goals (1989)
The Grand Knockout Tournament (1987)
Hero (1986)
Match of the Day (1964)
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
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GenderMale
Birthday1960-11-30 (63 years old)
Birth PlaceLeicester, United Kingdom
Height177-centimeter
RelationshipsDanielle Lineker (2009-09-02 - 2016-01-01)
SiblingsWayne Lineker
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire, James Joyce Award, James Joyce Awards, National Football Museum Hall of Fame
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