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This is a list of Japan international footballers – Japanese association football players who have played for the Japan national football team as recorded by the Japan Football Association. Players [ edit ]
Teams with "L" have a J3 club license issued for the 2025 season. [1] Teams with "C" are company teams. Teams with "Un" are feeder (or "B") teams for their universities' main football teams. In the Regional Leagues, first divisions equal to Japanese fifth tier of league football, while second divisions equal to the sixth tier.
This is an updated list of foreign players who have played for football clubs in the J.League (1993–present), including division levels J1 League, J2 League, J3 League, Japan Football League (1992-1998 (old JFL), 1999-present (new JFL)), Japanese Regional Leagues and Japan Soccer League (as of late 1960s into early 1990s) both junior careers and senior careers.
Japan was also invited to the 2011 tournament and initially accepted the invitation. However, following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami , the JFA later withdrew on 16 May 2011, citing the difficulty of releasing some Japanese players from European teams to play as replacements. [ 3 ]
The 2025 Japan Football League (Japanese: 第27回日本フットボールリーグ[第27回 JFL 2025], Hepburn: Dai Nijūnana Nihon Futtobōru Rīgu [Dai Nijūnana JFL 2025]) will be the 27th season of JFL, since its establishment in 1999. This will be the twelfth season of the league having a fourth-tier status in Japanese football since 2014.
Since the 2005 season, the J1 League consisted of 18 clubs (from 16 in 2004) and the season format adopted a system similar to European club football. The number of relegated clubs also increased from 2 to 2.5, with the 3rd-to-last club going into a promotion/relegation playoff with the third-placed J2 club. Since then, other than minor ...
Since November 1991, when the Japan Professional Football League was launched, the record is almost even with 9 wins, 12 draws and 10 losses. [104] Both countries have made themselves unrivalled in both Asian Cup and World Cup records, being two of the most successful Asian football teams, and they hosted the 2002 World Cup in a joint bid.
Highest scoring draw: 5-5 Vissel Kobe 5-5 JEF United Ichihara (14 October 1998) Highest average home attendance in a season : 47,609 Urawa Red Diamonds (2008) Highest home attendance : 63,854 (regular season) Yokohama F. Marinos 3–0 FC Tokyo (7 December 2019) 64,899 (Suntory Championship) Yokohama F. Marinos 1–0 Urawa Reds (5 December 2004)