National team Nippon

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National Team Japan (3028)

Information
Country		Nippon
Zone		Asia
History
Established		Global Season 15
Debut		NT Scotland	2 - 1	NT Japan	15-03-2002
		NT Japan	3 - 0	NT Brazil	01-03-2002
Prize shelf
none (best result: 3rd in Round III - WC 27)
Kit

The National team Nippon represents Japan in the international friendlies and the World Cup.

Japanese NT plays international games since 2002, and took part to qualifying for World Cup I, edition in which the country was also host (but failed to qualify).

Japanese NT Coaches History Ed. / Host Election Votes Manager Continental Cup World Cup Result WC 033 21 May 2021 ? / ? oslicek Semi-finalist Round I (ongoing) Old Format Japanese NT Coaches History Ed. / Host Election Votes Manager World Cup Result WC 32 29 Sept. 2020 ? / ? oslicek Round I, 8th place in Group 12 WC 31 17 Feb. 2020 ? / ? oslicek Round I, 6th place in Group 6 WC 30 08 July 2019 ? / ? oslicek Round I, 7th place in Group 5 WC 29 26 Nov. 2018 ? / ? oslicek Round I, 3rd place in Group 15 WC 28 16 Apr. 2018 ? / ? DHT-Oscar Round I, 8th place in Group 10 WC 27 04 Sept. 2017 ? / ? DHT-Oscar Round III, 3rd place in Group 2 WC 26 23 Jan. 2017 ? / ? Grabner Round II, 4th place in Group 6 WC 25 13 June 2016 ? / ? Grabner Round III, 4th place in Group 1 WC 24 02 Nov. 2015 ? / ? oslicek Round I, 6th place in Group 13 WC 23 23 Mar. 2015 ? / ? zagortenay Round I, 5th place in Group 12 WC 22 11 Aug. 2014 ? / ? tyyris Round I, 3rd place in Group 8 WC 21 30 Dec. 2013 14 / 21 jashaz Round I, 3rd place in Group 9 WC 20 20 May 2013 26 / 29 Meiyuu-Kantoku Round I, 3rd place in Group 9 WC 19 08 Oct. 2012 27 / 41 Junnja Round I, 5th place in Group 3 WC 18 27 Feb. 2012 26 / 42, then 21 / 51 N-Kobayashi,then Oldguy Round I, 3rd place in Group 3 WC 17 18 July 2011 21 / 41 oafcmetty Round I, 3rd place in Group 7 WC 16 06 Dec. 2010 21 / 41 N-Kobayashi Round I, 5th place in Group 10 WC 15 26 Apr. 2010 67 / 89 N-Kobayashi Round II, 3rd place in Group 6 WC 14 14 Sept. 2009 28 / 38 NaokiSoma Round I, 5th place in Group 11 WC 13 02 Feb. 2009 39 / 54 EuanRioArran Round I, 3rd place in Group 4 WC 12 23 June 2008 18 / 26 saheki Round II, 3rd place in Group 4 WC 11 13 Nov. 2007 35 / 47 MD-JakobTrier Round III 4th place in Group 2 WC 10 03 Apr. 2007 25 / 42 Kes2005 Round II, 3rd place in Group 1 WC 09 21 Aug. 2006 28 / 44 Kes2005 Qualification (3 out of 7) WC 08 09 Jan. 2006 34 / 45 TheTherk Qualification (3 out of 6) WC 07 30 May 2005 41 / 63 Fish-Man Qualification (4 out of 6) WC 06 18 Oct. 2004 28 / 42 Fish-Man Qualification (3 out of 5) WC 05 08 Mar. 2004 20 / 28 MD-JakobTrier Round II, 3rd place in Group 1 WC 04 05 Jan. 2004 ? / ? trinit, then fujisan Did not participate WC 03 27 May 2003 ? / ? Sephroth Did not participate WC 02 14 Oct. 2002 ~2 / ? Charleyboy Pre-Qualification WC 01 March 2002 ~2 / ? saheki Pre-Qualification

Details

The Japanese National Team has qualified for the World Cup main phase in the following occasions:

1. The first qualification was back during WC 5. Japan outsmarted France, Indonesia and Uruguay in the qualification group games and made it to the last 32. Here Japan finished third in front of Austria, but behind Indonesia and Italy which qualified for round III.
2. The success was repeated 10 seasons later during WC 10 when Japan managed to beat Portugal and Suomi among few others in the qualification group. In round II the team once again finished third behind Portugal and Colombia, but ahead of Venezuela.
3. For the WC 11 Japan finished second in the qualification behind Spain and thus made it to the World Cup main phase for the 3rd time. Here they beat Russia with an amazing 6-2 in their first game.
4. In WC 12 Japan qualified to second round where the team placed 3rd before Denmark.
5. During WC 15 Japan placed third in Round II after winning again 6-2 a match, this time against Canada.
6. In WC 25 Japan qualified first both in Round I and Round II groups, but was then eliminated in Round III after only one victory.
7. For the WC 26 Japan finished second in the qualification behind Chile, but then was thrown out of the competition by Croatia, Scotland and Cuba.
8. WC 27 remains the best result ever for Japan in World Cup as they finished 3rd in Round III, just one goal away from qualification, with the same points of Italy which passed the turn as second in Group and then go on to win the tournament.

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