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Stadium of the Year

Stadium of the Year is an annual public poll organised by StadiumDB.com website, to select, through a public vote, the best football stadium completed in the year preceding the contest. The award is the largest public vote of its kind in the world.[1]

Stadium of the Year
Awarded forbest football stadium completed in the year preceding the contest
Presented byStadiumDB.com
First awarded2011

The contest is organised by StadiumDB.com and its twin site Stadiony.net, edited in Polish. In the 2014–2020 editions, jury voting was held separately, in addition to public polls. Since the 2024 edition, the contest will also be organised on the newly launched EstadiosDB.com site, edited in Spanish.[2]

Description

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In 2011 Stadiony.net web portal for the first time organised a competition in which readers could vote for the best football arena in their opinion, commissioned in 2010. The contest has been held annually since then.[3][4][1][5]

Initially, the competition was organised only in the Polish language version of the website. Since the 3rd edition, following the creation of the English version of the site, StadiumDB.com, the contest has been held jointly in both language versions.[3] Since the 15th edition (Stadium of the Year 2024), the competition will also be organized in the launched in 2024 Spanish version of the website, EstadiosDB.com.[2]

The voting each year is preceded by a nomination phase, during which readers can submit their suggestions and comments, influencing the final list of stadiums considered for the competition. Facilities that meet the following criteria are eligible to participate in the poll:[6]

  • were commissioned in the year prior to the vote
  • are completely new or substantially redeveloped
  • are suitable for hosting football matches
  • have a capacity of at least 10,000 spectators

The competition takes the form of an open, online vote in which readers of the website can take part, awarding points to five stadiums of their choice (scores of 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1).[7] The award is the largest public vote of its kind in the world. In the record-breaking 2014 edition, nearly 100,000 votes were cast.[3]

In the 2014–2020 editions, in addition to the public vote, a jury vote was also organised separately. Architects specialising in stadium design, were invited to join the panel of jurors.[3][8][4]

The statue for winning the 2021 edition (in which El Sadar Stadium in Pamplona was selected as the best) was presented by the owner of the site to the president of the CA Osasuna club, Luis Sabalza. The brief ceremony took place on April 20, 2022 at the winning stadium, just before Osasuna's high-profile encounter with Real Madrid, and was broadcast live on the official La Liga coverage worldwide.[9][10][11][12]

List of winners

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List of past winners of the Stadium of the Year contest:[3]

Edition Year Nominations Votes Public Award Jury Vote
1 (  Stadiony.net only) 2010 22 1809[13]   Aviva Stadium (Dublin)   –
2 (  Stadiony.net only) 2011 27 11 859   Stadion Gdańsk (Gdańsk)   –
3 2012 16 14 439   Arena do Grêmio (Porto Alegre)   –
4 2013 18 27 851   Ghelamco Arena (Ghent)   –
5 2014 32 96 772   Allianz Parque (São Paulo)     Hazza bin Zayed Stadium (Al Ain)  
6 2015 22 37 677   Estadio BBVA (Guadalupe)     Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux (Bordeaux)  
7 2016 29 82 826   Vodafone Park (Istanbul)     London Stadium (London)  
8 2017 27 53 083   Estadio General Pablo Rojas (Asunción)     Luzhniki Stadium (Moscow)  
9 2018 27 35 330   Volgograd Arena (Volgograd)     Diósgyőri Stadion (Miskolc)  
10 2019 21 30 632   Puskás Aréna (Budapest)     Japan National Stadium (Tokyo)  
11 2020 20 21 821   Sultan Ibrahim Stadium (Iskandar Puteri)     SoFi Stadium (Inglewood)  
12 2021 23 12 873   El Sadar Stadium (Pamplona)   –
13 2022 36 24 524   OPAP Arena (Athens) –
14 2023 35 12 073   Arena MRV (Belo Horizonte)   –

References

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  1. ^ a b "Stadium awards: Which are the most prestigious?". Football Ground Guide. 8 April 2021. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  2. ^ a b Kuba Kowalski (13 September 2024). "Stadiony.net: ¡Lanzamos la página web en español!". Stadiony.net (in Polish). Archived from the original on 23 September 2024. Retrieved 23 September 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Stadion Roku (Stadium of the Year)". Stadiony.net (in Polish). Archived from the original on 27 September 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Chosen for jury service for two major architectural awards". IDOM. 14 March 2016. Archived from the original on 6 December 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Sydney, Lusajl i… Łódź. Stadion ŁKS-u nominowany w prestiżowym plebiscycie". ŁódzkiSport (in Polish). 7 January 2023. Archived from the original on 25 January 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  6. ^ Mateusz Osmola (6 January 2023). "Stadium of the Year 2022: Czas na Wasze propozycje!". Stadiony.net (in Polish). Archived from the original on 6 January 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  7. ^ Mateusz Marchewka (13 February 2022). "Polskie stadiony najlepsze na świecie". iGol.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 25 January 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  8. ^ "Konkurs Stadion Roku 2019". Stadiony.net (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2 February 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  9. ^ Pablo Vande Rusten; Roger Sabatés (28 April 2022). "Una noche en el mejor estadio del mundo". El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 24 October 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  10. ^ Robert Saganowski (22 April 2022). "Stadium of the Year: Stadiony.net z wizytą w Pampelunie!". Stadiony.net (in Polish). Archived from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  11. ^ "El Sadar, reconocido y galardonado como el mejor estadio del mundo en 2021". Navarra.com (in Spanish). 21 April 2022. Archived from the original on 20 May 2022.
  12. ^ "Reconocimiento a El Sadar como mejor estadio de 2021". noticias de Navarra (in Spanish). 21 April 2022. Archived from the original on 25 January 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  13. ^ "Stadion Roku 2010: Pełna lista wyników". Stadiony.net (in Polish). 2 February 2011. Archived from the original on 8 December 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
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