Independent Disciplinary Update: Keita Terada Decision

A yellow card was issued to Keita Terada of the LeRIRO Fukuoka by referee at the match between LeRIRO Fukuoka and Kurita Water Gush Akishima held on 16 March 2025. This was the third yellow card accumulated by Terada in the season.

This is to inform that in accordance with Article 34 (Judicial and Citing) of the JAPAN RUGBY LEAGUE ONE ‘Official Match Guidelines 2024-25’ and the Japan Rugby Football Union ‘Regulation of Sanctions for Foul Play’, the Judicial Officer conducted a hearing with the player and decided to apply the following sanctions.

■Regulation 17 (DISCIPLINE - FOUL PLAY): Details of the Incident

Player: Keita Terada

Team:LeRIRO Fukuoka 

Date of Incident: 16 March 2025

Nature of Offence: 

 YC① Law 9.8

 YC② Law 9.7(a)－A player must not:

a. Intentionally infringe any law of the game.

 YC③ Law 9.10 – When different players of the same team repeatedly commit the same offence, the referee gives a general caution to the team and if they then repeat the offence, the referee shows a yellow card to the guilty player(s). 

Sanctions: No additional sanctions (Appendix. 4 A.2.(b)(ii))

*A. Player receives three Temporary Suspensions and/or Citing Commissioner Warnings in a Tournament/Series or five in a Sevens Series

2. The Judicial Officer or Judicial Committee may, however, decide to apply no sanction in the following circumstances: 

(b)    exceptional circumstances exist which would warrant no sanction being imposed. This situation could arise when: 

(ii)     some of the Temporary Suspensions were awarded for technical offences (that is, not Foul Play) following a team warning by the referee or for what are characterised as so-called technical offences not involving a breach of Laws 9.11 to 9.28 inclusive.

* No accumulative YC remains

The Act and Elapsed time in match when incident occurred: 

　　 YC① Repeated infringements [vs Chugoku Electric Power Red Regulions 5 Jan 09:00 into the 2nd half]

         YC② A player must not: 

          a. Intentionally infringe any law of the game [vs MAZDA SKYACTIVS HIROSHIMA  25 Jan 33:00]

         YC③ Repeated infringements [vs Kurita Water Gush Akishima 16 Mar 27:00 into the 2nd half]

【References】
JAPAN RUGBY LEAGUE ONE “Official Match Guidelines 2024-25” (JP only)
https://league-one.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/file/menu/11248_6724a704ea4a2.pdf
Japan Rugby Football Union “Regulation of Sanctions for Foul Play” (JP only)
https://rugby-japan.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/file/html/169467_6560879583b90.pdf
World Rugby　Regulation17 DISCIPLINE - FOUL PLAY
https://www.world.rugby/organisation/governance/regulations/reg-17