The 2025 Sports Podcast Awards have been announced, with the BBC’s No Balls: The Cricket Podcast a big winner this year.
It won two Gold’s for the Best Cricket Podcast and the Diverse Voices Award as well as a bronze in the Comedy category, adding to the Gold they won last year.
There were also repeat Gold victories for Stick to Football (Football), The Paulie and Tony Fusco Show (Comedy), Fantasy Football Today (Fantasy, Betting & Gaming), God Bless Football (American Football), who re-claimed the Gold they won in 2023, and Off the Podium (Olympics/Paralympics).
This year also saw some new winners in the shape of New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce (Sports Talk), The Rick Shiels Golf Show (Golf), Red Bull Racing’s Talking Bull (Motorsport), Crowd Network’s For The Love of Rugby (Rugby) and CBC and NPR’s Tested, the podcast exploring the topic of gender-testing in sport, which took home a Gold (Equality & Social Impact) and two Silvers.
The Winners:
Best American Football Podcast
🥇 God Bless Football
🥈 Nightcap
🥉 The Mina Kimes Show
Best Baseball Podcast
🥇 The Mets Pod
🥈 Fantasy Baseball Today
🥉 Nothing Personal with David Samson
Best Basketball Podcast
🥇 Numbers on the Board
🥈 Eye on College Basketball
🥉 Oddball
Best Combat Sports Podcast
🥇 The Propa Podcast
🥈 Daniel Cormier TV
🥉 Boxing with Mannix And Mora
Best Cricket Podcast
🥇 No Balls: The Cricket Podcast
🥈 Zero Ducks Given
🥉 Sky Sports Cricket Podcast
Best Equality & Social Impact Podcast
🥇 Tested
🥈 Sports will Save us All
🥉 Sorry, Partner
Best Fantasy, Betting & Gaming Podcast
🥇 Fantasy Football Today
🥈 Fantasy Baseball Today
🥉 Fantasy Football Scout
Best Fitness, Health & Wellbeing Podcast
🥇 The Long Run
🥈 Couch to Coached Running Podcast
🥉 Eight Percent Mental
Best Football Podcast
🥇 Stick to Football
🥈 Attacking Third: A CBS Sports Women’s Soccer Podcast
🥉 The Official Brighton and Hove Albion Podcast
Best Golf Podcast
🥇 The Rick Shiels Golf Show
🥈 The First Cut Golf
🥉 The Chipping Forecast
Best Hockey Podcast
🥇 Blueshirts Breakaway
🥈 Our Kids Play Hockey
🥉 Zero Pucks Given
Best Motorsports Podcast
🥇 Talking Bull
🥈 Bring Back V10S- Classic F1 Stories
🥉 The Fast and the Curious
Best Olympics/Paralympics Podcast
🥇 Off the Podium
🥈 Tested
🥉 The End of the Island Rowing Podcast
Best Rugby Podcast
🥇 For the Love of Rugby
🥈 The Rugby Pod
🥉 Happiness Is… with Bruce Aitchison
Best Sports Business Podcast
🥇 The Sporting Class
🥈 Black in Sports
🥉 The Sports Marketeer
Best Sports Comedy Podcast
🥇 The Paulie and Tony Fusco Show
🥈 Nightcap
🥉 No Balls: The Cricket Podcast
Best Sports Documentary Podcast
🥇 Pable Torre Finds Out
🥈 Perspectives from Rising Ballers
🥉 Pitchside with Roby Reynolds
Best Sports Talk Podcast
🥇 New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
🥈 SvPod
🥉 Colin Murray’s 52
Best Team Podcast
🥇 The Spurs Chat Podcast
🥈 Call it what You Want
🥉 The Official Brighton and Hove Albion Podcast
Best Tennis Podcast
🥇 Tennis Unfiltered
🥈 Control the Controllables
🥉 Tuned into Tennis
Best Wrestling Podcast
🥇 The Lapsed Fan
🥈 Fightful
🥉 Getting Over: Wrestling Podcast
Diverse Voices Award
🥇 No Balls: The Cricket Pod
🥈 Tested
🥉 Attacking Third: A CBS Sports Women’s Soccer Podcast