Nominations for Player of the Season (Male) are open until Monday 10th May 2025
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Harvey Rackley-Hayes is up for a Berkshire Football Award in the category of Player of the Season (Male) sponsored by Grundon Waste Management.
The Swords look play-off bound in the Combined Counties League Division One and Rackley-Hayes has been almost ever present between the sticks this season with only Max Wyld and Shaquille Johnson ahead of him in the appearances stats.
One nomination we received for the award said: “Harvey is a dedicated and vocal goalkeeper commanding teams from the back. He’s supportive of players and will spend time talking to supporters and all players and officials.
“Harvey has made 43 appearances for Berks County this season, all starts and has one man of the match under his belt.”
Another added: “Harvey has consistently managed his goal with both presence and pure determination. The way Harvey commands the best from his team, along with his distribution and goal techniques, makes him a standout nominee for me.”
A third simply said: “Harvey has stepped up many a times helping berks county towards play-offs this season and get through two tough rounds of the FA Vase.”
Agree that Harvey Rackley-Hayes should be up for the Player of the Season (Male) award? Or do you have someone else in mind? Let us know in the nomination form below:
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 18th 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 2025/26 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.6
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 Sunday 10th May 2026.
The Long List will be published on Friday 15th May and the Short List on Monday 18th May at midday.
Once the nomination window has closed, the nominations in each category will be put before a panel of over 20 judges for a decision, the top four announced online and the winners at the awards night on Wednesday 10th 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.
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 15th May 2026.
The Short List for each category will then be published at midday on Monday 18th May 2026. At that point, tickets will be made available to attend the awards night at Double-Barrelled Brewery in Reading on the evening of Wednesday 10th June 2026. If you’d like notification of when tickets are available, sign up to our newsletter here.
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