Watford has been awarded the Grounds Team of the Year Award for 2017/18 in the Premier League, reports www.fcbusiness.co.uk

The club's head groundsman, Scott Tingley, and his team won the award for the pitch at Vicarage Road after assessment from the Premier League's Playing Surfaces Committee and the independent assessor Dr Stephen Baker from the Sports Turf Research Institute.

The award is based on a number of factors including marks from referees and match delegates, usage of the pitch and the environmental conditions, an end-of-season pitch quality assessment and the resources and resource management at each club.

"The award is testament to the pitch's current condition, the result of much hard work and dedication from the club's grounds team," said club chairman Scott Duxbury.

"As with everything here at Watford FC, we are now looking to the future and the challenge of maintaining award-winning standards – both at the stadium and at the ever-developing training ground."