Nantwich Town have won the league fair play award for April having picked up two yellow cards for the month.
The Dabbers received two cautions and no red cards in the seven games they played in the month.
Nantwich Town will pick up the award from the league at the AGM in June.
It’s not the first time this season that Nantwich have won the award.
They picked up the prize for November having received just two yellows cards in that month.
The two cautions have seen the Dabbers finish fifth in the final fair play table behind Blyth, Matlock, Stourbridge and Halesowen picking up 70 points.
Manager Phil Parkinson was thrilled to pick up the award – but would happily swap it with an successful season.
He said: “On the pitch we are very disciplined team as we are off the pitch.
“The players conduct themselves as I would like them to do.
“Unfortunately you don’t win titles being the nicest team in the league and if I don’t win that next season and I do particularly well in the league then I would be a very happy man.
“We are a club that champions fair play and a club that champions things such as honesty and integrity on the pitch.
“So I am absolutely delighted to be picking up anything that is associated with that kind of ethos.”
Outgoing chairman Jon Gold added his praise for the whole club.
“It’s always been my way of playing.
“No one was prouder then me in the 2012/13 season when we won the national respect award for fair play at all levels not just our first team, but our junior teams.
“It’s something we try and instil through all of our youth teams right through the our first team.
“The fact that Phil, who really is embodiment of that, is now teaching that and preaching that, instilling it in the players and now it’s been shown and recognised with the award for April that we are playing attractive football in a fair and proper way.”
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