Every Sunday morning we abandon our nice warm bed to play football on a surface that looks like it’s been under attack from a shower of scud missiles.

If it’s not rock hard, it’s a swamp. Grass and pitch markings are a luxury. Sunday League football has become an extreme sport.

Playing on a slope, avoiding pot holes and broken glass takes skill. But for one lucky amateur team the torture could be over.

Dreams of playing on a slick, velvety green surface could soon be realised.

Weekend Wonders has teamed up with Briggs & Stratton (the world's largest producer of petrol engines for lawn mowers) to find the worst amateur pitch in England – the winners of this unfortunate title will see their surface get a fuel-injected makeover.

Pitch To Win asks for grassroots football teams to explain why their pitch deserves some TLC in no more than 250 words.

Entrants will also need to provide the following information: Name, address, phone number, email address, team name, team association (player, coach, parent), pitch owner (council, club owner), pitch location, pitch size and photographic evidence.

The winners will see their pitch revamped courtesy of Briggs & Stratton, as well as a ride-on mower and a cheque for team expenses. Two runners up will receive cheques towards their club’s expenses.

The competition can be entered by anyone involved with a non-professional under 18’s football club in England and will be run in conjunction with Weekend Wonders, the prime destination for Britain’s legion of amateur footballers and sister website of football magazine, FourFourTwo.

Briggs & Stratton’s business development manager, Ian Small, said: “Our aim in running this competition is to show how sports grounds are an integral part of the community and how important it is to maintain them to a high standard.

"A good playing surface is as important as the star players.”

Gary Parkinson, FourFourTwo.com editor, said: We’ll all have our own nominations and the competition will certainly be fierce.

“We can’t improve the weather – although we Brits have long been stoical about that – but it’s nice to see that someone’s making an effort to improve the quality of the surface we play on.

"The better the surface, the better the quality of the game... Well that’s the theory anyway!”

The winning pitch will be announced on April 22 on Weekend Wonders and publicised in FourFourTwo magazine.

For more information contact 01332 258335 or check out Pitch To Win. To enter e-mail pitchtowin@haymarket.com. To see FourFourTwo terms and conditions click here.