Photographers Gareth Gardner and Peter Hardin led the way, heading out to sports grounds around the region on weekends to capture all the action.

Now, with the year coming to an end we wanted to have a look back at all the great photos that were snapped.

We trawled through the photo archives and picked out some of our favourite photos from each month.

Today we are taking a look at some our favourite photos from July and August.

While you're here, feel free to check out our other sport compilation galleries from 2020 that we've put together.

- A look back at sport photos from January and February

- The Leader sport photos from March and April

- Check out these sport photos from May and June this year