Ball – 2015 Goal Of The Year?

Having announced the first shortlists for the Football League 2015-16 annual awards event, Goal of the Year contenders have now been released.

Celebrating the on and off pitch successes in the League’s 72 member clubs, the annual event features ten specific categories and five of the shortlists have now been released.

The latest being the Goal of the Year shortlist.

The Awards ceremony later in the season will also be held in Manchester for the first time – Sunday April 17 – to coincide with the formation of the Football League in Manchester back in 1888.

The shortlists released earlier, with the obligatory sponsors, were:

Nickelodeon Family Club of the Year:

Doncaster Rovers
Fulham
Middlesbrough
Millwall
Oxford United
Stevenage

Johnstone`s Paint Community Club of the Year:

North East & Yorkshire – Rotherham United
North West – Burnley
Midlands – Burton Albion
London – Charlton Athletic
South East – Brighton & Hove Albion
South West & Wales – Cardiff City

PFA Player in the Community:

Danny Grainger (Carlisle United)
Andy Butler (Doncaster Rovers)
George Friend (Middlesbrough)

LFE Apprentice of the Year:

Championship
David Popa (Birmingham City)
Ademola Lookman (Charlton Athletic)
Mathew Hudson (Preston North End)

League 1
James Bree (Barnsley)
Bright Osayi-Samuel (Blackpool)
Thomas Smith (Swindon Town)

League 2
Hakeem Odoffin (Barnet) (now Wolves)
Frankie Musonda (Luton Town)
Ben Godfrey (York City) (now Norwich)

We now know that David Ball features in the top ten Goal of the Year shortlist.

The players and clubs included in the vote are:

Doncaster Rovers – Andy Williams
Fleetwood Town – David Ball
Hartlepool United – Michael Duckworth
Leyton Orient – Blair Turgott
Luton Town – Luke Guttridge
Oxford United – Kemar Roofe
Preston North End – Jermaine Beckford
Reading – Danny Williams
Sheffield Wednesday – Marco Matias
Walsall – Romaine Sawyers



Fans have until midday Friday April 1 to vote for their favourite strike of the year and you can

Click Here to do just that.

Further award shortlists to be announced are Capital One Supporter of the Year, Sky Bet Players of the Year, Football League Young Player of the Year, the Sir Tom Finney Award and the Contribution to League Football award.

This year also sees a new category introduced – the Football Manager Team of the Season – that will recognise the best eleven players and manager from across all three Football League divisions.