NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka explained

Teamname:	NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka NTTドコモレッドハリケーンズ大阪
Union:	Japan Rugby Football Union
Fullname:	NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka
Nickname:	Red Hurricanes
Founded:	1993
Location:	Osaka, Japan
Ground:	Nagai Stadium Yodoko Sakura Stadium
Capacity:	47,816 and 25,000
Coach:	Matt Cockbain
Url:	docomo-rugby.jp/index.php
League:	Japan Rugby League One, Division Three
Season:	2022
Position:	11th Relegated to Division Three
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NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka is a Japanese rugby union team owned by NTT DoCoMo. They qualified for the 2011–12 season and finished 12th place overall. The team rebranded in 2022, ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the Japan Rugby League One.^[1]

Squad

The NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka squad for the 2023-24 season is:^[2]

NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes Osaka squad
Props Shota Takai Shosuke Fukasawa Hiromichi Sakamoto Yuichiro Hosono Munetaka Sashida Sione Afemui* Hiroshi Kitajima Ryosei Kojima Yosuke Nishiura Kaito Yamauchi Shinnosuke Toyonaga ^REP Hookers Mitsumasa Harayama Hiamitsu Shimada Yo Sato Kentaro Otsuka Kanta Yoshida ^REP Locks Tatsunari Fujita Tom Jeffries Hibiki Noda Toru Sugishita(c) Kaito Isono Ryuma Kohara Michael Allardice Sentaro Fukue ^REP ^DEP Shintaro Fujii ^REP	Flankers Daisuke Kurihara Josh Fenner Hiroki Hanada Taro Sato Itsuki Yano ^REP No8s Blake Gibson Tsukasa Yasuda Colin Bourke Scrum-halves Tatsuya Hamano Akira Inoue Koki Makiyama Hayato Mitsui Toshihiro Yamanouchi Fly-halves Kim Jeon-hong* Fumiya Dobashi Oh Ryong-tee* Bryce Hegarty Josh Matavesi ^REP	Centres Mifiposeti Paea Benjamin Saunders Kim Yon-hwi Daisuke Iba Masaki Kobayashi Kaoru Tsuruta Amane Tomioka ^REP Wingers Tasuku Koizumi Takuma Yasui Koki Shigeno Ryo Tsuruda Yuki Ishii Kenya Nishikawa ^REP Fullbacks Michael Zakhia* Kenta Komura Kanta Yamamoto Taichi Yoshizawa Taiki Yamaguchi ^REP Utility Backs
(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

External links

• Web site: NTT Docomo rugby Osaka. docomo-rugby.jp.

Notes and References

1. News: La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One. Asie Rugby. 16 July 2021. 16 July 2021. French.
2. Web site: NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes: The Team . Docomo Rugby . ja . 11 February 2018.