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BBC Sports Personality of the Year returns on December 13

The 2026 BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony will take place on December 13 with the public deciding five of the nine awards.

FTMQ News, written by our newsroom9 November 2026 at 08:001 view

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The 2026 BBC Sports Personality of the Year show will be held on Sunday, 13 December, BBC News reported. The event will be broadcast live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer, and the BBC Sport website and app from 17:45 GMT. Audiences will have increased influence over the outcomes, as five of the nine awards presented during the evening will be decided by public vote. [1][2]

Clare Balding, Gabby Logan, and Alex Scott will return to host the programme, according to BBC News. The event will take place in Salford and will celebrate achievements across a major sporting year. Featured highlights include Team GB's most successful Winter Olympics, the best finish for the England men's football team at a Fifa World Cup since 1966, and record-breaking performances at the European Athletics Championships. [1]

The BBC Sports Personality of the Year is an annual awards ceremony held in December. Paul Fox devised the event in 1954, when it originally featured a single award of the same name. Over time, multiple new categories were added to the broadcast. [3]

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In short

The 2026 BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony will take place on Sunday, 13 December.
Five out of the nine awards will be decided by a public vote.
Clare Balding, Gabby Logan, and Alex Scott will host the ceremony in Salford.
The event was originally created by Paul Fox in 1954 as a single award.

Sources

Every paragraph above points to the numbered items it rests on. Read the originals here.

[1]Sports Personality of the Year returns - with five awards decided by publicBBC News, 1h ago (the report this story comes from)
[2]Sports Personality of the Year 2026: Date announced - and audience to have more influence than everBBC, 1h ago

Background

[3]BBC Sports Personality of the Year on Wikipedia
[4]BBC Indian Sportswoman of the Year on Wikipedia
[5]Year on Grokipedia
[6]Kim Kardashian returns for second season of legal drama Alls Fair FTMQ News, 5d ago
[7]James Anderson expresses sadness over Lancashire exit without announcing retirement FTMQ News, 14d ago

Our newsroom writes these reports with the help of software, from the 7 sources listed and nothing else, and checks them against those sources. Facts can still be wrong or move on; the originals are the record. Spotted a mistake? Write to daniel@monsterkong.com.

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