ANNUAL LEAGUE AWARDS ANNOUNCED

Friday evening was our annual awards dinner at Ramside Hall.

The Arthur Clark Award given to the volunteer for their work to support and enable the League to thrive was given to Brian Mulligan who is stepping down from the League Management and Vice Chair. Brian has been a part of the League Management for thirty years and has continually gone the extra mile to ensure that the league was able to work and support it’s members clubs as efficiently and effectively as possible. Thank you Brian and to your family who have supported you while you supported us all!

Following the presentations Glenn Youngman said: “This has been a great season where thankfully the weather has not caused us too many problems and enabled clubs to minimise postponements. These awards recognise all of the hard work both on and off the pitch at our member clubs”

“As always, we want to thanks all of the people involved in keeping our league as successful as it is: the players, managers, coaches, volunteers, officials and spectators.”

Managers of the Year:

Division One – Nathan Haslam at Guisborough Town

Division Two – Stephen Jackson at Yarm & Eaglescliffe

Players of the Year:

Division One – James Frazer at Guisborough Town

Division Two – Craig Gott at Redcar Town

Young Players of the Year:

Division One – Daniel Lanning at Newcastle Blue Star

Division Two – James Hughes at Park View

Top goal scorers:

Division One – Mackenzie Sharpe at Whitley Bay (23 goals)

Division Two – Tom Atkinson at Yarm & Eaglescliffe (41 goals)

Referee of the Year:

Lewis Hardy

Fair Play awards:

Division One – Newcastle Benfield and Shildon

Division Two – Durham United and Esh Winning

The Fair Play award is based on on-field discipline with the winners accruing the fewest points for cautions, dismissals and misconduct

Respect awards:

Division One – Crook Town, Marske United and Whitley Bay

Division Two – Park View

The Respect award goes to the clubs with the fewest bookings and dismissals for dissent.

Four clubs won administration awards for completing the season without incurring a penalty: Jarrow, Park View, Penrith and Tow Law Town

We will shortly be confirming the winner(s) of our Road to the 42 which took place over last season, a challenge for fans to visit all 42 grounds of our league in a single season. We extend an apology to these winners for the delay in confirming this.

Photographs: Colin Bowman