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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Japan have appeared in the FIFA World Cup on seven occasions, the first being in 1998 where they lost all three group games and finished in 31st position. Masashi Nakayama scored Japan's first ever goal in a World Cup match against Jamaica on 26 June 1998 in a 2–1 defeat. [1] Keisuke Honda became the first Japanese player to score in three ...
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.
The Japanese football champions are the winners of the top league in Japan, the Japan Soccer League from 1965 to 1992 and the J.League since then.. Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Tokyo Verdy are the only teams that have won the title four times in a row (in 1965–1968 as Toyo Industries and in 1991–1994 as Yomiuri S.C./Verdy Kawasaki, respectively).