Red Hurricanes Osaka

Red Hurricanes Osaka
レッドハリケーンズ大阪

Full name	Red Hurricanes Osaka
Union	Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname	Red Hurricanes
Founded	1993
Location	Osaka, Japan
Ground(s)	Nagai Stadium Yodoko Sakura Stadium (Capacity: 47,816 and 25,000)
Coach	Matt Cockbain
League(s)	Japan Rugby League One, Division Three
2022	11th Relegated to Division Three
1st kit 2nd kit
Official website
docomo-rugby.jp/index.php

Red Hurricanes Osaka (formerly known as NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka) is a Japanese rugby union team owned by NTT Communications. 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 Red Hurricanes Osaka squad for the 2025-26 season is:^[2]

NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes Osaka squad
Props Shota Takai Hiromichi Sakamoto Ryosei Kojima Shosuke Fukasawa Yosuke Nishiura Shinnosuke Toyonaga Yuma Fujino Shunsuke Abe Yuichiro Hosono Munetaka Sashida Hookers Hisamitsu Shimada (c) Yo Sato Kentaro Otsuka Kanta Yoshida Yura Chinen Locks Tatsunari Fujita Hibiki Noda Sentaro Fukue Shintaro Fujii Ryusei Kaneko Elliott Stooke JP du Preez	Flankers Toru Sugishita Kaito Isono Taro Sato Hiroki Hanada Itsuki Yano Kanta Kurahashi Yoshiki Yamazaki Viliami Sapoi* Jack O'Sullivan No8s Lotu Inisi Blake Gibson Tsukasa Yasuda Scrum-halves Tatsuya Hamano Akira Inoue Toshihiro Yamanouchi Fly-halves Fumiya Dobashi Oh Ryong-tee*	Centres Nick Jooste Mifiposeti Paea Kim Yon-hwi Henry Taefu Daisuke Iba Kaoru Tsuruta Amane Tomioka Yuta Kawamura Ayuki Yamada Wingers Takuma Yasui Yuki Ishii Kenya Nishikawa Fullbacks Kenta Komura Kanta Yamamoto Taichi Yoshizawa Taiki Yamaguchi Utility Backs
(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Notes

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. "NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes: The Team". Docomo Rugby (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 February 2018.

External links

• "NTT Docomo rugby Osaka". docomo-rugby.jp.