Green Rockets Tokatsu

Japan Green Rockets Tokatsu
NECグリーンロケッツ東葛
Full nameGreen Rockets Tokatsu
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
NicknameGreen Rockets
Founded1985
LocationAbiko, Chiba, Japan
GroundKashiwanoha Stadium (Capacity: 20,000)
CoachGreg Cooper
LeagueJapan 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 2025-26 season is:[2]

Green Rockets Tokatsu squad

Props

  • Japan Keita Kimura
  • Japan Sunao Takizawa
  • Japan Taiga Yamaguchi
  • Australia Phransis Sula-Siaosi
  • Japan Keisuke Kikuta
  • Japan Taku Toma
  • Japan Shotaro Kameyama
  • Tonga Suliasi Tolu*
  • South Korea Hwang Se-ra*

Hookers

  • Japan Keita Kobayashi
  • Japan Shunya Hamano
  • Japan Kosuke Shimoe
  • Japan Ren Osawa

Locks

Flankers

  • Australia Timote Tavalea*
  • Japan Ryoi Kamei
  • Japan Tatsuru Owada
  • Japan Yuta Moriyama
  • Japan Asahi Uchikawa
  • United States Kaipono Kayoshi* REP [a]

No8s

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

Centres

Wingers

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

Fullbacks

  • France Nathan Dagoury DEP [b]

Utility Backs

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped
  1. ^ December 19 2025,Kayoshi was joined from the team after round 1.
  2. ^ Dagoury is a trainee.

Former players

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.
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