Toyota_Verblitz

Toyota Verblitz

Toyota Verblitz

Japanese rugby union team

Toyota Verblitz is a Japanese rugby union team in the Japan Rugby League One. Verblitz is a portmanteau of verde (Italian, Spanish and Portuguese for 'green') and blitz (German for 'lightning'). The team is owned by Toyota Motor Corporation and is not to be confused with the 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 which also used to be owned by Toyota Motors.

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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.

Current squad

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

Toyota Verblitz squad

Props

Hookers

Locks

Flankers

No8s

Scrum-halves


Fly-halves

Centres

  • New Zealand Charlie Lawrence*
  • Japan Chihiro Matsuyama
  • Fiji Vatilai Tuidraki*
  • Japan Siosaia Fifita
  • Japan Yuki Okada
  • New Zealand Dick Wilson*

Wingers

Fullbacks

  • Japan Kippei Taninaka
  • Japan 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.

Former players

Stadium

References

  1. [1]
    "Toyota Verblitz: The Team" (in Japanese). Toyota Verblitz. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
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