Football on 5

Football on Five
Presented by	Brough Scott (1997) Steve Scott (1997–2003) John Barnes (2003–2006) Colin Murray (2006–2010 & 2017-present) Jim Rosenthal (2010–2012) George Riley (2015–2017) Kelly Cates (2015–2016) Lynsey Hipgrave (2016-2017)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Release
Original network	Channel 5
Original release	Original Run May 1997 – July 2012 Revived Run 8 August 2015 – present

Football on 5 is the principal football programme on Channel 5 in the UK. The show first ran from May 1997 until July 2012. The show returned in August 2015 under the name Football League Tonight. For the 2016–17 Football League season the Football on 5 name was revived with the highlights show now called Football on 5: The Championship and Football on 5: Goal Rush being broadcast from 9pm-10.30pm on a Saturday with a repeat on Sunday morning.

Channel 5's first live football match was in May 1997, shortly after the channel launched. It was a 1998 World Cup qualifying match between Poland and England in Chorzów.

From 1997 to 2007, Channel 5 showed many away qualifying matches involving the home nations. England were shown playing in Poland (twice), Luxembourg, Bulgaria and Albania. In fact, the first game against Poland brought in the highest number of viewers the channel has ever seen to date. This was the high point of Football on 5's early coverage as they showed all the qualifying campaign for Euro 2000 for England but these qualifying matches have since transferred to the BBC and Sky Sports from 2001-2008 and ITV since 2008.

They also showed Scotland games which included their crucial final qualifier for 1998 FIFA World Cup at home to Latvia, plus trips to Lithuania, Faroe Islands, Czech Republic, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Estonia, Latvia, San Marino, Croatia and Belgium. They also showed the second leg of their Euro 2004 play-off with the Netherlands. These qualification matches are now on Sky Sports

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