Toshiba Brave Lupus

Toshiba Brave Lupus
東芝ブレイブルーパス
Full name Toshiba Brave Lupus
Union Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s) Brave Lupus
Founded 1948
Location Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan
Ground(s) Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, 27,188 capacity
Coach(es) Teppei Tomioka
Team kit
2nd kit

Toshiba Brave Lupus (Lupus is wolf in Latin) is a Japanese rugby union team in the Top League. They are based in Fuchu, Tokyo, as is their local rival Suntory Sungoliath. They won the second ever Top League championship in the 2004-5 season and the Microsoft Cup in 2005 under their innovative and inventive coach Masahiro Kunda, himself a former hooker for Toshiba and Japan. They are particularly known for the strength of their mauls. Before the Top League was created, the team was called Toshiba Fuchu after their location. Their slogan for 2006 season is "Once again to the Pinnacle (Restart)".

On 14 March 2008, Bristol Rugby player David Hill announced he'd leave the English club for Toshiba at the end of the season.

Honours

Current squad

The provisional Toshiba Brave Lupus squad for the 2016–17 Top League season is:[1]

Toshiba Brave Lupus squad

Props

Hookers

Locks

Loose Forwards

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

  • Japan Yoshikazu Morita (c)
  • Japan Hikaru Tamura
  • Japan Ryohei Yoshida

Centres

  • New Zealand Richard Kahui
  • Japan Keisuke Masuda
  • Japan Taiki Matsunobu
  • Japan Hisayoshi Matsuoka
  • Japan Taiki Watanabe

Wingers

Fullbacks

(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Past players

References

  1. ↑ "Toshiba Brave Lupus: The Team" (in Japanese). Toshiba Sports. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
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