Four months of feel-good: Get your business involved in the Berkshire Football Awards

Angy King is Volunteer of the Season. Photo: Darren Woolley.
Angy King is Volunteer of the Season. Photo: Darren Woolley.
The Berkshire Football Awards return in June, but can only happen with your support

Boost their chances:

Before we know it, awards season will be upon us and we’ll be calling out for nominations. The Berkshire Football Awards are known by us as the ‘feelgood football night of the year’, but they only happen because of the generosity of our partners.

In 2025 we had a lead sponsor in TradeMark Windows as well as a sponsor for every single award. It makes the whole thing work and this year, for maximum exposure, we’d really like to get everything in place before we open nominations in March.

We’ll be reaching out shortly to all our recent sponsors – and we have some exciting opportunities to make a bigger mark this year – but we’re also keen to hear from other local or national businesses interested in being involved.

Numbers wise, we average 500 nominations every year from club’s across the county. We try our hardest to publish every single one in advance and we sell out all 150 tickets for the awards night itself. The awards themselves cover every inch of the county, Hungerfood to Slough, Cookham to Sandhurst and Aldermaston with all points in between.

Drop us a message through the Football in Berkshire LinkedIn page or pop your details in the form:

Margaret Wrigley steps up to accept her award at the 2025 TradeMark Berkshire Football Awards. Photo: Darren Woolley.
Margaret Wrigley steps up to accept her award at the 2025 TradeMark Berkshire Football Awards. Photo: Darren Woolley.
Nominees for the 2024 Berkshire Football Awards with Paul Watson. Photo: Neil Graham.
Nominees for the 2024 Berkshire Football Awards with Paul Watson. Photo: Neil Graham.

The 2026 Berkshire Football Awards will take place on Wednesday, 10th June at Double Barrelled Brewery in Central Reading.

Hosted by Paul Watson (The Sweeper Podcast, Guardian Football Weekly, Up Pohnpei!), up to 20 awards will be handed out covering Volunteers, Campaigns, Managers and Players in the men’s and women’s game across the county.

Just listen to our 2025 ‘Service to the Game’ winner (the Darrell Freeland Award) Margaret Wrigley to see how much this game means to us all.

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Nominations open:

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NOMINATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED!

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 28th May. If you’d like to know when, so you don’t miss out, make sure you’ve signed up to our email newsletter here.

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 2024/25 season.

We’ll publish all the nominees for the Berkshire Football Awards as we receive them.

You can view all the 2025 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 midday on Monday 26th May 2025.

The Long List will be published on Wednesday 28th May and the Short List on Friday 30th May.

Once the nomination window has closed, the nominations in each category will be put before a panel of judges for a decision, the top four announced online and the winners at the awards night on Wednesday 18th 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.

  • All nominations are done by you, the Berkshire footballing public
  • You can nominate as many people as you like for each award – the quantity of nominations counts for the judging panel..
  • That said, quality is just as important, the more detail you provide about why you are nominating, the better
  • 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 2025 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 Wednesday 28th May 2025.

The Short List for each category will then be published at 2pm on Friday 30th May 2025. At that point, tickets will be made available to attend the awards night at Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading on the evening of Wednesday 18th June 2025. If you’d like notification of when tickets are available, sign up to our newsletter here.

Can’t see the new form properly? Open it in a new window here.

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By answering these questions you'll go into a prize draw. Two winners will receive £20 toward merchandise or a season ticket at your club.

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