Suita Stadium, Association football venue in Expo '70 Commemorative Park, Suita, Japan
Suita City Football Stadium is a football ground in Expo '70 Commemorative Park, Suita, built mainly with donations and opened in 2015. Its pale flat roof overhangs tiers of grey cladding and glass, with triangular steel trusses along the roofline and "Panasonic Stadium SUITA" in blue letters above the glass. Seating is arranged in three tiers, and the nearest seats sit about 7 m from the touchline.
The grounds opened in October 2015 on the former exhibition site of Expo '70, which Japan hosted in 1970. Construction began four decades after that international event and created a new purpose for the historic plot.
The stadium is known as "Panasta", the J.League abbreviation adopted in 2019, while FIFA and AFC competitions use the official name Suita City Football Stadium because clean-stadium rules bar sponsor names. Inside, the club museum Blu STORIA traces Gamba Osaka's history, and the shop Blu SPAZIO sells club goods.
The easiest approach is via Koen-higashiguchi Station on the Osaka Monorail Saito Line, which sits one minute on foot from the entrance. On match days, arriving earlier than usual helps because the paths through the park see heavy use by many visitors.
The stadium's roof uses the world's first ultra-lightweight seismic-isolated roof frame, a 3D truss structure. Its precast concrete columns reach a compressive strength of 200 N/mm², which shortened construction and reduced the building's bulk.
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