Nominations for Young Player of the Season (Female) are open until Monday 10th May 2025
PLAYER OF THE SEASON (FEMALE)
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Wokingham Town’s Tilly Baigent is up for a Berkshire Football Award in the category of Young Player of the Season (Female) sponsored by Procision Football Academy.
The youngster has played eight times for Wokingham this season in the Thames Valley Counties Women’s Football League Division Three South, but has made a big impression on her team mates since coming into the side midway through the season.
One nomination for the award said: “Tilly has been playing in our Under 18’s team at Wokingham Town. She reached out and asked to train with the ladies team to learn and progress. She attended training on her own and showed great progress from this. So much so that she started playing in the ladies team on a Sunday whilst continuing playing on Saturdays and subsequently moved into the ladies starting 11 through her performances. I think she is an amazing footballer but also a great person. She is so humble and a great team player. She has progressed exponentially and has made a mark on our ladies team. She deserves recognition for this!”
Another added: “Because Tilly has made such an impact in our team. She came in midway through the season as part of her individual development. She is only 16, and juggles her youth team on a Saturday and Monday and the ladies team on Sundays and Wednesdays.
“She has become an integral part of our defence and sure do miss her on the odd occasion she misses a game. She’s very dedicated to the game and has now become as part of our starting 11 each week. She’s a solid player, who can meet toe to toe to any player she is against.”
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Agree that Tilly Baigent should be up for the Player of the Season (Female) 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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