Coach:
Hajime Moriyasu
Nickname:
Samurai Blue
Previous participations: 6
Titles: 0
FIFA ranking: 24 (August 2022)
Coach: Hajime Moriyasu
Key players:
Takumi Minamino, Ko Itakura, Genki Haraguchi
Qualifiers
Second round
Myanmar 0-2 Japan
Japan 6-0 Mongolia
Tajikistan 0-3 Japan
Kyrgyzstan 0-2 Japan
Mongolia 0-14 Japan
Japan 10-0 Myanmar
Japan 4-1 Tajikistan
Japan 5-1 Kyrgyzstan
Third round
Japan 0-1 Oman
China 0-1 Japan
Saudi Arabia 1-0 Japan
Japan 2-1 Australia
Viet Nam 0-1 Japan
Oman 0-1 Japan
Japan 2-0 China
Japan 2-0 Saudi Arabia
Australia 0-2 Japan
Japan 1-1 Viet Nam