Japan at the FIFA World Cup

Japan have appeared in the FIFA World Cup on seven occasions, the first being in 1998 where they lost all three group games and finished in 31st position. Masashi Nakayama scored Japan's first ever goal in a World Cup match against Jamaica on 26 June 1998 in a 2–1 defeat.^[1] Keisuke Honda became the first Japanese player to score in three World Cups: 2010, 2014, 2018.^[2]

In 2018, Japan became the first ever Asian nation to beat a side from South America, after they won 2–1 against Colombia in the group stage. Japan made their seventh appearance at the finals at the 2022 tournament in Qatar. The team has progressed past the group stage on five occasions, 2002 (as joint-hosts), 2010, 2018, 2022 and 2026.

FIFA World Cup record

FIFA World Cup record										Qualification record
Year	Result	Position	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	Squad	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA
1930	Withdrew									Qualified as invitees
1934	Did not enter									Did not enter
1938	Withdrew									Withdrew
1950	Suspended from FIFA									Suspended from FIFA
1954	Did not qualify									2	0	1	1	3	7
1958	Did not enter									Did not enter
1962	Did not qualify									2	0	0	2	1	4
1966	Did not enter									Did not enter
1970	Did not qualify									4	0	2	2	4	8
1974										4	1	0	3	5	4
1978										4	0	1	3	0	5
1982										4	2	0	2	4	2
1986										8	5	1	2	15	5
1990										6	2	3	1	7	3
1994										13	9	3	1	35	6
1998	Group stage	31st	3	0	0	3	1	4	Squad	15	9	5	1	51	12
2002	Round of 16	9th	4	2	1	1	5	3	Squad	Qualified as co-hosts
2006	Group stage	28th	3	0	1	2	2	7	Squad	12	11	0	1	25	5
2010	Round of 16	9th	4	2	1	1	4	2	Squad	14	8	4	2	23	9
2014	Group stage	29th	3	0	1	2	2	6	Squad	14	8	3	3	30	8
2018	Round of 16	15th	4	1	1	2	6	7	Squad	18	13	3	2	44	7
2022	Round of 16	9th	4	2	1	1	5	4	Squad	18	15	1	2	58	6
2026	Round of 32	21st	4	1	2	1	8	5	Squad	14	12	2	0	48	2
2030	To be determined									To be determined
2034	To be determined									To be determined
Total: 8/23	Round of 16	9th	29	8	8	13	33	38	—	152	95	29	28	353	93

List of matches

World Cup	Round	Opponent	Score	Result	Japan goalscorers
1998	Group H	Argentina	0–1	L
		Croatia	0–1	L
		Jamaica	1–2	L	Nakayama
2002	Group H	Belgium	2–2	D	Suzuki, Inamoto
		Russia	1–0	W	Inamoto
		Tunisia	2–0	W	Morishima, Nakata
	Round of 16	Turkey	0–1	L
2006	Group F	Australia	1–3	L	S. Nakamura
		Croatia	0–0	D
		Brazil	1–4	L	Tamada
2010	Group E	Cameroon	1–0	W	Honda
		Netherlands	0–1	L
		Denmark	3–1	W	Honda, Endō, Okazaki
	Round of 16	Paraguay	0–0 (a.e.t.) (3–5 p)	D
2014	Group C	Ivory Coast	1–2	L	Honda
		Greece	0–0	D
		Colombia	1–4	L	Okazaki
2018	Group H	Colombia	2–1	W	Kagawa, Osako
		Senegal	2–2	D	Inui, Honda
		Poland	0–1	L
	Round of 16	Belgium	2–3	L	Haraguchi, Inui
2022	Group E	Germany	2–1	W	Dōan, Asano
		Costa Rica	0–1	L
		Spain	2–1	W	Dōan, Tanaka
	Round of 16	Croatia	1–1 (a.e.t.) (1–3 p)	D	Maeda
2026	Group F	Netherlands	2–2	D	K. Nakamura, Kamada
		Tunisia	4–0	W	Kamada, Ueda (2), Itō
		Sweden	1–1	D	Maeda
	Round of 32	Brazil	1–2	L	Sano

1998 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Argentina	3	3	0	7	0	+7	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Croatia	3	2	1	4	2	+2	6	Advance to knockout stage
3	Jamaica	3	1	2	3	9	−6	3
4	Japan	3	0	3	1	4	−3	0

Source: FIFA

14 June 1998

14:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Argentina	1–0	Japan
Batistuta 28'	^{[Report 1]}

Stade de Toulouse, Toulouse

Attendance: 33,500

Referee: Mario van der Ende (Netherlands)

20 June 1998

14:30 CEST (UTC+2)

Japan	0–1	Croatia
	^{[Report 2]}	Šuker 77'

Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes

Attendance: 35,500

Referee: Ramesh Ramdhan (Trinidad and Tobago)

26 June 1998

16:00 CEST (UTC+2)

Japan	1–2	Jamaica
Nakayama 74'	^{[Report 3]}	Whitmore 39', 54'

Stade de Gerland, Lyon

Attendance: 39,100

Referee: Günter Benkö (Austria)

2002 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan (H)	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Belgium	3	1	2	0	6	5	+1	5	Advance to knockout stage
3	Russia	3	1	0	2	4	4	0	3
4	Tunisia	3	0	1	2	1	5	−4	1

Source: FIFA
(H) Hosts

4 June 2002

18:00

Japan	2–2	Belgium
Suzuki 59' Inamoto 67'	^{[Report 4]}	Wilmots 57' Van der Heyden 75'

Saitama Stadium, Saitama

Attendance: 55,256

Referee: William Mattus (Costa Rica)

9 June 2002

20:30

Japan	1–0	Russia
Inamoto 51'	^{[Report 5]}

International Stadium Yokohama, Yokohama

Attendance: 66,108

Referee: Markus Merk (Germany)

14 June 2002

15:30

Tunisia	0–2	Japan
	^{[Report 6]}	Morishima 48' H. Nakata 75'

Nagai Stadium, Osaka

Attendance: 45,213

Referee: Gilles Veissière (France)

Knockout stage

Round of 16

18 June 2002

15:30

Japan	0–1	Turkey
	^{[Report 7]}	Davala 12'

Miyagi Stadium, Rifu

Attendance: 45,666

Referee: Pierluigi Collina (Italy)

2006 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Australia	3	1	1	1	5	5	0	4	Advance to knockout stage
3	Croatia	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2
4	Japan	3	0	1	2	2	7	−5	1

Source: FIFA

12 June 2006

15:00

Australia	3–1	Japan
Cahill 84', 89' Aloisi 90+2'	^{[Report 8]}	Nakamura 26'

Fritz-Walter-Stadion, Kaiserslautern

Attendance: 46,000

Referee: Essam Abd El Fatah (Egypt)

18 June 2006

15:00

Japan	0–0	Croatia
	^{[Report 9]}

Frankenstadion, Nuremberg

Attendance: 41,000

Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

22 June 2006

21:00

Japan	1–4	Brazil
Tamada 34'	^{[Report 10]}	Ronaldo 45+1', 81' Juninho 53' Gilberto 59'

Westfalenstadion, Dortmund

Attendance: 65,000

Referee: Éric Poulat (France)

2010 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	3	3	0	5	1	+4	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Japan	3	2	1	4	2	+2	6	Advance to knockout stage
3	Denmark	3	1	2	3	6	−3	3
4	Cameroon	3	0	3	2	5	−3	0

Source: FIFA

14 June 2010

16:00

Japan	1–0	Cameroon
Honda 39'	^{[Report 11]}

Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein

Attendance: 30,620

Referee: Olegário Benquerença (Portugal)

19 June 2010

13:30

Netherlands	1–0	Japan
Sneijder 53'	^{[Report 12]}

Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban

Attendance: 62,010

Referee: Héctor Baldassi (Argentina)

24 June 2010

20:30

Denmark	1–3	Japan
Tomasson 81'	^{[Report 13]}	Honda 17' Endō 30' Okazaki 87'

Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Rustenburg

Attendance: 27,967

Referee: Jerome Damon (South Africa)

Knockout stage

Round of 16

29 June 2010

16:00

Paraguay	0–0 (a.e.t.)	Japan
	^{[Report 14]}
Penalties
Barreto Barrios Riveros Valdez Cardozo	5–3	Endō Hasebe Komano Honda

Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria

Attendance: 36,742

Referee: Frank De Bleeckere (Belgium)

2014 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Colombia	3	3	0	0	9	2	+7	9	Advance to knockout stage
2	Greece	3	1	1	1	2	4	−2	4	Advance to knockout stage
3	Ivory Coast	3	1	0	2	4	5	−1	3
4	Japan	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1

Source: FIFA

14 June 2014

22:00 BRT (UTC−3)

Ivory Coast	2–1	Japan
Bony 64' Gervinho 66'	^{[Report 15]}	Honda 16'

Itaipava Arena Pernambuco, Recife

Attendance: 40,267

Referee: Enrique Osses (Chile)

19 June 2014

19:00 BRT (UTC−3)

Japan	0–0	Greece
	^{[Report 16]}

Arena das Dunas, Natal

Attendance: 39,485

Referee: Joel Aguilar (El Salvador)

24 June 2014

16:00 AMT (UTC−4)

Japan	1–4	Colombia
Okazaki 45+1'	^{[Report 17]}	Cuadrado 17' (pen.) Martínez 55', 82' Rodríguez 90'

Arena Pantanal, Cuiabá

Attendance: 40,340

Referee: Pedro Proença (Portugal)

2018 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Colombia	3	2	0	1	5	2	+3	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Japan	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4^[a]	Advance to knockout stage
3	Senegal	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4^[a]
4	Poland	3	1	0	2	2	5	−3	3

Source: FIFA
Notes:

1 2 Fair play points: Japan −4, Senegal −6.

19 June 2018

15:00 MSK (UTC+3)

Colombia	1–2	Japan
Quintero 39'	^{[Report 18]}	Kagawa 6' (pen.) Osako 73'

Mordovia Arena, Saransk

Attendance: 40,842

Referee: Damir Skomina (Slovenia)

24 June 2018

20:00 YEKT (UTC+5)

Japan	2–2	Senegal
Inui 34' Honda 78'	^{[Report 19]}	Mané 11' Wagué 71'

Central Stadium, Yekaterinburg

Attendance: 32,572

Referee: Gianluca Rocchi (Italy)

28 June 2018

17:00 MSK (UTC+3)

Japan	0–1	Poland
	^{[Report 20]}	Bednarek 59'

Volgograd Arena, Volgograd

Attendance: 42,189

Referee: Janny Sikazwe (Zambia)

Knockout stage

Round of 16

2 July 2018

21:00 MSK (UTC+3)

Belgium	3–2	Japan
Vertonghen 69' Fellaini 74' Chadli 90+4'	^{[Report 21]}	Haraguchi 48' Inui 52'

Rostov Arena, Rostov-on-Don

Attendance: 41,466

Referee: Malang Diedhiou (Senegal)

2022 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6	Advance to knockout stage
2	Spain	3	1	1	1	9	3	+6	4	Advance to knockout stage
3	Germany	3	1	1	1	6	5	+1	4
4	Costa Rica	3	1	0	2	3	11	−8	3

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

23 November 2022

16:00

Germany	1–2	Japan
Gündoğan 33' (pen.)	^{[Report 22]}	Dōan 75' Asano 83'

Khalifa International Stadium, Al Rayyan

Attendance: 42,608

Referee: Iván Barton (El Salvador)

27 November 2022

13:00

Japan	0–1	Costa Rica
	^{[Report 23]}	Fuller 81'

Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, Al Rayyan

Attendance: 41,479

Referee: Michael Oliver (England)

1 December 2022

22:00

Japan	2–1	Spain
Dōan 48' Tanaka 51'	^{[Report 24]}	Morata 11'

Khalifa International Stadium, Al Rayyan

Attendance: 44,851

Referee: Victor Gomes (South Africa)

Knockout stage

Round of 16

5 December 2022

18:00

Japan	1–1 (a.e.t.)	Croatia
Maeda 43'	^{[Report 25]}	Perišić 55'
Penalties
Minamino Mitoma Asano Yoshida	1–3	Vlašić Brozović Livaja Pašalić

Al Janoub Stadium, Al Wakrah

Attendance: 42,523

Referee: Ismail Elfath (United States)

2026 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Netherlands	3	2	1	0	10	4	+6	7	Advance to knockout stage
2	Japan	3	1	2	0	7	3	+4	5
3	Sweden	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4
4	Tunisia	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

Source: FIFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

June 14, 2026

3:00 p.m. UTC−5

Netherlands	2–2	Japan
Van Dijk 51' Summerville 64'	^{[Report 26]}	Nakamura 57' Kamada 88'

AT&T Stadium, Arlington

Attendance: 69,285

Referee: Ismail Elfath (United States)

June 20, 2026

10:00 p.m. UTC−6

Tunisia	0–4	Japan
	^{[Report 27]}	Kamada 4' Ueda 31', 83' J. Itō 69'

Estadio BBVA, Guadalupe

Attendance: 51,243

Referee: István Kovács (Romania)

June 25, 2026

6:00 p.m. UTC−5

Japan	1–1	Sweden
Maeda 56'	^{[Report 28]}	Elanga 62'

AT&T Stadium, Arlington

Attendance: 70,137

Referee: Iván Barton (El Salvador)

Knockout stage

Round of 32

June 29, 2026

12:00 p.m. UTC−5

Brazil	2–1	Japan
Casemiro 56' Martinelli 90+5'	^{[Report 29]}	Sano 29'

NRG Stadium, Houston

Attendance: 68,777

Referee: Maurizio Mariani (Italy)

Head-to-head record

Opponent	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Argentina	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1	000.00
Australia	1	0	0	1	1	3	−2	000.00
Belgium	2	0	1	1	4	5	−1	000.00
Brazil	2	0	0	2	2	6	−4	000.00
Cameroon	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1	100.00
Colombia	2	1	0	1	3	5	−2	050.00
Costa Rica	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1	000.00
Croatia	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	000.00
Denmark	1	1	0	0	3	1	+2	100.00
Germany	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1	100.00
Greece	1	0	1	0	0	0	+0	000.00
Ivory Coast	1	0	0	1	1	2	−1	000.00
Jamaica	1	0	0	1	1	2	−1	000.00
Netherlands	2	0	1	1	2	3	−1	000.00
Paraguay	1	0	1	0	0	0	+0	000.00
Poland	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1	000.00
Russia	1	1	0	0	1	0	+1	100.00
Senegal	1	0	1	0	2	2	+0	000.00
Spain	1	1	0	0	2	1	+1	100.00
Sweden	1	0	1	0	1	1	+0	000.00
Tunisia	2	2	0	0	6	0	+6	100.00
Turkey	1	0	0	1	0	1	−1	000.00
Total	28	8	8	12	32	36	−4	028.57

Player records

Most appearances

Yūto Nagatomo played in a record five World Cup tournaments and sixteen matches for Japan.

Keisuke Honda is Japan's top scorer in World Cup history with four goals in three tournaments.

Rank	Player	Matches	World Cups
1	Yūto Nagatomo	16	2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 and 2026
2	Makoto Hasebe	11	2010, 2014 and 2018
	Eiji Kawashima	11	2010, 2014 and 2018
	Maya Yoshida	11	2014, 2018 and 2022
5	Hidetoshi Nakata	10	1998, 2002 and 2006
	Shinji Okazaki	10	2010, 2014 and 2018
	Keisuke Honda	10	2010, 2014 and 2018
8	Junichi Inamoto	8	2002, 2006 and 2010
	Ritsu Dōan	8	2022 and 2026
	Junya Itō	8	2022 and 2026
	Daichi Kamada	8	2022 and 2026

Goalscorers

On 26 June 1998, Masashi Nakayama made history by scoring Japan's first-ever FIFA World Cup goal; doing so in their match against Jamaica in Lyon.

Player	Goals	1998	2002	2006	2010	2014	2018	2022	2026
Keisuke Honda	4				2	1	1
Junichi Inamoto	2		2
Shinji Okazaki	2				1	1
Takashi Inui	2						2
Ritsu Dōan	2							2
Daichi Kamada	2								2
Ayase Ueda	2								2
Daizen Maeda	2							1	1
Masashi Nakayama	1	1
Takayuki Suzuki	1		1
Hiroaki Morishima	1		1
Hidetoshi Nakata	1		1
Shunsuke Nakamura	1			1
Keiji Tamada	1			1
Yasuhito Endō	1				1
Shinji Kagawa	1						1
Yuya Osako	1						1
Genki Haraguchi	1						1
Takuma Asano	1							1
Ao Tanaka	1							1
Keito Nakamura	1								1
Junya Itō	1								1
Kaishū Sano	1								1
Total	33	1	5	2	4	2	6	5	8

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[table_hth_JPN0.97612241188815-20] 1 2 Fair play points: Japan −4, Senegal −6.

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Japan national football team
General	Japan Football Association (JFA) History Managers
Venues	Japan National Stadium Saitama Stadium 2002
Statistics	All-time match results Records and statistics Head-to-head record Hat-tricks All-time goalscorers
Players	Players (by caps) Other players Captains
Goals	Kunishige Kamamoto
World Cup Finals	Summary 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026
AFC Asian Cup Finals	Summary 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023 2027
Other tournaments	EAFF E-1 Football Championship East Asian Games Asian Games Olympics Copa América FIFA Confederations Cup
Culture	Rivalries South Korea China North Korea Australia Saudi Arabia Iran Agony of Doha
Other JFA teams	Men's U-17 U-20 U-23 Women's U-17 U-20 U-23 Futsal U-20 women's Beach soccer Esports

Countries at the FIFA World Cup
Team appearances All-time table
AFC	Australia¹ China Indonesia² Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kuwait North Korea Qatar Saudi Arabia South Korea United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan²
CAF	Algeria Angola Cameroon Cape Verde DR Congo² Egypt Ghana Ivory Coast Morocco Nigeria Senegal South Africa Togo Tunisia
CONCACAF	Canada Costa Rica Cuba Curaçao El Salvador Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Panama Trinidad and Tobago United States
CONMEBOL	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Paraguay Peru Uruguay
OFC	New Zealand
UEFA	Austria Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic² Denmark East Germany³ England France Germany² Greece Hungary Iceland Israel¹ Italy Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Republic of Ireland Romania Russia² Scotland Serbia² Slovakia² Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine² Wales
¹ Have been member of multiple confederations. ² Considered a successor team by FIFA, or have competed under another name(s). ³ Team and national federation no longer exist.

FIFA World Cup record

List of matches

1998 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

2002 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Knockout stage

2006 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

2010 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Knockout stage

2014 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

2018 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Knockout stage

2022 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Knockout stage

2026 FIFA World Cup

Group Stage

Knockout stage

Head-to-head record

Player records

Most appearances

Goalscorers

See also

References

Reports

External links