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| Full name | Sagan Tosu Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Sagan | ||
| Founded | 1997 | ||
| Stadium | Ekimae Real Estate Stadium Tosu, Saga | ||
| Capacity | 24,130 | ||
| Chairman | Minoru Takehara | ||
| Manager | Kosuke Kitani | ||
| League | J1 League | ||
| 2023 | J1 League, 14th of 18 | ||
| Website | http://www.sagan-tosu.net/ | ||
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Sagan Tosu (サガン鳥栖, Sagan Tosu) is a Japanese professional football club based in Tosu, Saga Prefecture. The club set to play in the J2 League from 2025 after relegation from J1 in 2024, which is the second tier of Japanese football.
Sagan is a coined word with various suggested ideas behind where the name came from. 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. And... the owner of the club, when naming them decided he wanted the name of the club to sound like his beloved Juventus! Hence Sagantos(u).