The programme is broadcast on late Saturday afternoons in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, usually on BBC One.
Mark Clemmit or Kelly Somers provides regular roundups of the top stories from the rest of the EFL matches.
Next is a review of the league tables in England and Scotland and this is followed by post-game interviews with managers, conducted by the commentators for Match of the Day.
[3] The results would come from the Press Association (PA), who appointed a correspondent to attend each match and report back the half-time and full-time scores to its offices in London.
The Press Association provided the vidiprinter results service until Opta Sports took over the contract for the 2013–14 season onwards.
[4] The host of the main Grandstand programme used to provide commentary on the scores as they came in to try to reflect how each result affected the league, which meant meticulous preparation was necessary.
Remarkably, only three people have regularly read the football results on the programme: Len Martin (from 1958 until 1995), Tim Gudgin (from 1995 until 2011) and Mike West since 2011.
He cited the BBC's decision to move the programme from London to Salford Quays as one of the reasons for his departure and the difficulty of travelling from his home in Hampshire, particularly in winter.
The half time round-up remained part of Grandstand until the start of the 2004–05 season when an afternoon-long version of the programme was launched on the BBC's interactive service.
[9] The current main presenter of Final Score is Jason Mohammad, who replaced Gabby Logan at the start of the 2013–14 season.
Many other pundits have appeared during the history of the programme, including: Robbie Savage, Jason Roberts, Mark Bright, Steve Claridge, Peter Schmeichel, Danny Mills, Kevin Kilbane, Alex Scott, and Trevor Sinclair.
Sinclair was fired by the BBC in January 2018 after admitting drink driving and racial abuse charges.
[11] Reporters appearing most weeks include Ivan Gaskell, Hamish Marshall, Marc Webber, Juliette Ferrington, Roddy Forsyth, Martin Fisher, Sohail Sahi, Alastair Yeomans, Naz Premji, John Southall, John Acres, Will Perry, Eilidh Barbour, Laurence Herdman, Mike Williams, Andy Stevenson, Vicki Sparks, Katherine Downes, Robyn Cowen, Chris Wise, Mark Scott, Adam Cottier, Nick Hatton, Henry Moeran, Dan McCarthy, Adam Whitty, Tom Gayle, John Bennett, Nesta McGregor, Aaron Paul, Andy Sixsmith, Nikesh Rughani, Maz Farookhi, Betty Glover, Shourjo Sarkar, Connie McLaughlin, Ben Mundy, Laura Kenyon, Paul Scott, Niall McCaughan, Ben Croucher, Joshua Adu-Donkor, Lee Blakeman, Charlotte Richardson, Chris Coles, Rebecca Adams, Rich Wolfenden, Kate Mason, Flo Pollock, Gavin Wallace, Eisha Acton, Ellen Ellard, Gavin Ramjaun, Cameron Pope, Ryan Bromliow, Owain Gwynedd, Qasa Alom and Alex Howell.