Who’d be a referee?
We know it can be a bit of a thankless task for our men and women in black but we wouldn’t have a game without them.
That’s why Football in Berkshire’s awards night aims to celebrate the county’s best whistle blowers from across the leagues, levels and divisions.
Have you been hugely impressed by a young referee? Maybe there’s a veteran out there still nailing every single decision. Click here down to get your nominations in.
Referee of the Season
2017: George Maxwell
2018: Ollie Kaya
2019: James Knight (Bracknell Sunday League)
2020: Matthew Barrett (Bracknell Sunday League and East Berks Football League)
2022: Matthew Barrett (Bracknell Sunday League and East Berks Football League)
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Nominations open for:
- Match Day Experience
- Supporter of the Season
- Volunteer of the Season
- Best Image
- Goal of the Season
- Best Website or Blog
- Best Content Creator
- Best Community Campaign or Content
- Correspondent of the Season
- Manager of the Season
- Referee of the Season
- Young Player of the Season (Female)
- Young Player of the Season (Male)
- Player of the Season (Female)
- Player of the Season (Male)
- The Darrell Freeland Award for Service to the Local Game
Yes! The awards are taking place at the marvellous Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading and we’ll have food available. Tickets will be limited but on sale from 5th June. If you’d like to know when so you don’t miss out, make sure you’ve signed up to our email newsletter.
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Scroll down to the bottom of this article for the nomination form. Before you do that though, here’s what the judging panel are looking for when choosing the shortlist.
What’s the story? Tell us exactly why the person or place should be considered. We hate to get all ‘X Factor journey’ on you but the more detail you can include, the better we can argue for your nominee for the short list.
The sort of details we love to see include things like player awards, goals, clean sheets and any other significant contributions to the footballing community – obviously within the 2022/23 season.
There have already been hundreds of nominations for the 2023 awards, we’ve published a lot but still have a lot more to do!
You can view all the 2023 nominees so far here.
Want to know who’s previously won what at the Berkshire Football Awards? There’s a big long page with all the previous winners here.
Nominations will be open until midnight on Wednesday 31st May 2023.
The Long List will be published on Friday 2nd June and the Short List on Monday 5th June.
Once that date has passed the nominations in each category will be put before a panel of judges for a decision, the top three announced online and the winners at the awards night on Wednesday 21st June.
We will accept nominations for people out of area, the only prerequisite is that the reason for nomination is that it must be because of an affiliation with a club we cover on Football in Berkshire (a full list is at the bottom of this page). We will present certificates and a trophy to the winners.
- You can nominate as many people as you like for each award
- Please try and avoid nominating your own family members.
- Due to difficulties in obtaining permissions under child protection laws we won’t consider any player under the age of 16 for nomination in any of the categories
Nomination Form
Nominations for the 2023 Berkshire Football Awards are now closed!
What’s next? Look out for the Long List of all the nominations which will be published here and across all our channels by midday on Friday 2nd June 2023.
The Short List for each category will then be published at midday on Monday 5th June 2023. At that point, tickets will be made available to attend the awards night at Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading on the evening of Wednesday 21st June 2023. If you’d like notification of when tickets are available, sign up to our newsletter here or add your email to the form below:
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