Japan U-23 | |
Badge: | Japanese Olympic Committee logo.svg |
Badge Size: | 180px |
Fifa Trigramme: | JPN |
Nickname: | Olympic Japan |
Association: | Japan Football Association |
Sub-Confederation: | EAFF (East Asia) |
Confederation: | AFC (Asia) |
Coach: | Go Oiwa |
Most Caps: | Mao Hosoya (35) |
Top Scorer: | Shoya Nakajima (19) |
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First Game: | 1–1 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; December 1990)[1] |
Largest Win: | 13–0 (Hong Kong; 12 June 1999) |
Largest Loss: | 6–1 (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 6 February 1994) |
Regional Name: | Olympic Games |
Regional Cup Apps: | 8 |
Regional Cup First: | 1996 |
Regional Cup Best: | Fourth place (2012, 2020) |
2Ndregional Name: | Asian Games |
2Ndregional Cup Apps: | 6 |
2Ndregional Cup First: | 2002 |
2Ndregional Cup Best: | Gold medalists (2010) |
3Rdregional Name: | AFC U-23 Asian Cup |
3Rdregional Cup Apps: | 6 |
3Rdregional Cup First: | 2013 |
3Rdregional Cup Best: | Champions (2016, 2024) |
The Japan national under-23 football team 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 athletes under the age of 23 will participate in the Olympics (additional provisions for overage limits have been added since 1996). Therefore, the name changes to Japan national under-22 football team the year before the Olympics and Japan national under-21 football team two years prior. The exception to this was the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which was postponed one year, so in 2021, the team was called the Japan national under-24 football team. At the 2024 Olympics, they advanced to the Knockout stage without three overage players and several key players.
"サムライ・ブルー (Samurai Blue)" basically refers to the Japan national football team, but the under-23 football team are sometimes referred to as "Young" Samurai Blue. However, in reality, Samurai Blue is not often used. In the Olympic Games, the name Olympíc Japan "オリンピックジャパン (Orinpikku Japan)" is used to referred to U-23 national team.
See main article: Japan–South Korea football rivalry. Japan maintains a strong football rivalry with South Korea, even in youth set-ups.
See main article: Japan national under-23 football team results (2020–present).
, after the match against .
The following table shows Japan under-23 team's all-time international record.
style=background:blue;color:white | Against | style=background:blue;color:white | Played | style=background:blue;color:white | Won | style=background:blue;color:white | Drawn | style=background:blue;color:white | Lost | style=background:blue;color:white | GF | style=background:blue;color:white | GA | style=background:blue;color:white | GD | style=background:blue;color:white | Confederation |
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11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 20 | 15 | +5 | AFC | ||||||||||
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | +4 | AFC | ||||||||||
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | AFC | ||||||||||
8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 5 | +5 | AFC | ||||||||||
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 1 | +14 | AFC | ||||||||||
7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 4 | +15 | AFC | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | +7 | AFC | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | AFC | ||||||||||
5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | +3 | AFC | ||||||||||
4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0 | AFC | ||||||||||
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | AFC | ||||||||||
5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 2 | +13 | AFC | ||||||||||
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | AFC | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | +21 | AFC | ||||||||||
17 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 47 | 7 | +40 | AFC | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | +23 | AFC | ||||||||||
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | +21 | AFC | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | AFC | ||||||||||
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | AFC | ||||||||||
7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 7 | +5 | AFC | ||||||||||
5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | +3 | AFC | ||||||||||
20 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 25 | 23 | +2 | AFC | ||||||||||
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | +10 | AFC | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 32 | 0 | +32 | AFC | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 2 | +11 | AFC | ||||||||||
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | AFC | ||||||||||
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | AFC | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | +3 | AFC | ||||||||||
10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 3 | +23 | AFC | ||||||||||
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | AFC | ||||||||||
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | –5 | AFC | ||||||||||
6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 2 | +7 | AFC | ||||||||||
5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | +8 | AFC | ||||||||||
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | CAF | ||||||||||
6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | –6 | CAF | ||||||||||
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 2 | +9 | CAF | ||||||||||
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | CAF | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | CAF | ||||||||||
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 9 | –4 | CAF | ||||||||||
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | CAF | ||||||||||
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | –2 | CAF | ||||||||||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | –1 | CONCACAF | ||||||||||
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | CONCACAF | ||||||||||
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | CONCACAF | ||||||||||
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | +13 | CONCACAF | ||||||||||
5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 0 | CONCACAF | ||||||||||
5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | –2 | CONCACAF | ||||||||||
4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | +6 | CONMEBOL | ||||||||||
5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | +1 | CONMEBOL | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | CONMEBOL | ||||||||||
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | –2 | CONMEBOL | ||||||||||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | –1 | CONMEBOL | ||||||||||
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | +4 | CONMEBOL | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | CONMEBOL | ||||||||||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | –1 | UEFA | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | UEFA | ||||||||||
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | –5 | UEFA | ||||||||||
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | UEFA | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | UEFA | ||||||||||
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | –4 | UEFA | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | +4 | UEFA | ||||||||||
3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | UEFA | ||||||||||
1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | UEFA | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | +1 | UEFA | ||||||||||
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | +4 | UEFA | ||||||||||
2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | –1 | UEFA | ||||||||||
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | –1 | UEFA | ||||||||||
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | UEFA | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | UEFA | ||||||||||
5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | +2 | UEFA | ||||||||||
5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | –5 | UEFA | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | UEFA | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | UEFA | ||||||||||
2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | UEFA | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | +2 | UEFA | ||||||||||
4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | OFC | ||||||||||
style=background:blue;color:white | Against:76 Nations | style=background:blue;color:white | Played:269 | style=background:blue;color:white | Won:161 | style=background:blue;color:white | Drawn:41 | style=background:blue;color:white | Lost:67 | style=background:blue;color:white | GF | style=background:blue;color:white | GA | style=background:blue;color:white | GD | style=background:blue;color:white | Confederation |
The following staff managed the players selected for the 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup.[2]
style=background:blue;color:white | Role | style=background:blue;color:white | Name |
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Head coach | Go Oiwa | ||
Assistant coach | Kenji Haneda | ||
Goalkeeper coach | Yukiya Hamano | ||
Physical coach | Yoshiharu Yano | ||
Technical staff | Shigeyuki Ochi Hideaki Watanabe Mahiro Hikida |
The following players were called up for the Olympic Games, which is held from July to August 2024. Due to injury, Riku Handa had to withdraw from the squad.[3]
The following players were called up to the squad in the past 12 months.
INJ Withdrew due to injury
PRE Preliminary squad / standby
TRP Training partner
WD Player withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue.
(Players are listed within position group by order of latest call-up, seniority, caps, goals, and then alphabetically)
The following players were called up for a match against, played on 18 November 2023.[4]
Caps and goals updated as of 18 November 2023, after the match against .
The following players were called up to the squad in the past 12 months.
INJ Withdrew due to injury
PRE Preliminary squad / standby
TRP Training partner
WD Player withdrew from the squad due to non-injury issue.
(Players are listed within position group by order of latest call-up, seniority, caps, goals, and then alphabetically)
Bold indicates winning squads
Tournament | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | |
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not selected | ||||
Seigo Narazaki (GK) | Ryuzo Morioka (DF) | Atsuhiro Miura (MF) | ||
Hitoshi Sogahata (GK) | Shinji Ono (MF) | not selected | ||
not selected | ||||
Maya Yoshida (DF) | Yūhei Tokunaga (DF) | not selected | ||
Hiroki Fujiharu (DF) | Tsukasa Shiotani (DF) | Shinzo Koroki (FW) | ||
Maya Yoshida (DF) | Hiroki Sakai (DF) | Wataru Endo (MF) | ||
not selected |
style=background:blue;color:white | Name | style=background:blue;color:white | Period |
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Yoshitada Yamaguchi | 1990–1992 | ||
Akira Nishino | 1993–1996 | ||
Philippe Troussier | 1998–2000 | ||
Masakuni Yamamoto | 2002–2004 | ||
Yasuharu Sorimachi | 2006–2008 | ||
Takashi Sekizuka | 2010–2012 | ||
Makoto Teguramori | 2014–2016 | ||
Hajime Moriyasu | 2017–2020 | ||
Akinobu Yokouchi | 2020 | ||
Hajime Moriyasu | 2020–2021 | ||
Koichi Togashi | 2021 | ||
Go Oiwa | 2021–present[5] | ||
Players in bold are still active, at least at club level.
Caps and goals are calculated taking into account all national team levels, including U21, U22, and U23.
Name | Caps | Goals | Pos | Career | ||
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1 | Mao Hosoya | 35 | 16 | FW | 2021–2024 | |
2 | Kein Sato | 33 | 8 | MF | 2021–2024 | |
3 | Keigo Higashi | 31 | 5 | MF | 2010–2012 | |
Kensuke Nagai | 31 | 13 | FW | 2009–2012 | ||
Reo Hatate | 31 | 8 | MF | 2017–2021 | ||
6 | Shoya Nakajima | 30 | 19 | FW | 2014–2016 | |
7 | Hotaru Yamaguchi | 29 | 1 | MF | 2010–2012 | |
8 | Kazuya Yamamura | 26 | 1 | DF | 2010–2012 | |
Hiroki Sakai | 26 | 3 | DF | 2011–2021 | ||
10 | Daisuke Matsui | 25 | 2 | MF | 2002–2004 |
Name | Goals | Caps | Ratio | Career | |
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1 | Shoya Nakajima | 19 | 30 | 0.63 | 2014–2016 |
2 | Mao Hosoya | 16 | 35 | 2021–2024 | |
3 | Kensuke Nagai | 13 | 31 | 0.42 | 2009–2012 |
4 | Ayase Ueda | 12 | 24 | 0.5 | 2017–2021 |
5 | Daizen Maeda | 9 | 18 | 0.5 | 2018–2021 |
6 | Reo Hatate | 8 | 31 | 0.26 | 2017–2021 |
Kein Sato | 8 | 33 | 2021–2024 | ||
7 | Musashi Suzuki | 7 | 10 | 0.7 | 2014–2016 |
Takefusa Kubo | 7 | 18 | 0.39 | 2018–2021 | |
Yuito Suzuki | 7 | 20 | 0.35 | 2021–2023 |
Champions Runners-up Third place Fourth place
See main article: Japan at the Olympics.
See also: Football at the Summer Olympics.
Summer Olympics record | Qualification record | ||||||||||||||
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Year | Round | Position | |||||||||||||
1908–1988 | See Japan national team | See Japan national team | |||||||||||||
1992 | Did not qualify | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 11 | ||||||||
1996 | Group stage | 9th | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 6 | |
2000 | Quarter-finals | 5th | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 3 | |
2004 | Group stage | 13th | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 2 | |
2008 | Group stage | 15th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 24 | 4 | |
2012 | Fourth place | 4th | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 6 | |
2016 | Group stage | 10th | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | via AFC U-23 Asian Cup | ||||||
2020 | Fourth place | 4th | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | |||||||
2024 | Quarter-finals | 5th | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | |||||||
2028 | To be determined | ||||||||||||||
2032 | |||||||||||||||
Total | Fourth place | 8/9 | 32 | 15 | 4 | 13 | 45 | 40 | 60 | 46 | 5 | 9 | 173 | 32 |
Summer Olympics history | |||||
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Year | Round | Opponent | Score | Result | |
1996 | Group stage | 1–0 | Win | ||
0–2 | Loss | ||||
3–2 | Win | ||||
2000 | Group stage | 2–1 | Win | ||
2–1 | Win | ||||
0–1 | Loss | ||||
Quarter-finals | 2–2 | Draw | |||
2004 | Group stage | 3–4 | Loss | ||
2–3 | Loss | ||||
1–0 | Win | ||||
2008 | Group stage | 0–1 | Loss | ||
1–2 | Loss | ||||
0–1 | Loss | ||||
2012 | Group stage | 1–0 | Win | ||
1–0 | Win | ||||
0–0 | Draw | ||||
Quarter-finals | 3–0 | Win | |||
Semi-finals | 1–3 | Loss | |||
Bronze Play-off | 0–2 | Loss | |||
2016 | Group stage | 4–5 | Loss | ||
2–2 | Draw | ||||
1–0 | Win | ||||
2020 | Group stage | 1–0 | Win | ||
2–1 | Win | ||||
4–0 | Win | ||||
Quarter-finals | 0–0 | Draw | |||
Semi-finals | 0–1 | Loss | |||
Bronze Play-off | 1–3 | Loss | |||
2024 | Group stage | 5–0 | Win | ||
1–0 | Win | ||||
1–0 | Win | ||||
Quarter-finals | 0–3 | Loss | |||
See also: AFC U-23 Asian Cup.
AFC U-23 Asian Cup record | Qualifier record | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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2013 | Quarter-finals | 7th | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 | ||||||||||||
2016 | Champions | 1st | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | ||||||||||||
2018 | Quarter-finals | 5th | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | ||||||||||||
2020 | Group stage | 15th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | ||||||||||||
2022 | Third place | 3rd | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | ||||||||||||
2024 | Champions | 1st | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | ||||||||||||
2026 | To be determined | To be determined | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 6/7 | Champions | 26 | 19 | 4 | 6 | 52 | 25 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 70 | 4 |
AFC U-23 Asian Cup history | |||||
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Year | Round | Opponent | Score | Result | |
2013 | Group stage | 3–3 | Draw | ||
0–0 | Draw | ||||
4–0 | Win | ||||
Quarter-finals | 0–1 | Loss | |||
2016 | Group stage | 1–0 | Win | ||
4–0 | Win | ||||
2–1 | Win | ||||
Quarter-finals | 3–0 | Win | |||
Semi-finals | 2–1 | Win | |||
Final | 3–2 | Win | |||
2018 | Group stage | 1–0 | Win | ||
1–0 | Win | ||||
3–1 | Win | ||||
Quarter-finals | 0–4 | Loss | |||
2020 | Group stage | 1–2 | Loss | ||
1–2 | Loss | ||||
1–1 | Draw | ||||
2022 | Group stage | 2–1 | Win | ||
0–0 | Draw | ||||
3–0 | Win | ||||
Quarter-finals | 3–0 | Win | |||
Semi-finals | 0–2 | Loss | |||
3rd place match | 3–0 | Win | |||
2024 | Group stage | 1–0 | Win | ||
2–0 | Win | ||||
0–1 | Loss | ||||
Quarter-finals | 4–2 | Win | |||
Semi-finals | 2–0 | Win | |||
Final | 1–0 | Win | |||
See main article: Japan at the Asian Games.
See also: Football at the Asian Games.
Asian Games record | ||||||||||||||
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2002 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 4 | |||||||
2006 | Round 1 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | ||||||
2010 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 1 | |||||||
2014 | Quarter-finals | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 5 | ||||||
2018 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | |||||||
2022 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 4 | |||||||
2026 | ||||||||||||||
2030 | ||||||||||||||
2034 | ||||||||||||||
Total | 6/6 | 28 | 22 | 0 | 6 | 55 | 18 |
Asian Games history | |||||
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Year | Round | Opponent | Score | Result | |
2002 | Round 1 | 2–0 | Win | ||
5–2 | Win | ||||
1–0 | Win | ||||
Quarter-finals | 1–0 | Win | |||
Semi-finals | 3–0 | Win | |||
Final | 1–2 | Loss | |||
2006 | Round 1 | 3–2 | Win | ||
1–0 | Win | ||||
1–2 | Loss | ||||
2010 | Round 1 | 3–0 | Win | ||
2–0 | Win | ||||
3–0 | Win | ||||
Round 2 | 5–0 | Win | |||
Quarter-finals | 1–0 | Win | |||
Semi-finals | 2–1 | Win | |||
Final | 1–0 | Win | |||
2014 | Round 1 | 4–1 | Win | ||
1–3 | Loss | ||||
4–0 | Win | ||||
Round 2 | 4–0 | Win | |||
Quarter-finals | 0–1 | Loss | |||
2018 | Round 1 | 1–0 | Win | ||
4–0 | Win | ||||
0–1 | Loss | ||||
Round 2 | 1–0 | Win | |||
Quarter-finals | 2–1 | Win | |||
Semi-finals | 1–0 | Win | |||
Final | 1–2 | Loss | |||
2022 | Round 1 | 3–1 | Win | ||
1–0 | Win | ||||
Round 2 | 7–0 | Win | |||
Quarter-finals | 2–1 | Win | |||
Semi-finals | 4–0 | Win | |||
Final | 1–2 | Loss | |||