Japan national futsal team

The Japanese Futsal national team is a representative selection of Japanese futsal players. The team represents the Japanese Football Association at international meetings. The team belongs in Asia after Iran among the strongest teams.

Performance in tournaments

Japan was in 1989 invited by FIFA for the World Cup, but retired there after losing to Belgium, Argentina and Canada as a group from Last. As a result, it failed three times in qualifying before one was for the second time at the World Cup finals at the start of 2004. Also in the second part placed you look at the group end, but fought against the United States a point. In 2008 they finished after wins over Cuba and the Solomon Islands to third place in the preliminary round group.

In Asia Championships had mostly against Iran in the cold. Overall, they met ten times in the semifinals or finals on Iran, they lost in the semifinals four times, five times in the final. Only in 2006 they sat down in the semi-finals with 5-1 and won the debate by a 5-1 final win over Uzbekistan competition. 2012 was the team to a 6-1 over Thailand in the finals for the second time Asian champions.

Futsal World Cup

Futsal Asia Championship

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