| Alt Name: | Sunday Night European Football |
| Genre: | Sports, Football |
| Creator: | BT Sport |
| Presenter: | James Richardson |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Location: | BT Sport Studios, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London |
| Runtime: | 1 hour 15 minutes |
| Company: | BT Sport |
| Channel: | BT Sport 1 HD, BT Sport 1 |
European Football Show (also referred to on occasion as Sunday Night European Football [1]) was a football TV programme on BT Sport presented by James Richardson. The show was originally split into three segments. It began with a discussion between Richardson and the show's pundits of the weekend's European football (from the German Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, and Italian Serie A) along with highlights of matches played in the featured leagues. That led into the programme's featured live football match, which could have been from either the French or Italian leagues. Following the match, more discussion took place on the events of the match, and goings on from the world of football over the previous week.
However, more recently the show only lasts for one 1 hour and 15 minute segment of discussion from the weekend's news, with the live match becoming a separate programme afterwards.[2] As well as a change in format, the Portuguese Primeira Liga was added to the show's focus leagues. An additional show, named European Football Show Extra, is broadcast on the following Monday, with Richardson and the pundits discussing various football topics show-by-show.[2]
The European Football Show is presented live every week from 18:30 to 19:30 or 19:45 (GMT) (dependent on the following game's kick-off time), mainly on BT Sport 1 but sometimes on other BT channels, it was previously shown on BT Sport Europe before the channel changed its name to BT Sport 3.[2] When the show included a live match, it ran until 22:00. It is repeated throughout the following week. European Football Show Extra is shown on Monday nights, with repeats shown throughout the week.[2]
The chat between the pundits is broken up by a number of different features related to the past week's football:
The programme is presented by James Richardson, along with regular pundits covering each of the featured leagues. These are Julien Laurens (Ligue 1), Raphael Honigstein (Bundesliga) and James Horncastle (Serie A). Other pundits and football personalities sometimes join the regular punditry team, these have included Steffen Freund, Dietmar Hamann, David Platt, David Ginola and Emmanuel Petit.