Consadole Sapporo
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| Full name | Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo |
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| Nickname(s) | Consa |
| Founded | 1935 (as Toshiba Horikawa-cho S.C.) |
| Ground | Sapporo Dome, Sapporo |
| Capacity | 41,484 |
| Owner | Isao Ishimizu (11.4%) Ishiya (9.5%) |
| Chairman | Yoshikazu Nonomura |
| Manager | Shuhei Yomoda |
| League | J1 League |
| 2016 | Champions (promoted from J2) |
| Website | Club home page |
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo (北海道コンサドーレ札幌 Hokkaidō Konsadōre Sapporo?) is a Japanese professional football club, which plays in the J1 League. The team is based in Sapporo, on the island of Hokkaido.
The club name of "Consadole" is made from consado, a reverse of the Japanese word Dosanko (道産子?, meaning "people of Hokkaido") and the Spanish expression Ole.
Unlike other teams, their main home ground at Sapporo Dome is also used by the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters baseball team, so some home games are moved to Sapporo Atsubetsu Park Stadium.
Consadole's club tradition dates back to 1935 when Toshiba Horikawa-cho Soccer Club was founded in Kawasaki, Kanagawa. They were promoted to the now-defunct Japan Soccer League Division 2 in 1978. They adopted new name Toshiba Soccer Club in 1980 and were promoted to the JSL Division 1 in 1989. Relegating themselves as they were not ready for J. League implementation, they joined the newly formed Japan Football League in 1992 and played the last season as Toshiba S.C. in 1995.
They sought to be a professional club but the owner Toshiba did not regard Kawasaki as an ideal hometown. This was because Verdy Kawasaki, one of the most prominent clubs at that time, was also based in the city, which Toshiba apparently believed was not big enough to accommodate two clubs. (Verdy has since crossed the Tama River to be based in Chōfu City in the west of Tokyo and has been renamed as Tokyo Verdy 1969; the only remaining professional club is Kawasaki Frontale, originally part of Fujitsu.)
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