The 2016–17 Top League is the 14th season of Japan's domestic rugby union competition, the Top League. It kicked off on 26 August 2016 and the final round of league matches were played on 14 January 2017.
2016–17 Top League
Captain Yutaka Nagare of Suntory, the 2016–17 winners. Japan 26 August 2016 – 14 January 2017 Suntory Sungoliath Yamaha Júbilo Honda Heat 120 584,640 (average 4,872 per match) Kosei Ono (187) Takaaki Nakazuru (17)
The 2016–17 Top League is the 14th season of Japan 's domestic rugby union competition, the Top League . It kicked off on 26 August 2016 and the final round of league matches were played on 14 January 2017.
The only change to the make-up of the league was the Challenge One winner Munakata Sanix Blues replacing NTT DoCoMo Red Hurricanes .
Team Region Coach Captain
Canon Eagles Machida, Tokyo, Kantō Yoji Nagatomo Yusuke Niwai Coca-Cola Red Sparks Fukuoka, Kyushu Akihiro Usui Kouta Yamashita Honda Heat Suzuka, Mie Tomoaki Fujimoto Daisuke Konishi Kintetsu Liners Higashiosaka, Osaka, Kansai Akira Tsuboi Daiki Toyota Kobelco Steelers Kobe, Kansai Jim McKay Daiki Hashimoto Kubota Spears Abiko, Chiba, Kantō Frans Ludeke Harumichi Tatekawa Munakata Sanix Blues Munakata, Fukuoka, Kyushu Yuichiro Fujii Eito Tamura NEC Green Rockets Abiko, Chiba, Kantō Peter Russell Sunao Takizawa NTT Com Shining Arcs Chiba, Chiba, Kantō Rob Penney Daisuke Kurihara Panasonic Wild Knights Ota, Gunma, Kantō Robbie Deans Shota Horie Ricoh Black Rams Tokyo, Kantō Damien Hill Takeshi Mabuchi Suntory Sungoliath Fuchū, Tokyo, Kantō Keisuke Sawaki Yutaka Nagare Toshiba Brave Lupus Fuchū, Tokyo, Kantō Teppei Tomioka Michael Leitch Toyota Industries Shuttles Aichi, Mizuho Masaya Niu Yuga Takada Toyota Verblitz Toyota, Aichi, Tokai Hiroshi Sugawara Taiyo Ando Yamaha Júbilo Iwata, Shizuoka, Tokai Takanobu Horikawa Takeshi Hino
The regular season saw all 16 teams competing in a round-robin style tournament where they played each team in the league once.
Unlike previous seasons, there were no title-play-offs, and the team on top of the league after the round-robin stages was crowned the champion. The top three teams progressed to the 54th All Japan Rugby Football Championship .
Honda Heat were relegated to the new second-tier Top Challenge League.
The following matches were played during the 2016–17 Top League competition:
19:30 Try: Yamada 27', 61' Moriya 28'Con: Barnes (3) 27', 28', 61' Try: Sa'u 15' Nakazono 24 Penalty try 48'Con: Van den Heever (3) 15', 24', 48'Pen: Van den Heever (1) 39' Attendance: 9,243Referee: Kyosuke Toda
19:30 Try: Nishikawa 72'Pen: Ono (3) 25', 27', 64' Try: Shigemitsu 49'Con: Shigemitsu (1) 49'Pen: Shigemitsu (2) 7', 47' Attendance: 4,077Referee: Akihisa Aso
16:30 Try: Matsuhashi 5' Lotoahea 46' Bourke 70'Con: Peters (1) 46'Pen: Peters (2) 29', 55' Try: Usui 16' Kamaike 24' Penalty try 75'Con: Morita (1) 75'Pen: Tamura (1) 52' Attendance: 5,644Referee: Rui Shimizu
19:00 Try: Matsuoka 15', 57' Masuda 73'Con: Ogawa (2) 15', 57'Pen: Ogawa (1) 35' Try: Otukolo 30' Ito 79'Pen: Fouché (3) 12', 48', 51' Attendance: 8,101Referee: Taizo Hirabayashi
16:30 Try: Tupa 6' Moto 24' Lemeki 37' Milo 73'Con: Konishi (1) 6' Try: Tashiro 9', 43' Robins 15' Ahio 47'Con: Tashiro (2) 43', 47'Pen: Tashiro (1) 1' Taulagi (2) 58', 66' Attendance: 2,136Referee: Taku Otsuki
19:00 Try: Yates 4', 11', 25' Kohara 47' Penalty try 64' Monji 72'Con: Monji (3) 47', 64', 72'Drop: Robinson 69' Try: Engelbrecht 53' Namioka 77'Con: Sakai (1) 53'Pen: Greene (1) 30' Katagiri (1) 51' Attendance: 5,794Referee: Shinya Kato
17:00 Try: Anderson 38', 72' Yamanaka 47'Con: Rei (3) 38', 47', 72'Pen: Rei (2) 53', 65' Try: Ogura 7' Ishibashi 19'Con: Ogura (1) 7', 19'Pen: Ogura (2) 24' Attendance: 4,065Referee: Shuhei Kubo
19:00 Try: Penalty try 38' Tupou 78'Con: Lafaele (2) 38', 78' Try: Bond 48', 74' Niwai 63'Con: Mitomo (1) 40' Roos (1) 74'Pen: Roos (3) 9', 51', 70'Drop: Roos (1) 5' Attendance: 3,153Referee: Akihisa Kajiwara
19:30 Try: Tokunaga 3' Toyoshima 40' Messam 49' Ogawa 68'Con: Ogawa (1) 40'Pen: Ogawa (1) 36' Try: Takizawa 77'Pen: Tamura (1) 58' Attendance: 7,303Referee: Shuhei Kubo
19:30 Pen: Rei 11', 42' Try: Valu 26' Tanaka 59' Barnes 73'Con: Barnes (3) 26', 59', 73'Pen: Barnes (3) 40', 47', 68' Attendance: 5.431Referee: Akihisa Aso
19:00 Try: Havili 50'Con: Roos (1) 50'Pen: Roos (3) 25', 33', 53' Try: Penalty try 10' Yatomi 50' Hino 39', 43'Con: Van den Heever (3) 10', 15', 43'Pen: Van den Heever (3) 38', 48', 62' Attendance: 1,159
16:30 Try: Tui 4', 44' Smith 47' Nagare 54' Nishikawa 64', 75' Tsukamoto 71'Con: Ono (6) 4', 27', 44', 54' 64', 71'Pen: Ono (1) 14' Attendance: 5,856
19:00 Try: Karauria-Henry 35', 58' Kurihara 41' Ogura 68'Con: Ogura (4) 35', 41', 58', 68' Try: Lotoahea 79'Con: Peters (1) 79'Pen: Peters (2) 3', 24' Attendance: 7,929
16:30 Try: Lemalu 9' Everingham 33', 43', 59' Hesketh 72'Con: Taulagi (1) 9' Tashiro (1) 59'Pen: Taulagi (2) 22', 27' Tashiro (2) 62', 79' Try: Hasegawa 3' Konishi 16' Matsui 40' Engelbrecht 63'Con: Greene (3) 3', 40', 63'Pen: Greene (4) 24', 29', 53', 55' Attendance: 1,695Referee: Tadataka Yoshiura
19:00 Try: Wykes 24' Yamashita 49' Lafaele 55'Con: Lafaele (2) 49', 55' Try: Thompson 4' Tanaka 7' Cook 28' Taylor 43'Con: Shigemitsu (3) 4', 28', 43' Attendance: 2,615Referee: Taku Otsuki
13:00 Try: Hattingh 11'Con: Fouché (1) 11'Pen: Fouché (1) 26' Try: Taufa 29' Hikosaka 39', 69' Taumoepeau 43'Con: Monji (2) 43', 69'Pen: Monji (1) 7' Attendance: 1,850Referee: Tatsuya Matsuoka
19:30 Try: Kurihara 16' Karauria-Henry 27' Koizumi 32'Con: Ogura (3) 16', 27', 32'Pen: Ogura (4) 3', 32', 47', 67' Try: Tamura 5' Matsura 37'Con: Tamura (1) 37'Pen: Tamura (1) 14' Attendance: 6,376Referee: Akihisa Aso
16:30 Try: Hattingh 17' Otukolo 35' Tatekawa 73'Con: Moriwaki (2) 17', 35' Fouché (1) 73'Drop: Fouché (1) 77' Try: Saunders 15' Sakai 28' Kankowski 59' Vatuvei 66'Con: Greene (1) 59' Attendance: 3,500Referee: Shuhei Kubo
19:00 Try: Nakamura 32' Takeshita 69'Con: Ono (2) 32', 69'Pen: Ono (3) 11', 40', 57' Try: Ellison 7' Matsuhashi 13'Con: Nanai-Williams (2) 7', 13'Pen: Nanai-Williams (1) 80' Attendance: 5,167Referee: Taku Otsuki
18:00 Try: Matsuoka 4' Toyoshima 73'Con: Ogawa (1) 4'Pen: Ogawa (3) 39', 58', 79' Try: Kaneko 63'Con: Roos (1) 63'Pen: Roos (3) 40', 50', 70'Drop: Roos (1) 29' Attendance: 11,223Referee: Kyosuke Toda
19:00 Try: Ratuila 43' Taufa 80'Con: Shigemitsu (1) 43' Mihara (1) 80'Pen: Shigemitsu (2) 12', 15' Try: Mikami 5' Tupou 24' Moriya 62' Naiyaravoro 68'Con: Barnes (3) 5', 24', 62'Pen: Barnes (2) 29', 33' Attendance: 8,343
19:00 Try: Ioane 19', 37' Lemeki 70' Motomura 75'Con: Lemeki (3) 37', 75'Pen: Konishi (2) 28', 54' Try: Yates 14' Taumeaupoe 50' Fujii 58' Kido 81'Con: Monji (2) 50', 58' Lucas (1) 81'Pen: Monji (1) 24' Lucas (1) 68' Attendance: 3,793Referee: Akihisa Kajiwara
18:00 Try: Everingham 76'Con: Taulagi (1) 76'Pen: Taulagi (1) 3' Try: Krishnan 6' Hino 14' Tahituʻa 23', 58' Van den Heever 35' Sa'u 72'Con: Van den Heever (4) 6', 14', 23', 58' Otao (1) 35'Pen: Van den Heever (1) 80' Attendance: 2,463Referee: Shinya Kato
18:00 Try: Lafaele 57'Con: Lafaele (1) 57' Try: Vant Leven 4' Yamashita 20', 74', 76' Anderson 53' Ito 71'Con: Rei (3) 71', 74', 76'Pen: Rei (4) 26', 33', 36', 69' Attendance: 3,025Referee: Rui Shimizu
19:30 Try: Amano 38' Shimada 42'Con: Mitomo (2) 38', 42'Pen: Mitomo (2) 2', 7' Try: Matsutomo 9' Yanagawa 58' Matsuhashi 73'Con: Peters (2) 9', 58'Pen: Peters (2) 18', 46' Attendance: 8,234Referee: Kyosuke Toda
16:30 Try: Onodera 20' Amanaki 31'Con: Tamura (2) 20', 31'Pen: Tamura (3) 17', 52', 56' Try: Greene 7'Con: Greene (1) 7' Attendance: 7,691Referee: Taizo Hirabayashi
19:00 Try: Horie 50' Buckman 52'Con: Barnes (1) 50'Pen: Barnes (1) 12' Try: Hatakeyama 29' Nakazuru 36' Ishihara 46' Nakamura 60' Tui 72' Hiwasa 80'Con: Ono (6) 29', 36', 46', 60', 72', 80'Pen: Ono (1) 17' Attendance: 11,318Referee: Tatsuya Matsuoka
14:00 Try: Ishibashi 34' Suto 54'Con: Ogura (1) 34'Pen: Ogura (2) 13', 20' Pen: Shigemitsu (1) 3' Attendance: 2,024
19:00 Try: Hagisawa 30' Ito 66'Con: Fouché (1) 66'Pen: Fouché (2) 53', 71' Try: Nakata 8' Lemeki 74'Con: Park (1) 74'Pen: Lemeki (1) 43' Attendance: 4,278Referee: Taku Otsuki
18:00 Try: Yatomi 16', 40', 67' Hino 24' Miyazawa 55' Tanaka 76'Con: Van den Heever (1) 16' Otao (4) 24', 55', 67', 76' Pen: Ogawa (2) 21', 51' Attendance: 7,629Referee: Akihisa Aso
19:00 Try: Wada 76'Con: Lucas (1) 76' Try: Ryang 13' Yamanaka 20' Yamashita 51' Yasui 54'Con: Rei (2) 20', 51'Pen: Rei (1) 37' Attendance: 4,645Referee: Shinya Kato
19:00 Try: Wykes 42' Maher 59'Pen: Lafaele (2) 27', 39' Try: Robins 22' Ahio 47' Everingham 51'Con: Tashiro (2) 22', 47' Attendance: 5,103
19:30 Try: Sakate 19' Heenan 25' Sasakura 44' Buckman 50' Kitagawa 80'Con: Barnes (3) 19', 25', 44' Fujita (1) 80'Pen: Barnes (3) 6', 10', 30' Try: Gates 58' Yamashita 70'Con: Ogura (2) 58', 70' Attendance: 8,853Referee: Akihisa Aso
11:30 Try: Tatekawa 41' Goya 49'Con: Fouché (2) 41', 49'Pen: Fouché (2) 9', 45' Try: Inami 25' Yoshikawa 31' Kashimoto 60' Shigemitsu 72'Con: Shigemitsu (3) 31', 60', 72'Pen: Shigemitsu (1) 20' Attendance: 3,891Referee: Go Matsumoto
14:00 Try: Miyazawa 5' Yatomi 12' Tahituʻa 17' Horie 31' Otao 40' Krishnan 51' Van den Heever 80'Con: Van den Heever (6) 5', 17', 31', 40', 51', 80' Try: Matsuhashi 45' Watanabe 74'Con: Peters (2) 45', 74' Attendance: 5,934Referee: Shuhei Kubo
14:00 Try: Rei 7', 52' Ealey 10' Jang 14' Yamashita 24', 64' Taniguchi 77'Con: Rei (3) 14', 24', 77' Try: Takada 72' Attendance: 3,343Referee: Akihisa Kajiwara
11:30 Try: Moto 63' Paku 68'Con: Paku (2) 63', 68' Try: Ishigaki 1' Sarugaku 4', 25' Toyota 27' Tupou 56' Yamada 71'Con: Fukuda (6) 1', 4', 25', 27', 56', 71' Attendance: 1,786Referee: Shinya Kato
14:00 Try: Miyajima 12' Yoshihiro 15' Enoki 74'Con: Tamura (2) 12', 74'Pen: Tamura (1) 79' Try: Hikosaka 6' Taufa 61'Con: Robibson (2) 6', 61'Pen: Robinson (1) 51' Attendance: 2,942Referee: Rui Shimizu
13:00 Try: Takeshita 11' Matsushima 43' Nakazuru 45', 77'Con: Ono (4) 11', 43', 45', 77'Pen: Ono (3) 25', 35', 73' Try: Niwai 1' Bennetts 37' Leilua 69'Con: Roos (2) 1', 37'Drop: Roos (1) 29' Attendance: 2,212
13:00 Try: Yagi 16' Kunamoto 19' Everingham 47' Hamazato 50' Arai 57'Con: Tashiro (3) 19', 47', 50' Try: Kahui 7' Ogawa 29' Van Wyk 34'Con: Ogawa (2) 7', 34' Tamura (1) 29' Attendance: 3,376Referee: Taku Otsuki
11:30 Try: Leilua 1' Bond 33' Thomson 59'Con: Roos (2) 1', 33'Pen: Roos (3) 10, 25', 31', 40' Try: Asami 72' Takeuchi 76'Con: Greene (2) 72', 76' Attendance: 1,500Referee: Akihisa Aso
14:00 Try: Yamasawa 10' Yatabe 27' Kitagawa 47' Tani 60' Fujita 78' Heenan 80'Con: Yamasawa (6) 10', 27', 47', 60', 78', 80'Pen: Yamasawa (3) 22', 40', 55' Try: Matsura 3' Higginbotham 41', 65' Payne 79'Con: Tamura (3) 41', 65', 79' Attendance: 3,373Referee: Taku Otsuki
11:45 Try: Tanabe 77' Noguchi 80'Pen: Shigemitsu (3) 13', 40', 60' Try: Taumeaupoe 19' Yoshida 49' Hikosaka 62'Con: Kabashima (2) 19', 62'Pen: Kabashima (2) 67', 71' Attendance: 6,705Referee: Shuhei Kubo
14:00 Try: Vaifu 8' Yamashita 23' Ellis 25' Fourie 31' Taniguchi 49' Hashimoto 56' Rei 78'Con: Rei (5) 8', 23', 25', 49', 78' Try: Broadhurst 18' Hamano 36', 61' Watanabe 53' Fukumoto 66'Con: Nanai-Williams (1) 18' Takahira (1) 36' Lotoahea (2) 61', 66'Pen: Nanai-Williams (2) 43', 47' Attendance: 8,756Referee: Taizo Hirabayashi
14:00 Try: Tamura 50'Pen: Tashiro (1) 25' Try: Nakazuru 18', 56', 70' Takemoto 33' Matsushima 40' Tui 64'Con: Ono (3) 33', 40', 64' Nakamura (1) 70'Pen: Ono (1) 41' Attendance: 2,226
13:00 Attendance: 3,013Referee: Tadataka Yoshiura
13:00 Attendance: 1,308Referee: Go Matsumoto
13:00 Attendance: 2,371Referee: Akihisa Kajiwara
13:00 Try: Hirosawa 65' Tamura 71'Con: Tamura (2) 65', 71' Try: Ah Wong 8' Takeshita 18' Nakaduru 32' Matsushima 48' Tui 80'Con: Ono (3) 8', 18', 48' Nakamura (1) 80' Attendance: 4,088Referee: Akihisa Aso
13:00 Try: Van den Heever 4' Havili 13' Ito 34', 40', 45' Hino 68' Helu 73'Con: Van den Heever (6) 4', 13', 34', 45', 68', 73' Try: Tupa 63' Motomura 71' Lemeki 76'Con: Paku (2) 63', 76'Pen: Paku (2) 20', 26' Attendance: 5,025Referee: Jamie Nutbrown (NZL)
11:45 Try: Tamura 3' Goya 7', 43' Saunders 74'Con: Moriwaki (3) 3', 7', 43', 74' Try: Potgieter 12' Hamazato 32' Taulagi 77'Con: Tashiro (2) 12', 32' Sweeney (1) 77'Pen: Tashiro (1) 58' Sweeney (1) 73' Attendance: 3,752Referee: Taizo Hirabayashi
14:00 Try: Shima 23' Maeda 35' Kim 34'Con: Noguchi (3) 23', 34', 35'Pen: Noguchi (1) 10' Try: Matsuhashi 19' Mau 57' Yanagawa 62' Mori 75' Lotoahea 80'Con: Nanai-Williams (1) 19' Takahira 57', 75' Attendance: 5,233Referee: Kyosuke Toda
14:00 Try: Engelbrecht 11' Gerrard 22' Matsui 80'Con: Greene (3) 11', 22', 80'Pen: Greene (2) 38', 42' Try: Toyoshima 19' Mikami 55' Tamura 75'Con: Tamura (2) 55', 75'Pen: Tamura (1) 67' Attendance: 3,899Referee: Tatsuya Matsuoka
11:30 Try: Ogura 28' Tomoigawa 49' Koizumi 58'Con: Ogura (2) 28', 49' Try: Yates 34'Con: Kabashima (1) 34'Pen: Kabashima (2) 43', 78' Attendance: 2,949Referee: Shinya Kato
14:00 Try: Kitagawa 6' Heenan 13' Holani 20' Tani 31' Sakate 45' Kawamata 52' Buckman 62'Con: Yamasawa (5) 6', 13', 31', 45', 52' Try: Sarugaku 34' Lafaele 66'Con: Lafaele (1) 34' Attendance: 4,776Referee: Rui Shimizu
13:00 Try: Shimada 26' Bond 43' Onozawa 78'Con: Moriya (1) 26' Harada (1) 78'Pen: Moriya (2) 10', 21' Try: Anderson 4', 33', 80' Ealey 12' Ellis 25' Fourie 54'Con: Rei (4) 2', 25', 54', 80'Pen: Rei (2) 8', 23' Attendance: 10,514Referee: Shuhei Kubo
11:45 Try: Gerrard 23' Engelbrecht 25'Con: Greene (1) 35'Pen: Greene (1) 3' Try: Nakaduru 4', 9', 44', 52' Nakamura 20', 56' Takeshita 48' Tui 76'Con: Ono (6) 9', 20', 48', 52', 56', 76' Attendance: 3,787Referee: Akihisa Kajiwara
14:00 Try: Krishnan 28' Horie 34' Odo 62'Con: Van den Heever (3) 28', 34', 62' Try: Mafi 36', 80'Con: Jantjies (1) 36' Ogura (1) 80'Pen: Jantjies (1) 53' Attendance: 5,142Referee: Akihisa Aso
14:00 Try: Tupa 36' Lemeki 62' Milo 75'Con: Paku (2) 36', 62' Lemeki (1) 75'Pen: Paku (1) 34' Try: Jang 11' Hashimoto 14' Ellis 30' Yamashita 43' Kizu 54'Con: Rei (3) 11', 14', 43'Pen: Rei (2) 22', 65' Attendance: 3,363Referee: Shinya Kato
13:00 Try: Inami 5' Latuila 56'Con: Shigemitsu (1) 56'Pen: Shigemitsu (1) 48' Try: Hamazato 8' Tsuruoka 28' Robins 32'Con: Sweeney (1) 8'Pen: Sweeney (1) 38' Attendance: 2,061Referee: Tadataka Yoshiura
13:00 Try: Harada 24'Con: Roos (1) 24'Pen: Roos (2) 2', 49' Harada (1) 79' Try: Naiyaravoro 29', 51', 56' Hasegawa 80'Con: Yamasawa (3) 51', 56', 80'Pen: Yamasawa (1) 6' Attendance: 2,691Referee: Taizo Hirabayashi
13:00 Try: Kitagawa 11' Smith 25' Hikosaka 34' Yates 37' Palu 53' Lautaini 65' Day 75' Lucas 78'Con: Kabashima (7) 11', 25', 37', 53', 65', 75', 78'Pen: Kabashima (1) 3' Pen: Fukuda (1) 18' Attendance: 1,626
13:00 Try: Tamura 10', 15'Con: Tamura (1) 10'Pen: Tamura (1) 40' Try: Otukolo 67' Takahashi 79'Con: Moriwaki (1) 67'Pen: Moriwaki (1) 42' Attendance: 2,055Referee: Jamie Nutbrown (NZL)
14:00 Try: Komatsu 5' Matsushita 20', 59', 80' Lotoahea 71'Con: Peters (5) 7', 60', 72', 81' Try: Jane 38' Leitch 48' Mori 61' Toyoshima 65'Con: Ogawa (1) 40', 49', 63', 66' Referee: Shuhei Kubo
11:30 Try: Amano 2' Shimada 18', 45' Harada 27' Fujimoto 57'Con: Mitomo (3) 2', 18', 27' Roos (2) 45', 57' Try: Arai 11' Attendance: 5,282Referee: Rui Shimizu
14:00 Try: Higginbotham 9' Goto 29' Payne 32' Risale 41'Con: Tamura (3) 10', 30', 33',Pen: Tamura (4) 16', 20', 58', 67' Try: Anderson 6' Yamashita 11' Yamanaka 47' Rei 53'Con: Rei (2) 7', 54' Attendance: 9,949
13:00 Try: Ogura 4' Tomoigawa 17' Ogawa 46', 71'Con: Ogura (4) 5', 18', 47', 72'Pen: Ogura (1) 14'Drop: Ogura (1) 40' Try: Yamamoto 1' Watanabe 65' Ogawa 75', 81'Con: Ogawa (3) 2', 65', 76'Pen: Ogawa (1) 34' Attendance: 3,429
13:00 Try: Lotoahea 80'Con: Bourke (1) 80'Pen: Peters (3) 27', 44', 62' Try: Robinson 5' Palu 32' Yates 75'Con: Kabashima (1) 33'Pen: Kabashima (1) 8' Attendance: 3,797
13:00 Try: Latianarasoejima 62'Pen: Fukuda (2) 16', 30' Try: Hino 7' Krishnan 12' Helu 26', 52' Sa'u 35', 74' Penalty try 39' Piutau 80'Con: Van den Heever (4) 8', 27', 40', 52' Otao (2) 75', 81' Attendance: 2,322
13:00 Try: Nakaduru 11' Aoki 24' Matsushima 44' Aruga 63' Morikawa 76'Con: Ono (4) 11', 21', 44', 76' Attendance: 2,795Referee: Taku Otsuki
13:00 Try: Moriya 21', 40' Hasegawa 28' Heenan 36', 49' Shitara 44' Yamada 61', 70' Uchida 67'Con: Yamasawa (3) 21', 36', 40' Moriya (3) 49', 67', 70'Pen: Yamasawa (1) 17' Try: Saunders 47'Con: Greene (1) 47' Attendance: 3,320Referee: Tatsuya Matsuoka
13:00 Try: Thompson 19' Stolberg 63'Con: Shigemitsu (2) 19', 63'Pen: Shigemitsu (2) 8', 29' Try: Ubutaka 14' Masaga 16' Konishi 75'Con: Paku (3) 14', 16', 75'Pen: Paku (5) 23', 32', 47', 58', 70' Attendance: 2,695Referee: Akihisa Aso
11:45 Try: Taylor 35', 66' Morita 72'Con: Noguchi (2) 35', 66'Pen: Noguchi (4) 7', 9', 40', 43' Try: Goto 10', 25' Yoshihira 19' Higginbotham 23' Owada 57' Payne 64'Con: Tamura (4) 10', 23', 25', 57' Attendance: 4,550Referee: Shuhei Kubo
14:00 Try: Ono 5' Tui 13', 43' Smith 40'Con: Ono (3) 5', 13', 43'Pen: Ono (1) 23' Try: Nishibashi 59' Attendance: 5,919Referee: Akihisa Aso
14:00 Try: Kido 37' Taumeaupoe 41' Yates 76'Con: Monji (2) 41', 76'Pen: Monji (2) 2', 23' Try: le Roux 7' Hayashi 25' Roos 78'Con: Mitomo (2) 7', 25' Roos (1) 78' Attendance: 3,443Referee: Taku Otsuki
11:30 Try: Ioane 46'Con: Songi (1) 46'Pen: Songi (1) 52' Try: Nakamura 9' Takahira 22' Lotoahea 36' Santoh 55' Nanai-Williams 80'Con: Takahira (3) 22', 36', 55'Pen: Takahira (1) 40' Attendance: 3,898Referee: Kyosuke Toda
14:00 Try: Sa'u 13' Hino 16' Miyazawa 18' Ito 42', 46' Havili 51' Piutau 52' Penalty try 66' Kato 80'Con: Van den Heever (7) 13', 16', 18', 42', 46', 51', 52' Otao (2) 66', 80' Try: Matsumoto 70'Con: Greene (1) 70' Attendance: 7,471
13:00 Try: Uchida 19' Yamada 37' Kitagawa 54' Heenan 70'Con: Yamasawa (4) 20', 39', 56', 71'Pen: Yamasawa (2) 3', 66' Try: Kondo 15' Osborne 42', 73'Con: Moriwaki (2) 43', 74'Pen: Moriwaki (2) 7', 28' Attendance: 3,462Referee: Mike Adamson (Scotland)
14:00 Try: Hamazato 40' Everingham 41' Yagi 69'Con: Sweeney (3) 40', 42', 70' Try: Shomen 6' Kanai 10' Vaihu 12', 29', 75' Taniguchi 17' Nakajima 21' Ellis 46' Yamashita 64'Con: Yamanaka (3) 7', 22', 30' Rei (2) 65', 76' Attendance: 3,195Referee: Shinya Kato
14:00 Try: Jane 6' Watanabe 65' Messam 77'Con: Ogawa (1) 77' Try: Yamashita 16' Sarugaku 26' Katsuki 37'Con: Lafaele (2) 26', 38'Pen: Lafaele (1) 16' Attendance: 2,580Referee: Akihisa Kajiwara
11:30 Try: Matsuhashi 38' Pohiva 58'Con: Takahira (1) 58'Pen: Takahira (2) 8', 62' Try: Kondo 21' Osborne 33' Tatekawa 80'Con: Moriwaki (2) 21', 33' Tatekawa (1) 80' Attendance: 5,585Referee: Akihisa Aso
14:00 Try: Aoki 23' Murata 26' Ono 34' Penalty try 40' Emi 44', 57' Nakaduru 55' Ah Wong 74'Con: Ono (3) 23', 34', 40' Nakamura (1) 74' Try: Soejima 5', 15'Con: Lafaele (1) 15' Attendance: 7,948Referee: Takashi Otsuki
11:45 Try: Masaga 54' Kamada 62'Con: Paku (2) 54', 62' Try: Holani 7' Fukuoka 19', 47', 50', 58', 68', 75' Buckman 29', 64' Sakate 36' Yamasawa 38'Con: Yamasawa (3) 36', 38', 50' Barnes (4) 58', 64', 68', 75' Attendance: 4,671Referee: Akihisa Kajiwara
14:00 Try: Taylor 62'Con: Noguchi (1) 62'Pen: Noguchi (1) 51' Try: Fujichika 22' Bond 73'Con: Mitomo (1) 22' Roos 73'Pen: Mitomo (1) 39' Attendance: 6,188Referee: Kyosuke Toda
13:00 Try: Tahituʻa 13' Van den Heever 17' Hino 39', 46' Matsumoto 55' Ito 79' Sa'u 80'Con: Van den Heever (6) 17', 39', 46', 55', 79', 80' Try: Murata 73' Attendance: 4,742Referee: Tatsuya Matsuoka
14:00 Try: Hashimoto 8' Hayashi 30' Shomen 49'Con: Yamanaka (3) 10', 31', 50'Pen: Yamanaka (3) 2', 20', 58' Try: Kajikawa 53' Van Wyk 64' Matsunobu 76'Con: Ogawa (3) 54', 65', 76'Pen: Ogawa (1) 15' Referee: Mike Adamson (Scotland)
13:00 Try: Gerrard 8' Takeuchi 21' Saunders 44' Matsui 53' Greene 63'Con: Greene (4) 8', 22', 44', 55' Try: Tsuruda 11' Anoku 66' Hano 73'Con: Ogura (2) 12', 66' Attendance: 1,940Referee: Tetsuhiko Kono
13:00 Try: Ando 44' Taumeaupoe 51'Con: Matsushita (2) 45', 51' Try: Yagi 30' Fukuzaki 53'Con: Sweeney (1) 54'Pen: Sweeney (1) 78' Attendance: 2,458Referee: Taizo Hirabayashi
11:30 Try: Matsumoto 3' So 42', 79' Konishi 46' Vatuvei 55' Kankowski 59' Tokoqio 77'Con: Greene (4) 56', 61', 78', 80'Pen: Greene (2) 27', 67' Try: Milo 32' Ioane 50' Motomura 74'Con: Pak (2) 33', 51' Konishi (1) 75'Pen: Pak (1) 20' Attendance: 5,300Referee: Shinya Kato
14:00 Try: Smith 14' Robinson 50' Hikosaka 71'Con: Kabashima (3) 15', 51', 71'Pen: Kabashima (1) 24' Try: Aoki 19' Emi 30', 36' Nakamura 53' Ono 72'Con: Ono (3) 31', 37', 54'Pen: Ono (1) 12', 48' Attendance: 8,615Referee: Kyosuke Toda
13:00 Try: Takamori 5' Osborne 20', 26' Saunders 40' Kriel 48' Ito 69'Con: Moriwaki (3) 6', 21', 40' Try: Kinoshita 37' Wykes 51'Con: Lafaele (2) 38', 52'Pen: Lafaele (1) 58' Attendance: 2,085
11:30 Try: le Roux 7', 16' Mitomo 13' Havili 18' Bennetts 32' Noguchi 70'Con: Roos (6) 8', 13', 17', 19', 33', 70'Pen: Roos (1) 40' Try: Matsuura 28' Goto 65', 71'Con: Tamura (3) 29', 65', 72' Attendance: 6,708
14:00 Try: Yamada 15', 18', 53' Uchida 71' Moriya 81'Con: Barnes (3) 16', 20', 55' Moriya (1) 82'Pen: Barnes (4) 13', 40', 63', 67' Try: Mori 5', 29' Yamamoto 56'Con: Bourke (1) 57' Attendance: 9,680
13:00 Try: Ko 71' Stolberg 73'Con: Shigemitsu (1) 74' Try: Ishii 26', 78' Mikami 30' Van Wyk 35' Asahara 46', 63' Yamamoto 50' Ilaua 82'Con: Ogawa (6) 27', 31', 36', 47', 51', 64' Van Wyk (2) 79', 82'Pen: Ogawa (1) 7' Attendance: 2,775Referee: Takashi Otsuki
13:00 Try: Hayashi 64' Penalty try 69'Con: Yamanaka (1) 69'Pen: Yamanaka (1) 46' Try: Ito 13' Hino 50' Sa'u 61'Con: Van den Heever (3) 14', 51', 61'Pen: Van den Heever (4) 36', 39', 73', 78' Attendance: 8,647Referee: Akihisa Aso
13:00 Try: Nishii 80'Con: Sweeney (1) 80' Try: Ishibashi 7' Mezaki 14' Numajiri 34' Tsuruda 48' Mafi 68'Con: Jantjies (4) 8', 14', 49', 68' Attendance: 2,590Referee: Tatsuya Matsuoka
11:30 Try: Roos 4' Hidaka 20' Bennetts 41'Con: Roos (3) 4', 20', 41'Pen: Roos (1) 15'Drop: Roos (1) 79' Try: Ito 65' Tatekawa 76'Con: Moriwaki (1) 76'Pen: Moriwaki (1) 34' Attendance: 5,100Referee: Akihisa Aso
14:00 Try: Matsunobu 2' Usuzuki 15' Van Wyk 26' Leitch 43'Con: Ogawa (3) 2', 26', 43'Pen: Ogawa (2) 61', 80' Try: Smith 8' Hikosaka 20' Kido 36' Kitagawa 48'Con: Kabashima (4) 8', 20', 36', 48'Pen: Kabashima (1) 29' Attendance: 7,964Referee: Taizo Hirabayashi
11:30 Try: Matsumoto 18' Takeuchi 48'Con: Greene (2) 18', 48' Try: Mori 2', 36' Bourke 29' Lotoahea 62' Yanagawa 73' Hamano 80'Con: Takahira (3) 29', 36', 62' Bourke (1) 80'Pen: Takahira (1) 21' Attendance: 3,093Referee: Takeshi Matsumoto
14:00 Pen: Konishi (1) 2' Try: Warren-Voyasco 10' Jantjies 17' Ogura 32' Nishibashi 48' Kin 55' Tsuruya 60'Con: Jantjies (3) 10', 17', 48' Ogura (2) 55', 60' Attendance: 4,005Referee: Takashi Otsuki
13:00 Try: Ito 4', 70' Penalty try 37'Con: Van den Heever (3) 4', 37', 70'Pen: Van den Heever (1) 12' Try: Nakaduru 15' Donald 32' Tui 40' Ishihara 52' Tsukamoto 79'Con: Ono (5) 15', 32', 40', 52', 79'Pen: Ono (2) 49', 78' Attendance: 10,574Referee: Shuhei Kubo
11:30 Pen: Lafaele (1) 2' Try: Goto 31' Murata 50' Yoshihiro 59' Doi 67'Con: Tamura (2) 31', 50'Pen: Tamura (1) 20' Attendance: 5,814Referee: Akihisa Kajiwara
14:00 Try: Fukutsubo 54' Taulagi 80'Con: Sweeney (2) 54', 80' Try: Valu 17', 42' Hayashi 29', 56' Fukuoka 49' Naiyaravoro 69' Ijima 73' Nunomaki 76'Con: Barnes (5) 29', 42', 49', 56', 69' Kaneda (1) 76'Pen: Barnes (1) 12' Attendance: 8,613Referee: Yuuki Fujiiuchi
14:00 Try: Matsui 50'Pen: Shigemitsu (1) 35' Try: Vaihu 18' Yamashita 31' Yamanaka 53' Yamashita 56' Imamura 76'Con: Yamanaka (5) 19', 31', 54', 58', 77'Pen: Yamanaka (1) 14' Attendance: 4,545Referee: Shinya Kato
11:30 Try: Matsumoto 3' Vaka 64'Con: Greene (1) 64' Try: Tupou 34' Lafaele 48' Toyota 58', 78' Yamashita 67'Con: Lafaele (4) 34', 48', 58', 78' Attendance: 2,636Referee: Tatsuya Matsuoka
14:00 Try: Penalty try 68' Wada 80'Con: Kabashima (2) 68', 80' Try: Fukuoka 30', 60', 74' Horie 43' Pocock 48'Con: Moriya (4) 44', 49', 61', 75'Pen: Moriya (1) 40' Attendance: 3,938Referee: Kyosuke Toda
13:00 Try: Nakaduru 8', 25', 47' Emi 29' Tsukamoto 65' Nakamura 69' Matsushima 79'Con: Ono (5) 9', 27', 31', 48', 66'Pen: Ono (1) 16' Attendance: 9,391Referee: Akihisa Aso
11:30 Try: Higginbotham 2' Savieti 9' Payne 48', 80' Goto 50'Con: Tamura (5) 3', 10', 49', 51', 80'Pen: Tamura (2) 40', 79' Try: Motomura 32' Milo 38' Stegmann 53'Con: Furuya (3) 34', 39', 55' Attendance: 3,764
14:00 Try: Jantjies 7' Britz 43'Con: Jantjies (1) 45'Pen: Jantjies (1) 33' Try: Hashino 20' Thomson 71'Con: Roos (2) 22', 72'Pen: Roos (4) 17', 28', 40', 66' Attendance: 5,293Referee: Shuhei Kubo
11:30 Try: Mapoe 26' Goya 59' Kondo 77'Con: Moriwaki (1) 60'Pen: Moriwaki (2) 40', 52' Try: Yamazaki 11'Con: Yamanaka (1) 12'Pen: Yamanaka (3) 29', 36', 64' Attendance: 3,348Referee: Akihisa Kajiwara
14:00 Try: Penalty try 13', 71' Yatomi 49' Tanaka 74'Con: Van den Heever (3) 14', 51', 71' Pen: Noguchi (4) 23', 37', 40', 63' Attendance: 4,579
14:00 Try: Komatsu 7' Makita 13' Musya 40' Matsuhashi 46' Mori 51' Watanabe 80'Con: Ellison (2) 40', 52' Peters (1) 80' Pen: Fukuzaki (1) 36' Attendance: 1,399Referee: Takashi Otsuki
11:30 Try: Tsuruda 6' Miura 21' Karauria-Henry 54' Tomoigawa 61'Con: Ogura (2) 6', 61'Pen: Ogura (1) 37' Try: Mapoe 11' Kim 51'Con: Moriwaki (2) 11', 51'Pen: Moriwaki (1) 35' Attendance: 8,506
14:00 Try: Penalty try 18' Kahui 56'Con: Ogawa (2) 18', 56' Pen: Moriya (5) 11', 16', 28', 39', 80' Attendance: 12,423Referee: Takashi Otsuki
11:45 Try: Fainga'a 34' Noguchi 45' Miyata 57' Sato 66'Con: Noguchi (3) 45', 57', 66' Try: Vaka 62' Yamashita 77'Con: Greene (1) 52'Pen: Greene (3) 22', 30', 40'Drop: Greene (1) 37' Attendance: 3,181Referee: Taizo Hirabayashi
14:00 Try: Nakata 14' Stegmann 24' Milo 33' Furuya 75'Con: Furuya (3) 24', 33', 75' Try: Bennetts 8' Hashino 38' Harada 51' Niwai 67'Con: Roos (4) 8', 38', 51', 67' Attendance: 4,442Referee: Tatsuya Matsuoka
13:00 Try: Ito 11', 26', 74' Yatomi 58'Con: Van den Heever (2) 58', 74'Pen: Van den Heever (1) 40' Try: Kido 17'Pen: Monji (1) 3' Attendance: 4,837Referee: Akihisa Aso
13:00 Try: Bekker 9' Yamanaka 45'Con: Yamanaka (1) 45'Pen: Yamanaka (1) 13' Try: Tui 22' Emi 40' Matsushima 43'Con: Ono (3) 22', 40', 43'Pen: Ono (2) 58', 78' Attendance: 8,393Referee: Shuhei Kubo
11:30 Try: Robins 3', 48' Hesketh 13' Nishii 29'Con: Kanagawa (3) 3', 13', 48' Try: Matsura 22' Payne 54' Hirosawa 64'Con: Tamura (3) 22', 54', 64'Pen: Tamura (1) 9' Attendance: 1,974Referee: Takeshi Matsumoto
14:00 Try: Lafaele 5' Tupou 15'Con: Lafaele (2) 5', 15' Try: Komatsu 10', 71' Mostert 43' Lotoahea 50', 53'Con: Peters (4) 43', 50', 53', 71' Attendance: 3,059Referee: Shinya Kato
Hino Red Dolphins , Kyuden Voltex and Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars progressed to the promotion play-offs.
At the end of the season, there were three promotion/relegation play-offs for three places in the 2017–18 Top League . The teams ranked 13th, 14th and 15th in the Top League played off against the teams ranked 2nd, 3rd and 4th in the Top League Challenge 1 .
Coca-Cola Red Sparks , Kintetsu Liners and Toyota Industries Shuttles qualified from the Top League relegation play-off zone, while Hino Red Dolphins , Kyuden Voltex and Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars qualified from Challenge 1.
The following matches were played in the series:
Coca-Cola Red Sparks, Kintetsu Liners and Toyota Industries Shuttles remain in the Top League for the 2017–18 season.
Hino Red Dolphins, Kyuden Voltex and Mitsubishi Sagamihara DynaBoars qualify to the second-tier Top Challenge League for the 2017–18 season.
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