Stadium of the Year

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

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]

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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.

Description

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. [2] [3] [1] [4]

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. [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: [5]

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). [6] 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. [2]

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. [2] [7] [3]

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. [8] [9] [10] [11]

List of winners

List of past winners of the Stadium of the Year contest: [2]

EditionYearNominationsVotesPublic AwardJury Vote
1 ( Flag of Poland.svg Stadiony.net only)2010221809 [12] Flag of Ireland.svg Aviva Stadium (Dublin) Aviva Stadium(Dublin Arena).JPG –
2 ( Flag of Poland.svg Stadiony.net only)20112711 859 Flag of Poland.svg Stadion Gdańsk (Gdańsk) Gdansk, Stadion PGE Arena - fotopolska.eu (326975).jpg –
320121614 439 Flag of Brazil.svg Arena do Grêmio (Porto Alegre) Arena do Gremio.jpg –
420131827 851 Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Ghelamco Arena (Ghent) Ghelamco Arena panorama indoor..jpg –
520143296 772 Flag of Brazil.svg Allianz Parque (São Paulo) Imagens da Cidade de Sao Paulo e Zoologico da Capital Paulista. (47480340301).jpg Flag of the United Arab Emirates.svg Hazza bin Zayed Stadium (Al Ain) IRN-JPN 20190128 01.jpg
620152237 677 Flag of Mexico.svg Estadio BBVA (Guadalupe) Estadio BBVA Bancomer (1).jpg Flag of France.svg Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux (Bordeaux) Match de football Bordeaux Liverpool le 17 septembre 2015 04.jpg
720162982 826 Flag of Turkey.svg Vodafone Park (Istanbul) 20220606-L1000240.jpg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg London Stadium (London) London Olympic Stadium West Ham.jpg
820172753 083 Flag of Paraguay.svg Estadio General Pablo Rojas (Asunción) Estadio General Pablo Rojas.jpg Flag of Russia.svg Luzhniki Stadium (Moscow) LuzhnikiStadium.jpg
920182735 330 Flag of Russia.svg Volgograd Arena (Volgograd) Volgograd arena aerial view 1.jpg Flag of Hungary.svg Diósgyőri Stadion (Miskolc) Diosgyori Stadion (inside).jpg
1020192130 632 Flag of Hungary.svg Puskás Aréna (Budapest) Puskas Arena 05.jpg Flag of Japan.svg Japan National Stadium (Tokyo) New national stadium tokyo 1.jpg
1120202021 821 Flag of Malaysia.svg Sultan Ibrahim Stadium (Iskandar Puteri) Aerial view of Sultan Ibrahim Stadium (2).jpg Flag of the United States.svg SoFi Stadium (Inglewood) Aerial view of SoFi Stadium (July 2022).jpg
1220212312 873 Flag of Spain.svg El Sadar Stadium (Pamplona) Inside Estadio Reyno de Navarra.JPG –
1320223624 524 Flag of Greece.svg OPAP Arena (Athens)–
1420233512 073 Flag of Brazil.svg Arena MRV (Belo Horizonte) Atletico Mineiro v Botafogo, Arena MRV, Horizonte, 2023.jpg –

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