Kyuden Voltex
# Kyuden Voltex

Kyuden Voltex is a Japanese rugby team owned by Kyushu Electric Power Co. (Kyūshū Denryoku). The nickname "Voltex" is a conflation of "Voltage" and "Techniques" and was decided after the team won promotion to the Top League. The team is based in Kashii, Fukuoka and from the 2007-8 season is playing in the semi-professional Top League at the top of Japanese domestic rugby. It is the third team based in Kyūshū to play in the league, the other two being Coca-Cola Red Sparks and Munakata Sanix Blues.

In the fifth season of the Top League (2007-8) Kyuden managed to avoid the play-offs and stay in the league. They also won the league's "Fair Play" prize.

## Team colours

Main: red with yellow trimmed jersey, black shorts; Second: white jersey and shorts with blue trim. See here. The former are Kyuden's traditional colours since founding of the club. The colours to be used in the Top League were announced on October 12, 2007.

## Squad

The Kyuden Voltex squad for the 2023 season is:

| Kyuden Voltex squad |
| - |
| Props Daigo Asato Keiji Ikeda Ryosuke Kagoshima Shinpei Kamata Samuel Nozomu Faialaga Kazuma Ono Yasuo Saruwatari Kazuto Tokunaga Hookers Takehiro Kitsuki Ciaran Loh Genki Nakamura Hayato Yoshida Locks Tomotaka Ishimatsu Syuma Kanayama Tom Rowe Yoshihiro Sononaka Ray Tatafu | Loose forwards Colby Fainga'a Kazuma Hirata Tatsuya Matsunaga Lachlan McCaffrey Wataru Obara Michiro Takai Alex Takuya Walker Yuki Yamada Scrum-halves Daisuke Kodama Kotaro Komori Kotaro Nakao Shunta Takenouchi Fly-halves Yusuke Aramaki Phil Burleigh Hayato Kojyo Shinhichiro Matsushita Shogo Matsushita Kiichi Uezato | Centres Ren Hagiwara Kento Kuroki Ken Nakashima Noriaki Nakazuru Sam Vaka Wingers Kenji Hayata Yasunari Isoda Viliami Lea Goki Saito Naoki Takaya Akihito Yamada Fullbacks Keito Honda Masaya Kanado Makoto Kato |
| (c) denotes team captain. |

## Coach

Zane Hilton

