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The Japan national football team (サッカー日本代表, Sakkā Nihon Daihyō or Sakkā Nippon Daihyō), also known by the nickname Samurai Blue (サムライ・ブルー, Samurai Burū), [1][2] represents Japan in men's international football. It is controlled by the Japan Football Association (JFA), the governing body for football in Japan.
234. 1,288. 903. +385. On June 15, 2007 Japan Football Association announced, it had checked Japan matches, and changed the count and recognition. According to this decision, Japan has played in these times, till the game, on 2007/06/05, against Colombia: Japan National Team's Matches - 1017 games. Its International A-Matches - 517 games.
2000–2009. 2010–2019. 2020–2029. Other matches. Unofficial matches. B team matches. This article provides details of international football games played by the Japan national football team from 2020 to present. [1][2][3]
Other records. Updated 29 March 2022. Youngest player. Daisuke Ichikawa, 17 years and 322 days old, 1 April 1998 against South Korea. Youngest goalscorer. Shinji Kagawa, 19 years and 206 days old, 9 October 2008 against United Arab Emirates. Youngest captain. Gen Shoji, 24 years and 363 days old, 9 December 2017 EAFF E-1 Championship.
Japan made their seventh and most recent appearance at the finals at the 2022 tournament in Qatar. In 2018, Japan became the first ever Asian nation to beat a side from South America, after they won 2–1 against Colombia in the group stage. The team has progressed to the round of 16 on four occasions, 2002 (as join-hosts), 2010, 2018 and 2022.
The top flight became the J.League Division 1 (J1) with 16 clubs while the J.League Division 2 (J2) was launched with ten clubs in 1999. The former second-tier Japan Football League now became the third-tier Japan Football League (J3). Also, until 2004 (with the exception of 1996 season), the J1 season was divided into two stages.
FIFA Men's World Ranking. The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, led by Argentina as of October 2024. [1] The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
The Japan national under-23 football team (Japanese: U-23サッカー日本代表) is a national association football youth team of Japan and is controlled by the Japan Football Association. The team won the gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games and were champions in the 2016 AFC U-23 Championship. Since 1992, it was decided that teams targeting ...