Toyota Verblitz

Toyota Verblitz
トヨタ自動車ヴェルブリッツ
Full name Toyota Verblitz
Union Japan Rugby Football Union
Founded 1941
Location Toyota, Aichi, Japan
Ground(s) Mizuho Rugby Stadium (Capacity: 15,000)
Coach(es) Jake White
League(s) Top League
2017–18 4th
1st kit
2nd kit

Toyota Verblitz is a Japanese rugby union team in the Top League. Verblitz is a conflation of verde (Portuguese for 'green') and blitz (German for 'lightning'). The team is owned by Toyota Jidosha (Toyota Motors) and is separate from, and not to be confused with, the Toyota Industries Shuttles rugby team, owned by Toyota Industries. They share Toyota Stadium in the city of Toyota, Aichi with the football club Nagoya Grampus which also used to be owned by Toyota Motors.

Slogan for 2006 season: 克己　Kokki (Self-Control)

Honours

Results

Verblitz (surprisingly given the team's pedigree) failed to make the cut for the first season of the Top League (2003-4) but entered the Top League in the second season and were a contender for the second Microsoft Cup. They lost the Japan Championship final on February 27, 2005 to NEC Green Rockets 13-17.

In August 2005 Verblitz beat Newcastle Falcons at home. On February 12, 2006 they lost to Waseda University RFC in the Japan Championships, 24-28. This was the first time a Top League team had lost to a university team.

Current squad

The current Toyota Verblitz squad is:[1]

Toyota Verblitz squad

Props

  • Japan Kohei Asahori
  • Japan Runya Che
  • Japan Yoto Ioki
  • Japan Tatsuya Kakimoto
  • Japan Yusuke Kizu
  • Japan Shogo Miura
  • Japan Yōsuke Takahashi
  • Japan Yuji Takei
  • Japan Yuki Uchida
  • Japan Kohei Yoshida

Hookers

  • Japan Yoshikatsu Hikosaka
  • Japan Tomoharu Kawanishi
  • Japan Ryuta Ueno

Locks

Loose Forwards

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

Centres

Wingers

Fullbacks

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

Former players

References

  1. ↑ "Toyota Verblitz: The Team" (in Japanese). Toyota Verblitz. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
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