Trending Footballers in Japan — the 12 months to October 2026
The 100 most-viewed footballers on Wikipedia, the 12 months to October 2026 (Japanese-language edition). Ranked by real-world attention. Top: Kuryu Matsuki. Data as of 31 October 2026.
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This counts a Wikipedia language edition, not a country's residents — Measured from the Japanese-language Wikipedia edition — readers worldwide, not residents of Japan. Nothing here is capped or sampled: it is every view Wikipedia published for these articles in the window. Rows carrying a 📰 badge add news coverage from GDELT; entity names and types come from Wikidata. Looking for what one country read? That is what the world reads — a different, capped measurement.
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Ranked
3,266,893
Total Views (the 12 months to October 2026)
1
Kuryu Matsuki
Japanese association football player
187,472
views
views
2
Kento Shiogai
Japanese footballer (born 2005)
110,251
views
views
3
Kaina Tanimura
Japanese association football player
99,818
views
views
4
Yoichiro Kakitani
Japanese association football player
89,663
views
views
5
Zion Suzuki
American-Japanese association footballer
85,199
views
views
6
Ayase Ueda
Japanese association football player
77,278
views
views
7
Kō Itakura
Japanese footballer (born 1997)
77,207
views
views
8
Go Oiwa
Japanese association football player and manager
74,301
views
views
9
Yuto Ozeki
Japanese association football player (born 2005)
70,618
views
views
10
Kodai Sano
Japanese association football player
68,170
views
views
11
Kaishu Sano
Japanese association football player
62,927
views
views
12
Diego Forlán
Uruguayan association football player and manager (born 1979)
62,449
views
views
13
Shunsuke Saito
Japanese association football player
61,981
views
views
14
Alex Kouto Horio Pisano
Japanese association football player
56,488
views
views
15
Keito Nakamura
Japanese association football player
54,818
views
views
16
Yu Kobayashi
Japanese association football player
52,245
views
views
17
Daisuke Oku
Japanese association football player (1976–2014)
47,180
views
views
18
Cristiano Ronaldo
Portuguese association football player (born 1985)
47,150
views
views
19
Satoshi Tanaka
Japanese association football player
45,387
views
views
20
Marumi Yamazaki
Japanese association football player (1990-)
44,606
views
views
21
Keita Kosugi
Japanese football player
41,496
views
views
22
Lionel Messi
Argentine association football player (born 1987)
40,851
views
views
23
Takefusa Kubo
Japanese association football player
40,347
views
views
24
Yūki Sōma
Japanese association football player
38,689
views
views
25
Yumeki Yokoyama
Japanese association football player
37,649
views
views
26
Junya Itō
Japanese association football player (born 1993)
36,522
views
views
27
Shuto Nakano
Japanese association football player
34,811
views
views
28
Hajime Moriyasu
Japanese association football player and coach
34,748
views
views
29
Leo Brian Kokubo
Japanese footballer
32,583
views
views
30
Yūto Nagatomo
Japanese association football player (born 1986)
32,457
views
views
31
Kaoru Mitoma
Japanese association football player
32,165
views
views
32
Jason Statham
English actor (born 1967)
31,846
views
views
33
Raphinha
Brazilian association football player (born 1996)
31,499
views
views
34
Shinji Kagawa
Japanese association football player
30,154
views
views
35
Koki Kumasaka
Japanese association football player
30,021
views
views
36
Ryunosuke Sato
Japanese association football player (born 2006)
29,908
views
views
37
Nelson Ishiwatari
Japanese association football player
29,491
views
views
38
Daigo Nishi
Japanese association football player
29,210
views
views
39
Erling Haaland
Norwegian footballer (born 2000)
29,030
views
views
40
Yuito Suzuki
Japanese association football player
29,028
views
views
41
Neymar
Brazilian footballer (born 1992)
28,121
views
views
42
Kazuyoshi Miura
Japanese association football player
27,228
views
views
43
Hisatsugu Ishii
Japanese association football player
27,162
views
views
44
Ronald Araújo
Uruguayan footballer
26,629
views
views
45
Daichi Kamada
Japanese association football player
26,375
views
views
46
Rion Ichihara
Japanese association football player
26,301
views
views
47
Kylian Mbappé
French footballer (born 1998)
25,730
views
views
48
Ayumu Yokoyama
Japanese association football player
25,654
views
views
49
Rodri
Spanish association football player (born 1996)
25,220
views
views
50
Lamine Yamal
Spanish association football player (born 2007)
24,501
views
views
51
Olivier Giroud
French footballer (born 1986)
23,496
views
views
52
Yutaka Michiwaki
Japanese association football player
23,270
views
views
53
Kim Jong-song
North Korean association football player and manager
22,689
views
views
54
Keisuke Honda
Japanese association football player
22,307
views
views
55
Ayumu Seko
Japanese association football player
22,153
views
views
56
Ritsu Dōan
Japanese association football player
20,812
views
views
57
Ao Tanaka
Japanese association football player
20,687
views
views
58
José Mourinho
Portuguese association football manager and former player
20,302
views
views
59
Daniel Gómez Alcón
Spanish footballer
19,941
views
views
60
Hirotoshi Yokoyama
Japanese association football player
19,636
views
views
61
Michael Olise
English-French footballer (born 2001)
19,416
views
views
62
Jong Tae-se
North Korean association football player
19,223
views
views
63
Darwin Núñez
Uruguayan association football player
18,648
views
views
64
Robert Lewandowski
Polish association football player (born 1988)
18,520
views
views
65
Pep Guardiola
Spanish association football manager and player (born 1971)
18,387
views
views
66
Karim Adeyemi
Germany footballer (born 2002)
18,225
views
views
67
Shōgo Taniguchi
Japanese association football player
17,878
views
views
68
Hidetoshi Nakata
Japanese association football player
17,712
views
views
69
Son Heung-min
South Korean association football player (born 1992)
17,588
views
views
70
Atsuto Uchida
Japanese association football player
17,412
views
views
71
Keisuke Goto
Japanese association football player
17,404
views
views
72
Usain Bolt
Jamaican sprinter
17,387
views
views
73
Ethan Mbappé
French footballer (born 2006)
17,327
views
views
74
Yusei Toshida
Japanese association football player
17,163
views
views
75
Shun Ayukawa
Japanese association football player
17,034
views
views
76
Homare Sawa
Japanese footballer (born 1978)
16,751
views
views
77
Koki Ogawa
Japanese association football player
16,712
views
views
78
Enzo Maresca
Italian football manager
16,690
views
views
79
Daizen Maeda
Japanese association football player
16,430
views
views
80
Elliot Anderson
English footballer (born 2002)
16,298
views
views
81
Ryotaro Ito
Japanese association football player
15,851
views
views
82
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
Gabonese-French footballer (born 1989)
15,746
views
views
83
Shoya Nakajima
Japanese footballer
15,485
views
views
84
Rodrigo Bentancur
Uruguayan association football player
15,273
views
views
85
Kenichi Tanimura
Japanese association football player
15,151
views
views
86
Yotaro Nakajima
Japanese association football player
14,959
views
views
87
Hiroki Itō
Japanese association football player (born 1999)
14,787
views
views
88
Emiliano Martínez
Argentine footballer (born 1992)
14,747
views
views
89
Wataru Endō
Japanese association football player
14,375
views
views
90
Mio Backhaus
German footballer (born 2004)
14,244
views
views
91
Rui Araki
Japanese footballer
14,134
views
views
92
Makoto Hasebe
Japanese association football player
14,130
views
views
93
Harry Kane
English association football player (born 1993)
14,063
views
views
94
Sergio Ramos
Spanish association football player (born 1986)
13,935
views
views
95
Luka Modrić
Croatian footballer (born 1985)
13,927
views
views
96
Kengo Kawamata
Japanese association football player
13,742
views
views
97
Zinedine Zidane
French association football player and coach
13,636
views
views
98
Jude Bellingham
English footballer (born 2003)
13,597
views
views
99
Pipi Nakai
Japanese footballer
13,528
views
views
100
Hotaka Nakamura
Japanese association football player
13,451
views
views