Toyota Verblitz

Toyota Verblitz
トヨタ自動車ヴェルブリッツ
2022	5th
1st kit	2nd kit

Toyota Verblitz is a Japanese

Toyota Industries Shuttles rugby team, owned by Toyota Industries. It shares Toyota Stadium in the city of Toyota, Aichi with the football club Nagoya Grampus

Honours

Verblitz (surprisingly given the team's pedigree) failed to make the cut for the first season of the

NEC Green Rockets

13–17.

The Toyota Verblitz squad for the 2023-24 season is:^[1]

Toyota Verblitz squad
Props Shogo Miura Gaku Shimizu Ryunosuke Momoji Shunsuke Asaoka Genki Sudo Yusuke Kizu Che Runya* Yuji Takei Taiga Kawasaki ^REP Takuma Nishino ^REP Hookers Ryuhei Arita Yoshikatsu Hikosaka Ryusei Kato Toshikazu Nobeyama Mitsuru Furukawa Shintaro Fukazawa ^REP Locks Daichi Akiyama Ryoma Nishimura Issa Yamakawa Josh Dickson Tom Robinson	Flankers Ryusei Koike Kazuki Himeno (cc) Pieter-Steph du Toit Isaiah Mapusua Masato Furukawa Will Tupou Jingo Murata ^REP Kosei Miki ^REP Akito Okui ^REP No8s Fetuani Lautaimi Scrum-halves Aaron Smith Kenta Fukuda Kaito Shigeno (cc) Ryang Jong-chu* Kaisei Tamura Fly-halves Masahiro Kitamura Beauden Barrett Tiaan Falcon Rintaro Maruyama	Centres Charlie Lawrence* Chihiro Matsuyama Vatilai Tuidraki* Siosaia Fifita Yuki Okada Dick Wilson* Wingers Shuhei Yamaguchi Viliami Lea Viliame Tuidraki* Taichi Takahashi Masakatsu Hikosaka Jone Nabetelevu Yuichiro Wada Kota Oyabu Fullbacks Kippei Taninaka Takemichi Nakano Utility Backs

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

* denotes players qualified to play for the Japan on dual nationality or residency grounds.

Orene Aii
Filo Tiatia - No. 8 (now in Wales with the Ospreys}
English Premiership
)
Takashi Kikutani (2004–13, 114 games) Loose forward, Japanese International (2005–14, 68 caps)
Toshizumi Kitagawa (2004-19, 102 games) Lock, Japanese International (2005–13, 43 caps)
Wycliff Palu (2016-17, 14 games) Loose forward, Wallaby (2006–16, 58 caps)
Lionel Cronjé (2017–22, 48 games) Fly-half
Kieran Read (2020-21, 10 games) Loose forward, All Black (2008–19, 128 caps)
Michael Hooper (2021, 10 games) Loose forward, Wallaby (2012–, 121 caps)

^ "Toyota Verblitz: The Team" (in Japanese). Toyota Verblitz. Retrieved 11 February 2019.