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Akita City Mayor Jun Numatani has announced that a supplementary budget bill for drafting a master plan for J.League club Blaublitz Akita’s new stadium will be submitted to the city council session opening August 31. The club explained that it now has a prospect of raising nearly ¥100 million from private sources — but on 5ch, commenters were quick to point out this is merely a “prospect,” not money actually “raised,” with many questioning how realistic the funding plan really is.
Regarding development of the new stadium that will serve as the home ground of J2 club Blaublitz Akita, Akita City Mayor Jun Numatani revealed on the 24th that a supplementary budget bill for drafting the master plan will be submitted to the August city council session.
Mayor Numatani made the announcement to Blaublitz Akita President Kosuke Iwase and others, who had come to report on the season opener.
Mayor Numatani stated clearly that he will submit the supplementary budget bill for drafting the new stadium’s master plan to the August city council session, set to open on August 31.
Source: akt.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
A prospect has emerged for raising nearly ¥100 million
(Note: they didn't say it *was* raised)
http://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOCC138LW0T10C26A7000000/
Just ask the Arab billionaires
They'd probably just hand it over
Whoa
Why not just ask them?
It's pocket change to those guys
baseball's been leeching off taxpayers since Showa 29 (1954)
As payback, they should start a baseball lottery
and use that money to build
soccer stadiums all across the country, no?
College baseball, high school baseball, and pro baseball all used to pay a tax called the admissions tax, you know
Maybe they should keep "staying in J3" as a backup option
> Raising ¥100 million is impressive, but ¥500 million for design costs is still a long way off
They never said "raised"
> They explained that a prospect has emerged for raising nearly ¥100 million from private companies.
Then go donate already
Did you soccer fanboys (サカ豚, lit. "soccer pigs" — a mocking term for soccer fans) see that?
Isn't he going to Akita?
Every top-tier (first-team) official pro baseball game held in Akita Prefecture since last year (2024-2026) has been a home game for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, held at Komachi Stadium (Akita Prefectural Baseball Stadium) in Akita City.
■ Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles vs. Orix Buffaloes
Attendance: 14,047
■ Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles vs. Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks
Attendance: 11,107
Baseball fanboys (焼き豚, a mocking pun on "yakyuu"/baseball) say J.League isn't worth tax money because home games only happen twice a month — but baseball only gets one game a year here
And it's half-empty too
That's 40 times FC Osaka's attendance, impressive
And Komachi Stadium's construction and upkeep costs are like a quarter of Mikuni Stadium's
Well, of course
The mayor's policy hasn't changed one bit
Apparently you get paid to cheer for FC Osaka lol
But only 894 people actually showed up, though
Blaublitz would never agree to such lopsided terms
This ends with a "we tried our best but it didn't work out"
So it's basically unconditional surrender then
It's already over — might as well just declare defeat already
They're padding 404 people up to 894, you know
I figured that guy would definitely show up, and sure enough he did — cracked me up
What do you mean it's a bust even if they wait?
What happens then?
"Bust" means they don't make it in time
It gets scrapped or frozen
To put it plainly, this whole plan goes away
That's fine, isn't it
What's the problem
No problem at all
Hope soccer stadium (サカスタ) plans collapse the same way all across the country
Just curious, though
Did you actually think Akita's stadium plan would get this far?
The private side raises about 50% of the development costs
Nobody's putting money into that
You pay half the cost, and in the end the prefecture and city own it
On top of that, upkeep and management costs fall on the private side too
Would you invest in that?
It just becomes the next plan, that's all
The club doesn't fold either
Re: #78 There's no way they'd agree to terms like that
What do you mean, "the next plan"?
Guess that's a talk for the next mayor
So would you invest under Re: #78's terms?
Though personally, I don't think there's a J2 club out there that couldn't scrape together ¥500 million from here
That's exactly why they don't need to raise it
You pay half the money, and everything still ends up belonging to the prefecture and city, and on top of that you're stuck paying upkeep and management costs
Maybe they'll even keep paying property tax and usage fees forever too
Just pretending to raise the money is enough
This isn't "stadium built after raising ¥500 million" lol
In this soccer-fanboy-beloved (サカ豚) stadium plan, raising that money only gets you to the "candidate site under review" stage lol
Background and Key Points
Blaublitz Akita play in J2, one tier below the J1 clubs whose stadiums usually get built through prefecture-city joint financing with baseball as the local benchmark. Akita is a baseball prefecture in a very literal sense: it has six stadiums seating over 10,000, built across different cities so they can rotate hosting national high-school tournaments and the occasional Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles game (Eagles being the regional NPB team, based in neighboring Miyagi). Those venues are public infrastructure, paid for as general park projects going back decades — nothing like the private-capital model J.League now expects of a new club stadium. That gap is the backdrop for this story: the prefecture and city are willing to co-own and help build a Blaublitz stadium, but only if the club’s side raises roughly half the cost.
The thread’s actual disagreement is not about soccer versus baseball culture, but about the word “prospect.” The club announced a prospect of nearly ¥100 million from private companies, and commenters split over whether that phrasing signals real progress toward the ¥500 million private-funding threshold the project needs, or is essentially non-news dressed up to look like momentum.
What the thread doesn’t spell out clearly for outsiders is scale: ¥100 million is only a fifth of the ¥500 million target, and even hitting that full amount wouldn’t fund construction — under the current scheme, raising it merely qualifies the project to advance to site-selection review, while the prefecture and city would still end up owning the finished stadium, with upkeep and management costs left to the private side.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisports Sokuhou+) thread “[Soccer] New Stadium Master Plan to Be Drafted — Akita Mayor Numatani Confirms Budget Submission to August City Council, Club Explains Prospect of Raising ¥100 Million.”
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