The Stadium Business Awards are awards given in various categories for outstanding achievements in the international arena and stadium management and will recognise achievement, innovation and the leaders in the world of stadium, arena and sports venue management. This awards are organized by the company Xperiology, which offers and organizes training courses and international conferences in the area of stadium management and the sports and entertainment area. The award ceremony will take place within a conference known as business summit conference and is supported by the City of Dublin, the Gaelic Athletic Association

Gaelic Athletic Association

The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...

 and the Croke Park

Croke Park

Croke Park in Dublin is the principal stadium and headquarters of the Gaelic Athletic Association , Ireland's biggest sporting organisation...

 stadium in Dublin.

Stadium Business Awards 2010

The awards were given first in 2010. The award ceremony took place on June 18, 2010 in the Guinness Storehouse

Guinness Storehouse

The Guinness Storehouse is a Guinness-themed tourist attraction located at St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin, Republic of Ireland...

 in Dublin in front of 150 representatives from around the world. The jury was composed of (among others):

• Michael Bolingbroke, COO, Manchester United
• Rachel Ely, manager, 2012 Summer Olympics
  2012 Summer Olympics
  The 2012 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the "London 2012 Olympic Games", are scheduled to take place in London, England, United Kingdom from 27 July to 12 August 2012...
  
  
• Paul Fletcher MBE, COO, Burnley F.C.
  Burnley F.C.
  Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...
  
  
• Erik Stover, general manager, Red Bull New York
  Red Bull New York
  The New York Red Bulls are an American professional soccer team based in Harrison, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The team competes in the Eastern Conference of Major League Soccer , the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada...
  
   (Major League Soccer
  Major League Soccer
  Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation . The league is composed of 19 teams — 16 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada...
  
  )
• Ian Nuttall (chair), TheStadiumBusiness.com

The awards were given in various categories to (among others):

category	winner
Venue of the Year	Estadi Cornellà-El Prat (football stadium) / Espanyol Barcelona, Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
Event of the Year	Donbass Arena opening ceremony, Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
Executive of the Year	Patrik Meyer, Commerzbank-Arena Commerzbank-Arena The Commerzbank-Arena is a sports stadium in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany. Commonly known by its original name, Waldstadion , the stadium opened in 1925. The stadium has been upgraded several times since then; the most recent remodelling was its redevelopment as a football-only stadium in preparation... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
Best Matchday Experience	Keepmoat Stadium, Doncaster Doncaster Doncaster is a town in South Yorkshire, England, and the principal settlement of the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster. The town is about from Sheffield and is popularly referred to as "Donny"... , England
Team Player of the Year	Philip Johnson, Philip Johnson, Populous (London 2012 Olympic Stadium design team)
Safety Award	Croke Park Stadium, Dublin / training & management, Ireland
Innovation of the year	Centre Court’s retractable roof, Wimbledon AELTC, England
Sustainability Award	Croke Park Stadium’s Cúl Green (Green Goal) Initiative, Dublin, Ireland