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New Year Honours 2025: Gareth Southgate is knighted

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Gareth Southgate awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours list.

Southgate led England to the final of Euro 2024 after leading them to two consecutive European finals.

The former England manager is the fourth England manager to be knighted.

Former Wales and British & Irish Lions winger Gerald Davies also receives a honours.

Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson becomes an MBE .

New Year Honours list for sports: Knighthood Gerald Davies (former Wales winger and Welsh Rugby Union president) Gareth Southgate (former England player and manager), for services to football Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) Penny Briscoe (chef de mission, ParalympicsGB), Hannah Cockroft (Paralympic athlete), Rowenna Fyfield (independent non-executive director, the Premier League and BBC commercial) Anita White (founder of International Working Group on Women and Sport and the Anita White Foundation , co-founder of Women in Sport ).

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