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Sagan Tosu (サガン鳥栖, Sagan Tosu) is a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J1 League. The team is located in Tosu, Saga Prefecture.

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Sagan Tosu

Full name	Sagan Tosu Football Club
Nickname(s)	Sagan
Founded	1997; 25 years ago (1997)
Stadium	Tosu Stadium Tosu, Saga
Capacity	24,130
Chairman	Minoru Takehara
Manager	Kenta Kawai
League	J1 League
2022	J1 League, 11th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Sagan is a coined word with a couple of meanings behind it. One of its homophones is sandstone (砂岩, sagan) in Japanese. This symbolises many small elements uniting to form one formidable object, for example as a metaphor for a team. Also, Sagan Tosu can be interpreted as "Tosu of Saga (Prefecture)" (佐賀ん鳥栖, Saga-n Tosu) in the area's dialect.

History

In February 1997, Sagan was established as a new club which virtually takes over Tosu Futures, which became insolvent in the previous month, and admitted to participate Japan Football League from 1997 to 1998, as well as J. League Cup in 1997 as a preferential measure, although J. League Associate Membership status is not awarded to Sagan. In 1999 they were admitted to the new J. League Division 2 (J2) as the original ten teams, where they remained until their promotion to J1 at the end of the 2011 season. Things have changed and started to turn positive with the new President & Chief Operating Officer Minoru Takehara, who is also part owner of the club.[1]

In their first season at the J. League Division 1 in 2012, confounding the prediction of many critics about their immediate relegation to J2, they have been maintaining their position between 5th and 11th places all the way through the season, only except after the 2nd week in which they were ranked as 13th. They were ranked third after the 33rd week, having a chance to qualify for the 2013 AFC Champions League if they would not lose to Yokohama F. Marinos in the last match of the 2012 season. However, they have lost to Yokohama 0–1 then ended up in 5th, while Urawa Red Diamonds defeated Nagoya Grampus and ranked in 3rd. They also became the first club in Asia to sign a partnership with Warrior Sports[2] who also sponsors English side Liverpool FC and others.

In 2013, they made it to the semifinal of the 2013 Emperor's Cup first time in the club's history, becoming the first club based in Kyushu to make it to the semifinal of the Emperor's Cup since Nippon Steel Yawata SC had done in the 1981 edition. In 2013, they also invited Sydney FC from the A-League along with the former Italian national team player Alessandro Del Piero for a Japan Tour for the first time.[3]

In 2014, the club have been in the most successful season in J. League Division 1, as being ranked on the top of 2014 J. League Division 1 after the 1st, 2nd, 13th, and 18th week. However, the club made an announcement on 8 August, several days after the 18th week match when Sagan moved back to the top of the league, to terminate the contract with the head coach Yoon Jung-Hwan as of 7 August all by sudden.[4] In 2014, they continued on its international expansion and initiated a relationship with Italian side Juventus FC for its Juventus Under-16 Japan Tour 2014.[5] On July 10, 2018, the club reached an agreement with former World Cup, UCL and Europa League winner, Fernando Torres. The aging star would play 35 games for the side netting 5 goals before finally hanging up his boots on his star studded career.

League & cup record

Champions

Runners-up

Third place

Promoted

Relegated

League													J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
Season	Div.	Teams	Pos.	P	W (OTW/PKW)	D	L (OTL/PKL)	F	A	GD	Pts	Attendance/G
1997	JFL	16	11th	30	12 (1/0)	-	17	38	54	-16	38	-	Not eligible	3rd round
1998		16	8th	30	11 (3)	-	16	40	55	-15	39	-		3rd round
1999	J2	10	8th	36	11 (1)	2	20 (2)	52	64	-12	37	3,385	1st Round	3rd round
2000		11	6th	40	13 (2)	5	15 (5)	41	52	-11	48	3,714	1st Round	3rd round
2001		12	10th	44	8 (2)	4	28 (2)	45	82	-37	32	3,479	1st Round	4th round
2002		12	9th	44	9	14	21	41	64	-23	41	3,890	Not eligible	3rd round
2003		12	12th	44	3	11	30	40	89	-49	20	3,172		1st round
2004		12	11th	44	8	11	25	32	66	-34	35	3,610		4th round
2005		12	8th	44	14	10	20	58	58	0	52	7,855		4th round
2006		13	4th	48	22	13	13	64	49	15	79	7,465		4th round
2007		13	8th	48	21	9	18	63	66	-3	72	6,114		5th round
2008		15	6th	42	19	7	16	50	51	-1	64	7,261		Quarter final
2009		18	5th	51	25	13	13	71	51	20	88	5,939		4th round
2010		19	9th	36	13	12	11	42	41	1	51	6,633		3rd round
2011		20	2nd	38	19	12	7	68	34	34	69	7,731		2nd round
2012	J1	18	5th	34	15	8	11	48	39	9	53	11,991	Group stage	2nd round
2013		18	12th	34	13	7	14	54	63	-9	46	11,515	Group stage	Semi-final
2014		18	5th	34	19	3	12	41	33	8	60	14,137	Group stage	4th round
2015		18	11th	34	9	13	12	37	54	-17	40	13,450	Group stage	Quarter final
2016		18	11th	34	12	10	12	36	37	-1	46	12,636	Group stage	4th round
2017		18	8th	34	13	8	13	41	44	-3	47	14,194	Group stage	3rd round
2018		18	14th	34	10	11	13	29	34	-5	41	15,000	Group stage	Quarter-final
2019		18	15th	34	10	6	18	32	53	-21	36	15,050	Group stage	Quarter-final
2020 †		18	13th	34	7	15	12	37	43	-6	36	4,675	Group stage	Did not qualify
2021 †		20	7th	38	16	11	11	53	35	8	59	7,276	Group stage	4th round
2022		18	11th	34	9	15	10	45	44	1	42	9,358	Group stage	Round of 16

Key

Current squad

As of 26 August 2022[6][7]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 4 MF  JPN Toshio Shimakawa 5 DF  BRA Diego 6 MF  JPN Akito Fukuta 7 MF  JPN Kohei Tezuka 8 MF  JPN Fuchi Honda 10 MF  JPN Yuji Ono 11 FW  JPN Taisei Miyashiro (on loan from Kawasaki Frontale) 12 GK  JPN Keisuke Fukaya 13 DF  JPN Shinya Nakano (vice-captain) 14 MF  JPN Naoyuki Fujita (captain) 15 FW  JPN Yukihito Kajiya 16 FW  JPN Shunta Araki 18 MF  JPN Jun Nishikawa (on loan from Cerezo Osaka) 19 FW  JPN Yuki Kakita (on loan from Kashima Antlers) 20 DF  KOR Hwang Seok-ho 21 GK  KOR Ueom Ye-hoon 23 MF  JPN Taichi Kikuchi

No. Pos. Nation Player 24 MF  JPN Yoichi Naganuma 27 MF  JPN Ryunosuke Sagara 29 FW  JPN Yuto Iwasaki (on loan from Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo) 30 DF  JPN Masaya Tashiro 31 GK  JPN Masahiro Okamoto 32 MF  JPN Yosuke Yuzawa 35 DF  JPN Dai Hirase DSP 36 DF  JPN Koma Osato Type 2 37 DF  JPN Kei Koizumi 38 DF  KOR Park Keon-woo (on loan from Pohang Steelers) 40 GK  JPN Park Il-gyu (vice-captain) 41 MF  JPN Shunya Sakai Type 2 42 DF  JPN Wataru Harada 43 MF  JPN Taichi Fukui 44 MF  JPN Yuki Horigome 45 MF  JPN Yoshiki Narahara Type 2 47 MF  JPN Kentaro Moriya

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  JPN Tatsuya Morita (on loan at Kashiwa Reysol) 25 FW  JPN Yuta Fujihara (on loan at Montedio Yamagata) 33 FW  JPN Kaisei Ishii (on loan at Yokohama FC) — GK  JPN Yosei Itahashi (on loan at Ehime) — DF  JPN Daisuke Matsumoto (on loan at Zweigen Kanazawa) — DF  KOR Taiga Son (on loan at Zweigen Kanazawa)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  JPN Tomoya Koyamatsu (on loan at Kashiwa Reysol) — MF  JPN Kyo Sato (on loan at Kyoto Sanga) — MF  JPN Reoto Kodama (on loan at Renofa Yamaguchi) — FW  KEN Ismael Dunga (on loan at Kamatamare Sanuki) — FW  JPN Rio Nitta (on loan at SKN St. Polten) — FW  JPN Ryo Wada (on loan at MIO Biwako Shiga)

Retired number

• 17 Sakata Michitaka – A former professor of Saga University and the person which backed up in both the establishment of Tosu Futures and the team's revival as Sagan Tosu. He died due to kidney cancer on January 7, 2000. The number 17 indicates his day of death.

Club staff

Role	Name
Head coach	Kenta Kawai[8]
Assistant head coach	Koichiro Katafuchi Naoya Kikuchi
First team coach	Yuzuru Suwabe
Goalkeeping Coach	Nobuyuki Furo
Goalkeeping Coach	Takuya Muro
Physical Coach	Tadashi Noda
Analyst	Shota Tamaki
Chief trainer	Toru Kawaguchi Atsushi Shiga
Trainer	Daisuke Adachi
Trainer	Masahiro Hirano
Athletic trainer	Atsushi Shiga
Interpreter	Rafael de Souza Torres Lee-Kang Haeng
Competent	Atsushi Arai
Side affairs	Naoki Egawa
Equipment manager	Ryota Kiyofuji
Coordinator	Yoshito Tsuichihara

Managerial history

Manager	Nationality	Tenure
		Start	Finish
Takashi Kuwahara	Japan	1 February 1993	31 January 1995
Hiroshi Sowa	Japan	1 February 1997	31 January 2000
Kazuhiro Kōso	Japan	1 February 2000	31 January 2002
Hiroshi Soejima	Japan	1 February 2002	31 January 2003
Yoshinori Sembiki	Japan	1 February 2003	31 January 2004
Ikuo Matsumoto	Japan	1 February 2004	31 January 2007
Yasuyuki Kishino	Japan	1 February 2007	31 January 2010
Ikuo Matsumoto	Japan	1 February 2010	31 January 2011
Yun Jeong-hwan	South Korea	1 February 2011	7 August 2014
Megumu Yoshida	Japan	8 August 2014	31 January 2015
Hitoshi Morishita	Japan	1 February 2015	31 January 2016
Massimo Ficcadenti	Italy	1 February 2016	18 October 2018
Kim Myung-hwi	South Korea	19 October 2018	31 January 2019
Luis Carreras	Spain	1 February 2019	4 May 2019
Kim Myung-hwi	South Korea	4 May 2019	Current

Kit evolution

Home kits - 1st
1999 - 2000	2001 - 2002	2003 - 2004	2005	2006 - 2007
2008 - 2010	2011 - 2012	2013	2014	2015
2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
2021	2022 -

Away kits - 2nd
1999 - 2000	2001 - 2002	2003 - 2004	2005	2006 - 2007
2008 - 2010	2011 - 2012	2013	2014	2015
2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
2021	2022 -

Alternative kits - 3rd
2015 Hawk Festival Memorial	2016 Ladies Day	2016 Hawk Festival Memorial	2017 Hawk Festival Memorial	2018 Hawk Festival Memorial
2019 Hawk Festival Memorial	2019 F. Torres Retirement Game Memorial 1[9]	2019 F. Torres Retirement Game Memorial 2[10]

References

External links

• (in Japanese) Official Site

На других языках

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[de] Sagan Tosu

Sagan Tosu (jap. サガン鳥栖) ist ein japanischer Fußballverein in Tosu, in der Präfektur Saga. Der Klub spielt in der J1 League.

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- [en] Sagan Tosu

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[es] Sagan Tosu

Sagan Tosu (サガン鳥栖, Sagan Tosu?) es un equipo de fútbol japonés de la J1 League. Está situado en Tosu, en la prefectura de Saga y fue fundado en 1997.

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[ru] Саган Тосу

«Саган Тосу» (яп. サガン鳥栖, англ. Sagan Tosu) — японский футбольный клуб из города Тосу, в настоящий момент выступает в первом дивизионе Джей-лиги, сильнейшем дивизионе страны. Команда представляет город Тосу, префектура Сага. Название команды может быть передано несколькими значениями. Один из омофонов, встречающихся в японском языке, звучит как (砂岩, sagan) и обозначает песчаную скалу. Таким образом, метафорически название может относиться к чему-то маленькому, из чего состоит большой объект. Кроме того, «Саган Тосу» может передавать название префектуры на местном диалекте (佐賀ん鳥栖, Saga-n Tosu).

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