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BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2025: Nominees and latest winner odds
The six-person shortlist for the main award is comprised of the Lionesses’ Euro 2025-winning duo Hannah Hampton and Chloe Kelly, Red Roses World Cup winner Ellie Kildunne, darts phenom Luke Littler, golf superstar Rory McIlroy and newly-crowned Formula One world champion Lando Norris.
This evening’s award – voted on by the public – will be handed out live alongside a number of other prizes in a televised ceremony held at MediaCity in Salford, with McIlroy the current favourite to win for the first time.
Here is a closer look at the six nominees for BBC Sports Personality of the Year….
Long wait over: Rory McIlroy finally won the Masters and secured a career Grand Slam
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McIlroy is currently the odds-on favourite to be crowned SPOTY winner for 2025.
McIlroy would become the first golfer to win the award since Nick Faldo in 1989.
World champion: Lando Norris sealed F1 title glory at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix
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The McLaren star ended Max Verstappen’s four-year championship reign in a final-race shootout in Abu Dhabi last weekend.
Norris – the 11th British driver to lift arguably the most coveted prize in motorsport – would become the first F1 star to win Sports Personality of the Year since Hamilton did it for the second time in his illustrious career five years ago.
Winning moment: Chloe Kelly scored the decisive penalty for England in the Euro 2025 final
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Kelly was only named in the starting lineup once during England’s Euro 2025-winning campaign in the summer.
Kelly’s nomination for Sports Personality of the Year caps a remarkable 12 months in which she also helped Arsenal to win the Champions League and finished fifth in the vote for the Women’s Ballon d’Or.
Making history: Luke Littler won the World Darts Championship aged just 17
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‘The Nuke’, who rose to take the world No1 spot in November after winning a number of other titles including the Grand Slam of Darts, will be looking to follow up his success with another world title at Alexandra Palace next month.
This is Littler’s second nomination for Sports Personality of the Year after finishing second in 2024, behind Hodgkinson.
Stepping up: Hannah Hampton saved two penalties in the Lionesses’ shootout win over Spain
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England’s penalty shootout hero at the Euros, Hampton more than vindicated her place in the side after taking over from 2022 Sports Personality of the Year winner Mary Earps as the Lionesses’ No1.
Hampton sealed a fantastic year by winning the Yashin Trophy for the world’s best female goalkeeper at the Ballon d’Or awards.
As well as her heroics in goal for England, Hampton helped Chelsea secure a domestic treble and was the joint-winner of the WSL’s Golden Glove award with 13 clean sheets in 22 games.
Dazzling try: Ellie Kildunne played a major role as England’s Red Roses won the Rugby World Cup on home soil
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Her dazzling solo try in the final against Canada at Twickenham underlined her ability and secured a historic victory for the Red Roses in front of an 81,000-strong world-record crowd for a women’s rugby game.
The Harlequins full-back also helped England to secure another Six Nations Grand Slam win earlier in the year.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2025 odds
(Odds via SkyBet, subject to change).
