The Japan national under-20 football team (Japanese: U-20サッカー日本代表) is a national association football team of Japan and is controlled by the Japan Football Association. The year before the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the national team was renamed the Japan national under-19 football team, and the year before that, the national team was renamed the Japan national under-18 football team.
Contents
Results and fixtures
Legend
Win
Draw
Lose
Fixture
2025
Fixtures & Results (U-20 2025), JFA.jp
Fixtures & Results (U-18 2025), JFA.jp
2024
Fixtures & Results (U-19 2024), JFA.jp
Fixtures & Results (U-18 2024), JFA.jp
Coaching staff
Current staff
Players & Staffs U20 (2025), JFA.jp
Players
Current squad
The following U-20 players were called up on 12 September 2025 for the 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup, held from September to October on Chile.
The following players were called up to an U-20, U-19 or U-18 squad in the past 12 months.
(Players are listed within position group by order of latest call-up, seniority, and then alphabetically by its surname)
Previous squads
FIFA U-20 World Cup
1979 FIFA World Youth Championship
1995 FIFA World Youth Championship
1997 FIFA World Youth Championship
1999 FIFA World Youth Championship
2001 FIFA World Youth Championship
2003 FIFA World Youth Championship
2005 FIFA World Youth Championship
2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup
2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup
Records
As of 14 June 2023
Players in bold are still active, at least at club level.
Caps and goals is calculated by all national team level include U18, U19, and U20.
Honours
Intercontinental
FIFA U-20 World Cup
Runners-Up (1): 1999
Continental
AFC U-19 Championship
Winners (1): 2016
Runners-Up (6): 1973, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2006
Competitive record
Head-to-head record
The following table shows Japan's head-to-head record in the FIFA U-20 World Cup and AFC U-20 Asian Cup.