Japan football predictions, goalscorers and upcoming fixtures

Japan Emperor cup

Result prediction	Vissel Kobe to win
Over/Under prediction	over 2.5 goals
HT / FT prediction	Vissel Kobe / Vissel Kobe to win
Team to Score prediction	both teams
Anytime Goalscorer prediction	J. Tanaka(Vissel Kobe) Keijiro Ogawa(Vissel Kobe)

Sagan Tosu v Shimizu S-Pulse

Result prediction	Sagan Tosu to win
Over/Under prediction	over 2.5 goals
HT / FT prediction	Sagan Tosu / Sagan Tosu to win
Team to Score prediction	both teams
Anytime Goalscorer prediction	n/a

V-Varen Nagasaki v Ventforet Kofu

Result prediction	V-Varen Nagasaki to win
Over/Under prediction	over 2.5 goals
HT / FT prediction	Ventforet Kofu / V-Varen Nagasaki to win
Team to Score prediction	both teams
Anytime Goalscorer prediction	n/a

Kashima Antlers v Honda

Result prediction	Kashima Antlers to win
Over/Under prediction	over 2.5 goals
HT / FT prediction	Kashima Antlers / Kashima Antlers to win
Team to Score prediction	both teams
Anytime Goalscorer prediction	Atsutaka Nakamura(Kashima Antlers)

Japan J1 league

Japan J2 league

Football is the second most popular sport in Japan

After baseball, football is the second most popular sport in Japan. The nationwide organization Japan Football Association manages the professional football league J.League, the most successful football league in Asia football.

Although the official English football name of the Japanese Football Association uses the term "football", the term "sakkā" derived from "football" is used much more frequently than "futtobōru". The Japanese name of the JFA is Nippon Sakkā Kyōkai.

Before the Second World War, the common term was shūkyū, a Chinese-Japanese term. After the war, after the previously exclusive Japanese designations were replaced by American, Sakkā became more commonplace. In recent years, many professional teams have called FCs (football clubs). Examples include FC Tokyo and Kyoto Sanga FC.

The first globally popular football-oriented Japanese animated series (manga), Captain Tsubasa, was launched in 1981. Captain Tsubasa was extremely popular with children of both sexes in Japan. His success led to much more club football manga being written, and he played a major role in Japan's club football history. In many schools in Japan football became more popular than baseball in the 1980s due to the series.

Captain Tsubasa has also inspired celebrity footballers such as Hidetoshi Nakata, Seigo Narazaki, Zinedine Zidane, Francesco Totti, Christian Vieri, James Rodriguez, Alexis Sánchez and Alessandro Del Piero to play club football a career. The inspiration for the character of Ōzora Tsubasa came from a number of players, including the most prominent Musashi Mizushima, who is probably the first Japanese football player to play abroad and whose move to São Paulo as a ten-year-old boy was partly imitated in manga.

The anime Giant Killing revolves around a team's efforts to reach the best from one of the worst professional teams in Japan. Other works focusing on football include Hungry Heart: Wild Striker (by the same author of Captain Tsubasa), The Knight in the Area, Days and Inazuma Eleven.

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