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Izumi Maple Reds
Full nameIzumi Maple Reds
Short nameMaple Reds
Founded1994
ArenaHiroshima Green Arena
Capacity10,000
LeagueJapan Handball League
2018-192nd
Team colours Team colours Team colours Team colours Home Team colours Team colours Team colours Team colours Away
Website
Official site

Hiroshima Maple Reds is a women's handball team based in Hiroshima, Japan. It plays in the Japan Handball League. The club was founded in 1994 and belonged to IZUMI, a supermarket company in Hiroshima. The club was dissolved in 2001, then reinstated as HIROSHIMA MAPLE REDS by the Hiroshima Women's Sports Club (NPO).

From 1994 to 2006, the club has won the championships of Japan Handball League and others for 24 times in Japan. They won the 1st prize at the Second East Asian Handball Club Championship in 2005 in Suzhou, China. And the 3rd prize at the First in Seongnam, Korea and the 4th prize at the third in Kyoto, Japan. They won the 2nd prize at the 12th Hiroshima International Handball Games in 2007.

In April 2019 they were rebranded as the Izumi Maple Reds and did not play the 2020 season due to coronavirus concerns.

Team

Current squad

Squad for the 2019-20 season.
Goalkeepers
  • 01 Japan Taeko Takamori
  • 12 Japan Minami Itano
  • 16 Japan Yayoi Kanou
  • 22 Japan Momoko Nakamura
Wings
RW
  • 17 Japan Miki Mitsuhashi
LW
  • 03 Japan Sae Ishikawa
  • 09 Japan Mai Kadodani
  • 26 Japan Kaede Yamane
Line players
Back players
LB
  • 07 Japan Yuko Kawarabata
  • 19 Japan Arisa Kimura
  • 20 Japan Misa Tabuchi
  • 27 Japan Saya Muramatsu
CB
  • 05 Japan Maaya Matsugi
  • 08 Japan Miki Mita
  • 28 Japan Natsuki Tomai

Former players

References

  1. results of games Archived 2009-04-28 at the Wayback Machine on "maplereds.net"
  2. "Izumi Maple Reds - Team Information". jhlhandball.jp.
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