Goal.com named best football website in Soccerlens Awards

Goal.com have been named Best Football Website in the 2010 Soccerlens Awards, we are delighted to announce.

The shortlist for the awards is drawn up by Soccerlens and the Best Football Website is viewed as the most prestigious of the multiple categories.

The award winners are decided by a fan vote, and as such the Soccerlens Awards are recognised as one of the leading sources for identifying the best and brightest football sites and writers.

The 2010 awards - sponsored by Castrol Football and Studs Up Football Club - saw a record 37,000 votes cast.

In the Best Football Website category, Goal.com received an incredible 49 per cent of the vote ahead of BBC Football, Soccernet, Guardian Football and Sky Sports.

Goal.com PR Director Will Wood said: "We are delighted to be named Best Football Website in the Soccerlens Awards and it's the perfect end to 2010 for our editors and reporters who work hard to deliver the best, most comprehensive and representative football coverage.

"The voting to decide the winners is by the fans which makes it even more rewarding to win. Thank you to all those who voted for Goal.com, and we hope to continue our progress into 2011."

The achievement caps off a hugely successful year for Goal.com which saw the world's largest new media football community break its visitor records, as well as a host of other milestones.

To see the full list of awards, please click here.

luke. wrote:Goal.com is underrated tbh, people slag it for making false reports, and make it seem as if they make all the reports themselves, but tbh the majority are them just passing on information from other sites.

And it is a great football site for finding out interviews etc, due to the timelapse bar.

Tom wrote:

luke. wrote:Goal.com is underrated tbh, people slag it for making false reports, and make it seem as if they make all the reports themselves, but tbh the majority are them just passing on information from other sites.

And it is a great football site for finding out interviews etc, due to the timelapse bar.

Practically every piece of news is from newspaper/website sources and the rest is basically editors writing articles

luke. wrote:Goal.com is underrated tbh, people slag it for making false reports, and make it seem as if they make all the reports themselves, but tbh the majority are them just passing on information from other sites.

Danny B wrote:

Tom wrote:

luke. wrote:Goal.com is underrated tbh, people slag it for making false reports, and make it seem as if they make all the reports themselves, but tbh the majority are them just passing on information from other sites.

And it is a great football site for finding out interviews etc, due to the timelapse bar.

Practically every piece of news is from newspaper/website sources and the rest is basically editors writing articles

That's kinda what he said..?

They just collect stories from various different places. Nothing wrong with that.

Danny B wrote:Find me where they pass it off as journalism

luke. wrote:Goal.com is underrated tbh, people slag it for making false reports, and make it seem as if they make all the reports themselves, but tbh the majority are them just passing on information from other sites.

And it is a great football site for finding out interviews etc, due to the timelapse bar.

Pablo Sarabia wrote:

luke. wrote:Goal.com is underrated tbh, people slag it for making false reports, and make it seem as if they make all the reports themselves, but tbh the majority are them just passing on information from other sites.

And it is a great football site for finding out interviews etc, due to the timelapse bar.

You're one of those people.

Ryan wrote:Pablo, you're just as annoying as that iPepe twat.

luke. wrote:Goal.com is underrated tbh, people slag it for making false reports, and make it seem as if they make all the reports themselves, but tbh the majority are them just passing on information from other sites.

And it is a great football site for finding out interviews etc, due to the timelapse bar.