Rikiya Matsuda

Rikiya Matsuda (松田 力也) 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.

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.