Hosted by Victoria Derbyshire at Nobu in central London, the ceremony featured 91 nominees across a host of categories that mix star power with acknowledgment of hard work done in the Football League and below. Declan Rice and Alessia Russo were named men\u2019s and women\u2019s player of the year respectively, Lucy Ward won TV\/radio pundit of the year, and Peter Drury was named commentator of the year.<\/p>\n
The Guardian\u2019s Sophie Downey was recognised among the nominees for writer of the year, a category won by the Independent\u2019s Miguel Delaney. The Guardian was recognised among the nominees for men\u2019s football media of the year, won this year by the Athletic.<\/p>\n
Non-League Day won the non-league award and Proud Baggies \u2013 a West Brom group \u201cfor all LGBTQ+ fans, their families, friends, and allies\u201d \u2013 took honours in the fans for diversity category. Bristol City took the award for supporter engagement and Sunderland\u2019s Chris Waters, the club\u2019s fan liaison officer, won a category dedicated to supporter services.<\/p>\n
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‘What a moment’: Paul Merson\u2019s son scores ‘outrageous’ non-league goal \u2013\u00a0video <\/p>\n
Arseblog won fan media of the year, Barrow-focused Give \u2018Em Beans won fanzine of the year, while the climate action award \u2013 which celebrates anyone using football to fight the climate crisis across the UK \u2013 went to Sustaina-Bees and Brentford.<\/p>\n
Newcastle-focused Pod on the Tyne won club podcast of the year, The Adam Clery Football Channel took the social media of the year honour and Sam Merson \u2013 son of Paul Merson \u2013 was awarded goal of the year for a stunning volley he scored for Hanworth Villa<\/a>.<\/p>\n skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n Sign up to Football Daily<\/p>\n Kick off your evenings with the Guardian’s take on the world of football<\/p>\n Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com<\/a> to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy<\/a>. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy<\/a> and Terms of Service<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n Tom Greatrex, the FSA\u2019s chair, said: \u201cOn and off the pitch we are proud to celebrate the best that football has to offer. It\u2019s no surprise that Declan and Alessia won the popular vote for the player awards \u2013 they are both unbelievable talents who have been brilliant for club and country.<\/p>\n \u201cThe FSA Awards also highlight work across the pyramid at supporters\u2019 groups, clubs, and in the media that might otherwise go unnoticed. There is so much good work going on out there and it\u2019s a fantastic achievement to win or even be shortlisted.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Guardian has won a double of podcast awards at the Football Supporters\u2019 Association Awards, with Football Weekly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-321559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}