Chugoku Electric Power Rugby Football Club – nicknamed the Red Regulions – is a Japanese

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team, currently playing in the

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. The team is the rugby team of electric utilities provider

Chugoku Electric Power , trading as (Latin for "energy") is an electric utility with its exclusive operational area of Chūgoku region of Japan. It is the sixth largest by electricity sales among Japan's ten regional power utilities. It operates the Shimane Nuclear ...

, based in Hiroshima in the

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. 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

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, 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

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. In July 2017, they also adopted the name Red Regulions for the team.

Current squad

The Chugoku Red Regulions squad for the 2023 season is:

Season history

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

External links

References

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