The Stadium Experience is 18Number The annual Stadium Events & Hospitality Awards will be held at the American Express Stadium, home of Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club. Thursday 3rd July 2025Around 450 guests from stadium venues across the UK will enjoy an exclusive four-course menu, awards ceremony, live entertainment and a DJ after-party until 3am.
Amex is one of the south coast’s most exciting conference, event and meeting venues, set in the picturesque South Downs National Park and boasts 10 stunning conference and event lounges and 23 executive boxes which offer complete flexibility and are ideal for meetings, corporate, private and social events of all sizes. The 2025 Awards Ceremony will be held in the stunning Mayo Wynn Baxter Lounge, where guests will sample an exclusive club-exclusive, award-winning ‘Tunnel Club’ menu produced by MasterChef: The Professionals winner Steven Edwards.
The nationally recognised awards recognise and reward the hard work and dedication of catering, meetings and events teams at the UK’s stadium venues, including football, rugby and cricket venues.
Key Dates
Entries for most of the 2025 categories will open in the coming weeks, with the deadline being Monday the 31st.st March 2025. The official results will be announced at an awards ceremony on Thursday, March 3rd.rd July 2025.
Categories
The 2025 categories are currently being finalized and the finalized categories (as of now) are outlined below.
Chef Team of the Year Awards – Entries Now Open
Excellence Award
Best Retail Catering Award
Matchday Sales Team of the Year Award
Non-Matchday Sales Team of the Year
Stadium Event of the Year Award
Operations Team of the Year Award
Visiting Rugby Director’s Award
Visiting Football Director’s Award
Matchday Hospitality Awards (Awards for small, medium and large stadiums) – Admission begins
Overall Matchday Hospitality Award – Entries now open
Independent Awards Jury
Each award category is judged independently (Stadium Experience does not judge any of the awards); some categories are decided by a vote of Stadium Directors, the British Culinary Federation hosts and judges the Chef Team of the Year awards and Salon Culinaire judges the Matchday Hospitality awards. Most categories are decided by a team of experts with many years of experience in their field who vote for the top three.
Joe King, director of sport and stadium at Sodexo Live! UK&I, the catering and hospitality partner for the Amex Stadium, said: “We are thrilled that the 18th Stadium Events & Hospitality Awards will be held at Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club next year. We are incredibly proud that Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club won 11 awards, including the prestigious Overall Matchday Hospitality Award, at the most recent ceremony in Leeds this year and we feel it is only fitting that next year’s event will be held there. This will be a fantastic opportunity to showcase our excellent facilities and the fantastic food we have on offer.”
Colette Salmon, chairperson of Stadium Experience, said: “We’re thrilled to be returning to Brighton for the 2025 awards. Brighton & Hove Albion FC were actually the big winner of the overall matchday hospitality award for 2024. The judges were particularly impressed with the brand-new Tunnel Club matchday offer that guests will be able to experience next summer. These are the 18 awards.Number It’s the annual awards ceremony hosted by the Stadium Experience, which continues to grow and evolve every year, and we’re putting together a super exciting evening for the Stadium team to celebrate their achievements in style on the South Coast!
Stadium Experience is also keen to explore awards sponsorship opportunities working with businesses who would like to participate.
Find out more about the Stadium Events & Hospitality Awards 2025.
