The 2015–16 Top League was the 13th season of Japan's domestic rugby union competition, the Top League. It kicked off on 13 November 2015 and was completed on 24 January 2016. The final was won by Panasonic Wild Knights defeating Toshiba Brave Lupus by 27–26.
2015–16 Top League
Panasonic win the Lixil Cup for season 2015–16. Japan 13 November 2015 – 24 January 2016 Panasonic Wild Knights (4th title) Toshiba Brave Lupus 115 Ayumu Goromaru (83 pts) Yamaha Júbilo Taiyo Ando (6 tries) Toyota Verblitz Shota Emi (6 tries) Suntory Sungoliath
The 2015–16 Top League was the 13th season of Japan 's domestic rugby union competition, the Top League . It kicked off on 13 November 2015 and was completed on 24 January 2016. The final was won by Panasonic Wild Knights defeating Toshiba Brave Lupus by 27–26.
A short pre-season competition was also played from 3 September to 10 October 2015 to provide each Top League team with five official matches before the regular season.
The only change to the make-up of the league was the Challenge One winner Honda Heat replacing Kyuden Voltex .
Team Region Coach Captain
Canon Eagles Machida, Tokyo, Kantō Yoji Nagatomo Coca-Cola Red Sparks Fukuoka, Kyushu Tomohiro Yamaguchi Kouta Yamashita Honda Heat Suzuka, Mie Tomoaki Fujimoto Kintetsu Liners Higashiosaka, Osaka, Kansai Ryusuke Maeda Daiki Toyota Kobelco Steelers Kobe, Kansai Allister Coetzee Daiki Hashimoto Kubota Spears Abiko, Chiba, Kantō Toutai Kefu Naomichi Tatekawa NEC Green Rockets Abiko, Chiba, Kantō Masao Amino Sunao Takizawa NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Osaka, Kansai Masahiro Shimoki NTT Com Shining Arcs Chiba, Chiba, Kantō Rob Penney Yuya Mizoguchi Panasonic Wild Knights Ota, Gunma, Kantō Robbie Deans Shota Horie Ricoh Black Rams Tokyo, Kantō Damien Hill Masahiro Noguchi Suntory Sungoliath Fuchū, Tokyo, Kantō Andy Friend Toshiba Brave Lupus Fuchū, Tokyo, Kantō Jimmy Stonehouse Yoshikazu Morita Toyota Industries Shuttles Aichi, Mizuho Masaya Niu Tsuyoshi Matsuoka Toyota Verblitz Toyota, Aichi, Tokai Hiroshi Sugawara Kojiro Yoshida Yamaha Júbilo Iwata, Shizuoka, Tokai Takanobu Horikawa
Owing to the 2015 Rugby World Cup and Japan 's entry into the 2016 Super Rugby tournament , the 2015–16 Top League format was altered from the previous year.
Pre-season league
A pre-season competition was staged to provide each Top League team with five matches before the regular season. In the first stage, played from 3–19 September, the 16 teams were placed into 4 pools of 4 teams each and a round-robin was played within each pool.
For the second stage, played from 3–10 October, the top teams in each pool were bracketed together to determine the pre-season competition winner. Semifinals and a consolation final and final were played to decide positions 1 to 4. The second-ranked teams in each pool played off for positions 5 to 8, the third-ranked teams played off for positions 9 to 12, and the bottom teams from each pool played off for positions 13 to 16.
Regular season
For the Pool stage, the 16 teams were placed into 2 pools of 8 teams each and a round-robin was played within each of the pools. At the conclusion of the pool stage, the top 4 sides in each pool advanced to the title play-offs to determine the Top League champion and the final classification positions 1 to 8. Similarly, the bottom 4 sides in each pool went on to the lower bracket play-offs to determine the final classification positions 9 to 16.
19:00 Try: Yamada 6' c, 40' c Pietersen 51' Yu 67' cCon: Barnes (2) 6', 40' Parker (1) 67'Pen: Barnes (4) 3', 11', 17', 33' Try: Pisi 60' Attendance: 10,792Referee: Mike Fraser (NZL)
11:40 Try: Hasegawa 19' c Kauhenga 64'Con: Peters (1) 19' Try: Miura 28' c Mafi 46' Ishibashi 50' c Mitsui 58' c Koizumi 77' cCon: Jantjies (3) 28', 50' 58' Ogura (1) 77'Pen: Jantjies (2) 8', 35' Attendance: 8,158
14:00 Try: Leitch 7' c Kahui 31' c, 66' c Oshima 43' c Hirose 59' Kraska 69'Con: Steyn (3) 7', 31', 43' Ogawa 66'Pen: Steyn (3) 12', 25', 49' Pen: Moriwaki (1) 23' Attendance: 11,085
11:40 Try: Takada 26' c Vaka 29' c Vatuvei 42' cCon: Hegarty (3) 26', 29', 42'Pen: Hegarty (1) 69' Try: Owada 8' c Kamaike 32' cCon: Norton-Knight (1) 8' Tamura 32'Pen: Norton-Knight (1) 40' Attendance: 5,320
14:00 Try: Taniguchi 46'Pen: Monji (2) 26', 57' Try: Tuiali'i 4' Yatomi 8' cCon: Goromaru (1) 8'Pen: Goromaru (2) 15', 42' Attendance: 8,676
12:00 Try: Shigeno 19' Watanabe 35' Paea 43' cCon: Sato (1) 43'Pen: Sato (1) 3' Pollard (1) 58' Try: Katsuki 15' c Osajima 53' c Yamada 71'Con: Fukuda (2) 15', 53' Attendance: 6,930Referee: Kyosuke Toda
14:05 Try: Spies 11' Penalty Try 24' c Taufa 29' Kim 54'Con: Shigemitsu (1) 24'Pen: Shigemitsu (1) 16' Try: Lemeki 20' c Sogeta 63'Con: Morita (1) 20' Attendance: 8,774
13:00 Try: Ellis 6' c Penalty Try 21' cCon: Yamanaka (2) 6', 21'Pen: Yamanaka (3) 49', 61', 66' Try: Bond 33' le Roux 67' cCon: Mitomo (1) 67'Pen: Mitomo (2) 38', 42' Attendance: 7,863
11:30 Try: Kauhenga 69' c Komatsu 79'Con: Peter (1) 69'Pen: Peters (2) 9', 54' Try: Kamada 3' c Moto 60' c Soqeta 65' cCon: Morita (3) 3', 60', 65'Drop: Konishi 74' Attendance: 4,570Referee: Kyosuke Toda
14:00 Try: Kikutani 24' c le Roux 40' c Hashino 49' c Fukui 76' cCon: Mitomo (4) 24', 40', 49', 76'Pen: Mitomo (2) 31', 35' Try: Iongi 61' c Park 80' cCon: Pollard (2) 61', 80'Pen: Saiguchi (1) 3' Attendance: 5,039
11:40 Try: Emi 17', 76' c Tui 23' c du Preez 30' c Nagatomo 46' Sasaki 58' c Nagare 61' c Takemoto 72' cCon: Pisi (6) 23', 30', 58', 61', 72', 76'Pen: Pisi (1) 38' Try: Otukolo 48' c Saunders 54' cCon: Moriwaki (2) 48', 54' Attendance: 5,247
14:00 Try: Kitagawa 22' c, 42' c Sasakura 41' c Holani 54' c Pietersen 64' cCon: Barnes (4) 22', 41', 42', 54' Parker (1) 64'Pen: Barnes (2) 1', 28' Parker (2) 68', 79' Try: de Allende 18' c Spies 32' c Murashita 78' cCon: Shigemitsu (3) 18', 32', 78'Pen: Shigemitsu (2) 13', 16' Attendance: 7,278
13:00 Try: Piutau 15' c, 76' c Ito 24' c Hino 35' c Potgieter 49' c Horie 61'Con: Goromaru (5) 15', 24', 35', 49', 76'Pen: Goromaru (1) 39' Attendance: 9,051
14:00 Try: Toyota 61' c Yamashita 74'Con: Fukuda (1) 61'Pen: Fukuda (2) 3', 31' Try: Ando 7' c, 13' Taumoepeau 20' c Wada 32' Hikosaka 48'Con: Monji (2) 7', 20'Pen: Monji (2) 68', 80' Attendance: 3,725Referee: Tatsuya Matsuoka
14:00 Try: Yamamoto 14' cCon: Steyn (1) 14'Pen: Steyn (2) 31', 42' Try: Tsuruya 20' c Mafi 51' c, 63' c Tsuruda 70' cCon: Jantjies (2) 20', 51' Ogura (2) 63', 70'Pen: Jantjies (1) 13' Ogura (2) 57', 67' Attendance: 4,911Referee: Mike Fraser (NZL)
13:00 Try: Tamura 23' c Usui 64'Con: Tamura (1) 23' Try: Bekker 4' Anderson 32' Shomen 37' c Kizu 51' c Yamashita 54' c Taniguchi 60' c Vakauta 78'Con: Yamanaka (4) 37', 51' 54', 60'Drop: Yamanaka (1) 15' Attendance: 7,980Referee: Shinya Kato
11:40 Try: Ono 12' c Murata 39' c Tsukamoto 67'Con: Ono (2) 12', 39' Try: Kashimoto 4' c Spies 7' c Tanaka 30'Con: Shigemitsu (2) 4', 7'Pen: Shigemitsu (2) 15', 71' Attendance: 3, 055Referee: Tomohiro Ogawa
14:00 Try: Ando 6' c Monji 21' c Robinson 33' c Mizuno 36' c Hikosaka 58' c Bothma 78' cCon: Monji (6) 6', 21', 33', 36', 58', 78'Pen: Monji (1) 14' Try: Hegarty 26' c Saunders 42' c Vaka 66' cCon: Hegarty (3) 26', 42', 66' Attendance: 6,449Referee: Shuhei Kubo
11:40 Try: Ubutaka 30' Nakata 60' Try: Yuhara 17' c, 26' Ogawa 45' c Kahui 52' c Steyn 70' Messam 77' cCon: Steyn (4) 17', 45', 52', 77'Pen: Steyn (1) 8' Attendance: 7,628Referee: Tsuyoshi Matsumoto
14:00 Try: Goromaru 15' c Havili 49' c Nakazono 62' c Hino 71', Potgieter 76' cCon: Goromaru (4) 15', 49', 62', 76'Pen: Goromaru (2) 32', 37' Try: Goto 12' Higginbotham 42' c Kamaike 67' cCon: Tamura (2) 42', 67' Attendance: 13,051Referee: Mike Fraser
11:40 Pen: Moriwaki (3) 26', 33', 51' Try: Penalty Try 63' c Mafi 66' c Yamashita 77' c Jantjies 79' cCon: Ogura (2) 63', 66' Jantjies (2) 77', 79'Pen: Ogura (2) 10', 44' Attendance: 5,244
14:00 Try: Penalty Try 54' c Sato 73' c Anderson 77' cCon: Tanabe (3) 53', 73', 77'Pen: Yamanaka (1) 2' Try: Watanabe 41' c Kriel 45' c Inoue 62' cCon: Saiguchi (2) 45', 52'Pen: Saiguchi (2) 6', 16' Attendance: 10,833
13:00 Try: Kitagawa 6' c McCalman 11' c, 50' c Heenan 20' c Valu 59' c Nishiara 63' c Hayashi 66' c Nunomaki 76' cCon: Miwa (8) 6', 11', 20', 50', 59', 63', 66', 76'Pen: Miwa (1) 34' Try: Kauhenga 16' c, 73' c Tsujii 42' c Hoshino 80' cCon: Foley (4) 16', 42', 73' 80' Attendance: 5,756Referee: Taizo Hirabayashi
13:00 Try: Wykes 5' Tsuiki 51'Pen: Fukuda (5) 6', 31', 38' 50', 56' Try: Penalty Try 18' c le Roux 58' c Uematsu 68' c Suginaga 71' cCon: Moriya (1) 18' Mitomo (3) 58', 68', 71'Pen: Moriya (1) 24' Attendance: 5,176Referee: Kazuhito Taniguchi
12:00 Try: Yamamoto 60' cCon: Foley (1) 60' Try: Tokunaga 4' c Yamamoto 9' c Yuhara 15' Kajikawa 20' c, 47' c, 67' c Kahui 26' Kotaki 30' cCon: Ogawa (5) 4', 9', 20', 30', 47' Steyn (1) 67' Attendance: 6,372
14:05 Try: Jantjies 23' c Kikuchi 62' c Koizumi 77'Con: Jantjies (1) 23' Ogura (1) 62'Pen: Jantjies (2) 2', 42' Ogura (1) 80' Try: Kitagawa 34' c Holani 49' c Sasakura 58' Horie 65' cCon: Barnes (3) 34', 49', 65'Pen: Barnes (3) 8', 15', 27' Attendance: 10,009Referee: Kyosuke Toda
13:00 Try: Owada 27', 76' cCon: Webb (1) 76'Pen: Webb (1) 25' Try: Ives 2', 71' c Moriya 40' c Fukui 52' c Fujimoto 80' cCon: Mitomo (4) 40', 52', 71', 80' Attendance: 1,852
11:40 Try: Soqeta 33' c Konishi 34' c Coetzee 53' cCon: Morita (3) 33', 34', 53' Try: Makabe 5' c Emi 12', 78' c Tui 15' c, 44' c Murata 19' Ono 50' c Tsukamoto 59' c Pisi 68' cCon: Ono (7) 5', 15', 44', 50', 59', 68', 78' Attendance: 14,133Referee: Shuhei Kubo
14:00 Try: Yamamoto 12' c Sarugaku 32' c Matsuoka 55' c Suzuki 70' cCon: Fukuda (4) 12', 32', 55', 70' Try: Ohdo 5' c, 29' c Hino 18' c, 23' c Piutau 37' cCon: Goromaru (5) 5', 18', 23', 29', 37'Drop: Otao (1) 74' Attendance: 18,005Referee: Tomohiro Ogawa
12:00 Try: Saiguchi 22' c Paea 63' cCon: Pollard (1) 22' Saiguchi (1) 63' Try: Wada 2' c, 39' c, 50' Ando 12' c Sugimoto 46' cCon: Monji (4) 2', 12', 39', 46'Pen: Monji (1) 20' Attendance: 8,975Referee: Shinya Kato
14:05 Try: Takahashi 68' c Tomonaga 73' cCon: Tatekawa (1) 68' Takahashi (1) 73'Pen: Moriwaki (1) 22' Try: Kim 7' c Tanaka 26' c, 75' Taufa 37' c, 49' c Tadanobu 54' cCon: Shigemitsu (5) 7', 26', 37', 49', 54' Attendance: 11,404
13:00 Try: So 15' c Yamashita 35'Con: Yamashita (1) 15' Try: Hashimoto 23' Anderson 42' Maekawa 46' c Fourie 57' cCon: Yamanaka (2) 46', 57'Pen: Yamanaka (1) 63' Attendance: 3,370Referee: Tatsuya Matsuoka
11:40 Try: Britz 53' Try: Murata 6' c Aruga 28' c Burger 35' c Emi 40' c Pisi 79' cCon: Ono (5) 6', 28', 35', 40', 79'Pen: Ono (1) 21' Attendance: 16,025
14:00 Try: Yamamoto 26' c, 77' cCon: Ogawa (1) 26' Steyn (1) 77'Pen: Steyn (1) 10' Try: Kodama 4' c Penalty Try 61' cCon: Barnes (2) 4', 61'Pen: Barnes (1) 40' Attendance: 20,138Referee: Taizo Hirabayashi
12:00 Try: Nakata 20' c Konishi 29'Con: Morita (1) 20' Try: Otukolo 1' c Penalty Try 52' cCon: Moriwaki (1) 1' Takahashi (1) 52'Pen: Talkahashi (1) 53' Attendance: 5,050
14:05 Try: Toyoda 1', 72' c Taufa 13', 66' c Winterstein 42' cCon: Shigemitsu (3) 42', 66', 72'Pen: Shigemitsu (3) 25', 40', 52' Try: Hoshino 16' c Nanai-Williams 54' c Kauhenga 78'Con: Foley (1) 16' Peters (1) 54'Pen: Foley (1) 7' Attendance: 6,355
13:00 Try: Thomas 50' c, 64' c Ando 58' c, 73' cCon: Monji (4) 50', 58', 64', 73'Pen: Monji (2) 24', 43' Pen: Webb (1) 7' Attendance: 7,352Referee: Sam Grove-White (Sco)
13:00 Try: Horie 23' c Sa'u 46' c Yatomi 55' c Penalty Try 66' c Hino 69' Helo 74'Con: Goromaru (4) 23', 46', 55', 66'Pen: Goromaru (1) 10' Try: Sato 7' c Tsujii 80' cCon: Saiguchi (1) 7' Pollard (1) 80'Pen: Saiguchi (1) 3'Drop: Paea (1) 40' Attendance: 9,710Referee: Tatsuya Matsuoka
13:00 Try: Taniguchi 8' c Shomen 27' c Ellis 30' c Wing 46' Maekawa 52' c Kizu 55' c Anderson 79' cCon: Tanabe (6) 8', 27', 30', 52', 55', 79' Try: Kuwazuru 9' c Kawaguchi 41' c Yamada 68' cCon: Fukuda (1) 9' Lafaele (2) 41', 68'Pen: Fukuda (1) 34' Attendance: 7,381Referee: Akihisa Kajiwara
13:00 Try: Asami 32' Matsui 56' c Penalty Try 79' cCon: Hegarty (1) 56' Gerrard (1) 79' Try: Hashino 41' c Thomson 44' c Moriya 51' c le Roux 64' c Suginaga 80' cCon: Moriya (5) 41', 44', 51', 64', 80' Attendance: 2,160Referee: Shuhei Kubo
11:40 Try: Shigeno 14' c Goto 77' cCon: Tamura (2) 14'. 77'Pen: Tamura (2) 56', 64' Try: Bateman 3' c Toyota 70'Con: Fukuda (1) 3' Attendance: 5,963
14:00 Try: Bin 9' c Mafi 56' c Mayahara 63' Jantjies 74' cCon: Ogura (2) 9', 56' Jantjies (1) 74'Pen: Ogura (1) 2' Try: Coetzee 39' c Ubutaka 48'Con: Lemeki (1) 39'Pen: Konishi (1) 26' Attendance: 9,242Referee: Akihisa Kajiwara
13:00 Try: Morita 38' c, 52' Fujichika 55'Con: Harada (1) 38'Pen: Harada (3) 3', 9', 13' Try: Thomas 34' cCon: Monji (1) 34'Pen: Monji (1) 17' Attendance: 2,670Referee: Taku Otsuki
13:00 Try: Piutau 68' c Horie 77' cCon: Goromaru (2) 68', 77' Try: Anderson 16' c Ohashi 20', 41', 47', 57' c Ellis 36' c Minamihashi 73' cCon: Yamanaka (3) 16'. 36', 57' Tanabe (1) 73' Attendance: 12,842Referee: Shuhei Kubo
13:00 Try: Finau 2' c Miyata 9' c Saunders 40' cCon: Moriwaki (3) 2', 9', 40'Pen: Moriwaki (2) 32', 43' Try: McCalman 49' c Heenan 54' c Pietersen 67' cCon: Barnes (3) 49', 54', 67'Pen: Miwa (3) 6', 13', 24' Attendance: 4,889Referee: Sam Groves-White (Sco)
13:00 Try: Tui 28' c, 62' Moriwaka 55' Emi 59' c Kakinaga 80' cCon: Pisi (2) 28', 59' Ono (1) 80'Pen: Pisi (1) 34' Ono (1) 75' Try: Hasegawa 16' c Bourke 66' cCon: Foley (1) 16' Peters (1) 66'Pen: Foley (1) 39' Peters (1) 52' Attendance: 3,899Referee: Takashi Harada
13:00 Try: Penalty Try 36' c Taylor 54'Con: Tadanobu (1) 36' Try: Kahui 5' c Yamamoto 13' Toyoshima 24', 41' Yuhara 28' c Steyn 31' c Kotaki 49' c Ogawa 69' c Ito 74'Con: Ogawa (5) 5', 28', 31', 49', 69'Pen: Ogawa (1) 18' Attendance: 6,156Referee: Akihisa Aso
13:00 Try: Hirase 8' c Ierome 54' c Shigeno 60' c Eto 63'Con: Sato (1) 8' Pollard (3) 54', 60', 63' Try: Takada 38' c Vatuvei 77' cCon: Gerrard (2) 38', 77'Pen: Gerrard (5) 6', 18', 20', 51', 57' Attendance: 3,975Referee: Taizo Hirabayashi
11:40 Try: Harada 4' Hashino 14' c Usami 77' cCon: Mitomo (1) 14' Harada (1) 77' Try: Havili 11' c, 68' Ito 17' c Goromaru 43'Con: Goromaru (2) 11', 17'Pen: Goromaru (3) 25', 47', 56' Attendance: 22,843Referee: Shinya Kato
14:00 Try: Ono 23' c Nagatomo 80' cCon: Ono (1) 23' Pisi (1) 80' Try: Oshima 8' c Penalty Try 18' c Masuda 36'Con: Ogawa (2) 8', 18'Pen: Ogawa (2) 3', 32' Attendance: 25,164Referee: Shuhei Kubo
11:40 Try: Vatuvei 18' c Vaka 33' c, 51' c Saunders 46' c, 60' c So 56' c Takada 64' Asami 68' c Takeuchi 73' cCon: Gerrard (6) 18', 33', 45', 51', 56', 60' Hegarty (2) 68', 73'Pen: Gerrard (2) 40', 41' Hegarty (1) 80' Try: Katsuki 10' c Tsuiki 79' cCon: Lafaele (2) 10', 79'Pen: Lafaele (1) 31' Attendance: 3,277Referee: Takashi Harada
14:00 Try: Tadanobu 35' c, 70' cCon: Shigemitsu (2) 35', 70'Pen: Shigemitsu (2) 17', 64' Try: Suto 23' c Kin 28'Con: Jantjies (1) 23'Pen: Jantjies (2) 38', 47' Attendance: 4,275
11:40 Try: Finau 36' c Miyata 45' c, 80' c Shibahara 51' cCon: Moriwaki (3) 36', 45', 51' Takahashi (1) 80'Pen: Moriwaki (1) 6' Try: Bourke 9' c Tsujii 13' c Hasegawa 20'Con: Foley (2) 9', 13'Pen: Peters (1) 33' Attendance: 2,539Referee: Akihisa Aso
14:00 Try: Paea 9' c Kriel 77' cCon: Pollard (1) 9' Paea (1) 77' Try: Kamaike 46'Pen: Morita (3) 25', 36', 59' Attendance: 5,466Referee: Kyosuke Toda
13:00 Try: Yu 3' c Kodama 12' c Tanaka 17' c Hayashi 25' c, 72' Heenan 38' c McCalman 51' c, 60' c Parker 80' cCon: Barnes (5) 3', 12', 17', 25', 38' Miwa (3) 51', 60', 80'Pen: Barnes (1) 7' Try: Lemeki 67' Attendance: 5,284Referee: Taku Otsuki
13:00 Try: Maekawa (2) 39', 62' Wing 48' c Ohashi 65'Con: Tanabe (1) 48'Pen: Yamanaka (1) 3' Try: Yates 19' c Matsushita 25' c Wada 51' Hikosaka 75' cCon: Monji (3) 19', 25', 75'Pen: Monji (2) 17', 72' Attendance: 9,159Referee: Taizo Hirabayashi
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13th to 16th bracket Thirteenth place 16 January 2016 – 11:40 – Match 5 Ricoh Black Rams 23 January 2016 – 14:00 NEC Green Rockets Ricoh Black Rams 27 16 January 2016 – 12:00 – Match 6 Coca-Cola Red Sparks 22 NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes Coca-Cola Red Sparks Fifteenth place 23 January 2016 – 11:40 NEC Green Rockets 32 NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes 22
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5th to 8th bracket Fifth place 16 January 2016 – 11:40 – Match 5 NTT Com Shining Arcs 21 23 January 2016 – 14:00 Toyota Verblitz 32 Toyota Verblitz 48 16 January 2016 – 12:00 – Match 6 Canon Eagles 17 Kintetsu Liners 18 Canon Eagles 24 Seventh place 23 January 2016 – 11:40 NTT Com Shining Arcs 17 Kintetsu Liners 22
The 2016 All-Japan Rugby Football Championship took place as a one-off final match played between the respective winners of the Japanese Top League competition and the All-Japan University Rugby Championship . The match will be played at the Chichibunomiya Stadium in Tokyo on 31 January 2016.
The abbreviated format was chosen due to the busy schedule for Japanese Rugby which included the 2015 Rugby World Cup as well as Asian qualification for the 2016 Olympics and the introduction of a Japanese Super Rugby team.
Kyuden Voltex , Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars , Munakata Sanix Blues and Osaka Police progressed to the promotion play-offs.
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# Winner Team
1 Keita Inagaki Panasonic Wild Knights 2 Shota Horie Panasonic Wild Knights 3 Takuma Asahara Toshiba Brave Lupus 4 Andries Bekker Kobelco Steelers 5 Daniel Heenan Panasonic Wild Knights 6 Michael Leitch Canon Eagles 7 Shokei Kin NTT Com Shining Arcs 8 Amanaki Mafi NTT Com Shining Arcs 9 Fumiaki Tanaka Panasonic Wild Knights 10 Berrick Barnes Panasonic Wild Knights 11 Shota Emi Suntory Sungoliath 12 Richard Kahui Toshiba Brave Lupus 13 JP Pietersen Panasonic Wild Knights 14 Tomoki Kitagawa Panasonic Wild Knights 15 Ayumu Goromaru Yamaha Júbilo
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