Finalists

Best Sports Governing Body Initiative

  • Fighting Chance Scholarship Programme – British Martial Arts & Boxing Association (BMABA)
  • GolfSixes League – The Golf Foundation
  • International Table Tennis Federation – ITTF Foundation
  • #LoveSwimming campaign – Swim England
  • Transforming an International Federation – International Netball Federation

Best Sports Event of the Year – UK

  • Big Game 11 – Harlequins
  • BT Sport Pub Cup 2018
  • Deloitte Ride Across Britain – Threshold Sports
  • Glasgow 2018 European Championships – Glasgow City Council
  • Lancashire Lightning v Yorkshire Vikings – Vitality Blast – Lancashire Cricket
  • Vitality Hockey Women’s World Cup – England Hockey

Best Sports Event of the Year – Overseas

  • 2nd Teqball World Cup – International Teqball Federation
  • Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships – Dubai Duty Free
  • Heart of The Lion | ONE Championship
  • The Ryder Cup – PGA European Tour
  • World Table Tennis Day – International Table Tennis Federation Foundation

Best Match (or Game) Day Experience

  • Cardiff City FC
  • England Hockey Event’s Team
  • Lancashire Lightning v Yorkshire Vikings – Vitality Blast
  • Manchester City Football Club
  • Wolves v Liverpool – December 2018 – Wolverhampton Wanderers
  • World Darts Championship – Professional Darts Corporation

Best Fan Engagement Programme

  • Cardiff City FC Fan Engagement
  • Ekstraklasa S.A.
  • F1 Fan Voice – Goodform & F1
  • Fan Movement, by FIFA and Seven League
  • Our League for The RFL – InCrowd
  • Spectator Judging® App and the Fédération Equestre Internationale eLeague Dressage
  • The Lion’s Den – The English Football Association, Grabyo and Singular.Live
  • Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
  • #UnitedByHCL – Manchester United and HCL Technologies

Best Non-Match (or Game) Day use of Venue

  • BT Sport Pub Cup 2018
  • Emirates Old Trafford – Lancashire Cricket Club
  • Racing to School
  • The Kia Oval
  • Twickenham Stadium – Twickenham Experience Limited

Best Club CSR or Community Scheme

  • Buenos Aires – Tokyo; bridging the Olympic Games – International Table Tennis Federation Foundation
  • Dream Building with Refugees – International Table Tennis Federation Foundation
  • Goals4Girls
  • Home Is Where The Heart Is – Everton Football Club & Everton in the Community
  • International Teqball Federation
  • Red Neighbours – Liverpool Football Club
  • Saints Foundation, Charity of Southampton Football Club

Sports Innovation Award

  • ASB LumiFlex – ASB GlassFloor
  • Born Barikor – Our Parks
  • DAZN
  • Everton Football Club
  • Huddersfield Town Football Club
  • Movement Module – Catapult
  • Presca Teamwear – GRN Sportswear
  • Umbro – Everton Football Club

Best Professional Services Firm in Sport

  • BCD Sports
  • Jockey Club Services
  • K&L Gates
  • KSS
  • Onside Law

Best Small Business or Association Serving Sport – under £3m turnover

  • British Martial Arts & Boxing Association
  • DataPOWA
  • Goalball UK
  • Imagineear
  • Jockey Club Services
  • SportsPro Media
  • StatsBomb

Best Business Serving Sport – over £3m turnover

  • CSM Live
  • GL events UK
  • Infosys
  • STATSports
  • St. George’s Park
  • StreamAMG

Best in Sports Media

  • ABB FIA Formula E Championship – Formula E TV (FETV)
  • BBC Sport
  • European Tour/Ryder Cup Europe – PGA European Tour
  • FEI Website – Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI)
  • RamsTV – Derby County Football Club
  • SportsPro Media

Best Brand Activation Involving Sport

  • 2018 ITTF TATA Trickshot Challenge – International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF)
  • Angry Birds Evolution – Everton Integration – Rovio & Everton Football Club
  • Channel 5 – Little & Large campaign – Wildfire Social
  • Infosys – Tennis Australia
  • Johnnie Walker – Diageo – CSM Live

Agency of the Year

  • BCD Sports
  • Bright Partnerships
  • Goodform
  • MATTA
  • WePlay

Sports Tech of the Year –  for Sport and in Sport

  • CloudMatrix – StreamAMG
  • DataPOWA
  • NTT DATA & The Open – Driving Data Intelligence
  • PlayerMaker
  • STATSports Apex
  • #UnitedByHCL

Best Sports Club / Sports Event Hospitality

  • Aston Martin Red Bull Racing’s Paddock Club
  • Dial Square – Arsenal Football Club
  • England Rugby Hospitality – Twickenham Experience Limited
  • Lord’s Hospitality – Marylebone Cricket Club
  • Newmarket – The Moët & Chandon Dining Experience
  • The Cheltenham Club – Cheltenham Racecourse

Best Sports Charity (or best use of sport by a charity)

  • EFL’s Charity Partnership with Mind
  • Everton in the Community
  • Lord’s Taverners
  • Newcastle United Foundation
  • Rackets Cubed
  • The Golf Foundation
  • Sheffield & District Junior League, the Children’s Hospital & the Royal British Legion
  • Youth Sport Trust

Best Operations Team

  • Deloitte Ride Across Britain – Threshold Sports
  • England Hockey Event’s Team
  • Glasgow 2018 European Championships – Glasgow City Council
  • The Ryder Cup – Golf and Event Tech Operations Teams – CSM Live
  • StatsBomb Data Operations Team