Green Rockets Tokatsu

Green Rockets Tokatsu
NECグリーンロケッツ東葛
Full nameGreen Rockets Tokatsu
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)Green Rockets
Founded1985
LocationAbiko, Chiba, Japan
Ground(s)Kashiwanoha Stadium (Capacity: 20,000)
Coach(es)Greg Cooper
League(s)Japan Rugby League One
202212th
1st kit
2nd kit
Official website
green.necrockets.net

NEC Green Rockets Tokatsu (formerly NEC Green Rockets) is a Japanese rugby union team in the Japan Rugby League One. The team's captain is Ryota Asano. The previous captain was Takuro Miuchi, who was also the captain of the Japan national rugby union team. Before the semi-professional Top League was created, the team was just known as "NEC". The amateur club was founded in 1985 in the Kantō region.

NEC Green Rockets won the All-Japan Championship final for the second time on 27 February 2005, beating Toyota Verblitz 17-13. They drew 6-6 with Toshiba Brave Lupus in the 43rd Japan Championship final on 26 February 2006 after an effective defensive effort and the sin-binning of Glen Marsh in the last ten minutes of the game.

The team rebranded as Green Rockets Tokatsu ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the Japan Rugby League One in 2022.[1]

Honours

Current squad

The Green Rockets Tokatsu for the 2024-25 season is:[2]

Green Rockets Tokatsu squad

Props

  • Japan Suguru Kubo
  • Japan Sunao Takizawa
  • Japan Kosei Yamamoto
  • Japan Kanta Higashionna
  • Japan Keisuke Kikuta
  • Japan Taku Toma
  • Tonga Suliasi Tolu*
  • Japan Shotaro Kameyama REP
  • South Korea Hwang Se-ra* REP
  • Australia Phransis Sula-Siaosi REP

Hookers

  • New Zealand Ash Dixon
  • Japan Miyu Arai
  • Japan Keita Kobayashi
  • Japan Ren Osawa

Locks

  • Wales Jake Ball DEP [a]
  • Japan Daiki Yamagiwa
  • Tonga Ika Motulalo Takau*
  • South Africa Brendon Nell*
  • New Zealand Pari Pari Parkinson
  • New Zealand Edward Annandale
  • New Zealand Matariki Channings REP
  • New Zealand Geoff Cridge REP

Flankers

  • Tonga Viliami Lutua Ahofono*
  • New Zealand D'anjahlo Ahsui*
  • Japan Ryoi Kamei
  • Japan Tatsuru Owada
  • Japan Yuta Moriyama
  • Australia Mitieli Tuinakauvadra*
  • Japan Asahi Uchikawa REP

No8s

  • Japan Aseri Masivou

Scrum-halves

  • Australia Nick Phipps (c)
  • Japan Tatsuya Fujii
  • Japan Yusuke Maruo
  • Japan Hirose Yabu REP
  • Japan Yoshiki Yoshioka REP LOAN [b]
  • Tonga Shinnosuke Tafokitau Oka* REP LOAN [c]

Fly-halves

  • Japan Taisetsu Kanai
  • Japan Ko Yoshimura
  • Wales Rhys Patchell

Centres

  • New Zealand Orbyn Leger
  • Japan Koichi Matsura
  • Japan Masaki Obata
  • Tonga Christian Laui*
  • Fiji Maritino Nemani*
  • Japan Ryosei Takai
  • Fiji Nathanael Tupou*

Wingers

  • Japan Kanta Omata
  • Japan Teruya Goto
  • Japan Kakeru Miyaso
  • Japan Hiroyuki Miyajima
  • Japan Yuma Sugimoto
  • New Zealand Keagen Faria*
  • Japan Naoya Ogita REP

Fullbacks

Utility Backs

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Former players

  • John Kirwan - (before the Top League started), and later head coach of Japan national rugby union team
  • Kiyonori Okano
  • Takayuki Higo - coach
  • George Konia
  • Glen Marsh
  • Joe Stanley
  • Jeremy Stanley
  • Alex Goode
  • Takuro Miuchi
  • Yuta Inose (2004-18, 161 games) Prop, Japanese International (2008, 6 caps)
  • Nili Latu (2007-15, 110 games) Loose forward, Tongan International (2006-, 54 caps)

References

  1. ^ "La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One". Asie Rugby (in French). 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Players & Staffs" (in Japanese). Green Rockets Tokatsu. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
Notes
  1. ^ Ball was released from the team after round 2.
  2. ^ Yoshioka was loan from Shizuoka Blue Revs after round 5.
  3. ^ Oka was loan from Suntory Sungoliath after round 5.
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