Captain Tsubasa: Golden-23 - Recommendations

• Vol: 3; Ch: 29
• 2017

• Vol: 10+; Ch: 91+
• 2018 - ?

The stage is a small club in the domestic third division league aiming for promotion. Former Japanese soccer representative Yoshinaga feels that an unknown high school student, Chiaki, has the qualities of being a center back and begins to grow up.

• Vol: 1+
• 2023 - ?

• Vol: 4+; Ch: 51+
• 2022 - ?

Yataro Araki, a member of the Tojo High School soccer team, has big dreams. Within a decade, he sees himself conquering the soccer world’s loftiest peak: European “football!” Fast forward to what may be his last soccer match before graduation, the match that will make or break his dreams. Having thus far failed to attract the attention of scouts, he is now desperate do whatever it takes to prove himself. Yataro is prepared to get his hands dirty if it means winning. If it means standing at the top! Welcome to the world of international football! Nothing is sacred, no rule is left unbroken! Not when victory is on the line!

• Vol: 7; Ch: 63
• 2015 - 2016

• Vol: 4; Ch: 39
• 2014

• Vol: 2; Ch: 18
• 2002 - 2004

The manga follows Atsuhiko Kouno, a soccer player who represented Japan in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and had high expectations to become a star player. Now in 2002, he is 31 and has somehow slipped into obscurity. One day, he receives a notice from his champion team that they are canceling his contract. Atsuhiko is offered a new contract for his former team JEM Chiba, and it is there that he wagers his comeback. However, he's known on his new team as the "former Japan representative," and his young teammates make fun of him and treat him coldly because he's still wearing the #10 jersey even though they think he's past his prime. Through all this, Atsuhiko silently continues to practice in hopes of making a comeback.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 24
• 2020 - 2022

• Vol: 17+; Ch: 151+
• 2009 - ?

"WANTED: Players with Beautiful Legs!" With that, Kicker Weekly sports reporter Yukari Ogata is sent on the onerous task to cover Tokyo Crusade, an amateur football club. But what would have been another frivolous assignment becomes a potentially worthy scoop, when Ogata discovers that Chihiro Oki—a football freelancer who goes by the name "Joker"—is playing at the tryouts! Rumors have it that the Joker can fill any position on the field, and whichever team he joins is guaranteed to win! But why has such a talented player gone unnoticed for so long? Throw in an ex-league professional, a bunch of ragtag players and the eccentric coach who will bring them all together, this Division III club may just have what it takes to win the Emperor's Cup!

• Vol: 4; Ch: 33
• 2011 - 2013