The news comes a day after confirmation that he will leave the BBC's Match of the Day.

We take a look at the runners and riders for the coveted role on the flagship football programme.

After 25 years of presenting BBC Match of the Day, Gary Lineker will be stepping down as the host of the football show at the end of this season. Once a footballer, Gary Lineker has had a long career in the sport. Keep reading to find out more.

The BBC will lose one of its highest-profile presenters when he stops hosting Match of the Day.

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The former footballer has hosted the show since 1999

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Gary Lineker is leaving ‘MOTD’ at the end of this season, after a glittering 25-year tenure as the host of the BBC’s flagship football show. Nick Hilton looks back at the pundit’s highs and lows, from predatory striker to top broadcaster and media mogul

The former striker will depart the programme at the end of the 2024/25 season

Lineker, who is the BBC’s highest-paid employee, was briefly taken off air after comparing the language used to launch a British government asylum policy to the rhetoric of Nazi-era Germany on social media.

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Alphonso Davies was born in a refugee camp after his parents fled civil war in Liberia. He has since become the youngest footballer to play for Canada and won a Bundesliga title with Bayern Munich. The 19-year-old talks to Gary Lineker about his incredible journey

The former footballer, 59, took to Instagram to post the photo which saw him pose with children George, 28, Harry, 26, Tobias, 24 and Angus, 22.

CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA IN PARIS: Gary Lineker has infuriated the golf community by calling Justin Rose's popular caddie Mark Fulcher 'an absolute numpty'.

Former footballer Gary Lineker made a rare public appearance with his eleven year-old step daughter Ella at The Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiere.

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CHARLES SALE - SPORTS AGENDA IN PARIS: Gary Lineker has infuriated the golf community by calling Justin Rose's popular caddie Mark Fulcher 'an absolute numpty'.

BRIAN BARWICK: And so to Match 64, or the World Cup Final as you and I call it. And the two teams are rested, recuperated, and ready for ‘the big one’.

Robinson, who the European Cup, Division One title and the League Cup in 1984 in his first - and only - full season with the Reds, died at the age of 61 after a long battle with cancer.