Gamba Osaka, one of the original J. League members, will move into a brand-new stadium as early as 2016.

And their new house will be built in an unprecedented way. The Kansai club tried to erect it through fundraising and smartly capitalizing on national subsidy systems, instead of relying on its local administrations for financial expenditures.

In 2010, the club launched a fundraising organization and the project kicked off in earnest. As of Thursday, it had collected roughly ¥11.3 billion of the ¥14 billion construction fees.