Anime like Captain Tsubasa

Inazuma Eleven

Studio: TV Tokyo , OLM , Dentsu , Half H.P Studio
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports , Supernatural

The main character, Endou Mamoru, is a very talented goalkeeper and the grandson of one of the strongest goalkeepers in Japan, who died before he was born. Even though his skills are incredible his school lacks a real soccer club as the 6 other members don't appear very interested even in training. But as soon as a mysterious forward called Gouenji moves to Endou's town, the young goalkeeper sets out to find and recruit members for his soccer team.



Tags: Football , Super Power , Kids , Primarily Teen Cast , Male Protagonist , School Club , Primarily Child Cast , Ensemble Cast , Found Family , Primarily Male Cast , Aliens , School , Adoption , Criminal Organization , Travel , Dissociative Identities , Drugs , Tragedy , Crime , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Terrorism , Tomboy , Time Skip , Tanned Skin , Snowscape , Revenge , Ojou-sama , Fugitive

Aoashi

Also known as Aoashi.

Studio: Production I.G , Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions , NHK Enterprises , BANDAI SPIRITS , Marvelous , Production I.G
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

Ashito Aoi is a young, aspiring soccer player from a backwater town in Japan. His hopes of getting into a high school with a good soccer club are dashed when he causes an incident during a critical match for his team, which results in their loss and elimination from the tournament. Nevertheless, he catches the eye of someone important who happened to be visiting from Tokyo. How will things turn out for Ashito?



Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , Primarily Teen Cast , Primarily Male Cast , Seinen , Ensemble Cast , Heterosexual , Coming of Age , School , Bullying , Time Skip , Love Triangle

Blue Lock

Also known as BLUE LOCK.

Studio: 8-bit , Bandai Namco Filmworks , Kodansha , Bandai Namco Music Live , TV Asahi , Crunchyroll , BANDAI SPIRITS , Toy's Factory
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Sports

Japan’s desire for World Cup glory leads the Japanese Football Association to launch a new rigorous training program to find the national team’s next striker. Three hundred high school players are pitted against each other for the position, but only one will come out on top. Who among them will be the striker to usher in a new era of Japanese soccer?



Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , Shounen , Athletics , Primarily Male Cast , Battle Royale , Primarily Teen Cast , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Revenge , CGI , Tragedy , Super Power

Ganbare! Kickers

Also known as Fight! Kickers.

Studio: Studio Pierrot
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

The Kickers are first and foremost a football team. Actually, they're only playing for their school, but haven't exactly covered themselves with glory. When the new player, Gregor (Daichi Kakeru) arrives at the school, they just had faced a resounding defeat again. However, thanks to Gregor, things are going to change. Highly motivated, they'll try to get rid of their "always-loser-team" image. Their strongest enemy are the Devils, who Gregor provokes right from the start. However, it's not all about football. When the captain, Mario (Hongou Masaru), is not pursued by his female fans, the Kickers often hang around and do stuff together.



Tags: Shounen , Football , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast

Aoki Densetsu Shoot!

Studio: Toei Animation , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Drama , Romance , Sports

Aoki Densetsu Shoot! (Shoot!!), is the story of Toshihiko Tanaka, Kenji Shiraishi, and Kazuhiro Hiramatsu. Three high school freshmen who have become best friends during their junior high years while playing soccer together. There they were known as the Kakenishi golden trio for their role in making Kakenishi Junior High`s soccer team into a force to be reckoned with. After junior high, all of them decided to go to the same high school, Kakegawa High, a school only founded a year before, because of their star soccer player, Yoshiharu Kubo, whom they had idolized.

This young man led Kakegawa High Soccer Club to the best 8 of their prefecture in their first ever appearance with a freshmen only team almost single-handedly. He refuses offers from a number of foreign professional soccer clubs so he can stay at Kake-High to lead them to the All-Japan High School Championship. As the three of them start playing soccer for Kake-High, they experience hardships, romance, and losses on their road to becoming the best Japanese high school soccer team - a team of legends.



Tags: Football , Delinquents , School , Shounen , Tragedy , Love Triangle

DAYS

Also known as DAYS.

Studio: MAPPA , Pony Canyon
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Sports

The anime centers on two boys who were never meant to meet: Tsukushi Tsukamoto, who has no special skills but secretly hides a passionate heart, and Jin Kazama, an isolated soccer genius. On a stormy night, the two meet, and that meeting creates a whirlwind in the world of high school soccer.



Tags: Football , School , Shounen , Primarily Male Cast , School Club , Coming of Age , LGBTQ+ Themes , Bullying , Disability

SLAM DUNK

Also known as Slam Dunk.

Studio: Toei Animation , TV Asahi , Funimation , Animax
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Slice of Life , Sports

Hanamichi Sakuragi, an entering Shohoku high school freshman holds a record for being rejected by 50 girls during middle school. His nearly 2 meters height and bright red hair causes most students to write him off as a delinquent.

One day, a girl named Haruko Akagi approaches Hanamichi without any fear. When she asks Hanamichi: "do you like basketball?" Hanamichi falls head over heels for the girl of his dreams. Without missing a beat, Hanamichi tells her he loves basketball, and the two head to the gymnasium where Hanamichi learns about the slam dunk. He also learns of Rukawa, one of the country’s top basketball prospects, also a freshman at Shohoku.



Tags: Basketball , Shounen , School , Primarily Teen Cast , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Male Protagonist , Educational , Ensemble Cast , Delinquents , Unrequited Love

Hungry Heart: Wild Striker

Studio: Nippon Animation , Fuji TV
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

Kyosuke Kano has lived under the shadow of his successful brother Seisuke all his life who is a professional soccer player. Tired of being compared and downgraded at, he abandoned playing soccer until a boy from his new highschool discovered him and asked him to join their team. Kyosuke joins it and befriends two other first year players named Rodrigo and Sakai with the dream of becomming professional soccer players themselves.



Tags: Football , Shounen , School Club , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Teen Cast , Heterosexual

Ginga e Kickoff!!

Studio: NHK , NAS , NHK Enterprises , TYO Animations
Status: Finished
Genres: Sports

The story follows a boy who was in a soccer team, but it was disbanded due to not enough players. However, after the boy meets a female professional soccer player, he aims to bring his soccer team back.



Tags: Football , Male Protagonist , Primarily Child Cast , Ensemble Cast , School , Foreign , Disability , Ojou-sama

GIANT KILLING

Also known as Giant Killing.

Studio: Studio DEEN , NHK
Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Sports

East Tokyo United, ETU, has been struggling in Japan's top football league for a few years. It has taken everything they have just to avoid relegation. To make matters even worse, the fans are starting to abandon the team.

In an effort to improve their performance, ETU has hired a new coach, the slightly eccentric Tatsumi Takeshi. Tatsumi, who was considered a great football player when he was younger, abandoned the team years before but has proven himself as the manager of one of England's lower division amateur teams. The task won't be easy, the teams East Tokyo United is pitted against have bigger budgets and better players. However, Tatsumi is an expert at Giant Killing.

Tags: Football , Primarily Adult Cast , Seinen , Male Protagonist , Work , Primarily Male Cast , Achronological Order