"The Life of Riley" is a song by British band The Lightning Seeds.

However the song later gained popularity when the BBC football programme, Match of the Day, began to use it frequently for segments including "Goal of the Month", throughout most of the 1990s.

[2] The song was still associated with the programme many years later and featured in a similar "Goal of the Day" segment in the mid-2000s.

The writer of the song, Ian Broudie, cites his son Riley as the namesake of the piece.

The song title has also been used for a compilation album, Life of Riley: The Lightning Seeds Collection.