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Saitama Seibu Lions vs Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters — Nippon Baseball League

Saitama Seibu Lions

Saitama Seibu Lions

4:3

Belluna Dome

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

Match Facts

  • Venue: Belluna Dome
  • Saitama Seibu Lions home ground: Belluna Dome
  • Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters stadium: Es Con Field Hokkaido
  • Saitama Seibu Lions founded 1950
  • Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters founded 1946
  • League country: Japan

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Saitama Seibu Lions

Nippon Baseball League

Stadium
Belluna Dome
Founded
1950
Country
Japan
Location
Tokorozawa City,Japan

The Saitama Seibu Lions are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based north of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Prince Hotels, which in turn is owned by the Seibu Group. The team experienced a recent period of financial difficulty, but the situation brightened when the team received a record ¥6 billion (about $51.11 million) posting fee from the Boston Red Sox for the right to negotiate a contract with Daisuke Matsuzaka. Between 1978 and 2008, the team logo and mascot were based on the a...

Official Kits

Saitama Seibu Lions 1st kit

1st · 2021

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters

Nippon Baseball League

Stadium
Es Con Field Hokkaido
Founded
1946
Country
Japan
Location
Kitahiroshima, Hokkaidō

The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters (北海道日本ハムファイターズ, Hokkaidō Nippon-Hamu Faitāzu) are a Japanese professional baseball team based in Kitahiroshima, Hokkaidō, in the Sapporo metropolitan area. They compete in the Pacific League of Nippon Professional Baseball, playing the majority of their home games at ES CON Field Hokkaido. The Fighters also host a select number of regional home games in cities across Hokkaidō, including Hakodate, Asahikawa, Kushiro, and Obihiro. The team's name comes from its parent organization, Nippon Ham, a major Japanese food-processing comp...

Official Kits

Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 1st kit

1st · 2021

Nippon Baseball League

Nippon Professional Baseball (日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) or NPB is the highest level of baseball in Japan. Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球), meaning Professional Baseball. Outside Japan, it is often just referred to as "Japanese baseball". The roots of the league can be traced back to the formation of the "Greater Japan Tokyo Baseball Club" (大日本東京野球倶楽部, Dai-Nippon Tōkyō Yakyū Kurabu) in Tokyo, founded in 1934, and the original circuit...