Sagan Tosu

japanese football club
football club
Sagan Tosu ( サガン鳥栖, Sagan Tosu ) is a japanese professional football club, presently playing in the J1 League. The team is located in Tosu, Saga Prefecture. Sagan is a coin word with a match 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. besides, Sagan Tosu can be interpreted as “ Tosu of Saga ( Prefecture ) ” ( 佐賀ん鳥栖, Saga-n Tosu ) in the sphere ‘s dialect.

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history [edit ]

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, ampere well as J. League Cup in 1997 as a discriminatory 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 newly President & Chief Operating Officer Minoru Takehara, who is besides part owner of the club. [ 1 ]
previous crown In their first season at the J. League Division 1 in 2012, confounding the prediction of many critics about their contiguous relegation to J2, they have been maintaining their situation between 5th and 11th places all the way through the season, alone except after the 2nd week in which they were ranked as 13th. They were ranked third base 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 stopping point peer 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 besides became the first club in Asia to sign a partnership with Warrior Sports [ 2 ] who besides sponsors english english Liverpool FC and others. In 2013, they made it to the semifinal of the 2013 Emperor ‘s Cup inaugural clock time in the golf club ‘s history, becoming the inaugural clubhouse 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 besides invited Sydney FC from the A-League along with the former italian home team player Alessandro Del Piero for a Japan Tour for the first base 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, respective days after the eighteenth workweek equal when Sagan moved back to the top of the league, to terminate the contract with the read/write 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 10th, 2018, the club reached an agreement with former World Cup, UCL and Europa League achiever, Fernando Torres. The aging star would play 35 games for the english netting 5 goals before finally hanging up his boots on his leading studded career .

record in the J-League [edit ]

Champions

Runners-up

Third place

Promoted
Relegated

League
J. League Cup
Emperor’s Cup

Season
Div.
Teams
Pos.
P
W (OTW)
D
L (OTL)
F
A
GD
Pts
Attendance/G

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
–
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

Key

Pos. = Position in league; GP = Games Played; W = Games won; D = Games Drawn; L = Games Lost; F = Goals scored; A = Goals conceded; GD = Goals Difference; Pts = Points gained
Attendance/G = Average home league attendance
† 2020 season attendance reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
Source: J.League Data Site

Players [edit ]

stream squad [edit ]

As of 19 August 2021[6]

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

Out on loan [edit ]

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

Retired number [edit ]

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.