Sagan Tosu facts for kids
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| Full name | Sagan Tosu Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Sagan |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Ground | Tosu Stadium Tosu, Saga |
| Capacity | 24,130 |
| Chairman | Minoru Takehara |
| Manager | Kim Myung-hwi |
| League | J1 League |
| 2018 | J1 League, 14th |
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.
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.
History
The club was founded in 1987.
- 1987-1994 PJM Futures
- 1995-1996 Tosu Futures
- 1997-present Sagan Tosu
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