Sports Personality of the Year 2022: England's Lionesses and Sarina Wiegman win team and coach of the year

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Spoty Team of the Year winners - the Lionesses

England's Lionesses person been named BBC Sports Personality Team of the Year 2022, portion caput manager Sarina Wiegman has won Coach of the Year.

Wiegman guided England to Euros triumph successful the summer, the nation's archetypal large women's shot trophy.

England are unbeaten successful 26 games since Wiegman's assignment successful 2021.

Captained by Leah Williamson, the Euros triumph implicit Germany besides marked England's archetypal large shot trophy since the men's 1966 World Cup triumph.

Wiegman, 53, who was appointed successful 2021 having won Euro 2017 with the Netherlands, steered England to a celebrated triumph successful July which catapulted women's shot into the spotlight successful England.

The Lionesses won each six of their Euros matches, topping their radical and going connected to bushed Spain and Sweden to acceptable up a last against Germany.

They claimed a dramatic 2-1 triumph astatine Wembley with Ella Toone opening the scoring earlier Chloe Kelly bagged the celebrated victor successful other time.

They past qualified for the 2023 World Cup with a 100% record, without conceding a goal.

England's men won past year's Team of the Year grant and Gareth Southgate was Coach of the Year pursuing their ain Euros campaign, wherever they reached the last but were beaten by Italy connected penalties.

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