Last season’s top performing clubs were rewarded financially when the Bermuda Football Association handed out more than $33,000 at the end-of-season awards on Saturday.

PHC were the big earners, awarded some $9,029 in total, including $7,000 for winning the Premier Division and $1,779 for winning the Friendship Trophy. They also earned $250 for finishing fourth in the Dudley Eve Trophy.

Robin Hood are $6,500 richer after earning $5,000 for finishing second in the league and $1,500 for winning the Dudley Eve.

Dandy Town, who had a strong second half to finish third in the league, earned $4,000 along with $1,779 for reaching the Friendship Trophy final and $100 for finishing sixth in the Dudley Eve Trophy, for a total of $5,879.

Devonshire Cougars earned $3,000 for their fourth place finish in the league and $100 for finishing fifth in the Dudley Eve.

X-Roads received $2,000 for finishing fifth in the league and BAA $1,000 for sixth, the final Dudley Eve spot for next season.

Top First Division sides also got in on the money, with Southampton Rangers collecting a total of $2,890, $2,000 for placing first and $890 for winning the Shield.

Hamilton Parish also collected a cheque for $890 for finishing runners-up in the First Division Shield, while Somerset Eagles collected $1,000 for finishing second in the league, which earned them the second promotion spot.

The BFA also recognised five “legends” for their contribution to the sport, Allan Peacock, the former Hotels player and coach who died in 2017, women’s footballer Leslie White and former North Village team-mates of the 1970s and 80s, Randy Bean and twins Richard and Robert Calderon.

Order of Merit went to Stanley Simons, the player-coach of Dandy Town when they entered the league in 1973 and spent ten years in the Second Division before being promoted in 1983, by which time he had stopped playing and became an administrator of the club and then president.

Others receiving the award were Paul Scope, the former BAA, Vasco da Gama and Hotels player and former player and coach of Robin Hood in the Commercial League before then becoming president of the club.

Others receiving the Order of Merit were Fred “Pinks’ Lewis, the former Young Men’s Social Club player and president, and former BFA officials Kenneth Perinchief and Larry Mussenden.

“The Order of Merit is awarded as a token of appreciation to any person who served the association or the game of football in an exemplary manner, whether as a professional or voluntary capacity while demonstrating their commitment by holding the image and integrity of the sport through development, social delivery and other forms of positive activity,” the BFA said of the award.