Yakult Levins Toda – commonly known as Yakult Levins – is a Japanese rugby union team, currently playing in the Japan Rugby League One. The team is the rugby team of the probiotic milk company Yakult as is based in Toda in the Saitama Prefecture.
The team was created in 1980 originally as an amateur club. In 2011, the team took on the Yakult branding and turned professional. After competing in the Top East League for a number of years, in 2023 they applied to join the new Japan Rugby League One competition, signing a partnership agreement with the city of Toda.
On 31 January 2024, it was announced the side would join the Japan Rugby League One competition, ahead of the 2024–25 season, competing in Division Three. taking on the team name Yakult Levins Toda
Notable players Luke Callan James Tucker
Current squad
The Yakult Levins squad for the 2026–27 season is:
Yakult Levins squadProps Daichi Kono Iori Nozaki Haruka Egihata Atsushi Furuya Meishi Watanabe Kiyoshi Ishii Koichi Endo Ryo Magoshi
Hookers Shunsuke Tani Ryūki Hayashi Fūma Uekata Kota Nagashima
Locks Masashi Ogawa Masaya Makino Yūto Usuda (cc) Gen Mori Hiroto Oka Kanta Hosokawa Lorcan McLoughlinFlankers Takumi Handa Takuma Suto Rikiya Ōishi Kosuke Urabe Kei Ōno Patrick McCurran
No8s Daisuke Yokoyama
Loose forwards
Scrum-halves Junpei Tada Ippei Ōshima Mitsuki Ito Eigi Fushimi
Fly-halves Mizuki Niura Sota Saito Naoki Izutani Yamato Tanigawa Jason RobertsonCentres Takumi Furukawa Antonio Mikaele-Tu'u Atomu Shirai Ren Taninaka Ryūnosuke Aoyagi
Wings Masatoshi Doi (cc) Takuya Takahashi Shun Sawamura Kagechika Ōta Ryū Suzuki Shinnosuke Kabuki Daichi Saito
Fullbacks Kai Ōshiro Kenshin Takada Tsubasa Shinno
Utility backs
External links Official website
References