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Third and last division of the Japanese professional football system with 20 clubs: Azul Claro Numazu. Fukushima United. Gainare Tottori. FC Gifu. Giravanz Kitakyushu. FC Imabari. Iwate Grulla Morioka. Kamatamare Sanuki.
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.
The J1 League ( Japanese: J1リーグ, Hepburn: Jē-wan Rīgu), a.k.a. the J.League or the Meiji Yasuda J1 League ( Japanese: 明治安田J1リーグ, Hepburn: Meiji Yasuda Jē-wan Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, [2] is the top level of the Japan Professional Football League (日本プロサッカーリーグ, Nihon Puro Sakkā Rīgu) system ...
English. 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 ...
AFC Asian Cup Runners-up ( 2019) EAFF Championship Runners-up ( 2019 ), Winners ( 2022) Hans Ooft. AFC Asian Cup Winners ( 1992) Hirokazu Ninomiya. Asian Games Third place ( 1951) Takeshi Okada. EAFF Championship Runners-up ( 2008 ), Third place ( 2010) Vahid Halilhodžić.
Second-tier club football has existed in Japan since 1972 during the Japan Soccer League era; however, it was only professionalized during the 1999 season with ten clubs. The league took one relegating club from the top division and nine clubs from the second-tier semi-professional former JFL to create the J2 League.
Before the inception of the J.League, the highest level of club football was the Japan Soccer League (JSL), which consisted of amateur clubs. [2] [3] Despite being well-attended during the boom of the late 1960s and early 1970s (when Japan's national team won the Olympic bronze medal at the 1968 games in Mexico ), the JSL went into decline in ...
Takefusa Kubo (久保 建英, Kubo Takefusa, born 4 June 2001), commonly known as Take Kubo, is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a right winger for La Liga club Real Sociedad and the Japan national team. [3] He has been dubbed "Japanese Messi " by Japanese football fans because of his potential and technique.