NEC Red Rockets

NEC Red Rockets (NECレッドロケッツ, NEC Reddo Rokettsu) is a women's volleyball team based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It plays in V.League 1. The owner of the team is NEC.

NEC Red Rockets

Founded	1978
Ground	Tokyo and Kawasaki, Japan
Manager Head Coach	Takumi Iwasaki Takayuki Kaneko
Captain	Yuka Sawada
League	V.League 1 Women
2023-24	Champions
Website	Club home page
Uniforms
Home Away

The club was founded in April 1978 as NEC's corporate team, participating the same year in the 10th V.Challenge League tournament. The club advanced to membership in the Japan Volleyball League in 1979, securing 3rd place in the league rankings by the end of the season. The club has subsequently been league champions nine times, and marked its 200th victory in 2008.

Honours

Japan Volleyball League/V.League/V.Premier League

• Champions (9): 1987–1988, 1996–1997, 1999–2000, 2002–2003, 2004–2005, 2014–2015, 2016–2017, 2022–2023, 2023–2024.
• Runners-up (4): 1986–1987, 1995–1996, 1997–1998, 2001-2002.

Kurowashiki All Japan Volleyball Championship

• Champions (2): 1997, 2001.
• Runners-up (7): 1985, 1987, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2011, 2013.

League results

League		Position	Teams	Matches	Wins	Loss(es)
Japan League	13th (1979–80)	3rd	6	10	7	3
	14th (1980–81)	4th	8	14	7	7
	15th (1981–82)	5th	8	21	7	14
	16th (1982–83)	6th	8	21	7	14
	17th (1983–84)	6th	8	21	8	13
	18th (1984–85)	3rd	8	21	14	7
	19th (1985–86)	3rd	8	21	12	9
	20th (1986–87)	Runners-up	8	21	17	4
	21st (1987–88)	Champions	8	14	12	2
	22nd (1988–89)	4th	8	17	9	8
	23rd (1989–90)	3rd	8	17	13	4
	24th (1990–91)	3rd	8	17	9	8
	25th (1991–92)	7th	8	14	3	11
	26th (1992–93)	4th	8	14	8	6
	27th (1993–94)	4th	8	14	9	5
V・League	1st (1994–95)	5th	8	21	11	10
	2nd (1995–96)	Runners-up	8	21	14	7
	3rd (1996–97)	Champions	8	21	16	5
	4th (1997–98)	Runners-up	8	21	18	3
	5th (1998–99)	3rd	10	18	13	5
	6th (1999-2000)	Champions	10	18	18	0
	7th (2000–01)	3rd	10	18	17	1
	8th (2001–02)	Runners-up	9	16	10	6
	9th (2002–03)	Champions	8	21	17	4
	10th (2003–04)	4th	10	18	12	6
	11th (2004–05)	Champions	10	27	20	7
	12th (2005–06)	6th	10	27	13	14
V・Premier	2006-07	5th	10	27	15	12
	2007-08	6th	10	27	13	14
	2008-09	3rd	10	27	18	9
	2009-10	5th	8	28	10	18
	2010-11	4th	8	26	15	11
	2011-12	8th	8	21	3	18
	2012-13	4th	8	28	23	5
	2013-14	5th	8	28	12	16
	2014-15	Champions	8	21	13	8
	2015-16	5th	8	21	8	13
	2016-17	Champions	8	21	15	6
	2017-18	5th	8	21	8	13
V.League Division 1 (V1)	2018–19	6th	11	20	11	9
	2019–20	8th	12	21	11	10
	2020–21	3rd	12	20	15	5
	2021–22	4th	12	33	23	10
	2022–23	Champions
	2023–24	Champions

Current squad

2024-2025 Squad, as of December 2024 ^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

• Head coach: Takayuki Kaneko

No.	Name	Position	Date of birth	Height (m)
1	Haruyo Shimamura	Middle Blocker	(1992-03-04) 4 March 1992 (age 33)	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
2	Yoshino Sato	Outside Hitter	(2001-11-12) 12 November 2001 (age 23)	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
3	Shiori Tsukada	Setter	(1994-09-07) 7 September 1994 (age 30)	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
4	Ai Hirota	Outside Hitter	(2003-08-23) 23 August 2003 (age 21)	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
5	Nichika Yamada	Middle Blocker	(2000-02-24) 24 February 2000 (age 25)	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
6	Yuka Sawada (C)	Setter	(1996-08-14) 14 August 1996 (age 28)	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
7	Moeka Kinoe	Middle Blocker	(1997-12-24) 24 December 1997 (age 27)	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
8	Kasumi Nojima	Middle Blocker	(1997-05-09) 9 May 1997 (age 28)	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
9	Riko Fujii	Libero	(1999-02-25) 25 February 1999 (age 26)	1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
10	Tsukasa Nakagawa	Setter	(2000-08-13) 13 August 2000 (age 24)	1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)
11	Chinami Furuya	Outside Hitter	(1996-04-20) 20 April 1996 (age 29)	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
12	Misaki Yamauchi	Outside Hitter	(1995-03-10) 10 March 1995 (age 30)	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
13	Yukiko Wada	Outside Hitter	(2002-01-08) 8 January 2002 (age 23)	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
14	Ayumu Harashima	Middle Blocker	(2004-07-12) 12 July 2004 (age 20)	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
15	Lorrayna Marys da Silva	Opposite Hitter	(1999-06-19) 19 June 1999 (age 25)	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
16	Haruko Sasaki	Outside Hitter	(2002-03-09) 9 March 2002 (age 23)	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
17	Ichiyo Ito	Middle Blocker	(2006-01-16) 16 January 2006 (age 19)	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
18	Ajcharaporn Kongyot	Outside Hitter	(1995-07-20) 20 July 1995 (age 29)	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
19	Runa Tanaka	Outside Hitter	(1998-07-09) 9 July 1998 (age 26)	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
20	Sayaka Daikuzono	Libero	(2000-08-03) 3 August 2000 (age 24)	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)

Former players

Domestic players  Japan Hiroko Tsukumo (1993–2004) Shinako Tanaka (2001–2002) Yoshie Takeshita (2002–2004) Megumi Kurihara (2003–2004) Megumi Kawamura (2001–2005) Ai Ōtomo (2000–2006) Miyuki Takahashi (2006–2009) Ikumi Narita (2007–2010) Sayoko Matsuzaki (2001–2010) Saori Arita (2003–2010) Saori Takasaki (2005–2010) Ayako Watanabe (2003–2011) Yuko Maruyama (2008–2011) Sachiko Sugiyama (1998–2013) Kanako Naito (2009–2012) Akari Oumi (2012–2017) Hiroko Matsuura (2009–2012) Akiko Ino (2009–2012) Yumiko Tsuzuki (2013–2014) Akiko Uchida (2008–2014) Makoto Matsuura (2010–2014) Miho Watanabe (2011–2014) Miyuki Akiyama (2007–2015) Nami Sagawa (2014–2017) Kaname Yamaguchi (2014–2019) Sayaka Iwasaki (2013–2019) Kana Ono (2011–2019) Saki Minemura (2018–2020) Yuna Okuyama (2014–2020) Shiori Aratani (ja) (2016–2020) Transferred to Himeji Victorina[7] Mio Sato (2019–2021) (ja) [8] Sarina Koga (2015-2024)

Foreign players  Brazil Ana Paula Ferreira (2008–2010) Fernanda Garay Rodrigues (2010–2011) Lorrayna Marys da Silva (2024-)  Bulgaria Emiliya Dimitrova (2016–2017)  Croatia Hana Čutura (2013–14)  Finland Riikka Lehtonen (2006–2007)  Poland Berenika Tomsia (2019–2020)  Russia Elena Tyurina (1990–1994) Elizaveta Tishchenko (1995–1997) Yelena Godina (1998–1999)  Serbia Brižitka Molnar (2011–2012)  Thailand Ajcharaporn Kongyot (2023-)  Turkey Yeliz Başa (2012–13, 2014–2016) Neriman Özsoy (2020–2021)  United States Erin Aldrich (2007–2008) Rhamat Alhassan (2018–19) Sarah Wilhite-Parsons (2020-2022) Dani Drews (2023-2024)