Japan 1980s squad
Every player who appeared for Japan in the 1980s — 91 in all, with their career international caps and goals.
Masami Ihara racked up the most caps of anyone here — 122 in all. Hiromi Hara leads the scoring with 37. The squad breaks down as 9 goalkeepers, 32 defenders, 33 midfielders and 17 forwards — enough depth to fill any formation in the game.
| Player | Pos | Caps | Goals | Legend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masami Ihara | DF | 122 | 5 | 81 |
| Hiromi Hara | FW | 75 | 37 | 81 |
| Hideki Maeda | MF | 65 | 11 | 79 |
| Satoshi Tsunami | DF | 78 | 2 | 79 |
| Kazushi Kimura | MF | 54 | 26 | 79 |
| Hiroshi Ochiai | MF | 63 | 9 | 78 |
| Tetsuji Hashiratani | DF | 72 | 6 | 78 |
| Nobutoshi Kaneda | MF | 58 | 6 | 76 |
| Hisashi Kato | DF | 61 | 6 | 76 |
| Mitsuhisa Taguchi | GK | 59 | — | 75 |
| Takumi Horiike | DF | 58 | 2 | 75 |
| Hiroyuki Usui | FW | 38 | 15 | 75 |
| Akihiro Nishimura | MF | 49 | 2 | 72 |
| Yoshikazu Nagai | FW | 69 | 9 | 72 |
| Masafumi Yokoyama | FW | 31 | 10 | 71 |
| Shigetatsu Matsunaga | GK | 40 | — | 71 |
| Eijun Kiyokumo | DF | 42 | 0 | 71 |
| Yasuhiko Okudera | MF | 32 | 9 | 71 |
| Takashi Mizunuma | MF | 32 | 7 | 70 |
| Mitsunori Yoshida | MF | 35 | 2 | 68 |
| Kazuo Saito | DF | 32 | 0 | 67 |
| Toshio Matsuura | FW | 22 | 6 | 67 |
| Shinichi Morishita | GK | 28 | — | 67 |
| Keizo Imai | DF | 29 | 0 | 66 |
| Kenta Hasegawa | FW | 27 | 4 | 66 |
| Tatsuhiko Seta | GK | 25 | — | 65 |
| Toshinobu Katsuya | DF | 27 | 0 | 65 |
| Hisashi Kurosaki | FW | 24 | 4 | 65 |
| Koichi Hashiratani | FW | 29 | 3 | 65 |
| Osamu Maeda | FW | 14 | 6 | 63 |
| Koji Tanaka | MF | 20 | 3 | 63 |
| Takeshi Okada | DF | 24 | 1 | 63 |
| Satoshi Tezuka | FW | 25 | 2 | 63 |
| Tetsuo Sugamata | DF | 23 | 0 | 63 |
| Tetsuya Totsuka | MF | 18 | 3 | 62 |
| Haruhisa Hasegawa | FW | 15 | 4 | 62 |
| Kazuo Ozaki | FW | 17 | 3 | 61 |
| Kiyotaka Matsui | GK | 15 | — | 60 |
| Satoshi Miyauchi | MF | 20 | 0 | 60 |
| Masanao Sasaki | MF | 20 | 0 | 60 |
| Takeshi Koshida | DF | 19 | 0 | 60 |
| Nobuhiro Takeda | FW | 18 | 1 | 59 |
| Yahiro Kazama | MF | 19 | 0 | 59 |
| Shinji Tanaka | DF | 17 | 0 | 59 |
| Katsuyoshi Shinto | DF | 15 | 1 | 57 |
| Hiroshi Hirakawa | DF | 13 | 0 | 56 |
| Shigemitsu Sudo | DF | 13 | 0 | 56 |
| Ryoichi Kawakatsu | MF | 13 | 0 | 55 |
| Yoshiyuki Matsuyama | MF | 10 | 4 | 55 |
| Hiroshi Yoshida | FW | 9 | 1 | 55 |
| Mitsugu Nomura | DF | 12 | 0 | 55 |
| Yoshinori Ishigami | DF | 12 | 0 | 55 |
| Yoshio Kato | GK | 8 | — | 54 |
| Yasutaro Matsuki | DF | 11 | 0 | 54 |
| Yuji Kishioku | DF | 10 | 2 | 53 |
| Kozo Tashima | FW | 7 | 1 | 53 |
| Kazumi Tsubota | GK | 7 | — | 52 |
| Toru Sano | DF | 9 | 0 | 52 |
| Tomoyuki Kajino | DF | 9 | 1 | 52 |
| Kazuaki Nagasawa | MF | 9 | 0 | 52 |
| Yutaka Ikeuchi | DF | 8 | 0 | 51 |
| Tomoyasu Asaoka | MF | 8 | 0 | 51 |
| Masaaki Mori | MF | 8 | 0 | 51 |
| Satoru Mochizuki | MF | 7 | 0 | 50 |
| Tsutomu Sonobe | DF | 7 | 0 | 50 |
| Hisashi Kaneko | DF | 7 | 1 | 50 |
| Kazuo Echigo | MF | 6 | 1 | 50 |
| Yasuharu Kurata | DF | 6 | 0 | 49 |
| Yukitaka Omi | MF | 6 | 0 | 49 |
| Atsushi Natori | MF | 6 | 0 | 49 |
| Yasuhito Suzuki | GK | 4 | — | 49 |
| Ikuo Takahara | FW | 4 | 2 | 49 |
| Kuniharu Nakamoto | DF | 5 | 0 | 48 |
| Katsumi Oenoki | MF | 5 | 0 | 47 |
| Masakuni Yamamoto | DF | 4 | 0 | 46 |
| Masaaki Kato | MF | 3 | 1 | 45 |
| Osamu Taninaka | FW | 3 | 0 | 45 |
| Hiroshi Soejima | MF | 3 | 0 | 44 |
| Toshihiko Okimune | DF | 2 | 0 | 42 |
| Takayoshi Yamano | DF | 2 | 0 | 42 |
| Nobuyo Fujishiro | MF | 2 | 0 | 42 |
| Atsushi Uchiyama | MF | 2 | 0 | 42 |
| Katsuhiro Kusaki | MF | 2 | 0 | 42 |
| George Yonashiro | MF | 2 | 0 | 42 |
| Satoshi Yamaguchi | GK | 1 | — | 40 |
| Yuji Sugano | MF | 1 | 0 | 39 |
| Toru Yoshikawa | MF | 1 | 0 | 39 |
| Naoji Ito | MF | 1 | 0 | 39 |
| Masaru Uchiyama | MF | 1 | 0 | 39 |
| Shinobu Ikeda | DF | 1 | 0 | 39 |
| Hiroyuki Sakashita | DF | 1 | 0 | 39 |
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