Sagawa Express Osaka Soccer Club(佐川急便大阪サッカー部) was a Japanese

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club based in

Higashisumiyoshi-ku is one of 24 wards of Japan, wards of Osaka, Japan. Points of interest *Nagai Park **Nagai Botanical Garden **Nagai Stadium **Yanmar Field Nagai **Yodoko Sakura Stadium Shopping *Komagawa Shopping Arcade (駒川商店街) Headquarters *Sangari ...

Osaka is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...

History

They were founded in 1965 and played in the

Japan Football League The also known as simply the JFL is the 4th tier of the Japanese association football league system, positioned beneath the three divisions of the J.League. The league features fully professional teams that hold J.League associate membership am ...

(JFL) from 2002 to 2007, when they merged with

Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C. Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C. was a Japanese football club based in Kōtō, Tokyo. The team was founded in 1991 and was a member of the Japan Football League from 2001–2007, when it merged with Sagawa Express Osaka S.C. to form Sagawa Shiga F.C. A ...

to form what is now

Sagawa Shiga F.C. , formerly , was an amateur Japanese association football, football club based in Moriyama, Shiga. They were members of the Japan Football League (JFL). The club formed in 2007 from a merger of two Sagawa Express corporation football clubs in JFL; ...

As the name implies they were run by

Sagawa Express is a major transportation company in Japan. Its headquarters are in Minami-ku, Kyoto. It competes with Yamato Transport, Nippon Express, and other major logistics companies. Its total sales for the year ending March 2005 were ¥728,000,000,0 ...

, a Japanese transportation business. Prior to joining the JFL the team played in the

Kansai Soccer League is the Japanese fifth tier of league football, which is part of the Japanese Regional Leagues. It covers most of the Kansai region, as well as the prefectures of Hyōgo, Kyōto, Nara, Osaka, Shiga and Wakayama. Mie, usually considered part of K ...

, in which they won four championships. They joined the JFL in 2002, one year after their Tokyo counterparts did. They did not repeat their earlier success after the switch. In 2007 the team announced the merger with Sagawa Express Tokyo to form Sagawa Express S.C., now

, based in

Shiga Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,412,916 (1 October 2015) and has a geographic area of . Shiga Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the north, Gifu Prefecture to the nort ...

Honors

: 4 ::1997, 1998, 2000, 2001

External links

Hikyaku Kaido (in Japanese)

{{Japanese Club Football, group=clubs Association football clubs established in 1965 Association football clubs disestablished in 2007 Defunct football clubs in Japan 1965 establishments in Japan 2007 disestablishments in Japan Japan Football League clubs