Voting is now open for the Group of the Yr award that might be introduced at Sports activities Persona of the Yr 2025.
England’s Euro 2025-winning girls’s soccer staff, the nation’s Girls’s Rugby World Cup champions, and the triumphant European Ryder Cup staff have been shortlisted for the prize.
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Voting will shut and the winner might be introduced through the reside present on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on Thursday, 18 December.
Final 12 months, the Group of the Yr prize was awarded to all-conquering rugby league facet Wigan Warriors.
Beneath you’ll be able to vote for the staff you suppose ought to win – and discover out extra concerning the contenders.
Who’re the Group of the Yr contenders?
England girls’s soccer staff (Lionesses)
[BBC Sport]
England had been as soon as once more topped European champions after a penalty shootout win over world champions Spain within the Euro 2025 ultimate in July.
Victory meant the Lionesses grew to become the primary senior England soccer staff to win a significant trophy on international soil.
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They did it the exhausting method – conceding first in all three of their knockout matches and turning into the one facet in Euros historical past to have three completely different matches go to further time.
However their never-say-die angle, and a few dramatic interventions by substitutes, helped Sarina Wiegman’s squad develop into solely the second nation to retain a Euros title.
England girls’s rugby union staff (Crimson Roses)
[BBC Sport]
England received the Girls’s Rugby World Cup in scintillating style in September, beating Canada 33-13 in entrance of a world document crowd of 81,885 at Twickenham.
It was the primary time the Crimson Roses had lifted the trophy since 2014.
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Of their quarter-final victory over Scotland, they broke their very own world document for the longest unbeaten run by a world rugby union facet, and prolonged it to 33 with no loss within the ultimate. Their final defeat got here within the 2022 World Cup ultimate.
Earlier in 2025, they received a fourth consecutive Six Nations Grand Slam and a seventh consecutive title.
European Ryder Cup staff
[BBC Sport]
Europe held off an exciting American resurgence to assert a Ryder Cup on US soil for under the fifth time, and the primary since their legendary ‘Miracle of Medinah’ triumph in 2012.
Luke Donald’s facet shrugged off a hostile New York crowd at Bethpage Black to open up a document seven-point lead after two days, having dominated the foursomes and fourballs codecs.
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They needed to present nerve to outlive a exceptional United States comeback on the ultimate day, however secured a 15-13 win to make it back-to-back victories.
The Europeans have now triumphed in six of the previous eight Ryder Cups.



























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