Kyushu Electric Power Kyuden Voltex (commonly known as Kyuden Voltex) is a Japanese rugby union team owned by Kyushu Electric Power Co. (Kyūshū Denryoku). The nickname "Voltex" is a conflation of "Voltage" and "Techniques" and was decided after the team won promotion to the Top League. The team is based in Kashii, Fukuoka and from the 2007–08 season is playing in the semi-professional Top League at the top of Japanese domestic rugby. It is the third team based in Kyūshū to play in the league, the other two being Coca-Cola Red Sparks and Munakata Sanix Blues.
In the fifth season of the Top League (2007–08) Kyuden managed to avoid the play-offs and stay in the league. They also won the league's "Fair Play" prize.
Team colours
Main: red with yellow trimmed jersey, black shorts; Second: white jersey and shorts with blue trim. See here. The former are Kyuden's traditional colours since founding of the club. The colours to be used in the Top League were announced on October 12, 2007.
Squad
The Kyuden Voltex squad for the 2026–27 season is:
Kyuden Voltex squadProps Samuel Nozomu Faialaga Kazuto Tokunaga Ryosuke Kagoshima Shunsuke Sakamoto Yasuo Saruwatari Kosuke Oike Shinpei Kamata Taro Uesugi Riki Takebe
Hookers Kanta Fujita Wang Kyung-mun* Hayato Yoshida Hiroki Murakawa Keisuke Yamzoe
Locks Ray Tatafu* Tomotaka Ishimatsu Syūma Kanayama Sean Robinson Aaron CarrollFlankers Colby Fainga'a* Ken Nakashima Kim Ki-hyun* Yūki Yamada So Ibaragi Shogo Yahiro
No8s Alex Takuya Walker Rahboni Warren-Vosayaco*
Scrum-halves Yūsaku Kanda Kotaro Nakao Shunta Takenouchi Spencer Jeans
Fly-halves Shogo Matsushita Kīchi Uezato Kohei Kire Jude GibbsCentres Shinpei Fukada Hayato Kojyo (c) Noriaki Nakazuru Koga Yoshida Kenji Hayata Pepesana Patafilo Masaya Kanado Ezra Paulo* Takuru Kamimura
Wingers Goki Saito Naoki Takaya Hiroto Nishi
Fullbacks Charlie Worthington Keito Honda Takumi Takeshita
Utility Backs (c) denotes team captain.
Coach Zane Hilton
References
External links Official Home Page Kyuden v Sanix (QuickTime movie, Top League game, January 20, 2008)