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". 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.[1] Before that, the winner of the Team of the Year Award has been chosen by public vote[2] and picked by listeners of
Radio 5 Live.[3]
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 2022 to the
England women's national football team.
^In addition to the Team Award in 1986, a
Special Team Award was presented to the Great Britain men's 4 x 400 metres relay team.[30]
^
abThe 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).
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". 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.[1] Before that, the winner of the Team of the Year Award has been chosen by public vote[2] and picked by listeners of
Radio 5 Live.[3]
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 2022 to the
England women's national football team.
^In addition to the Team Award in 1986, a
Special Team Award was presented to the Great Britain men's 4 x 400 metres relay team.[30]
^
abThe 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).