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The story
J2 club Montedio Yamagata held a press briefing on September 4 about the new stadium under construction in Tendo City, announcing that work is roughly 10% complete and progressing on schedule. The stadium is going up just south of the existing ND Soft Stadium Yamagata, with a design that touts getting fans as close as 8 meters from the players, and it’s aiming to open in 2028. On 5ch, the thread buzzed with skepticism about calling the project “on track” when it’s barely a tenth finished so soon after breaking ground, curiosity about how much of the total budget is actually secured, and discussion of the design skipping one side’s stands for now, with expansion planned for later.
A press briefing was held on the 4th at the construction site for J2 club Montedio Yamagata’s new stadium. Officials say the work is proceeding smoothly.
Construction on the new stadium is underway just south of ND Soft Stadium Yamagata in Tendo City.
Announcer Kosaka: “It’s been about two months since the last press viewing. Construction is proceeding smoothly, with overall progress at roughly 10%.”
Source: news.ntv.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
It's smaller than just neighboring Sendai city alone, and even smaller than Miyagi Prefecture with Sendai excluded.
One of the goal-end stands isn't built yet — once they add it, the design brings capacity up to 20,000.
Is snubbing the away fans some kind of trend now?
That's not even the away section, how many times do I have to say it.
Do you seriously think they'd break ground without the funding lined up?
Escon's said 5 billion yen is their max, so they won't put in more than that.
Escon: 5 billion yen
City + prefecture: 3 billion yen
If they can't scrape together the remaining 8 billion yen, that's not my problem.
How many more years is my area stuck cleaning up after our grand kokutai stadium?
Build dedicated track-and-field stadiums that are actually good for watching track events,
and stop building these giant do-everything multipurpose arenas.
Seriously, why does Nagoya even have to use that track-and-field stadium? There's already a dedicated ball-sports stadium in Toyota.
Background and Talking Points
The new stadium is being built adjacent to ND Soft Stadium Yamagata in Tendo City, and the only fact confirmed in the source article is the 10% progress figure — the funding breakdown discussed here is speculation based on 5ch posts. The figures claiming Escon is covering 5 billion yen, local government 3 billion yen, with the remaining 8 billion yen still unaccounted for, come from user posts rather than any official announcement and remain unverified. Building one side’s stands first and expanding later to roughly 20,000 capacity is a design approach shared by several recent J.League stadiums, keeping initial costs down while allowing expansion to match demand — commenters cited Hiroshima’s Peace Wing Stadium, reportedly praised by the head of the Japan Sports Agency, as a similar example. Much of the rest of the thread, however, consisted of baseball-versus-soccer fan rivalry and jabs at a particular YouTuber critical of stadium construction, exchanges which fall outside the scope of this article.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Soccer] Montedio’s New Stadium Construction on Track — Immersive Stage Within 8m of Players to Open in 2028.”
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