Football club

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.

Name origin [ edit ]

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 [ edit ]