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 SV.League. The owner of the team is NEC.

NEC Red Rockets

Founded	1978
Ground	Tokyo and Kawasaki, Japan
Manager Head Coach	Okada Rie Kodai Nakaya
Captain	Nichika Yamada
League	SV.League
2024-25	Runners-up
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.

In 2021, the team rebranded to further evolve while preserving its history, and relocated its hometown to the Kawasaki area of ​​Kanagawa Prefecture and the Tokyo area.

The three-layered lines on the rocket body, which is the team's emblem, represent the team, supporters, and community aboard the rocket. The team

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
SV.League	2024-25	Runners-up	14	44	30	14

Current squad

2025-2026 Squad, as of November 2025^[1][2]

• Head coach: Kodai Nakaya

No.	Name	Position	Date of birth	Height (m)
1	Nichika Yamada (c)	Middle Blocker	(2000-02-24) 24 February 2000 (age 25)	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
2	Yoshino Sato	Outside Hitter	(2001-11-12) 12 November 2001 (age 24)	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
3	Sayaka Daikuzono	Libero	(2000-08-03) 3 August 2000 (age 25)	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)
4	Ai Hirota	Outside Hitter	(2003-08-23) 23 August 2003 (age 22)	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
6	Yuka Sawada	Setter	(1996-08-14) 14 August 1996 (age 29)	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	Natsumi Kodama	Libero	(2002-05-16) 16 May 2002 (age 23)	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
10	Tsukasa Nakagawa	Setter	(2000-08-13) 13 August 2000 (age 25)	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	Haruko Sasaki	Outside Hitter	(2002-03-09) 9 March 2002 (age 23)	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 21)	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
15	Sylvia Chinelo Nwakalor	Opposite Hitter	(1999-08-12) 12 August 1999 (age 26)	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
17	Ichiyo Ito	Middle Blocker	(2006-01-16) 16 January 2006 (age 19)	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
18	Haruka Hosokawa	Setter	(2002-04-07) 7 April 2002 (age 23)	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
23	Misuzu Takahashi	Outside Hitter	(2002-11-05) 5 November 2002 (age 23)	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
24	Naka Hasebe	Middle Blocker	(2003-01-25) 25 January 2003 (age 22)	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
77	Giovanna Milana Day	Outside Hitter	(1998-06-13) 13 June 1998 (age 27)	1.88 m (6 ft 2 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[3] Mio Sato (2019–2021) (ja) [4] Sarina Koga (2015-2024) Haruyo Shimamura (2010-2025)

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 (2023–2025)  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)