Team information
- Abbr
- SAI
- Sport
- Baseball
- League
- Nippon Professional Baseball (Japan)
- Founded
- 1950
- Home market
- Tokorozawa, JP
- Championships
- 13
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 cont
Championship years
- 1956
- 1957
- 1958
- 1982
- 1983
- 1986
- 1987
- 1988
- 1990
- 1991
- 1992
- 2004
- 2008