is a Japanese professional rugby union player who plays as a fly-half for Japan Rugby League One club Saitama Wild Knights and the Japan national team.

Club career

Matsuda is currently a student at Teikyo University in Tokyo and has appeared for them in both the All-Japan University Rugby Championship and the All-Japan Rugby Football Championship. After graduating from university he will join up with the Panasonic Wild Knights in 2017.

Rikiya Matsuda

International career

Matsuda represented Japan at Under-20 level from 2012 through to 2014, making 7 appearances in total at the World Rugby Under 20 Championships. He made his senior international debut as a replacement in a match against in Vancouver on 11 June 2016. He went on to make 2 more appearances in the home tests against during the 2016 mid-year rugby union internationals series, coming on as a substitute in the first test in Toyota and then starting in the second in Tokyo.

Rikiya Matsuda

References

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1994 births

Living people

Japanese rugby union players

Japan international rugby union players

Rugby union fullbacks

Rugby union wings

Sportspeople from Kyoto Prefecture

Sunwolves players

Rugby union fly-halves

Saitama Wild Knights players

2019 Rugby World Cup players

2023 Rugby World Cup players

Rikiya Matsuda