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BBC Sports Team of the Year Award

Annual sport award

BBC Sports Team of the Year Award
Summary

Annual sport award

FieldValue
nameBBC Sports Team of the Year Award
presenterBBC Sports Personality of the Year
countryUnited Kingdom
year
holderEuropean Ryder Cup team (2025)
holder_labelMost recent winner

The BBC Sports Team of the Year Award is an award given annually as part of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year ceremony each December. Currently, the award is given "for the team in an individual sport or sporting discipline that has achieved the most notable performance in the calendar year to date. The team should have significant UK interest or involvement".

Nomination procedure

From 2012 the award's recipient is decided by an expert panel selected by the BBC. For some years before 2012 a panel of over 30 sporting journalists, each of whom voted for their top two choices and followed a defined set of voting criteria. Before that, the winner of the Team of the Year Award has been chosen by public vote and picked by listeners of BBC Radio 5 Live.

History

The Team of the Year Award was first presented in 1960, six years after the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award was introduced. The first recipient of the award was the Cooper Formula One Racing team. The England national rugby union team and the Ryder Cup team have won the award the most times; both teams have won five times and have shared the award on one of those occasions. Liverpool F.C. have won the award four times. The award has been shared on two occasions—by the British women's 4 x 400 m relay team and the British Ryder Cup team in 1969, and by the England national rugby union team and the British men's 4 x 400 m relay team in 1991. Teams have varied greatly in size. The smallest winning team has been two members; the figure skating duo of Torvill and Dean in 1982 and 1983, and the Olympic men's coxless rowing pair of Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent in 1992 and 1996. The largest winning team was in 2012; the British representatives at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Six nations have been represented by the award-winning team. Teams representing Great Britain have won the award the most times, having had twenty-three recipients, three of which shared the award. Excluding the 2000 British Olympic and Paralympic teams, which fielded competitors in many Paralympic and Olympic sports, the remainder of the winning teams have represented 15 sporting disciplines. Although dominated by teams from England or representing Great Britain, the award has been won twice by Scottish teams; Celtic in 1967, after they became the first British football club to win the European Cup, and the 1990 Grand Slam winning Scotland rugby union squad.

Football has had the highest representation among the winners, with 15 recipients. The most recent award was presented in 2025 to the England women's national football team.

By year

  • Denotes joint winners.
Photograph of the front of the Cooper T51 racing car. It is fairly cylindrical in shape, coloured green, with two white racing stripes, and the number 17 on the bonnet.
A [[Cooper T51]], similar to the one used by the [[Cooper Car Company]] in the [[1960 Formula One season]]
Black-and-white photograph from the front of Eric Brown which shows him finishing his golf swing over his left shoulder.
Eric Brown]], who captained United Kingdom's [[1969 Ryder Cup]] that won the award that year
Photograph from the side of horse Nijinsky II, who is walking round the paddock at the 1970 Irish Derby.
[[Nijinsky II]], whose team took the award in 1970
FA Cup]] win
Head-and-shoulders photograph of Alan Hanson, who is wearing a grey suit, white shirt and black tie.
[[Alan Hansen]], who captained the [[Liverpool F.C.]] side that won the award in 1986
the treble
Photograph of nine members of the England rugby team on an open top bus victory parade. Lawrence Dallaglio is in the centre holding up the golden coloured Webb Ellis Cup, which is the trophy awarded to the winners.
England rugby union team]] won the award in 2003 for their victory at the [[2003 Rugby World Cup]]
Chris Hoy wearing a bicycle helmet, visor, cycling shorts and top cycling on a racing bike in a velodrome.
British Olympic Cycling Team]] that won the award in 2008
Euro 2022
[[Wigan Warriors]], pictured celebrating winning the [[2024 Super League Grand Final]], won the 2024 award after winning every major trophy available to them, and becoming the only British club to do so twice
YearNationWinnerSportNote
1960United KingdomMotor racing
1961EnglandFootball
1962United KingdomMotor racing
1963West IndiesCricket
1964EnglandFootball
1965EnglandFootball
1966EnglandFootball
1967ScotlandFootball
1968EnglandFootball
1969United KingdomAthletics
1969United KingdomGolf
1970CanadaHorse racing
1971United KingdomRugby union
1972United KingdomEquestrianism
1973EnglandFootball
1974United KingdomRugby union
1975United KingdomSwimming
1976United KingdomModern Pentathlon
1977EnglandFootball
1978United KingdomTennis
1979United KingdomEquestrianism
1980EnglandRugby union
1981EnglandHorse racing
1982United KingdomFigure skating
1983United KingdomFigure skating
1984United KingdomEquestrianism
1985EuropeGolf
1986EnglandFootball
1987EuropeGolf
1988United KingdomHockey
1989United KingdomAthletics
1990ScotlandRugby union
1991EnglandRugby union
1991United KingdomAthletics
1992United KingdomRowing
1993EnglandRugby union
1994EnglandRugby league
1995EuropeGolf
1996United KingdomRowing
1997United KingdomRugby union
1998EnglandFootball
1999EnglandFootball
2000United Kingdom—
2001EnglandFootball
2002EuropeGolf
2003EnglandRugby union
2004United KingdomRowing
2005EnglandCricket
2006EnglandRugby league
2007EnglandRugby union
2008United KingdomCycling
2009EnglandCricket
2010EuropeGolf
2011EnglandCricket
2012United Kingdom—
2013United Kingdom
Republic of IrelandRugby Union
2014EnglandRugby union
2015United KingdomTennis
2016EnglandFootball
2017EnglandCricket
2018EnglandNetball
2019EnglandCricket
2020EnglandFootball
2021EnglandFootball
2022EnglandFootball
2023EnglandFootball
2024EnglandRugby league
2025EuropeGolf

By nation

This table lists the total number of awards won by nations that the teams have represented.

NationNumber of winsThe fractions refer to occasions on which the awarded was shared between more than one person. For example, the British & Irish Lions are made up of representatives from both Ireland and the United Kingdom (including when they were called the British Lions).EnglandUnited KingdomScotlandRepublic of IrelandCanadaWest Indies
6
2
1
1
1

By sport

This table lists the total number of awards won by the teams sporting discipline.

Sporting professionNumber of winsThe table excludes the individual Olympic sports that members of the winning 2000 Olympic and Paralympic, and 2012 Olympic and Paralympic teams competed in.FootballRugby unionGolfCricketAthleticsEquestrianismRowingRugby leagueFigure skatingHorse racingMotor racingTennisCyclingHockeyNetballSwimming
16
11
7
6
4
3
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1

Notes

References

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