Kyuden Voltex

Kyuden Voltex
九州電力キューデンヴォルテクス

Full name	Kyuden Voltex
Union	Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)	Voltex
Founded	1951
Location	Fukuoka, Japan
Ground(s)	Kashii, Fukuoka city
Coach(es)	Zane Hilton
League(s)	Japan Rugby League One, Division Three
2022	4th
Team kit

Kyūshu 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 2024-25 season is:^[1]

Kyuden Voltex squad
Props Nozomu Samuel Faialaga Kazuto Tokunaga Ryosuke Kagoshima Yasuo Saruwatari Kosuke Oike Shinpei Kamata Kazuma Ono Taro Uesugi Riki Takebe Hookers Takehiro Kitsuki Wang Kyung-mun* Genki Nakamura Hayato Yoshida Hiroki Murakawa Locks Yoshihiro Sononaka Ray Tatafu Tomotaka Ishimatsu Syuma Kanayama Masahiro Eriguchi Sean Robinson	Flankers Aaron Carroll Michiro Takai Colby Fainga'a Keisuke Yamzoe Ken Nakashima Kim Ki-hyun* Yuki Yamada No8s Alex Takuya Walker (c) Scrum-halves Yusaku Kanda Kotaro Nakao Shunta Takenouchi Spencer Jeans Daisuke Kodama Fly-halves Tom Taylor Yusuke Aramaki Shinhichiro Matsushita Shogo Matsushita Kiichi Uezato Shimpei Fukada Kohei Kire	Centres Hayato Kojyo Charlie Worthington Noriaki Nakazuru Sione Likuata Teaupa* Sam Vaka Wingers Ren Hagiwara Kenji Hayata Yasunari Isoda Goki Saito Naoki Takaya Akihito Yamada Fullbacks Makoto Kato Keito Honda Masaya Kanado 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)