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Kyuden Voltex

Kyuden Voltex
キューデンヴォルテクス
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Full nameKyuden Voltex
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)Voltex
Founded1951
LocationFukuoka, Japan
Ground(s)Kashii, Fukuoka city
League(s)Top Challenge League
20185th
Team kit

Kyuden Voltex is a Japanese rugby team owned by Kyushu Electric Power Co. (Kyūshū Denryoku). The nickname "Voltex" is a conflation of "Voltage" and "Techniques" and was decided after the team won promotion to the Top League. The team is based in Kashii, Fukuoka and from the 2007-8 season is playing in the semi-professional Top League at the top of Japanese domestic rugby. It is the third team based in Kyūshū to play in the league, the other two being Coca-Cola Red Sparks and Munakata Sanix Blues.

In the fifth season of the Top League (2007-8) Kyuden managed to avoid the play-offs and stay in the league. They also won the league's "Fair Play" prize.

Team colours

Main: red with yellow trimmed jersey, black shorts; Second: white jersey and shorts with blue trim. See here. The former are Kyuden's traditional colours since founding of the club. The colours to be used in the Top League were announced on October 12, 2007.　

Sanix v Kyuden at Global Arena, Top League Round 11, January 20, 2008. Kyuden won this local derby 13-5. Nathan Grey is at outside centre (No. 12).

Squad

The Kyuden Voltex squad for the 2021 season is:[1]

Kyuden Voltex squad

Props

  • Japan Kotaro Hirohata
  • Japan Keiji Ikeda
  • Japan Ryosuke Kagoshima
  • Japan Shinpei Kimata
  • Japan Kazuma Ono
  • Japan Kazuto Tokunaga

Hookers

  • Japan Takehiro Kitsuki
  • Japan Genki Nakamura
  • Japan Ryota Nakanishi
  • Japan Hayato Yoshida

Locks

  • Japan Tomotaka Ishimatsu
  • Japan Syuma Kanayama
  • New Zealand Tom Rowe
  • Japan Yoshihiro Sononaka
  • Japan Masato Ura
  • Japan Shintaro Urakawa
  • Japan Kazuto Yamashita

Loose Forwards

  • Japan Kazuma Hirata
  • Japan Takuya Matsunaga
  • Australia Lachlan McCaffrey
  • Japan Wataru Obara
  • Japan Michiro Takai
  • Japan Takuya-Alex Walker
  • Japan Yuki Yamada

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Daisuke Kodama
  • Japan Kotaro Komori
  • Japan Mitsuaki Motomura
  • Japan Kotaro Nakao

Fly-halves

  • Japan Yusuke Aramaki
  • Scotland Phil Burleigh
  • Japan Hayato Kojyo
  • Japan Shinhichiro Matsushita
  • Japan Shogo Matsushita
  • Japan Kiichi Uezato

Centres

  • Japan Ren Hagiwara
  • Japan Kento Kuroki
  • Japan Noriaki Nakazuru

Wingers

  • Japan Kenji Hayata
  • Japan Yasunari Isoda
  • Japan Goki Saito
  • Japan Naoki Takaya

Fullbacks

  • Japan Keito Honda
  • Japan Makoto Kato
(c) denotes team captain.

Coach

Zane Hilton

References

  1. ^ "Player". Kyuden Voltex. Retrieved 16 December 2019.

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