Green Rockets Tokatsu

NEC Green Rockets
NECグリーンロケッツ

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Full name	NEC Green Rockets
Union	Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)	Green Rockets
Founded	1985
Location	Abiko, Chiba, Japan
Ground(s)	Various stadiums
Coach(es)	Peter Russell
League(s)	Top League
2016–17	10th
1st kit 2nd kit

NEC Green Rockets is a Japanese rugby union team in the Top League. 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 February 27, 2005, beating Toyota Verblitz 17-13. They drew 6-6 with Toshiba Brave Lupus in the 43rd Japan Championship final on February 26, 2006 after an effective defensive effort and the sin-binning of Glen Marsh in the last ten minutes of the game.

Honours

• All-Japan Championship
  • Champions: 2005, 2006 (with Toshiba Brave Lupus)

Current squad

The current NEC Green Rockets squad is:

NEC Green Rockets squad
Props Takahiro Doi Mao Enoki Ryo Sioapelatu Holani Kento Imura Yuta Inose Toshiaki Maejima Sunao Takizawa Hikaru Tanaka Hookers Teppei Akiyama Shin Kawamura Yo Sato Yosuke Usui Locks Taku Hirosawa Lepuha Latuila Lee Jin-Seok Shoji Tanaka Sanaila Waqa Ryunosuke Yamada Yuta Onodera	Loose Forwards Scott Higginbotham Yoshiya Hosoda Ryoui Kamei Taro Kenjo Takumi Matsumura Rikiya Oishi Tatsuru Owada George Risale Scrum-halves Cado Lee Ka To Tomonori Kimura Lee Myung-jun Kaito Shigeno Fly-halves Kodai Kameyama Ryosuke Kanemura	Centres Shindo Kamaike Koichi Matsuura Shigeki Morita Yosuke Morita Jordan Payne Sho Yamazaki Wingers Teruya Goto Ryuta Iiyama Hiroyuki Miyajima Yuki Miyamae Maritino Nemani Sho Takenaka Fullbacks Yuki Takahira Hiromasa Yoshihiro
(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Former players

• John Kirwan - (before the Top League started), and later head coach of Japan national rugby union team
• Kiyonori Okano
• Takayuki Higo - coach
• George Konia
• Glen Marsh

See also

• Microsoft Cup

External links

• NEC, Toshiba share title, Daily Yomiuri, February 27, 2006
• NEC Green Rockets - official site
• Rugby gods smile on Green Rockets, Japan Times February 28, 2005