Japan National Football Team (U-20 Men)
| Nickname (s) | サ ム ラ イ ・ ブ ル ー ( English Samurai Blue ) |
| Association | Japan Football Association |
| confederacy | AFC |
| Head coach | Atsushi Uchiyama |
| FIFA code | JPN |
| (As of January 2015) | |
The Japan U-20 national soccer team is a selection team of Japanese soccer players. It is subject to the Japan Football Association and represents it internationally at the U-20 level , for example in friendly matches against the teams of other national associations or at the U-20 World Cup .
The team was runner-up in Nigeria in 1999 and reached the quarter-finals three times ( 1995 , 1997 and 2003 ). In 2007 she qualified for the World Cup for the last time.
Participation in U20 soccer world championships
 1977
|
not qualified |
 1979
|
Preliminary round |
 1981
|
not qualified |
 1983
|
|
 1985
|
|
 1987
|
|
 1989
|
|
 1991
|
|
|
1993
|
|
 1995
|
Quarter finals |
 1997
|
|
 1999
|
2nd place |
 2001
|
Preliminary round |
 2003
|
Quarter finals |
 2005
|
Round of 16 |
 2007
|
|
 2009
|
not qualified |
 2011
|
|
 2013
|
|
 2015
|
|
 2017
|
Round of 16 |
 2019
|
Trainer
- 1959 : Hidetoki Takahashi
- 1960 : Toshio Iwatani
- 1961 : Shun'ichirō Okano
- 1962-1963: Takashi Mizuno
- 1964 : Toshio Asami
- 1965 : Ryūzō Hiraki
- 1966 : Reizō Fukuhara
- 1967–1969: Ryūzō Hiraki
- 1970 : Shigeo Yaegashi
- 1971 : Kenzō Ōhashi
- 1972 : Teruyuki Matsuda
- 1973 : Masashi Watanabe
- 1974 : Yōji Mizuguchi
- 1975 : Mitsuo Kamata
- 1976-1979: Ikuo Matsumoto
- 1980 : Gyōji Matsumoto
- 1981-1984: Shintarō Okamura
- 1985-1986: Ikuo Matsumoto
- 1987–1988: Shintarō Okamura
- 1989-1990: Yoshikazu Nagai
- 1991-1992: Akira Nishino
- 1993-1995: Kōji Tanaka
- 1996-1997: Masakuni Yamamoto
- 1998 : Eijun Kiyokumo
- 1999 : Philippe Troussier
- 2000-2001: Akihiro Nishimura
- 2002–2005: Kiyoshi Ōkuma
- 2006-2007: Yasushi Yoshida
- 2007-2008: Tatsuya Makiuchi
- 2009–2010: Keiichirō Nuno
- 2011–2012: Yasushi Yoshida
- 2013-2014: Masakazu Suzuki
- 2015– : Atsushi Uchiyama
player
1979
Coach: Ikuo Matsumoto
| No. | player | Date of birth |
|---|---|---|
| goal | ||
| 1 | Yasuhito Suzuki | 19/12/1959 |
| 12 | Satoshi Yamaguchi | 01/08/1959 |
| Defense | ||
| 2 | Hisashi Kaneko | 09/12/1959 |
| 3 | Takeshi Koshida | 19/10/1960 |
| 4th | Masaaki Yanagishita | 01/01/1960 |
| 5 | Toshihiko Okimune | 07/09/1959 |
| 6th | Kuniharu Nakamoto | 29/10/1959 |
| 7th | Makoto Sugiyama | 17/05/1960 |
| midfield | ||
| 8th | Shinji Tanaka | 25/09/1960 |
| 9 | Satoshi Miyauchi | 11/26/1959 |
| 13 | Atsushi Natori | 12/11/1961 |
| 14th | Yahiro Kazama | 16/10/1961 |
| 16 | Takashi Mizunuma | 28/05/1960 |
| 17th | Kazuo Ozaki | 07/03/1960 |
| attack | ||
| 10 | Jun Suzuki | 17/08/1961 |
| 11 | Sadahiro Takahashi | 07/01/1959 |
| 15th | Shigeru Sarusawa | 01/30/1960 |
| 18th | Kōichi Hashiratani | 03/01/1961 |
1995
Trainer: Kōji Tanaka
| No. | player | Date of birth |
|---|---|---|
| goal | ||
| 1 | Seiji Honda | 25/02/1976 |
| 18th | Takashi Shimoda | 28/11/1975 |
| Defense | ||
| 2 | Tadahiro Akiba | 13/10/1975 |
| 3 | Kensaku Ōmori | 21/11/1975 |
| 4th | Ryūzō Morioka | 07/10/1975 |
| 5 | Naoki Matsuda | 03/14/1977 |
| 6th | Nobuhisa Yamada | 10/09/1975 |
| 12 | Takahiro Yamanishi | 02/04/1976 |
| 13 | Shigenori Hagimura | 07/31/1976 |
| 16 | Kazuhiro Suzuki | 16/11/1976 |
| midfield | ||
| 7th | Kōji Kumagai | 23/10/1975 |
| 8th | Shinji Ōtsuka | 29/12/1975 |
| 10 | Suguru Itō | 07/09/1975 |
| 15th | Hidetoshi Nakata | 22/01/1977 |
| 17th | Daisuke Oku | 07/02/1976 |
| attack | ||
| 9 | Sōtarō Yasunaga | 04/20/1976 |
| 11 | Susumu Ōki | 23/02/1976 |
| 14th | Mitsunori Yabuta | 02/05/1976 |
1997
Coach: Masakuni Yamamoto
| No. | player | Date of birth |
|---|---|---|
| goal | ||
| 1 | Kiyomitsu Kobari | 12/06/1977 |
| 18th | Yūta Minami | 09/30/1979 |
| Defense | ||
| 2 | Kei Mikuriya | 29/08/1977 |
| 3 | Masaharu Nishi | 29/05/1977 |
| 4th | Kazuyuki Toda | 30/12/1977 |
| 5 | Tsuneyasu Miyamoto | 07/02/1977 |
| 14th | Masahiro Koga | 08/09/1978 |
| midfield | ||
| 6th | Shinji Jōjō | 28/08/1977 |
| 7th | Tomokazu Myōjin | 01/24/1978 |
| 8th | Nozomi Hiroyama | 06/05/1977 |
| 12 | Satoshi Yamaguchi | 17/04/1978 |
| 13 | Harutaka Ōno | 05/12/1978 |
| 16 | Shunsuke Nakamura | 24/06/1978 |
| 17th | Michiyasu Osada | 05/03/1978 |
| attack | ||
| 9 | Kenji Fukuda | 21/10/1977 |
| 10 | Atsushi Yanagisawa | 27/05/1977 |
| 11 | Yoshiteru Yamashita | 21/11/1977 |
| 15th | Yūichirō Nagai | 14/02/1979 |
1999
Coach: Philippe Troussier
| No. | player | Date of birth |
|---|---|---|
| goal | ||
| 1 | Tatsuya Enomoto | 16/03/1979 |
| 18th | Yūta Minami | 09/30/1979 |
| Defense | ||
| 2 | Kazuki Teshima | 07/06/1979 |
| 3 | Shigeki Tsujimoto | 23/06/1979 |
| 4th | Tatsuya Ishikawa | 25/12/1979 |
| 5 | Akira Kaji | 13/01/1980 |
| 17th | Hideyuki Ujiie | 02/23/1979 |
| midfield | ||
| 6th | Jun'ichi Inamoto | 18/09/1979 |
| 7th | Tomoyuki Sakai | 29/06/1979 |
| 8th | Mitsuo Ogasawara | 05/04/1979 |
| 10 | Masashi Motoyama | 20/06/1979 |
| 11 | Yasuhito Endo | 28/01/1980 |
| 12 | Kōji Nakata | 09/07/1979 |
| 13 | Shinji Ono | 09/27/1979 |
| attack | ||
| 9 | Naohiro Takahara | 04/06/1979 |
| 14th | Yūichirō Nagai | 14/02/1979 |
| 15th | Yasunori Takada | 02/22/1979 |
| 16 | Ryūji Bando | 02/08/1979 |
2001
Coach: Akihiro Nishimura
| No. | player | Date of birth |
|---|---|---|
| goal | ||
| 1 | Yōsuke Fujigaya | 13/02/1981 |
| 18th | Takaya Kurokawa | 07/04/1981 |
| Defense | ||
| 2 | Shōhei Ikeda | 04/27/1981 |
| 3 | Sōta Nakazawa | 26/10/1982 |
| 5 | Kenji Haneda | 01/12/1981 |
| 6th | Yūichi Komano | 25/07/1981 |
| 19th | Daisuke Nasu | 10/10/1981 |
| midfield | ||
| 7th | Takeshi Aoki | 28/09/1982 |
| 8th | Kazuyuki Morisaki | 09/05/1981 |
| 10 | Naohiro Ishikawa | 05/12/1981 |
| 12 | Shunta Nagai | 07/12/1982 |
| 13 | Kōji Yamase | 09/22/1981 |
| 16 | Kōji Morisaki | 09/05/1981 |
| attack | ||
| 9 | Yutaka Tahara | 04/27/1982 |
| 11 | Hisato Sato | 03/12/1982 |
| 14th | Ryōichi Maeda | 09/10/1981 |
| 15th | Kazuki Hiramoto | 18/08/1981 |
| 17th | Kazunori Iio | 23/02/1982 |
2003
Trainer: Kiyoshi Ōkuma
| No. | player | Date of birth |
|---|---|---|
| goal | ||
| 1 | Eiji Kawashima | 03/20/1983 |
| 12 | Masahiro Okamoto | 17/05/1983 |
| Defense | ||
| 3 | Makoto Kakuda | 10/07/1983 |
| 5 | Mitsuru Nagata | 06/04/1983 |
| 13 | Naoya Kondo | 03/10/1983 |
| 16 | Yūzō Kurihara | 18/09/1983 |
| midfield | ||
| 2 | Yūhei Tokunaga | 25/09/1983 |
| 4th | Naoya Kikuchi | 24/11/1984 |
| 6th | Yasuyuki Konno | 25/01/1983 |
| 7th | Shō Naruoka | 05/31/1984 |
| 8th | Daigo Kobayashi | 19/02/1983 |
| 14th | Satoru Yamagishi | 03/05/1983 |
| 15th | Norio Suzuki | 14/02/1984 |
| 18th | Tatsuya Yazawa | 03/10/1984 |
| 20th | Kei Yamaguchi | 11/06/1983 |
| attack | ||
| 9 | Hiroto Mogi | 02/03/1984 |
| 10 | Daisuke Sakata | 16/01/1983 |
| 11 | Yutaro Abe | 05/10/1984 |
| 17th | Yūji Unozawa | 03/05/1983 |
| 19th | Sōta Hirayama | 06/06/1985 |
2005
Trainer: Kiyoshi Ōkuma
| No. | player | Date of birth |
|---|---|---|
| goal | ||
| 1 | Ken'ya Matsui | 10/09/1985 |
| 18th | Kaito Yamamoto | 10/07/1985 |
| 21st | Shūsaku Nishikawa | 18/06/1986 |
| Defense | ||
| 2 | Hiroki Mizumoto | 09/12/1985 |
| 3 | Mitsuyuki Yoshihiro | 04/05/1985 |
| 4th | Yūzō Kobayashi | 15/11/1985 |
| 5 | Tatsuya Masushima | 22/04/1985 |
| 12 | Kōki Mizuno | 06/09/1985 |
| 16 | Tomokazu Nagira | 17/10/1985 |
| 17th | Akihiro Ienaga | 13/06/1986 |
| midfield | ||
| 6th | Masahiko Inoha | 28/08/1985 |
| 7th | Yōhei Kajiyama | 24/09/1985 |
| 8th | Hokuto Nakamura | 10/07/1985 |
| 10 | Shingō Hyōdō | 29/07/1985 |
| 13 | Takuya Kokeguchi | 13/07/1985 |
| 15th | Keisuke Funatani | 07/01/1986 |
| attack | ||
| 9 | Sōta Hirayama | 06/06/1985 |
| 11 | Robert Cullen | 07/06/1985 |
| 14th | Keisuke Honda | 13/06/1986 |
| 19th | Shunsuke Maeda | 09/06/1986 |
| 20th | Takayuki Morimoto | 07/05/1988 |
2007
Coach: Yasushi Yoshida
| No. | player | Date of birth |
|---|---|---|
| goal | ||
| 1 | Akihiro Hayashi | 07/05/1987 |
| 18th | Yōhei Takeda | 30/06/1987 |
| 21st | Kazushige Kirihata | 30/06/1987 |
| Defense | ||
| 2 | Atsuto Uchida | 03/27/1988 |
| 3 | Michihiro Yasuda | 20/12/1987 |
| 4th | Yōhei Fukumoto | 04/12/1987 |
| 5 | Tomoaki Makino | 05/11/1987 |
| 13 | Masaki Yanagawa | 01/05/1987 |
| 17th | Kōsuke Ōta | 23/07/1987 |
| 20th | Shinji Kagawa | 17/03/1989 |
| midfield | ||
| 6th | Masato Morishige | 05/21/1987 |
| 7th | Tsukasa Umesaki | 23/02/1987 |
| 8th | Atomu Tanaka | 04/10/1987 |
| 10 | Yōsuke Kashiwagi | 15/12/1987 |
| 15th | Jun Aoyama | 03/01/1988 |
| 16 | Seiya Fujita | 02/06/1987 |
| 19th | Ryuichi Hirashige | 15/06/1988 |
| attack | ||
| 9 | Kazuhisa Kawahara | 29/01/1987 |
| 11 | Mike Havenaar | 05/20/1987 |
| 12 | Yasuhito Morishima | 18/09/1987 |
| 14th | Kota Aoki | 04/27/1987 |
See also
- Japanese national soccer team
- Japan National Football Team (U-17 Juniors)
- Japan National Football Team (U-23 Men)
Web links
- Official website at jfa.or.jp (Japanese)