List of football personalities with British honours

This is a list of football personalities who have received Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom.

Previous awards, if gained, are listed in the relevant notes section.

All players from the winning team in the 1966 World Cup Final were awarded the MBE, additionally Jack Charlton, Bobby Moore, Gordon Banks and George Eastham were made OBE.

In August 2023, Dario Gradi was formally stripped of the MBE he had been awarded in the 1998 New Year Honours, after he was "effectively banned for life" by The Football Association for his part in the United Kingdom football sexual abuse scandal.

[294][437] In August 2016, former Liverpool player Howard Gayle, the first black footballer to play for the club, revealed he had turned down an MBE for his work with Show Racism the Red Card, stating that it would be "a betrayal to all of the Africans who have lost their lives, or who have suffered as a result of Empire.

Kenny Dalglish was the most recent former professional footballer to be knighted, an honour he received in 2018.
Former England manager Bobby Robson received a knighthood in 2002.
Geoff Hurst was knighted in 1998.
Pelé received an honorary knighthood in 1997. As a Brazilian citizen, he was not eligible to receive an actual knighthood.
Gary Mabbutt received an MBE in 1994.