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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.
Youngest player : 15 years 5 months and 1 day; Takefusa Kubo for FC Tokyo U-23 vs Nagano Parceiro (5 November 2016) Youngest goalscorer : 15 years 10 months and 11 days; Takefusa Kubo for FC Tokyo U-23 vs Cerezo Osaka (15 April 2017) Oldest player: 50 years, 2 months, 24 days; Teruyoshi Ito for Azul Claro Numazu vs Matsumoto Yamaga (24 November ...
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 ...
Club Winners 1: Kawasaki Frontale: 6 Yokohama F. Marinos: 6 3: Júbilo Iwata: 5 4: Nagoya Grampus: 4 5: Gamba Osaka: 3 Urawa Red Diamonds: 3 7: Sanfrecce Hiroshima: 2 Vissel Kobe: 2 9: Cerezo Osaka: 1 Consadole Sapporo: 1 JEF United Chiba: 1 Kashima Antlers: 1 Kashiwa Reysol: 1 Shimizu S-Pulse: 1 Tokyo Verdy: 1
Japan [17] 2013: Shunsuke Nakamura: Yokohama F. Marinos Japan [8] 2014: Yasuhito Endō: Gamba Osaka Japan [18] 2015: Toshihiro Aoyama: Sanfrecce Hiroshima Japan [19] 2016: Kengo Nakamura: Kawasaki Frontale Japan [4] 2017: Yū Kobayashi: Kawasaki Frontale Japan [4] 2018: Akihiro Ienaga: Kawasaki Frontale Japan [4] 2019: Teruhito Nakagawa ...
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]