Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo is a professional soccer club in the J. League. Their home town is Hokkaido, centering around Sapporo city, and their home stadium is the Sapporo Dome.
The team was originally established in 1935 under the name Toshiba Horikawa-cho Soccer Club in Kawasaki city, Kanagawa prefecture. In 1977, they won the All Japan Senior Football Championship. They continued to climb up through JSL’s 2nd and 1st division, and from 1992 they have been playing in JFL, which is a sub league of the J. League.