The final act of the 2009-2010 football season will be played out next week at the annual Bermuda FA Awards.

This year's ceremony will be held at Devonshire Rec on Friday evening with Dandy Town and North Village expected to sweep the board.

And for the first time the First Division will get their own separate awards as well.

Once again the nominations have been made by the coaches of the ten Premier Division teams, and as such there is the usual mix of the obvious, the contentious, and down right bizzare in the shortlists.

Town manager Leroy (Curly Joe) Wilson is favourite to take the Coach of the Year award while Nahki Wells is in the running to take the Most Valuable Player award.

Wells' team-mates Jared Peniston and Tredwell Gibbons have been nominated for Defensive Player of the Year, and Goalkeeper of the Year respectively, while Jamel Swan is on the Young Player of the Year shortlist.

While the inclusion of those names is of little surprise, the nomination of five Hamilton Parish players – Shayne Hollis, Calvin Hensey, Nigel Burgess, youngster Archer Hill jr, and manager Joe Lathan, who is up for the Coach of the Year award – is likely to raise a few eyebrows, especially as Parish were relegated.

This though will be the last time that coaches have the only say on who makes the shortlist with the BFA acknowledging that clubs only nominate their own players in a highly flawed system.

From next year the association hope to get the general public involved to a greater extent with supporters able to nominate players they think are worthy via the BFA website.

"What we are planning on doing is opening it up for the football family to make the nominations," said BFA marketing chairman Anthony Francis.

"Now that we have the website up and functioning, we are thinking that next year we should actually allow the public to make the nominations so that we get the people's choice.

"At the moment it's very tough getting nominations because of course you send the form to clubs and they nominate their people. So if we let the public make the nominations, then we take the top ten and the clubs and media can whittle it down to a shortlist."

Other questionable names that crop up in the shortlists are goalkeepers Marcel Dill (Somerset Eagles) Ricardo Brangman (Devonshire Cougars) and Ray Glasford (PHC), while North Village midfielder Jonathan Briers, who was one of the most influential players of the season, is conspicuous by his absence.

These talking points aren't limited to the top flight, they are just as obvious in the First Division nominations with Andrew Bascome missing from the Coach of the Year nominations, despite his sterling work with Robin Hood in their first season in that division.

Hood midfielder Teddy Terceira might also feel aggrieved at missing out on being nominated for the MVP award in favour of team-mate David Wolffe, while the nominations of several Paget players, including that of goakeeper Andre Bean, who conceded 71 goals as he team finished bottom, is equally baffling.

The BFA are keen to make next Friday's (7 p.m.) ceremony a big event, with Francis encouraging fans of all ages to turn out for the occasion.

"We're trying to get anybody and everybody to come along," said Francis, "not just the nominees and their families. Anyone can come, that's why we are having it at Devonshire Rec, right at this particular time."

In all there will be nine separate categories of awards handed out, with Premier Division, First Division, and the women's teams battling it out for MVP, Coach of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year, Goalkeeper of the Year, Young Player of the Year, and Coach of the Year honours.

There will also leading goalscorers awards, Fair Play team awards and awards for referees and most improved referee.