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Toshiba Brave Lupus Tokyo is a Japanese rugby union team in the Japan Rugby League One.They are based in Fuchu, Tokyo, as is their local rival Suntory Sungoliath.They won the second ever Top League championship in the 2004-5 season and the Microsoft Cup in 2005 under their innovative and inventive coach Masahiro Kunda, himself a former hooker for Toshiba and Japan.
Toshiba Brave Lupus: Tokyo, Kanto Toyota Verblitz: Aichi, Tokai World Fighting Bull: Kobe, Kansai Yamaha Jubilo: Shizuoka, Tokai Top League season. Final standings
This is a category for Toshiba Brave Lupus players past and present. Pages in category "Toshiba Brave Lupus Tokyo players" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total.
The top four teams in the league were Toshiba, Suntory, Yamaha, and Toyota. They played in the Microsoft Cup (2007) knock-out tournament to fight it out for the Top league title, which was officially integrated into the league from this season as the "Top League Play-off Tournament Microsoft Cup".
The Toshiba Brave Lupus defeated Sanyo Wild Knights by 17–6 in the final of the Microsoft Cup to claim the 2008–09 Top League championship. The Top League is a semi-professional competition which is at the top of the national league system in Japan, with promotion and relegation between the next level down.
^α Toshiba Brave Lupus won the Top League and Microsoft Cup double. [13] ^β The number of tries and goals being equal, the result was decided in favour of Yamaha over Toyota by a lottery at Hanazono after the game. ^γ Reigning Microsoft Cup holders the NEC Green Rockets were knocked out at the quarter-final stage. [14] [15]
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The 2003–04 Top League was the first season of Japan's domestic rugby union competition, the Top League. Toshiba Brave Lupus won the league by finishing on top of the round-robin competition.