This is the third year in a row that Dulwich have been nominated for the award having won in 2022 and coming in 2nd place to fellow Isthmian League side Concord Rangers last year.

The award celebrates the achievements of clubs within the National League System, in relation to their work on LGBTQ+ inclusion in football. This award is for clubs outside the professional football leagues and includes clubs that play in the Vanarama National League, Northern Premier League, Southern League and Isthmian League. The award will be made to a Non-League Club which has gone above and beyond to tackle issues of exclusion in the game over the past year. Non-League Clubs could have, for example:

Worked internally to make the club more inclusive for LGBTQ+ people
Publicly supported the inclusion of LGBTQ+ people
Implemented training for staff, volunteers and players
Taken part in the Month of Action, Trans Week of Action, Rainbow Laces or engaged in other similar campaigns/charities
Worked with the community to promote a better understanding of the issues faced by LGBTQ+ people in football, or worked on greater inclusion of LGBTQ+ people within the club

In 2023, we once again welcomed TRUK United to Champion Hill for 2 games and we also welcomed the first Trans Masc team in the World as they took on our Dulwich Hamlet Supporters team.

In December at our Men's fixture with Bognor Regis and our Women's fixture with Crawley members of our management teams and playing squads wore Rainbow, Transgender, Lesbian, Bisexual and Pansexual laces at our annual Rainbow Laces fixtures.

The Hamlet continue to lead the way for LGBTQ+ inclusivity in football and have a number of exciting new plans to make our football club even more inclusive as we move further into 2024.

The Football v Homophobia Awards take place on Friday 23rd February at the National Football Museum in Manchester.