How Long Has Jeff Stelling Been Doing Soccer Saturday? How Many Cats Does Jeff Stelling Have?

Jeff Stelling has been at Sky Sports Saturday for 30 years.

The TV football presenter has nine pet cats and three dogs.

Stelling hosted coverage of the Champions League between 2011 and 2015.

He also presented the Channel 4 quiz show Countdown (2009–2011) and ITV game show Alphabetical (2016–2017).

On 30 October 2021, Stelling, 67, announced his intention to leave Soccer Saturday at the end of the 2021–22 season.

However, on 28 March 2022, Sky Sports announced that Stelling would be staying until at least the end of the 2022-23 season.

Stelling was brought up in a council house in Hartlepool. He attended Rift House Primary School and West Hartlepool Grammar School.

After leaving school his first job was as a journalist at the Hartlepool Mail where he remained for four years.

His first broadcasting position was as a reporter on Middlesbrough F.C. on Radio Tees in the late 1970s.

Stelling was a sports presenter on London’s LBC Radio Sportswatch program in the early 1980s before moving to BBC Radio 2’s weekend sports program Sport on 2, covering the Los Angeles and Seoul Olympic games.