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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 | Club website | ||
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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 plays in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country.
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.