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Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks
清水建設江東ブルーシャークス
Full name	Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks
Union	Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)	Blue Sharks
Founded	1976
Coach(es)	Ippei Asada
League(s)	Japan Rugby League One, Division Two
2022	2nd ; Promoted to Division Two

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Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks – nicknamed the Blue Sharks – are a Japanese rugby union team, currently playing in the Japan Rugby League One.^[1] The team is the rugby team of architectural, civil engineering and general contracting firm Shimizu, based in Chūō in Tokyo.

The team was created in 1976 as the rugby union team for Shimizu Corporation. When rugby union in Japan was restructured in 2003 with the introduction of the Top League, Shimizu Blue Sharks was allocated to the second tier Top East League. They were relegated after the 2007–08 season, and played in lower leagues for a decade. They won promotion back for the 2017–18 season, where they secured a fourth-place finish. The following season, they won the competition, and also won their promotion play-off match against Chugoku Red Regulions to be promoted to the Top Challenge League for 2019.

The team rebranded as Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the Japan Rugby League One in 2022.^[2]

Squad

The Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks squad for the 2024-25 season is:^[3]

Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks squad
Props Fumiya Mato Sanshiro Nomura Ryota Saito Daiki Shimura Takatoshi Sugawara Daisuke Yamato Taketo Yoshikawa Li Uha* Shinya Nara Hookers Kumpei Onishi Kaito Tamori Riki Tanaka Naomichi Tatekawa Yasuyuki Yamamoto Locks Suguru Hidaka Tom Rowe* Tetsunori Osaki Ryota Sakino Koyo Adachi Ed Holmes	Loose forwards Ginjiro Hase Haruki Matsudo Ryo Sato Kodai Takahashi Josh Basham Usa Baleilautoka* Yuta Inoue No8s Yutaro Shirako(c) Sosiceni Tokoqio* Murphy Taramai Michael Toloke Scrum-halves Kayne Hammington Haruhiro Sakahara Taishi Sakurai Reijiro Usui Tatsuya Kanetsuki Maito Matsuo Fly-halves Lima Sopoaga Taku Inoue Soichiro Kuwata Masaya Yamada Hayden Cripps*	Centres Takuya Kanemura Johnny Kôtze* Noah Foster Ryota Noda Siale Piutau Terrence Hepetema Wingers Yuji Takai Eiya Miyazaki Syuhei Sasaki Essendon Tuitupou Fullbacks Naoki Moriya Tatsuhiro Ozaki Coenie van Wyk* Utility Backs Puspakom Peeranut* ^DEP

(c) denotes team captain.

External links

Official website

References

^ "2019年度ジャパンラグビートップチャレンジリーグチーム編成について" (PDF). Japan East Rugby Football Union (in Japanese). 5 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
^ "La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One". Asie Rugby (in French). 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
^ "Shimizu Blue Sharks Member List". Shimizu Blue Sharks. Retrieved 16 December 2019.

[1] "2019年度ジャパンラグビートップチャレンジリーグチーム編成について" (PDF). Japan East Rugby Football Union (in Japanese). 5 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2019.

[2] "La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One". Asie Rugby (in French). 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.

[Shimizu_Blue_Sharks_squad-3] "Shimizu Blue Sharks Member List". Shimizu Blue Sharks. Retrieved 16 December 2019.

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 {{Infobox rugby team
-| teamname     = Shimizu Blue Sharks <br/> ブルーシャークス
+| teamname     = Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks <br/> 清水建設江東ブルーシャークス
-| image        = Shimizu Blue Sharks logo.svg
+| image        = Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks logo.jpg
-| imagesize    =
+| imagesize    = 200px
-| fullname     = Shimizu Rugby Football Club
+| fullname     = Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks
 | nickname     = Blue Sharks
 | founded      = 1976
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 | countryflag  = Japan
 | location     =
-| coach        = [[Steve Jackson (rugby union)|Steve Jackson]]
+| coach        = [[Ippei Asada]]
 | chairman     =
-| league       = [[Top Challenge League]]
+| league       = [[Japan Rugby League One]], Division Two
-| season       = 2018
+| season       = [[2022 Japan Rugby League One, Division Three|2022]]
-| position     = Champions <br/> (Top League East)
+| position     = 2nd <br/> Promoted to Division Two
 }}
-'''Shimizu Rugby Football Club''' – nicknamed the '''Blue Sharks''' – are a [[Japan]]ese [[rugby union]] team, currently playing in the country's second tier [[Top Challenge League]] competition.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rugby.or.jp/files/document/610-0.pdf | title=2019年度ジャパンラグビートップチャレンジリーグ チーム編成について | work=Japan East Rugby Football Union | date=5 January 2019 | accessdate=7 January 2019 | language=Japanese}}</ref> The team is the rugby team of [[architecture|architectural]], [[civil engineering]] and [[general contractor|general contracting]] firm [[Shimizu Corporation|Shimizu]], based in [[Chūō, Tokyo|Chūō]] in [[Tokyo]].
+'''Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks''' – nicknamed the '''Blue Sharks''' – are a [[Japan]]ese [[rugby union]] team, currently playing in the [[Japan Rugby League One]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rugby.or.jp/files/document/610-0.pdf | title=2019年度ジャパンラグビートップチャレンジリーグ チーム編成について | work=Japan East Rugby Football Union | date=5 January 2019 | accessdate=7 January 2019 | language=Japanese}}</ref> The team is the rugby team of [[architecture|architectural]], [[civil engineering]] and [[general contractor|general contracting]] firm [[Shimizu Corporation|Shimizu]], based in [[Chūō, Tokyo|Chūō]] in [[Tokyo]].
 The team was created in 1976 as the rugby union team for Shimizu Corporation. When rugby union in Japan was restructured in 2003 with the introduction of the [[Top League]], Shimizu Blue Sharks was allocated to the second tier [[:ja:トップイーストリーグ|Top East League]]. They were relegated after the 2007–08 season, and played in lower leagues for a decade. They won promotion back for the 2017–18 season, where they secured a fourth-place finish. The following season, they won the competition, and also won their [[2018 Top Challenge League#Relegation play-offs|promotion play-off]] match against [[Chugoku Red Regulions]] to be promoted to the [[Top Challenge League]] for [[2019 Top Challenge League|2019]].
+The team rebranded as '''Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks''' ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the [[Japan Rugby League One]] in 2022.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.asierugby.com/post/la-nouvelle-ligue-japonaise-s-appelle-la-japan-rugby-league-one|title=La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One|work=Asie Rugby|date=16 July 2021|access-date=16 July 2021|language=French}}</ref>
 ==Squad==
-The Shimizu Blue Sharks squad for the 2021 season is:<ref name="Shimizu Blue Sharks squad">{{cite web | url=https://blue-sharks.jp/category/members/ | title=Shimizu Blue Sharks Member List | work=Shimizu Blue Sharks | accessdate=16 December 2019}}</ref>
+The Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks squad for the 2024-25 season is:<ref name="Shimizu Blue Sharks squad">{{cite web | url=https://blue-sharks.jp/category/members/ | title=Shimizu Blue Sharks Member List | work=Shimizu Blue Sharks | accessdate=16 December 2019}}</ref>
-{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:60%"
+{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left; font-size:90%; width:70%"
 |-
-! colspan="100%" | Mazda Blue Zoomers squad
+! colspan="100%" | Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks squad
 |- valign="top"
 |
 '''Props'''
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryo Chennohara]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Fumiya Mato]]
-* {{Flagicon|Australia}} '''[[Pekahou Cowan]]'''
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Sanshiro Nomura]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Miyake Harukai]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryota Saito]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kazuki Kanazawa]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Daiki Shimura]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ikuya Mato]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuto Sato (rugby union)|Yuto Sato]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taiki Shimura]]
 * {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takatoshi Sugawara]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kota Takahashi]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Daisuke Yamato]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taketo Yoshikawa]]
+* {{Flagicon|South Korea}} [[Li Uha]]*
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shinya Nara]]
 '''Hookers'''
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Teppei Akiyama]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kumpei Onishi]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ando Daiki]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kaito Tamori]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuya Furuta]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Riki Tanaka]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kunpei Onishi]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Naomichi Tatekawa]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Naomichi Tachikawa]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yasuyuki Yamamoto]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Jun Takeuchi (rugby union)|Jun Takeuchi]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryoto Yamakawa]]
 '''Locks'''
-* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Josh Bekhuis]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Suguru Hidaka]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kainatsu Goto]]
+* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Tom Rowe (rugby union)|Tom Rowe]]*
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shun Hidaka]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tetsunori Osaki]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Eri Nakata]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takuro Ogawa]]
 * {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryota Sakino]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroto Watanabe]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Koyo Adachi]]
+* {{Flagicon|England}} [[Ed Holmes]]
 ||
-'''Loose Forwards'''
+'''Loose forwards'''
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} '''[[Taiyo Ando]]'''
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ginjiro Hase]]
 * {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Haruki Matsudo]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Wataru Niimoto]]
-* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} [[Latuira Repha]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Hiroki Sato (rugby union)|Hiroki Sato]]
 * {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryo Sato (rugby union)|Ryo Sato]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yutaro Shirako]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kodai Takahashi]]
-* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Jano Venter]]
+* {{Flagicon|England}} [[Josh Basham]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kento Yasunaga]]
+* {{Flagicon|Fiji}} [[Usa Baleilautoka]]*
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuta Inoue]]
+'''No8s'''
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yutaro Shirako]]([[Captain (sports)|c]])
+* {{Flagicon|Fiji}} [[Sosiceni Tokoqio]]*
+* {{Flagicon|Samoa}} '''[[Murphy Taramai]]'''
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Michael Toloke]]
 '''Scrum-halves'''
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kenji Harada]]
+* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Kayne Hammington]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Haruhiro Sakahara]]
 * {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taishi Sakurai]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tomohiro Sakurai]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Reijiro Usui]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keiki Shigeno]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tatsuya Kanetsuki]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shuto Takashima]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Maito Matsuo]]
 '''Fly-halves'''
-* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Garth April]]
+* {{Flagicon|Samoa}} '''[[Lima Sopoaga]]'''
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shingo Asami]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Masaru Fujitaka]]
 * {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Taku Inoue]]
-* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} '''[[Luke McAlister]]'''
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Soichiro Kuwata]]
-* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Coenie van Wyk]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Masaya Yamada]]
+* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Hayden Cripps]]*
 ||
 '''Centres'''
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takuya Kanamura]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takuya Kanemura]]
-* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Johnny Kôtze]]
+* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Johnny Kôtze]]*
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Keisuke Masuda]]
+* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Noah Foster]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Sumi Morita]]
 * {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryota Noda]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Ryoji Nonaka]]
+* {{Flagicon|Tonga}} '''[[Siale Piutau]]'''
-* {{Flagicon|Fiji}} [[Filimona Waqainabete]]
+* {{Flagicon|England}} [[Terrence Hepetema]]
-* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Dick Wilson (rugby union)|Dick Wilson]]
 '''Wingers'''
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Miyaji Eiya]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Yuji Takai]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Daichi Ito]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Eiya Miyazaki]]
-* {{Flagicon|France}} [[Nicholas Kraska]]
+* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Syuhei Sasaki]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Takahiro Morikawa]]
+* {{Flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Essendon Tuitupou]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Shuhei Sasaki]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Kazuyoshi Takayama]]
 '''Fullbacks'''
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Toru Kanazawa]]
 * {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Naoki Moriya]]
 * {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tatsuhiro Ozaki]]
-* {{Flagicon|Japan}} [[Tadanobu Taka]]
+* {{Flagicon|South Africa}} [[Coenie van Wyk]]*
+''' Utility Backs'''
+* {{Flagicon|Thailand}} [[Puspakom Peeranut]]* <sup>DEP</sup>
 |-
 | colspan="100%" style="height: 10px;" |
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 ==References==
 {{reflist}}
+{{Japan Rugby League One}}
 {{Top Challenge League}}
-{{Shimizu Blue Sharks squad}}
+{{Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks squad}}
-[[Category:Top Challenge League teams]]
 [[Category:Rugby clubs established in 1976]]
 [[Category:1976 establishments in Japan]]
+[[Category:Japan Rugby League One teams]]

v t e Shimizu Koto Blue Sharks – current squad
Forwards	Yuya Furuta Minato Goto Genjiro Hase Suguru Hidaka Ryo Jinnohara Kazuki Kanazawa Fumiya Mato Haruki Matsudo Sanshiro Nomura Tom Nowlan Takuro Ogawa Kumpei Onishi Tetsunori Osaki Ryota Saito Ryota Sakino Ryo Sato Yuto Sato Daiki Shimura Yutaro Shirako Takatoshi Sugawara Kodai Takahashi Kaito Tamori Riki Tanaka Murphy Taramai Naomichi Tatekawa Nash Tye Hiroto Watanabe Daisuke Yamamoto Yasuyuki Yamamoto Kento Yasunaga Taketo Yoshikawa Li Yuhe
Backs	Garth April USA Baleilautoka Masashi Fujitaka Kayne Hammington Kenji Harada Taku Inoue Toru Kanazawa Takuya Kanemura Johnny Kôtze Soichiro Kuwata Orbyn Leger Eiya Miyazaki Toru Morita Naoki Moriya Ryota Noda Ryoji Nonaka Tatsuhiro Ozaki Puspakom Peeranatu Siale Piutau Haruhiro Sakahara Taishi Sakurai Syuhei Sasaki Yoshiki Shigeno Yuji Takai Michael Toloke Reijiro Usui Coenie van Wyk Masaya Yamada
Coach	Ippei Asada