The Japan national under-17 football team (Japanese: U-17サッカー日本代表, Hepburn: U-17 sakkā Nihon daihyō) is a national association football youth team of Japan and is controlled by the Japan Football Association. The team were champions in the 1994 and 2006 AFC U-17 Championships, as well as the 2012 AFF U-16 Youth Championship. The year before the FIFA U-17 World Cup, the national team is renamed the Japan national under-16 football team, and the year before that, the national team is renamed the Japan national under-15 football team.
Contents
Results and fixtures
Legend
Win
Draw
Lose
Void or Postponed
Fixture
2025
Fixtures & Results (U-17 2025), JFA.jp
Fixtures & Results (U-16 2025), JFA.jp
Fixtures & Results (U-15 2025), JFA.jp
Coaching staff
Current staff
As of 14 September 2026.
Players
Current U-17 squad
The following players were called up on 14 September 2026 for the Limoges International Tournament, held in September 2026. Kakeru Saito and Shun Tatemi were replaced by Masaki Koyama and Taiki Akimoto.
Current U-16 squad
The following U-16 players were called up on 26 May 2026 for the 2026 U-16 International Dream Cup.
Current U-15 squad
The following players were called-up on 11 May 2026 for the Vlatko Marković International Tournament. Takeru Kizushi and Kaito Asano were replaced by Jin Maruoka and Yuito Nakajima, sidelined due to injury.
Records
As of 23 June 2024
Honours
Continental
AFC U-17/U-16 Asian Cup
Champions (4): 1994, 2006, 2018, 2023
AFF U-16 Youth Championship
Champions (1): 2012
Unofficial
Tournament de Montaigu
Champions (1): 2004
International Dream Cup
Champions (6): 2015, 2017, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024
Competitive record
Head-to-head record
The following table shows Japan's head-to-head record in the FIFA U-17 World Cup and AFC U-17 Asian Cup.