Kyuden Voltex

Rugby team
Kyuden Voltex
九州電力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 2023-24 season is:[1]

Kyuden Voltex squad

Props

  • Japan Nozomu Samuel Faialaga
  • Japan Kazuto Tokunaga
  • Japan Ryosuke Kagoshima
  • Japan Yasuo Saruwatari
  • Japan Kosuke Oike
  • Japan Shinpei Kamata
  • Japan Kazuma Ono
  • Japan Taro Uesugi REP DEP
  • Japan Riki Takebe REP DEP


Hookers

  • Japan Takehiro Kitsuki
  • South Korea Wang Kyung-mun*
  • Japan Genki Nakamura
  • Japan Hayato Yoshida

Locks

  • Japan Yoshihiro Sononaka
  • New Zealand Ray Tatafu
  • Japan Tomotaka Ishimatsu
  • Japan Syuma Kanayama
  • Japan Masahiro Eriguchi
  • England Sean Robinson

Flankers

  • New Zealand Aaron Carroll
  • Japan Michiro Takai (cccc)
  • Australia Colby Fainga'a
  • Japan Keisuke Yamzoe
  • Japan Ken Nakashima
  • South Korea Kim Ki-hyun*
  • Japan Yuki Yamada (cccc)

No8s

  • Japan Alex Takuya Walker (cccc)

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Yusaku Kanda
  • Japan Kotaro Komori
  • Japan Kotaro Nakao
  • Japan Shunta Takenouchi (cccc)
  • Australia Spencer Jeans REP

Fly-halves

  • New Zealand Tom Taylor
  • Japan Yusuke Aramaki
  • Japan Shinhichiro Matsushita
  • Japan Shogo Matsushita
  • Japan Kiichi Uezato
  • Japan Shimpei Fukada REP DEP

Centres

  • Scotland Phil Burleigh
  • Japan Hayato Kojyo
  • Japan Kento Kuroki
  • Australia Charlie Worthington
  • Japan Noriaki Nakazuru
  • Tonga Sione Likuata*
  • Tonga Sam Vaka

Wingers

  • Japan Ren Hagiwara
  • Japan Kenji Hayata
  • Japan Yasunari Isoda
  • Japan Goki Saito
  • Japan Naoki Takaya
  • Japan Akihito Yamada

Fullbacks

  • Japan Makoto Kato
  • Japan Keito Honda
  • Japan Masaya Kanado
  • Japan Takumi Takeshita

Utility Backs

(c) denotes team captain.

Coach

Zane Hilton

References

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

External links

  • Official Home Page
  • Kyuden v Sanix (QuickTime movie, Top League game, January 20, 2008)
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Kyuden Voltex – current squad
Forwards
  • Daigo Asato
  • Colby Fainga'a
  • Kazuma Hirata
  • Keiji Ikeda
  • Tomotaka Ishimatsu
  • Ryosuke Kagoshima
  • Shinpei Kamata
  • Syuma Kanayama
  • Takehiro Kitsuki
  • Kieran Law
  • Tatsuya Matsunaga
  • Lachlan McCaffrey
  • Genki Nakamura
  • Samuel Nozomu Faialaga
  • Wataru Obara
  • Kazuma Ono
  • Tom Rowe
  • Yasuo Saruwatari
  • Yoshihiro Sononaka
  • Michiro Takai
  • Ray Tatafu
  • Kazuto Tokunaga
  • Alex Takuya Walker
  • Yuki Yamada
  • Hayato Yoshida
Backs
  • Yusuke Aramaki
  • Phil Burleigh
  • Ren Hagiwara
  • Kenji Hayata
  • Keito Honda
  • Yasunari Isoda
  • Masaya Kanado
  • Makoto Kato
  • Daisuke Kodama
  • Hayato Kojyo
  • Kotaro Komori
  • Kento Kuroki
  • Viliami Lea
  • Shinhichiro Matsushita
  • Shogo Matsushita
  • Kotaro Nakao
  • Ken Nakashima
  • Noriaki Nakazuru
  • Goki Saito
  • Naoki Takaya
  • Shunta Takenouchi
  • Kiichi Uezato
  • Sam Vaka
  • Akihito Yamada
Coach