Steve Banyard

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Steve Banyard
Born1963 (age 60–61)
England
Nationality
IMG Media
, Premier League Productions, Host Broadcast Services, Olympic Broadcast Services

Steve Banyard (born 1963, in England) is best known as a

football commentator and broadcaster. In particular, he's known for working on the worldwide television feed of the Premier League and Italy's Serie A, as well as major FIFA and UEFA
tournaments.

Career

Radio

Banyard began his broadcasting career in 1985 as a part-time sports reporter at

Invicta Radio in Kent
in 1988.

He moved to

Hallam FM in Sheffield
in 1991, and in 1999, he was named the top Sports Broadcaster at the North East of England Press and Broadcast awards.

Television

Banyard moved into television in 1999, initially working as a freelance reporter for

IMG Media in London, distributed to more than 600 million people in over 200 countries worldwide.[1]

He was part of the commentary team at the first FIFA World Cup produced by Host Broadcast Services in 2002, going on to work at further international tournaments including the FIFA World Cup, FIFA U-20 World Cup, FIFA U-17 World Cup, FIFA Confederations Cup, FIFA Women's World Cup and the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.

He was a lead

London 2012 and also presented FIFA Futbol Mundial and the magazine programme of the UEFA Champions League.[2]

He has commentated several times on the world television feed of the

UEFA European Championship, most recently at UEFA Euro 2020.[2] He was heard on BBC One after the collapse of Denmark's Christian Eriksen, and also on ITV when they broadcast highlights of Denmark's match with Russia
.

In the UK, Banyard has appeared occasionally on Sky Sports on UEFA European Qualifiers and the UEFA Nations League, but he's more widely known outside the UK in other English-speaking territories. Since 2018, he's been a lead commentator on the world television feed of Italy's Serie A alongside presentation work on the Premier League.

Other credits include commentating on France's

Five, as well as designing and developing a specialist website for commentators and broadcasters.[3]

Music

Banyard is also a published songwriter.

In 2010, he wrote and produced a

commentators including Martin Tyler, Clive Tyldesley, Guy Mowbray, Ian Darke, Jon Champion, Rob Hawthorne, Steve Wilson, Peter Drury, Simon Brotherton and the late Peter Brackley
. The singing was done by the Cotswold Male Voice Choir. Banyard himself was a member of the choir for 5 years.

In 2011, Banyard performed one of his songs in public for the first time. He accompanied soloist Martin Dear on the piano in a performance of "No One Else" at Cheltenham Town Hall with the Bach String Ensemble Japan. The concert was compered by well known actor Brian Blessed.[5]

He had 3 further songs published in 2015. Then in 2018, he re-recorded and released "Let's Hear It England" under the artist name "The DC Klub". The commentary lines were swapped around, with lead vocals performed this time by teenagers from

England's FIFA World Cup winning team of 1966 including Sir Alf Ramsey, Bobby Moore and Sir Bobby Charlton.[7]

Personal

He was a pupil at Plymouth College and now lives in the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire.

References

  1. ^ Wilson, Jeremy (6 November 2007). "Premier League is world's favourite league". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 7 November 2007.
  2. ^ a b "LinkedIn Profile".
  3. ^ Soccer Commentator Website
  4. ^ Commentators United Official Website
  5. ^ Cotswold Male Voice Choir website
  6. ^ "The DC Klub Official Website".
  7. ^ "'Let's Hear It England' Official Video". Archived from the original on 19 December 2021.
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