Kyuden Voltex
キューデンヴォルテクス
Full nameKyuden Voltex
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)Voltex
Founded1951
LocationFukuoka, Japan
Ground(s)Kashii, Fukuoka city
Coach(es)Zane Hilton
League(s)Japan Rugby League One, Division Three
20224th
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 2023 season is:[1]

Kyuden Voltex squad

Props

  • Japan Daigo Asato
  • Japan Keiji Ikeda
  • Japan Ryosuke Kagoshima
  • Japan Shinpei Kamata
  • Japan Samuel Nozomu Faialaga
  • Japan Kazuma Ono
  • Japan Yasuo Saruwatari
  • Japan Kazuto Tokunaga

Hookers

  • Japan Takehiro Kitsuki
  • Australia Ciaran Loh
  • Japan Genki Nakamura
  • Japan Hayato Yoshida

Locks

Loose forwards

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Daisuke Kodama
  • Japan Kotaro Komori
  • Japan Kotaro Nakao
  • Japan Shunta Takenouchi

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 Ken Nakashima
  • Japan Noriaki Nakazuru
  • Tonga Sam Vaka

Wingers

  • Japan Kenji Hayata
  • Japan Yasunari Isoda
  • Australia Viliami Lea
  • Japan Goki Saito
  • Japan Naoki Takaya
  • Japan Akihito Yamada

Fullbacks

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

Coach

Zane Hilton

References

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