Toyota Verblitz

Toyota Verblitz
トヨタ自動車ヴェルブリッツ

Full name	Toyota Verblitz
Union	Japan Rugby Football Union
Founded	1941
Location	Toyota, Aichi, Japan
Ground(s)	Mizuho Rugby Stadium (Capacity: 15,000)
Director of Rugby	Steve Hansen
Coach(es)
Captain(s)	Kieran Read Kaito Shigeno
League(s)	Japan Rugby League One
2021	2nd, Red Conference, Playoffs Semi-finalists
1st kit 2nd kit

Toyota Verblitz is a Japanese rugby union team in the Japan Rugby League One. Verblitz is a portmanteau of verde (Spanish and Portuguese for 'green') and blitz (German for 'lightning'). The team is owned by Toyota Motor Corporation and is not to be confused with the Toyota Industries Shuttles rugby team, owned by Toyota Industries. It shares Toyota Stadium in the city of Toyota, Aichi with the football club Nagoya Grampus which also used to be owned by Toyota Motors.

Slogan for 2006 season: 克己　Kokki (Self-Control)

Honours[]

• All-Japan Championship
  • Champions: 1969, 1968, 1987
  • Runners-up: 2007

Results[]

Verblitz (surprisingly given the team's pedigree) failed to make the cut for the first season of the Top League (2003-4) but entered the Top League in the second season and were a contender for the second Microsoft Cup. They lost the Japan Championship final on February 27, 2005, to NEC Green Rockets 13–17.

Current squad[]

The Toyota Verblitz squad for the 2022 season is:^[1]

Former players[]

• Troy Flavell - lock (now in France with Bayonne)
• - No. 8 (formerly Brumbies), now Western Force in 2008 season
• Filo Tiatia - No. 8 (now in Wales with the Ospreys}
• Dominic Day 2016 - Lock (Now playing for Saracens in the (English Premiership)

References[]

External links[]

• Toyota Verblitz - official site