NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka

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]

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(s)	Red Hurricanes
Founded	1993
Location	Osaka, Japan
Ground(s)	Nagai Stadium Yodoko Sakura Stadium (Capacity: 47,816 and 25,000)
Coach(es)	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

Squad

The Red Hurricanes Osaka squad for the 2024-25 season is:^[2]

NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes Osaka squad
Props Shota Takai Shosuke Fukasawa Hiromichi Sakamoto Yuichiro Hosono Munetaka Sashida Hiroshi Kitajima Ryosei Kojima Yosuke Nishiura Shinnosuke Toyonaga Yuma Fujino Shunsuke Abe REP Hookers Hiamitsu Shimada Yo Sato Kentaro Otsuka Kanta Yoshida Yura Chinen REP Locks Tatsunari Fujita Hibiki Noda Ryuma Kohara Michael Allardice* Sentaro Fukue Shintaro Fujii Elliott Stooke Ryusei Kaneko REP DEP [a]	Flankers Toru Sugishita(c) Kaito Isono Taro Sato Hiroki Hanada Itsuki Yano Jack O'Sullivan Kanta Kurahashi REP Yoshiki Yamazaki REP No8s Blake Gibson Tsukasa Yasuda Scrum-halves Tatsuya Hamano Akira Inoue Koki Makiyama Toshihiro Yamanouchi Fly-halves Fumiya Dobashi Oh Ryong-tee* Bryce Hegarty	Centres Mifiposeti Paea Kim Yon-hwi Daisuke Iba Masaki Kobayashi Kaoru Tsuruta Amane Tomioka Henry Taefu Yuta Kawamura REP Ayuki Yamada REP Wingers Takuma Yasui Koki Shigeno Ryo Tsuruda 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

1. Kaneko joined the team during round 5, but left during round 11 to join the team as a trainee.