Skyactivs Hiroshima (formerly Mazda Blue Zoomers) are a Japanese rugby union team who compete in the Japan Rugby League One. They were formerly owned by car manufacturers Mazda based in Fuchū, Hiroshima, Japan. The team rebranded as Skyactivs Hiroshima, dropping the Mazda name, ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the Japan Rugby League One in 2022.[1]

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Skyactivs Hiroshima
マツダスカイアクティブス広島
Full nameSkyactivs Hiroshima
UnionJapan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)Skyactivs
Coach(es)Kazunari Ota
League(s)Japan Rugby League One, Division Three
20226th
Relegated to Division Three
Team kit
Official website
www.mazda.com/ja/about/sports/rugby/
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Squad

The Skyactivs Hiroshima squad for the 2023-24 season is:[2]

Skyactivs Hiroshima squad

Props

  • Japan Tadatsugu Kanayama
  • Japan Koshi Kato
  • Japan Tomonori Koyanagi
  • Japan Tomoya Otake
  • Japan Koshiro Shigenobu
  • Japan Yuji Takahashi
  • Japan Yuta Takami
  • Japan Haruki Umemoto

Hookers

  • Japan Yusuke Kitabayashi
  • Japan Tomohiro Takeda
  • Japan Taichi Yoko
  • Japan Koki Nakano

Locks

  • Japan Yoshinobu Nishino
  • Japan Kaiha Noda
  • Australia Tye Nash*
  • Japan Ramo Sato
  • Japan Yutaro Tanaka
  • Japan Hiroto Tokuda
  • Australia Lachlan Osborn

Flankers

No8s

  • Japan Iori Suzuki

Scrum-halves

  • Australia Jake Abel
  • Japan Dai Goto
  • Japan Shoya Maeda
  • Japan Yuki Mori
  • Japan Rikuto Nakashima
  • Japan Tsubasa Kono

Fly-halves


Centres

  • Japan Hayato Kanamaru
  • Japan Shunya Motoyama
  • Japan Kohei Kamei
  • South Korea Lee Soo-pyung
  • Japan Josefa Lilidamu DEP

Wingers

  • Japan Haruki Kitajima
  • Japan Tsubasa Kono
  • Japan Seigo Kubo

Fullbacks

  • Japan Kohei Tanaka
  • Japan Yuto Nakamura
  • Japan Keisuke Nakamoto
  • Japan Ren Ouchi
  • Japan Ginjiro Sakiguchi(c)
  • Japan Kaito Sasaoka
  • Japan Kotaro Tatsuno

Utility Backs

(c) denotes team captain.

See also

References

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