The winners of the Sports Podcast Awards have been officially announced.
Following weeks of public voting across 21 categories, the Sports Podcast Group unveiled the victorious podcasts across social media on Friday 14th April.
The Athletic sealed the Best Team Podcast award, with its Tottenham Hotspur podcast taking the win, while James Richardson’s Totally Football Show winning the Best Soccer Podcast category.
Morning Kombat, RugbyPod, and God Bless Football all won the best podcast in their respective sports, each defending their crown from last year.
Fantasy Footballers were also repeat winners, but in the newly-created Fantasy & Sports Betting category. As were Folding Pocket Production, who followed up last year’s success in the Best Documentary Podcast for Defiance with victory this year for the BBC’s Moment of Truth Podcast.
It was a fantastic night for the No Balls Cricket Podcast, also one of BBC’s flagship shows, as they were the only pod to win two categories. Hosted by England bowler Kate Cross and World Cup winner Alex Hartley the pair won The Best Cricket Podcast and The Best Equality & Social Impact Podcast.
The independent podcast scene saw multiple winners on the night, with The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas, and Nick Luck Daily winning in the Best Basketball and Best Sports Talk categories respectively.
The full list of winners can be found HERE and below:
Categories in no particular order
- The Best Soccer Podcast – ‘The Totally Football Show with James Richardson’
- The Best Sports Documentary Podcast – ‘Moment of Truth’
- The Best Combat Sports Podcast – ‘Morning Kombat with Luke Thomas and Brian Campbell’
- The Best Diverse Voices Podcast – ‘The Women’s Golf Show’
- The Best American Football Podcast – ‘God Bless Football’
- The Best Golf Podcast – ‘Beef’s Golf Club’
- The Best Cricket Podcast – ‘No Balls – The Cricket Podcast’
- The Best Baseball Podcast – ‘Fantasy Baseball Today’
- The Best Basketball Podcast – ‘The Crossover with Joe Arlauckas’
- The Best Sports Talk Podcast – ‘Nick Luck Daily’
- The Best Fantasy & Sports Betting Podcast – ‘The Fantasy Footballers’
- The Best Motorsport Podcast – ‘Late Breaking F1 Podcast’
- The Best Performance, Wellbeing & Fitness Podcast – ‘The Long Run’
- The Best Rugby Podcast – ‘The Rugby Pod’
- The Best Sports Business Podcast – ‘The Marchand and Ourand Sports Media Podcast by New York Post Sports’
- The Best Sports Comedy Podcast – ‘Rig Biz Podcast’
- The Best Equality & Social Impact Podcast – ‘No Balls – The Cricket Podcast’
- The Best Team Podcast – ‘The View From The Lane’
- The Best Tennis Podcast – ‘Control The Controllables’
- The Best Hockey Podcast – ‘Our Kids Play Hockey’
- The Best Wilderness Podcast – ‘The Tour d’Écosse by The Cycling Podcast’