Japan national football team Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Team colours
Nickname
Blues (men), Nadeshiko Japan (Women)
Association
Japan Football Association
Current coach
Zico
Most capped player
Masami Ihara: 123
Highest goalscorer
Kazuyoshi Miura: 56
First International
Japan 0-5 Republic of China (Tokyo,Japan; May 9 1917)
Largest win
Japan 15-0 Philippines (Tokyo, Japan; September 27 1967)
Largest defeat
Philippines 15-2 Japan (Tokyo, Japan; September 10 1917)
World Cup
Finals appearances: 2 (First: 1998) Best result: Round 2, 2002
Asian Nations Cup
Finals appearances: 6 (First: 1968) Best result: Winners, 1992, 2000, 2004
Copa America
Finals appearances: 1 (First: 1999) Best result: First Round, 1999

The Japan national football team is one of the strongest football teams in Asia, although it has only gained this strength fairly recently and, outside Asia, is generally considered weaker than South Korea's national team, despite Japan's higher ranking. Japan's first World Cup appearance was in 1998, four years before they hosted the 2002 World Cup with South Korea. The 2002 World Cup co-host South Korea went on to secure fourth place, while Japan failed to pass through Round 2. They have won three out of the last four Asian Cups. The Japanese team is known to have fierce rivalries with China and South Korea.

Table of contents

1 World Cup record 2 Asian Cup record 3 Top goalscorers 4 Other famous players 5 External links

World Cup record

• 1930 - Did not enter
• 1934 - Did not enter
• 1938 - Withdrew
• 1950 - Did not enter
• 1954 - Did not qualify
• 1958 - Did not enter
• 1962 - Did not qualify
• 1966 - Did not enter
• 1970 to 1994 - Did not qualify
• 1998 - Round 1
• 2002 - Round 2

Asian Cup record

• 1956 to 1964 - Did not enter
• 1968 - Round 1
• 1972 - Did not enter
• 1976 - Did not qualify
• 1980 - Did not enter
• 1984 - Did not enter
• 1988 - Round 1
• 1992 - Champions
• 1996 - Quarterfinals
• 2000 - Champions
• 2004 - Champions

Top goalscorers

• Kazuyoshi Miura - 56 (1990-2000)
• Kunishige Kamamoto - 55 (1964-1977)
• Takuya Takagi - 28 (1992-1997)
• Hiromi Hara - 24 (1978-1988)
• Masashi Nakayama - 21 (1990-2003

Other famous players

• Alex
• Junichi Inamoto
• Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi
• Hidetoshi Nakata
• Shunsuke Nakamura
• Shinji Ono

External links

• Japan Football Association national teams
• RSSSF archive of national team results
• RSSSF archive of most capped players and highest goalscorers

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