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

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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 100 Year Plan club sta ...

(JFL) from 2002 to 2007, when they merged with Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C. to form what is now Sagawa Shiga F.C. 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, ...

, 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 o ...

, 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 Sagawa Shiga F.C., based in

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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