Japan national under-23 football team

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).

### Olympic Games

|colspan=9|Summer Olympics record||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1908–1988|colspan=8|_See Japan national team_|||||||
|1992|colspan=8|_Did Not Qualify_|||||||
|1996|Group Stage|9th|3|2|0|1|4|4|
|2000|Quarter-finals|5th|4|2|1|1|6|5|
|2004|Group Stage|13th|3|1|0|2|6|7|
|2008|Group Stage|15th|3|0|0|3|1|4|
|2012|**Fourth Place**|**4th**|**6**|**3**|**1**|**2**|**6**|**5**|
|2016|Group Stage|10th|3|1|1|1|7|7|
|style="border: 3px solid red"|2020|colspan=8|_Qualified as host_||||||

|colspan=4|Summer Olympics history||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=3|1996|Round 1|**1–0**|Win|
|Round 1|**0–2**|Loss|||
|Round 1|**3–2**|Win|||
|rowspan=4|2000|Round 1|**2–1**|Win|
|Round 1|**2–1**|Win|||
|Round 1|**0–1**|Loss|||
|Quarter-finals|**2–2**|Draw|||
|rowspan=3|2004|Round 1|**3–4**|Loss|
|Round 1|**2–3**|Loss|||
|Round 1|**1–0**|Win|||
|rowspan=3|2008|Round 1|**0–1**|Loss|
|Round 1|**1–2**|Loss|||
|Round 1|**0–1**|Loss|||
|rowspan=6|2012|Round 1|**1–0**|Win|
|Round 1|**1–0**|Win|||
|Round 1|**0–0**|Draw|||
|Quarter-finals|**3–0**|Win|||
|Semi-finals|**1–3**|Loss|||
|Bronze Play-off|**0–2**|Loss|||
|rowspan=3|2016|Round 1|**4–5**|Loss|
|Round 1|**2–2**|Draw|||
|Round 1|**1–0**|Win|||
|style="border: 3px solid red" rowspan=3|2020|Round 1|**v Group A2**||
|Round 1|**v Group A3**||||
|Round 1|**v Group A4**||||

### AFC U-23 Asian Cup

|colspan=9|AFC U-23 Championship record||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2013|Quarter-finals|7|4|1|2|1|8|5|
|2016|**Champions**|**1**|6|6|0|0|15|4|
|2018|Quarter-finals|5|4|3|0|1|5|5|
|2020|Group Stage|15|3|0|1|2|3|5|

|colspan=4|AFC U-23 Asian Cup history||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=9|2013|Preliminary Stage|**6–0**|Win|
|Preliminary Stage|**3–1**|Win|||
|Preliminary Stage|**1–0**|Win|||
|Preliminary Stage|**5–1**|Win|||
|Preliminary Stage|**5–0**|Win|||
|Group Stage|**3–3**|Draw|||
|Group Stage|**0–0**|Draw|||
|Group Stage|**4–0**|Win|||
|Quarter-finals|**0–1**|Loss|||
|rowspan=9|2016|Preliminary Stage|**7–0**|Win|
|Preliminary Stage|**2–0**|Win|||
|Preliminary Stage|**1–0**|Win|||
|Group Stage|**1–0**|Win|||
|Group Stage|**4–0**|Win|||
|Group Stage|**2–1**|Win|||
|Quarter-finals|**3–0**|Win|||
|Semi-finals|**2–1**|Win|||
|Final|**3–2**|Win|||
|rowspan=7|2018|Preliminary Stage|**8–0**|Win|
|Preliminary Stage|**2–0**|Win|||
|Preliminary Stage|**1–2**|Loss|||
|Group Stage|**1–0**|Win|||
|Group Stage|**1–0**|Win|||
|Group Stage|**3–1**|Win|||
|Quarter-finals|**0–4**|Loss|||
|rowspan=9|2020|Preliminary Stage|**8–0**|Win|
|Preliminary Stage|**6–0**|Win|||
|Preliminary Stage|**7–0**|Win|||
|Group Stage|**1–2**|Loss|||
|Group Stage|**1–2**|Loss|||
|Group Stage|**1–1**|Draw|||

### Asian Games

|colspan=9|Asian Games record||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|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|

|colspan=4|Asian Games history||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=6|2002|Round 1|**2–0**|Win|
|Round 1|**5–2**|Win|||
|Round 1|**1–0**|Win|||
|Quarter-finals|**1–0**|Win|||
|Semi-finals|**3–0**|Win|||
|Final|**1–2**|Loss|||
|rowspan=3|2006|Round 1|**3–2**|Win|
|Round 1|**1–0**|Win|||
|Round 1|**1–2**|Loss|||
|rowspan=7|2010|Round 1|**3–0**|Win|
|Round 1|**2–0**|Win|||
|Round 1|**3–0**|Win|||
|Round 2|**5–0**|Win|||
|Quarter-finals|**1–0**|Win|||
|Semi-finals|**2–1**|Win|||
|Final|**1–0**|Win|||
|rowspan=5|2014|Round 1|**4–1**|Win|
|Round 1|**1–3**|Loss|||
|Round 1|**4–0**|Win|||
|Round 2|**4–0**|Win|||
|Quarter-finals|**0–1**|Loss|||
|rowspan=7|2018|Round 1|**1–0**|Win|
|Round 1|**4–0**|Win|||
|Round 1|**0–1**|Loss|||
|Round 2|**1–0**|Win|||
|Quarter-finals|**2–1**|Win|||
|Semi-finals|**1–0**|Win|||
|Final|**1–2**|Loss|||

## Other websites

- Japan Football Association website ; [http://www.jfa.or.jp/ ]

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Japan U23
- **badge**:
- **fifa trigramme**: JPN
- **nickname**: _サムライ・ブルー_
(Samurai Blue)
- **association**: Japan Football Association
- **sub-confederation**: East Asian Football Federation, EAFF (East Asia)
- **confederation**: Asian Football Confederation, AFC (Asia)
- **coach**: Go Oiwa
- **most caps**: Kensuke Nagai
Keigo Higashi
(31 each)
- **top scorer**: Shoya Nakajima (19)
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- **first game**: 1–1
(Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; December 1990)
- **largest win**: 13–0
(Hong Kong; 12 June 1999)
- **largest loss**: 6–1
(Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; 6 February 1994)
- **regional name**: Football at the Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics
- **regional cup apps**: 7
- **regional cup first**: Football at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 1996
- **regional cup best**: Fourth place (Football at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament, 2012)
- **2ndregional name**: AFC U-23 Championship
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 4
- **2ndregional cup first**: 2013 AFC U-22 Championship, 2013
- **2ndregional cup best**: Winner (2016 AFC U-23 Championship, 2016)
- **3rdregional name**: Football at the Asian Games, Asian Games
- **3rdregional cup apps**: 5
- **3rdregional cup first**: Football at the 2002 Asian Games, 2002
- **3rdregional cup best**:  Gold Medal (Football at the 2010 Asian Games, 2010)