Skyactivs Hiroshima

Skyactivs Hiroshima
マツダスカイアクティブス広島
Full nameSkyactivs Hiroshima
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)Skyactivs
Coach(es)Kazunari Ota
League(s)Japan Rugby League One, Division Three
20226th
Relegated to Division Three
Team kit
Official website
www.skyactivs.com

Skyactivs Hiroshima (formerly Mazda Blue Zoomers) are a Japanese rugby union team who compete in the Japan Rugby League One. They were formerly owned by car manufacturers Mazda based in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan. The team rebranded as Skyactivs Hiroshima, dropping the Mazda name, ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the Japan Rugby League One in 2022.[1]

Squad

The Skyactivs Hiroshima squad for the 2024-25 season is:[2]

Skyactivs Hiroshima squad

Props

  • Japan Tadatsugu Kanayama
  • Japan Koshi Kato
  • Japan Tomonori Koyanagi
  • Japan Tomoya Otake
  • Japan Koshiro Shigenobu
  • Japan Yuji Takahashi
  • Japan Haruki Umemoto
  • Japan Ryoto Tomita
  • Japan Shota Kasai

Hookers

  • Japan Yusuke Kitabayashi
  • Japan Tomohiro Takeda
  • Japan Taichi Yoko
  • Japan Taisei Hiranuma
  • Japan Koki Nakano

Locks

  • Japan Yoshinobu Nishino
  • Japan Kaiha Noda
  • Australia Tye Nash*
  • Japan Ramo Sato
  • Japan Yutaro Tanaka
  • Scotland Andrew Davidson
  • Japan Kanto Watanabe REP DEP

Flankers

  • Fiji Sam Chongkit*
  • Japan Tomoki Ashida(c)
  • New Zealand Tevin Ferris
  • Japan Keishin Iwamoto REP DEP

No8s

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Dai Goto
  • Japan Shoya Maeda
  • Japan Rikuto Nakashima
  • Japan Taiyo Fukuyama
  • Japan Kotaro Tatsuno

Fly-halves

Centres

  • Australia Jake Abel
  • Japan Shunya Motoyama
  • South Korea Lee Soo-pyung
  • South Africa Clynton Knox*
  • Japan Kaito Sasaoka
  • Japan Takehiro Watanabe REP DEP
  • Japan Shunpei Matsuzawa REP DEP

Wingers

  • Japan Tsubasa Kono
  • Japan Kohei Kamei
  • Japan Hayato Kanamaru
  • Japan Haruki Kitajima
  • Japan Seigo Kubo
  • Japan Kohei Tanaka
  • Japan Yuto Nakamura

Fullbacks

  • Japan Keisuke Nakamoto
  • Japan Ren Ouchi
  • Japan Ginjiro Sakiguchi

Utility Backs

(c) denotes team captain.

See also

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. ^ "Skyactivs Hiroshima". Asie Rugby. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
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