Sagan Tosu
2012 season
ChairmanYukihiro Igawa
ManagerYoon Jung-Hwan
J.League Division 15th
Emperor's Cup2nd round vs Kamatamare Sanuki
J.League CupGroup Stage
Top goalscorerLeague: Yohei Toyoda (16)
All: Yohei Toyoda (17)
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The 2012 Sagan Tosu season was Sagan Tosu's first season in J.League Division 1 after being promoted for J.League Division 2 in 2011. They finished the season in fifth position, narrowly missing out on an AFC Champions League spot by two points. They also participated in the J.League Cup, going out in the group stages, and the Emperor's Cup, where they reached the second round before defeat to Kamatamare Sanuki. It was their second season with Yoon Jung-hwan as their manager, and Yohei Toyoda was their top goalscorer with 16 league goals.

Players

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Japan JPN Taku Akahoshi
2 DF Japan JPN Kosuke Kitani
3 DF Japan JPN Keita Isozaki
4 DF Japan JPN Teruaki Kobayashi
5 DF South Korea KOR Kim Kun-Hoan (loan from Yokohama F. Marinos)
6 MF Japan JPN Tomotaka Okamoto
7 MF Japan JPN Keisuke Funatani
8 MF Japan JPN Kota Mizunuma (loan from Yokohama F. Marinos)
9 FW Brazil BRA Tozin (loan from Corinthians Alagoano)
10 MF South Korea KOR Kim Min-Woo
11 FW Japan JPN Yohei Toyoda
12 GK Japan JPN Tatsuro Okuda
13 DF Japan JPN Yusuke Inuzuka
14 MF Japan JPN Naoyuki Fujita
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 DF Japan JPN Ryuhei Niwa
16 MF Japan JPN Takahiro Kuniyoshi
18 FW Japan JPN Ryunosuke Noda
19 FW Japan JPN Shohei Okada
20 DF South Korea KOR Yeo Sung-Hye
21 GK Japan JPN Takuya Muro
22 FW Japan JPN Kei Ikeda
23 DF Japan JPN So Morita
24 DF Japan JPN Kyohei Kuroki
25 MF Japan JPN Ryota Hayasaka
26 DF Japan JPN Tatsuya Sakai
28 MF Japan JPN Yoshiki Takahashi (loan from Vegalta Sendai)
30 MF Japan JPN Kohei Kuroki

Transfers

Main articles: List of Japanese football transfers winter 2011–12 and List of Japanese football transfers summer 2012

Competitions

J.League

Main article: 2012 J.League Division 1

Results summary

Overall Home Away
Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts W D L GF GA GD W D L GF GA GD
34 15 8 11 48 40  +8 53 11 3 3 26 14  +12 4 5 8 22 26  −4

Last updated: 3 December 2012.
Source: World-Football.net

Results by round

Round12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334
GroundHAHHAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA
ResultDLWWLWWDDDDLWLDWLWDWWLDWLWLLLWWWWL
Position555555555588681091089667757558987535
Updated to match(es) played on 3 December 2012. Source: "World-Football.net". Archived from the original on 2013-05-27. Retrieved 2018-09-13.
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

10 March 2012 1 Sagan Tosu 0 – 0 Cerezo Osaka Best Amenity Stadium
Saturday 14:05 Report Attendance: 11,283[1]
Referee: Inoue
17 March 2012 2 Júbilo Iwata 2 – 1 Sagan Tosu Yamaha Stadium
Saturday 17:04 Yamada 27'
Komano 34'		 Report 17' Toyoda Attendance: 10,653
Referee: Takayama
24 March 2012 3 Sagan Tosu 1 – 0 Yokohama F. Marinos Best Amenity Stadium
Saturday 15:04 Mizunuma 77' Report Attendance: 10,611
Referee: Maeda
31 March 2012 4 Sagan Tosu 3 – 0 Vissel Kobe Best Amenity Stadium
Saturday 19:04 Noda 28'
Toyoda 43'
Ikeda 90+5'		 Report Attendance: 7,719
Referee: Matsumura
7 April 2012 5 Nagoya Grampus 1 – 0 Sagan Tosu Toyota Stadium
Nagai 27' Summary Attendance: 13,824
14 April 2012 6 Sagan Tosu 1 – 0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Best Amenity Stadium
Mizunuma 39' Report Attendance: 9,735
21 April 2012 7 Sagan Tosu 1 – 0 Albirex Niigata Best Amenity Stadium
Tozin 81' Report Attendance: 5,432
28 April 2012 8 Kashiwa Reysol 1 – 1 Sagan Tosu Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium
Kitajima 45+1' Report Kobayashi 70' Attendance: 10,351
3 May 2012 9 Sagan Tosu 1 – 1 Vegalta Sendai Best Amenity Stadium
Toyoda 57' Report Tomita 19' Attendance: 18,113
6 May 2012 10 Kashima Antlers 0 – 0 Sagan Tosu Kashima Soccer Stadium
Report Attendance: 10,626
12 May 2012 11 Sagan Tosu 1 – 1 Omiya Ardija Best Amenity Stadium
Hasegawa 90' (o.g.) Report Aoki 82' Attendance: 7,833
19 May 2012 12 F.C. Tokyo 3 – 2 Sagan Tosu Ajinomoto Stadium
Watanabe 75', 81', 88' Report Mizunuma 42'
Toyoda 60'		 Attendance: 25,803
25 May 2012 13 Gamba Osaka 2 – 3 Sagan Tosu Osaka Expo '70 Stadium
Futagawa 3'
Sato 67'		 Report Toyoda 68'
Fujita 86', 90+4'		 Attendance: 8,218
16 June 2012 14 Sagan Tosu 0 – 1 Kawasaki Frontale Best Amenity Stadium
Report Tasaka 79' Attendance: 9,603
23 June 2012 15 Shimizu S-Pulse 1 – 1 Sagan Tosu Outsourcing Stadium Nihondaira
Omae 26' (pen.) Report Ikeda 57' Attendance: 17,696
30 June 2012 16 Sagan Tosu 1 – 0 Consadole Sapporo Best Amenity Stadium
Mizunuma 90+5' Report Attendance: 10,345
7 July 2012 17 Urawa Red Diamonds 4 – 3 Sagan Tosu Saitama Stadium 2002
Umesaki 7'
Hirakawa 50'
Haraguchi 52', 54'		 Report Tozin 67'
Fujita 67', 71'		 Attendance: 30,047
14 July 2012 18 Sagan Tosu 1 – 0 Tokyo Best Amenity Stadium
Tozin 87' Report Attendance: 13,891
28 July 2012 19 Vegalta Sendai 1 – 1 Sagan Tosu Yurtec Stadium Sendai
19:30 JST Akamine 29'
Wilson Yellow card 67'
Yanagisawa Yellow card 90+2'		 Report Toyoda 14'
Isozaki Yellow card 62'
Okamoto Yellow card 81'
Yeo Sung-Hye Yellow card 90+8'		 Attendance: 14,611
Referee: Japan Masaaki Iemoto
4 August 2012 20 Sagan Tosu 2 – 0 Kashima Antlers Best Amenity Stadium
20:00 JST Mizunuma 23'
Toyoda 61'		 Report Attendance: 12,844
11 August 2012 21 Kawasaki Frontale 1 – 2 Sagan Tosu Todoroki Athletics Stadium
20:00 JST Nakamura 19' Report Saneto 55' (o.g.)
Toyoda 57'		 Attendance: 12,509
18 August 2012 22 Sagan Tosu 0 – 1 Shimizu S-Pulse Best Amenity Stadium
19:00 JST Report Muramatsu 65' Attendance: 11,933
25 August 2012 23 Vissel Kobe 0 – 0 Sagan Tosu Home's Stadium Kobe
19:00 JST Summary Attendance: 13,471
1 September 2012 24 Sagan Tosu 4 – 1 Gamba Osaka Best Amenity Stadium
19:00 JST Fujita 1'
Toyoda 45', 52'
Kuniyoshi 89'		 Report Myojin 74' Attendance: 19,729
Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura
15 September 2012 25 Omiya Ardija 1 – 0 Sagan Tosu NACK5 Stadium Omiya
19:30 Kikuchi 65' Summary Attendance: 10,012
22 September 2012 26 Sagan Tosu 3 – 1 Kashiwa Reysol Best Amenity Stadium
19:00 JST Sung-Hye 43'
Fujita 45+1'
Min-Woo 53'		 Summary Leandro Domingues 66' Attendance: 12,651
Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida
29 September 2012 27 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 4 – 1 Sagan Tosu Hiroshima Big Arch
13:30 JST Shimizu 30'
Satō 34' (pen.), 90+5'
Kōji Morisaki 58'		 Report Toyoda 90+2' Attendance: 15,463
Referee: Hajime Matsuo
6 October 2012 28 Cerezo Osaka 3 – 2 Sagan Tosu Kincho Stadium
13:00 JST Kakitani 27', 86'
76' (o.g.)		 Report Kim Min-Woo 20'
Toyoda 70'		 Attendance: 10,013
Referee: Yuichi Nishimura
20 October 2012 29 Sagan Tosu 1 – 3 Nagoya Grampus Tosu Stadium
15:00 JST (UTC+9) Noda 90+5' Report Nagai 45+3'
Córdoba 67'
Tulio 90'		 Attendance: 11,851
Referee: Masaaki Toma
27 October 2012 30 Albirex Niigata 0 – 2 Sagan Tosu Niigata Stadium Big Swan
18:00 JST (UTC+9) Report Toyoda 3', 38' Attendance: 23,254
Referee: Hiroyoshi Takayama
7 November 2012 31 Sagan Tosu 3 – 2 Júbilo Iwata Tosu Stadium
19:00 JST (UTC+9) Kun-Hoan 41'
Toyoda 41', 59'		 Report Yamada 77'
Kanazono 89'		 Attendance: 8,155
Referee: Nobutsugu Murakami
17 November 2012 32 Consadole Sapporo 2 – 3 Sagan Tosu Sapporo Dome
17:00 JST (UTC+9) Uchimura 45+1'
Haga 56'		 Report Toyoda 54'
Ikeda 67'
Noda 71'		 Attendance: 10,266
Referee: Takuya Maeda
24 November 2012 33 Sagan Tosu 3 – 1 Urawa Red Diamonds Tosu Stadium
14:30 JST (UTC+9) Toyoda 45', 78'
Noda		 Report Umesaki 58' Attendance: 22,116
Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida
1 December 2012 34 Yokohama F. Marinos 1 – 0 Sagan Tosu Nissan Stadium
15:30 JST (UTC+9) Nakamura 53' Report Attendance: 26,642
Referee: Yoshiro Imamura

League table

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima (C) 34 19 7 8 63 34 +29 64 Qualification to 2012 Club World Cup and 2013 Champions League
2 Vegalta Sendai 34 15 12 7 59 43 +16 57 Qualification to 2013 Champions League[a]
3 Urawa Red Diamonds 34 15 10 9 47 42 +5 55
4 Yokohama F. Marinos 34 13 14 7 44 33 +11 53
5 Sagan Tosu 34 15 8 11 48 39 +9 53
6 Kashiwa Reysol 34 15 7 12 57 52 +5 52 Qualification to 2013 Champions League[a]
7 Nagoya Grampus 34 15 7 12 46 47 −1 52
8 Kawasaki Frontale 34 14 8 12 51 50 +1 50
9 Shimizu S-Pulse 34 14 7 13 39 40 −1 49
10 FC Tokyo 34 14 6 14 47 44 +3 48
11 Kashima Antlers 34 12 10 12 50 43 +7 46
12 Júbilo Iwata 34 13 7 14 57 53 +4 46
13 Omiya Ardija 34 11 11 12 38 45 −7 44
14 Cerezo Osaka 34 11 9 14 47 53 −6 42
15 Albirex Niigata 34 10 10 14 29 34 −5 40
16 Vissel Kobe (R) 34 11 6 17 41 50 −9 39 Relegation to 2013 J.League Division 2
17 Gamba Osaka (R) 34 9 11 14 67 65 +2 38
18 Consadole Sapporo (R) 34 4 2 28 25 88 −63 14
Updated to match(es) played on 1 December 2012. Source: J.League Division 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ a b The winners of the 2012 Emperor's Cup qualified for the group stage of the 2013 AFC Champions League.

J.League Cup

Main article: 2012 J.League Cup
20 March 2012 Group A Sagan Tosu 2 – 1 Kawasaki Frontale Best Amenity Stadium
Tuesday 16:04 Okada 53'
Noda 65'		 Report 78' Yajima Attendance: 4,613
Referee: Tojo
4 April 2012 Group A Vegalta Sendai 2 – 0 Sagan Tosu Yurtec Stadium Sendai
Matsushita 51'
Kakuda 62'		 Report
Summary		 Attendance: 7,236
Referee: Yoshida
16 May 2012 Group A Sagan Tosu 3 – 2 Júbilo Iwata Best Amenity Stadium
Wednesday 19:04 Inuzuka 12', 65'
Hayasaka 62'		 Report
Summary		 Matsuoka 52'
Yamada 88'		 Attendance: 4,642
Referee: Sato
6 June 2012 Group A Sagan Tosu 2 – 1 Urawa Red Diamonds Best Amenity Stadium
11:00 UTC+8 Toyoda 52'
Mizunuma 80'		 [ Report]
Summary		 Marcio Richardes 77' Attendance: 7,284
Referee: Kimura
9 June 2012 Group A Sanfrecce Hiroshima 5 – 1 Sagan Tosu Hiroshima Big Arch
08:00 UTC+8 Koji Morisaki 45+3', 90'
Satō 55' (pen.)
Ishihara 78', 82'		 [ Report]
Summary		 Mizunuma 63' Attendance: 10,132
Referee: Murakami
27 June 2012 Group A Cerezo Osaka 5 – 0 Sagan Tosu Nagai Ball Gall Field
11:00 UTC+8 Ogihara 24'
Kim Bo-Kyung 45+4' (pen.)
Kakitani 55', 71'
Fujimoto 90'		 Summary Noda Yellow card 16' Yellow-red card 30'
Akahoshi Red card 44'		 Attendance: 7,280

Group A

Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts
Cerezo Osaka 6 4 0 2 15 7 +8 12
Vegalta Sendai 6 4 0 2 11 5 +4 12
Júbilo Iwata 6 4 0 2 10 11 −1 12
Urawa Red Diamonds 6 3 0 3 12 10 +2 9
Sagan Tosu 6 3 0 3 8 16 −8 9
Sanfrecce Hiroshima 6 1 1 4 8 11 −3 4
Kawasaki Frontale 6 1 1 4 7 11 −4 4

Emperor's Cup

9 September 2012 Second round Sagan Tosu 0 – 1 Kamatamare Sanuki Tosu, Saga
13:00 JST (UTC+9) Report Nishino 90+2' Stadium: Tosu Stadium

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

No. Pos Nat Player Total J-League J-League Cup Emperor's Cup
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
1 GK Japan JPN Taku Akahoshi 33 0 27+0 0 5+0 0 1+0 0
2 DF Japan JPN Kosuke Kitani 4 0 2+2 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
3 DF Japan JPN Keita Isozaki 28 0 19+4 0 4+0 0 1+0 0
4 DF Japan JPN Teruaki Kobayashi 25 1 16+7 1 2+0 0 0+0 0
5 DF South Korea KOR Kim Kun-Hoan 34 1 27+1 1 4+1 0 1+0 0
6 MF Japan JPN Tomotaka Okamoto 28 0 22+1 0 4+0 0 1+0 0
7 MF Japan JPN Keisuke Funatani 2 0 0+2 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
8 MF Japan JPN Kota Mizunuma 36 8 26+5 5 2+2 3 1+0 0
9 FW Brazil BRA Tozin 28 3 4+18 3 5+0 0 0+1 0
10 MF South Korea KOR Kim Min-Woo 33 1 28+0 1 2+2 0 1+0 0
11 FW Japan JPN Yohei Toyoda 33 17 30+0 16 1+1 1 1+0 0
12 GK Japan JPN Tatsuro Okuda 7 0 4+1 0 1+1 0 0+0 0
13 DF Japan JPN Yusuke Inuzuka 10 2 1+4 0 5+0 2 0+0 0
14 MF Japan JPN Naoyuki Fujita 35 5 30+0 5 4+0 0 1+0 0
15 DF Japan JPN Ryuhei Niwa 31 0 29+0 0 1+0 0 1+0 0
16 MF Japan JPN Takahiro Kuniyoshi 6 0 0+0 0 4+2 0 0+0 0
18 FW Japan JPN Ryunosuke Noda 22 5 9+7 4 5+0 1 0+1 0
19 FW Japan JPN Shohei Okada 20 1 0+17 0 2+1 1 0+0 0
20 DF South Korea KOR Yeo Sung-Hye 30 1 24+0 1 4+1 0 1+0 0
21 GK Japan JPN Takuya Muro 0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
22 FW Japan JPN Kei Ikeda 25 3 23+1 3 1+0 0 0+0 0
23 DF Japan JPN So Morita 1 0 0+0 0 1+0 0 0+0 0
24 DF Japan JPN Kyohei Kuroki 3 0 0+0 0 1+2 0 0+0 0
25 MF Japan JPN Ryota Hayasaka 22 1 9+9 0 2+1 1 1+0 0
26 DF Japan JPN Tatsuya Sakai 6 0 1+1 0 4+0 0 0+0 0
27 MF Japan JPN Koki Kiyotake 3 0 0+2 0 1+0 0 0+0 0
28 MF Japan JPN Yoshiki Takahashi 16 0 10+4 0 0+1 0 0+1 0
29 DF Japan JPN Shohei Kishida 1 0 1+0 0 0+0 0 0+0 0
30 MF Japan JPN Kohei Kuroki 5 0 0+3 0 2+0 0 0+0 0
Players who appeared for Sagan Tosu no longer at the club:

Top scorers

Place Position Nation Number Name J-League J-League Cup Emperor's Cup Total
1 FW Japan 11 Yohei Toyoda 16 1 0 17
2 MF Japan 8 Kota Mizunuma 5 3 0 8
3 MF Japan 14 Naoyuki Fujita 5 0 0 5
FW Japan 18 Ryunosuke Noda 4 1 0 5
5 FW Brazil 9 Tozin 3 0 0 3
FW Japan 22 Kei Ikeda 3 0 0 3
7 DF Japan 13 Yusuke Inuzuka 0 2 0 2
8 DF Japan 4 Teruaki Kobayashi 1 0 0 1
MF South Korea 10 Kim Min-Woo 1 0 0 1
DF South Korea 20 Yeo Sung-Hye 1 0 0 1
DF South Korea 5 Kim Kun-Hoan 1 0 0 1
Own Goal 0 1 0 1
FW Japan 19 Shohei Okada 0 1 0 1
MF Japan 25 Ryota Hayasaka 0 1 0 1
TOTALS 40 5 0 45

Disciplinary record

Number Nation Position Name J-League J.League Cup Emperor's Cup Total
Yellow card Red card Yellow card Red card Yellow card Red card Yellow card Red card
1 Japan GK Taku Akahoshi 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 1
2 Japan DF Kosuke Kitani 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
3 Japan DF Keita Isozaki 2 0 1 0 0 0 3 0
4 Japan DF Teruaki Kobayashi 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
5 South Korea DF Kim Kun-Hoan 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
6 Japan MF Tomotaka Okamoto 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0
8 Japan MF Kota Mizunuma 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
9 Brazil FW Tozim 2 0 3 0 0 0 5 0
10 South Korea MF Kim Min-Woo 7 0 0 0 0 0 7 0
11 Japan FW Yohei Toyoda 6 0 1 0 0 0 7 0
12 Japan GK Tatsuro Okuda 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
14 Japan MF Naoyuki Fujita 3 0 1 0 0 0 4 0
15 Japan DF Ryuhei Niwa 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
16 Japan MF Takahiro Kuniyoshi 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0
18 Japan FW Ryunosuke Noda 3 0 4 1 1 0 8 1
19 Japan FW Shohei Okada 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
20 South Korea DF Yeo Sung-Hye 7 0 1 0 0 0 8 0
22 Japan FW Kei Ikeda 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
27 Japan MF Koki Kiyotake 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
28 Japan MF Yoshiki Takahashi 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
TOTALS 56 0 13 2 1 0 70 2

References

  1. ^ http://www.j-league.or.jp/data/view.php?d=j1f&t=result&s=01&y=2012&l=E [dead link]
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