is a men's
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
team based in
Hiroshima city, Hiroshima,
Japan
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. It plays in
V.Premier League. The owner of the club is
Japan Tobacco
The (JT) is a Japanese diversified tobacco company and parent company to Japan Tobacco International, one of the three largest international Big Tobacco product manufacturers in the world. It was established in 1985 as a that inherited the ri ...
.
History
The club was founded in 1931 as a club of the
Ministry of Finance Japan Hiroshima Monopoly Bureau.
In 1985, the team was renamed as Japan Tabaco and changed into JT as in 1989. In 2019, team name changed into JT Thunders Hiroshima.
Honours
;
Japan Volleyball League/V.League/V.Premier League
*Champion (×1): 2014–15
*Runners-up (×8): 1973, 1978, 1996–97, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2013–14 and 2018–19
;
Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Tournament
*Champions (×2): 2001 and 2004
*Runners-up (×5): 1969, 1977, 1978, 2010 and 2014
;
Emperor's Cup
, commonly known as or Japan FA Cup, and rebranded as The JFA Emperor's Cup from 2024 onwards, is a Japanese annual football competition. It has the longest tradition of any football tournament in Japan, dating back to 1921, before the formatio ...
*Champion (×3): 2007, 2015, 2018
*Runner-up (×1): 2009
Current roster
The following is team roster of
Season 2023–2024
Former roster
League results
Champion Runner-up
Notable foreign players
*
Igor Shulepov 1999-2000
*
Ilya Savelev 2001-2004
*
Gabriel Gardner
Gabriel Bryan Gardner (born March 18, 1976) is an American professional volleyball player. He is a two-time Olympian, having played at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2008 Beijing Olympics with the U.S. national team.
Gardner graduated from ...
2005-2006
*
Maksym Panteleymonenko 2007-2008
*
Ernardo Gómez 2008-2012
*
Igor Omrcen 2012-2014
*
Leandro Vissotto 2014-2015
*
Dražen Luburić 2016-2017
*
Thomas Edgar 2017–2022
*
Liu Libin 2018-2019
*
Chen Chien-Chen 2019–2022
References
External links
JTI oficial website(ja)
Volleyball clubs in Japan
Volleyball clubs established in 1931
Sports clubs and teams in Hiroshima
Japan Tobacco
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