BBC Sports Personality of the Year Team Award
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The BBC Sports Personality of the Year Team Award is given on an annual basis to the sporting team or partnership considered to have made the most substantative contribution to sport in that year. It was first awarded in 1960 to Cooper Racing.
Subsequent winners have been:
- 1961 Tottenham Hotspur
- 1962 BRM Motor Racing
- 1963 West Indian cricket team
- 1964 English youth football team
- 1965 West Ham United
- 1966 English World Cup football team
- 1967 Celtic F.C.
- 1968 Manchester United
- 1969 Jointly awarded - British women's 4 x 400m relay team and United Kingdom Ryder Cup team
- 1970 Nijinsky II team
- 1971 British Lions
- 1972 Olympic Three Day Eventing team
- 1973 Sunderland A.F.C.
- 1974 British Lions
- 1975 British men's Swimming team
- 1976 British Olympic Modern Pentathlon team
- 1977 Liverpool F.C.
- 1978 Davis Cup and Wightman Cup tennis teams
- 1979 British Showjumping team
- 1980 England rugby union team
- 1981 Bob Champion & Aldaniti
- 1982 Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean
- 1983 Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean
- 1984 British showjumping team
- 1985 European Ryder Cup team
- 1986 Liverpool F.C.
- 1987 European Ryder Cup team
- 1988 British Hockey team
- 1989 British Olympic men's Athletics squad
- 1990 Scotland rugby union team
- 1991 Jointly awarded - England rugby union team and Men's Olympic 4 x 400m relay squad
- 1992 Steve Redgrave & Matthew Pinsent
- 1993 England Rugby Union team
- 1994 Wigan Rugby League team
- 1995 European Ryder Cup team
- 1996 British men's 4 x 400 m relay team
- 1997 British Lions
- 1998 Arsenal
- 1999 Manchester United
- 2000 Jointly awarded - British Olympic and Paralympic Athletics teams
- 2001 Liverpool F.C.
- 2002 European Ryder Cup team
- 2003 England Rugby World Cup winners
- 2004 British Men's Coxless Fours Rowing Team
- 2005 English cricket team
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