NEC Green Rockets

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
NECグリーンロケッツ
Full nameNEC Green Rockets
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)Green Rockets
Founded1985
LocationAbiko, Chiba, Japan
Ground(s)Various stadiums
Coach(es)Ryota Asano
League(s)Top League
2018–1910th
1st kit
2nd kit

NEC Green Rockets won the All-Japan Championship final for the second time on 27 February 2005, beating Toyota Verblitz 17-13. They drew 6-6 with Toshiba Brave Lupus in the 43rd Japan Championship final on 26 February 2006 after an effective defensive effort and the sin-binning of Glen Marsh in the last ten minutes of the game.

Honours

Current squad

The NEC Green Rockets squad for the 2021 season is:[1]

NEC Green Rockets squad

Props

  • Takumi Adachi
  • Takahiro Doi
  • Takitaki Elone
  • Toshiaki Maejima
  • Sunao Takizawa
  • Hikaru Tanaka
  • Taku Tohma

Hookers

  • Miyu Arai
  • Shin Kawamura
  • Yo Sato
  • Kai Stroem

Locks

Loose Forwards

Scrum-halves

  • Tomonori Kimura
  • Daiki Nakajima
  • Keisuke Yamada
  • Koki Yoshikawa

Fly-halves

  • Alex Goode
  • Kodai Kameyama
  • Taisetsu Kanai
  • Yosuke Yokoyama

Centres

Wingers

Fullbacks

  • Yuki Takahira
  • Hiromasa Yoshihiro
(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Former players

See also

References
  1. "NEC Green Rockets Member Profile" (in Japanese). NEC Sports. Retrieved 20 February 2019.
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