Gary Lineker is an iconic figure in the world of English soccer, on the pitch and in the broadcast booth, and now he’s getting a docuseries to chart it all.
Per Tom Burrows of The Athletic, Amazon Prime is set to release a four-part docuseries on Lineker next year. The series, which doesn’t have a name yet, will chronicle the life of one of the best players of his generation and one of England’s greatest players, who later became a media mainstay until controversy ended his run at the BBC.
“It will show his early life, growing up the son of a greengrocer in Leicester and his time as a professional footballer — he is fourth in England’s all-time record goalscoring list and won the Golden Boot at the 1986 World Cup,” wrote Burrows. “During his playing career, Lineker — who started out at Leicester City before playing for Everton, Barcelona, Tottenham Hotspur and Japan’s Nagoya Grampus — famously never received a yellow or red card.”
Following his playing career, Lineker found much success in media when he joined the BBC. In 1999, he became the BBC’s lead presenter for football coverage, including its flagship football television program, Match of the Day, and became BBC Sport’s highest-paid presenter. He also went on to become a presenter on the golf side, headlining the BBC’s coverage of The Masters and The Open.
The Athletic noted that Lineker’s outspokenness, which led to his departure from the BBC, will also be examined. Along with an incident in which he criticized the UK government’s asylum policy and stepped away from Match of the Day for several days, Lineker courted controversy in 2025 after he shared an Instagram post about Zionism that included a rat emoji, drawing parallels to antisemitic imagery and propaganda used in Nazi Germany. Lineker apologized, but it was soon announced that he would leave the BBC for good.
Since then, he’s launched several podcasts and recently returned to the broadcast limelight with appearances on ITV during the World Cup.
The docuseries, produced by Orchard Studios, will feature interviews with Lineker himself, as well as “family members, fellow footballers, friends, and critics.”
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