Chugoku Red Regulions

Chugoku Electric Power Rugby Football Club – nicknamed the Red Regulions – are a Japanese rugby union team, currently playing in the country's second tier Top Challenge League competition.[1] The team is the rugby team of electric utilities provider Chugoku Electric Power, based in Hiroshima in the Chūgoku region.

Chugoku Red Regulions
中国電力レッドレグリオンズ

Full name	Chugoku Electric Power Rugby Football Club
Union	Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)	Red Regulions
Founded	1987
Location	Hiroshima, Chūgoku
League(s)	Top Challenge League
2018	8th

The team was created in 1987 as the rugby union team for Chugoku Electric Power. When rugby union in Japan was restructured in 2003 with the introduction of the Top League, Chugoku Electric Power was allocated to the second tier Top Kyūshū League. They remained in that league until a further restructuring prior to the 2017–18 saw the team promoted to a newly established Top Challenge League.[2] In July 2017, they also adopted the name Red Regulions for the team.[3]

Current squad

The Chugoku Red Regulions squad for the 2021 season is:[4]

Chugoku Red Regulions squad
Props Daiki Ishida Seiya Kitajima Arito Kojiro Keisuke Maeda Toshiyuki Oki Kenichi Shintani Hideryu Tsuboi Hookers Yuki Asai Yasunori Iwamoto Kentaro Iwanaga Daisuke Okamoto Locks Kendai Fujisaki Tetsuro Moriya Kota Moriyama Taro Nishikawa Keirin Shojima	Loose Forwards Yoshiyuki Inada Kengo Ishiwatari Shun Kawaguchi Kohei Matsunaga Scrum-halves Rintaro Kawashima Shohei Tsukamoto Fly-halves Yoshida Hashizo Ippei Yamada	Centres Motoe Arai Ichihara Hen-Yume Masaaki Morita Hideo Takeda Makoto Torikai Wingers Taketo Akiyama Hiroshi Higashikawa Kouhei Kurokawa Yuto Matsuoka Masahiro Nakano Fullbacks Keigo Hatanaka
(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes player is internationally capped

Season history

Chugoku Electric Power's record in the top two tiers since the formation of the Top Kyūshū League in 2003 was:

Chugoku Electric Power season history
Season	Competition	Phase	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	TB	LB	Pts	Pos	Notes
2003–04	2003 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	6	4	0	2	333	236	+97	4	0	20	3rd	Qualified to the Second Phase
		Second Phase	2	0	0	2	17	147	−130	0	0	0	3rd
2004–05	2004 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	7	3	0	4	206	378	−172	4	0	16	5th
2005–06	2005 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	6	3	0	3	183	253	−70	3	0	15	4th
2006–07	2006 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	5	2	1	2	149	171	−22	4	1	15	3rd	Qualified to the Second Phase
		Second Phase	2	0	0	2	14	141	−127	0	0	0	3rd
2007–08	2007 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	5	3	0	2	145	118	+27	3	1	16	2nd	Qualified to the Second Phase
		Second Phase	2	1	0	1	49	46	+3	1	0	5	2nd	Qualified to Challenge Series 2
	2008 Top League Challenge Series	Challenge 2	2	0	0	2	5	192	−187	0	0	0	3rd
2008–09	2008 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	5	3	0	2	122	138	−16	2	0	14	3rd	Qualified to the Second Phase
		Second Phase	2	0	0	2	36	73	−37	0	0	0	3rd
2009–10	2009 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	5	4	0	1	319	91	+228	4	0	20	2nd	Qualified to the Second Phase
		Second Phase	2	1	0	1	69	54	+15	1	0	5	2nd	Qualified to Challenge Series 2
	2010 Top League Challenge Series	Challenge 2	2	0	0	2	17	218	−201	0	0	0	3rd
2010–11	2010 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	6	2	0	4	148	192	−44	2	1	11	5th
2011–12	2011 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	6	3	0	3	200	147	+53	3	0	15	4th
2012–13	2012 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	6	4	0	2	180	201	−21	4	0	20	3rd	Qualified to the Second Phase
		Second Phase	2	0	0	2	10	122	−112	0	0	0	3rd
2013–14	2013 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	6	4	0	2	197	120	+77	3	1	20	3rd	Qualified to the Second Phase
		Second Phase	2	0	0	2	13	123	−110	0	0	0	3rd
2014–15	2014 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	6	4	0	2	264	86	+178	4	2	22	2nd	Qualified to the Second Phase
		Second Phase	2	1	0	1	27	65	−38	1	0	5	2nd	Qualified to Challenge Series 2
	2014–15 Top League Challenge Series	Challenge 2	2	1	0	1	48	51	−3	0	0	4	2nd
2015–16	2015 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	7	4	0	3	302	178	+124	4	1	21	4th	Qualified to the Second Phase
		Second Phase	3	0	0	3	37	120	−83	0	0	0	4th
2016–17	2016 Top Kyūshū League	First Phase	6	6	0	0	297	84	+213	5	0	29	1st	Qualified to the Second Phase
		Second Phase	2	1	0	1	45	31	+14	1	0	5	2nd	Qualified to Challenge Series 2
	2016–17 Top League Challenge Series	Challenge 2	2	0	0	2	27	81	−54	0	0	0	3rd	Promoted to Top Challenge League
2017–18	2017 Top Challenge League	First Stage	7	1	0	6	88	369	−281	1	0	5	7th	Qualified to Second Stage Group B
		Second Phase Group B	3	2	0	1	95	67	+28	0	0	10	6th
2018–19	2018 Top Challenge League	First Phase	Not yet played

External links

• Official website

References

1. ジャパンラグビー トップチャレンジリーグ 2017-2018シーズン、参加8チーム決定 [Japan Rugby Top Challenge League 2017-2018 season, participating 8 teams determined] (Press release) (in Japanese). Top League. 28 January 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
2. "Japan to add second-tier rugby league in 2017". Japan Times. 19 August 2016. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 6 January 2017.
3. "チーム名の決定について" [About team name determination] (Press release) (in Japanese). Chugoku Electric Power Rugby Football Club. 17 July 2017. Archived from the original on 24 August 2017. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
4. "Chugoku Red Regulions: Members" (in Japanese). Chugoku Red Regulions. Retrieved 30 December 2020.