Team Europe have been named the BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year 2025 after their thrilling victory at the Ryder Cup.<\/p>\n
Captain Luke Donald led the Europeans to a first win on American soil since 2012 with a 15-13 triumph in New York.<\/p>\n
Against a volatile home crowd at Bethpage Black, Europe claimed just their fifth victory in the USA since the tournament’s inception in 1927. <\/p>\n
The Europeans set the stage for one of the most dramatic days in Ryder Cup history by taking an 11\u00bd-4\u00bd lead into Sunday’s final day. <\/p>\n
It was the first time either side had held a seven-point lead before the final day, and Europe only needed three points to clinch victory. <\/p>\n
No side had ever come back from more than a four-point deficit to triumph, but the USA staged a superb fightback to claw themselves back into contention.<\/p>\n
However, Europe just managed to hold on to secure their first away win since the ‘Miracle at Medinah’ in 2012. <\/p>\n
They saw off competition from England’s Euro 2025-winning women’s football team and England’s Women’s Rugby World Cup champions to claim the prize. <\/p>\n
They are the seventh European Ryder Cup side to win the award, and the first since 2010. <\/p>\n
The 2024 prize was won by rugby league side Wigan Warriors after they won the quadruple. <\/p>\n
The shortlisting panel for this year’s awards included 2014 Rugby World Cup winner Maggie Alphonsi, former England footballer Anita Asante, double Paralympic gold medal-winning sprinter Libby Clegg, former world champion boxer Carl Frampton and 2009 World Cup-winning cricketer Ebony Rainford-Brent.<\/p>\n
Media personality and sports presenter Josh Denzel, sports broadcaster and Match of the Day co-host Kelly Cates, Daily Mail chief sports feature writer Riath Al-Samarrai, and Times sports reporter Molly Hudson were also on the panel.<\/p>\n
Representing the BBC were director of sport Alex Kay-Jelski, head of content Philip Bernie and executive producer Marc Vesty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Team Europe have been named the BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year 2025 after their thrilling victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-323497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}