Player Database

What this database covers

Far Post Analytics maintains a per-player record for every squad member across the three J.League divisions — J1, J2 and J3, sixty clubs in total. Each profile carries appearances, starts, minutes, goals, assists and disciplinary record, plus the per-90 rates we derive from those totals.

The underlying dataset is the 2024 J.League season, supplied by API-Football, league matches only. Cup and continental fixtures are excluded. Ages shown are as of data collection, not as of today's date. This vintage matters: a player who moved clubs, broke into a starting eleven, or lost a season to injury after 2024 will not have that reflected here. Where our published scouting reports cite 2025 or 2026 figures, those come from Football LAB and J.League official records and are sourced separately within each report.

How to read the per-90 numbers

Per-90 rates are our own calculations, not vendor-supplied. They are simply the raw total divided by minutes played, multiplied by ninety. That arithmetic is honest but it is not evidence on its own — it becomes less reliable the fewer minutes it is built on.

Our working threshold is 900 minutes, roughly ten full matches. Below that, a per-90 figure is a description of a small sample rather than a measurement of a player. A substitute striker with three goals in 400 minutes will out-rate a starter with twelve in 2,800, and the first number will be close to meaningless. Read minutes first, rates second.

We also do not apply a league-strength adjustment inside this database. A J2 per-90 figure and a J1 per-90 figure appear on the same scale here even though they are not earned against the same opposition. Any comparison against a European league requires a correction we do not attempt at the database level; where it matters, we address it explicitly in the individual reports.

What this page is not

This is an index, not a recommendation list. Inclusion carries no judgement. We do not rank players here, we do not represent any player, and we hold no commercial relationship with clubs or intermediaries.

Practitioner-facing analysis lives in our scouting reports and insight pieces, where a player is examined against sample size, role fit, contract situation and the transfer precedents that apply to his profile. The database exists to answer "what are the raw numbers" — the reports exist to answer "does this mean anything." If you are scouting rather than browsing, start with the reports and come back here for the underlying counts.