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Rugby team
Saitama Wild Knights 埼玉パナソニックワイルドナイツ
Full name
Saitama Wild Knights
Union
Japan Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)
Wild Knights
Founded
1960
Location
Saitama, Japan
Ground(s)
Kumagaya Rugby Ground (Capacity: 24,000)
Director of Rugby
Robbie Deans
Coach(es)
Tomokazu Soma
League(s)
Japan Rugby League One
2022
2nd Playoffs: Champions
1st kit
2nd kit
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Saitama Wild Knights (formerly Panasonic Wild Knights) is a Japanese rugby union team formerly based in Ōta city, Gunma prefecture which plays in the Top League. Inspired by Tony Brown at fly half (though he was not captain), it dominated the league in the fifth season and was the first team to be unbeaten throughout a Top League season. The team rebranded as Saitama Wild Knights ahead of the rebranding of the Top League to the Japan Rugby League One in 2022, with the team relocating to Saitama.[1]
^"La nouvelle ligue japonaise s'appelle la Japan Rugby League One". Asie Rugby (in French). 16 July 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2021.
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