Kurita Water Gush Akishima
栗田工業ウォーターガ
Full nameKurita Water Rugby Akishima
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)Water Gush
Founded1962
Ground(s)Kurita Industrial Ground
35°30′24″N 139°19′2″E / 35.50667°N 139.31722°E / 35.50667; 139.31722
Coach(es)Wycliff Palu
League(s)Japan Rugby League One, Division Three
20226th
1st kit
2nd kit
Official website
www.kurita-water-rugby.net

Kurita Water Gush Akishima are a Japanese rugby union team that play in Division Three of Japan Rugby League One. They are owned by Kurita Water Industries, a water treatment chemical manufacturer. The team is based in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The team rebranded as Kurita Water Gush Akishima ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the Japan Rugby League One in 2022.[1]

Squad

The Kurita Water Gush Akishima squad for the 2023 season is:[2]

Kurita Water Gush Akishima squad

Props

  • Japan Masashi Debuchi
  • Japan Yuta Ejima
  • South Korea Kim Hyong Ji
  • Japan Aki Kajiwara
  • Japan Kuriyama Rui
  • Japan Kei Shibuya
  • Japan Kei Tagusagawa
  • Japan Shohei Tsujimura

Hookers

  • Japan Kota Hojo
  • Japan Jun Kaneko
  • Japan Ryota Kuribara
  • Japan Atsushi Maeda

Locks

Loose forwards

  • Japan Feinga Fakai
  • Japan Nobuyuki Hirai
  • Japan Yosuke Ishii
  • Japan Taisei Nakao

Scrum-halves

  • Japan Yoshitaka Motomura
  • Japan Sho Nakamura
  • Japan Ryo Omasa
  • Japan Kakeru Sugihara

Fly-halves

Centres

  • Australia Tom English
  • Japan Sanshiro Ide
  • Japan Takuto Mizuno
  • Japan Takuya Nakajima
  • Japan Koichi Ota
  • Japan Daiki Yokota

Wingers

  • Japan Koshi Emoto
  • Japan Keigo Hamazoe
  • Japan Ayato Sakamoto
  • Japan Kentaro Sugimori
  • Japan Yuta Sugiyama

Fullbacks

  • Japan Yuki Kono
(c) denotes team captain.

References

  1. "La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One". Asie Rugby (in French). 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
  2. "Kurita Water Gush Member List". Kurita Water Gush. Retrieved 16 December 2019.
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