Toyota Verblitz Centre

Joseph Manu

Position: Centre
Country: not available
Age: 30
Born: 29 Jun 1996
Height: 1.92 m
Weight: not available
Caps: not available
Test tries · pts: not available

Season by season

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Joseph Manu, season by season in tracked matches
Season	App	St	T	Pts
2026–27 Top 14 · Racing 92	3	3	2	10
2025–26 Top 14 · Racing 92	2	2	0	0

Minutes are not recorded in the match feed for these matches.

Last five matches

Match by match

5 tracked matches

Joseph Manu, attack totals in tracked matches
Attack	Total
Running metres	158
Carries	28
Clean breaks	1
Offloads	5
Try assists	1
Passes	20

Joseph Manu, defence totals in tracked matches
Defence	Total
Tackles made	46
Tackles missed	9
Tackle success	84%

Top 14 5 apps · 2 tries

Joseph Manu, every tracked match in Top 14
Match	Car	M	Tkl	T
v Bayonne 26 Sep 2026 · L 17–20	4	32	10	0
v Lyon 12 Sep 2026 · L 31–48	9	80	2	2
v Bordeaux Bègles 5 Sep 2026 · L 5–64	4	13	7	0
v Toulouse 19 Jun 2026 · L 17–71	2	5	19	0
v Pau 13 Jun 2026 · W 33–31	9	28	8	0
Totals 5 apps · 2 tries	28	158	46	2

About Joseph Manu

He won the Golden Boot as the best international player in rugby league, then changed codes at twenty-eight.

Joseph Manu was voted the best international player in rugby league in 2022, winning the Golden Boot, and was named the NRL’s centre of the year in the same season. Two years later he left the code altogether.

Centre at Racing 92, 1.92m and 102kg, and 30 years old.

Born in Hamilton, he came through the Sydney Roosters system and made his NRL debut in 2016. What followed was nearly a decade at one club: two consecutive premierships in 2018 and 2019 alongside James Tedesco and Cooper Cronk, two World Club Challenge titles, and a reputation as one of the most complete outside backs in the competition.

New Zealand made him a regular from 2019 and he reached the semi-finals of the 2022 World Cup, the tournament that produced the Golden Boot.

The switch came in March 2024, at 28, with several French clubs interested. He chose Japan first, signing a one-year contract with Toyota Verblitz reported at a million Australian dollars, in a squad coached by Steve Hansen and Ian Foster and containing Beauden Barrett and Aaron Smith. He scored eleven tries in eighteen matches.

France came next, on a contract to 2027. Code-switching centres have a mixed record in the Top 14, where the defensive reads and the breakdown are the parts that catch them out rather than the collisions.

A powerful, versatile three-quarter who can play centre, wing or full-back, and one of the most decorated players in either code to have made this move.