Prince Takamado Cup
The Prince Takamado Cup, since 2018, is divided in two age-restricted tournaments, being them the "Prince Takamado Trophy JFA U-18 Football League" and "Prince Takamado Trophy JFA U-15 Japan Football Championship". Both tournaments are annually-contested and run by the Japan Football Association for the under–18 and under-15 sides. The name of the tournament is named after Norihito, Prince Takamado, a long time patron of football in Japan.
Under-18
League structure
From 2003 to 2010, the championship was realized as a short-term tournament, where the Prince Leagues served as a qualification to it. Since 2011, the championship is played as a year-round league tournament.Currently, in the Prince Takamado U-18 Premier League, 24 teams are split into 2 groups with 12 teams in each, which are called Premier League East, and Premier League West, with each team's geographical positions being the determining factor to decide whether the club should be on the East group, or on the West group. The winners of each group face each other in a one-legged final at a neutral venue to decide the tournament's winners.
For a few years, the 11th and 12th-placed teams of each group are automatically relegated to the Prince League, while to keep their stay at the elite, the 10th-placed teams of each group needs to join other 16 teams from the Prince League on a play-off tournament, with the teams being divided by 6 groups with 3 teams in each. The winners of each group were qualified for/remains in the Premier League. Since 2023, however, the 10th-placed team is automatically relegated, with the play-offs restricted to 16 teams from the Prince Leagues.
All the players under the Type 2 registration are eligible to compete in the leagues.
| Level | Leagues/Divisions |
| I | Prince Takamado Trophy JFA U-18 Football Premier League 24 teams East ' | West ' |
| II | Prince Takamado Trophy JFA U-18 Football Prince League 126 teams Hokkaido ' Tohoku ' Kanto ' Tokai ' Hokushin'etsu ' Kansai ' Chugoku ' Shikoku ' Kyushu ' |
| IV & below | 46 Prefectural Leagues & 5 Block Leagues of Hokkaido' 478 teams '' Hokkaido: Sapporo block | Dōhoku block | Dōtō block | Dōō block | Dōnan block Tohoku: Aomori | Iwate | Miyagi | Akita | Yamagata | Fukushima Kanto: Ibaraki | Tochigi | Gunma | Saitama | Chiba | Tokyo | Kanagawa | Yamanashi Tokai: Gifu | Shizuoka | Aichi | Mie Hokushin'etsu: Niigata | Toyama | Ishikawa | Fukui | Nagano Kansai: Shiga | Kyoto | Osaka | Hyogo | Nara | Wakayama Chugoku: Tottori | Shimane | Okayama | Hiroshima | Yamaguchi Shikoku: Tokushima | Kagawa | Ehime | Kochi Kyushu: Fukuoka | Saga | Nagasaki | Kumamoto | Ōita | Miyazaki | Kagoshima | Okinawa |
Premier League teams (2011–)
This list includes all teams that played in the Premier League since its inception on 2011, when it became the top U-18 league in Japan. Teams in bold are playing in the 2023 Prince Takamado JFA U-18 Premier League. Gold boxes indicates the team was the season's champions, green boxes indicates the season's runner-up, and red boxes indicates the season's relegated teams.- Premier League East
| Team | Prefecture | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | |
| Asahikawa Jitsugyo HS | Hokkaido | 2 | – | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12th | – | – |
| Consadole Sapporo | Hokkaido | 5 | 1st | 2nd | 5th | 8th | 9th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Aomori Yamada HS | Aomori | 13 | 6th | 4th | 6th | 7th | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 2nd | 1st | 1st | 4th | 1st | 8th | |
| JFA Academy Fukushima | Fukushima | 4 | – | – | 3rd | 5th | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | 11th | – | – | – |
| Shoshi HS | Fukushima | 4 | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10th | – | – | 2nd | 11th | – |
| Kashima Antlers | Ibaraki | 9 | – | 7th | 8th | 3rd | 1st | 8th | 4th | 1st | 9th | – | – | – | 2nd | |
| Maebashi Ikuei HS | Gunma | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6th | 8th | 6th | |
| Kiryu Daiichi HS | Gunma | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12th | – | – | – |
| Mitsubishi Yowa | Saitama | 4 | 8th | 8th | 7th | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Omiya Ardija | Saitama | 8 | – | – | – | – | 3rd | 4th | 9th | – | 6th | 4th | 3rd | 9th | 12th | – |
| Shohei HS | Saitama | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | 7th | |
| Urawa Red Diamonds | Saitama | 6 | 4th | 9th | – | – | – | – | 8th | 7th | 3rd | 10th | – | – | - | |
| Ichiritsu Funabashi HS | Chiba | 10 | – | – | – | 4th | 4th | 3rd | 7th | 6th | 5th | 9th | 10th | 5th | 9th | |
| Kashiwa Reysol | Chiba | 10 | – | – | – | 1st | 8th | 7th | 5th | 5th | 2nd | 5th | 9th | 4th | 3rd | |
| Ryutsu Keizai Kashiwa HS | Chiba | 12 | 5th | 3rd | 1st | 6th | 7th | 9th | – | 4th | 7th | 8th | 8th | 6th | 4th | |
| FC Tokyo | Tokyo | 9 | 9th | – | – | – | 5th | 2nd | 1st | 9th | – | 6th | 5th | 10th | 10th | |
| Tokyo Verdy | Tokyo | 4 | 2nd | 1st | 4th | 9th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Kawasaki Frontale | Kanagawa | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1st | 3rd | 5th | |
| Toko Gakuen HS | Kanagawa | 1 | – | – | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Yokohama FC | Kanagawa | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | 7th | WEST | 1st | |
| Yokohama F. Marinos | Kanagawa | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | 5th | 10th | – | – | 3rd | 2nd | 11th | – | – |
| Albirex Niigata | Niigata | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Toyama Daiichi HS | Toyama | 1 | WEST | WEST | WEST | WEST | – | – | – | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Júbilo Iwata | Shizuoka | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8th | 8th | WEST | WEST | WEST | – | – |
| Shimizu S-Pulse | Shizuoka | 10 | 3rd | 5th | 2nd | 2nd | 6th | 6th | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 2nd | WEST | – | – | – |
| Shizuoka Gakuen HS | Shizuoka | 3 | 7th | 6th | 9th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | WEST | WEST | WEST | WEST |
| Kyoto Sanga | Kyoto | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6th | WEST | WEST | WEST | – | – | – | – |
- Premier League West
| Team | Prefecture | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | |
| Yokohama FC | Kanagawa | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | EAST | EAST | 5th | EAST | EAST |
| Toyama Daiichi HS | Toyama | 4 | 8th | 6th | 8th | 9th | – | – | – | EAST | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Júbilo Iwata | Shizuoka | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | EAST | EAST | 8th | 3rd | 11th | – | – |
| Shizuoka Gakuen HS | Shizuoka | 3 | EAST | EAST | EAST | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4th | 3rd | 9th | |
| Shimizu S-Pulse | Shizuoka | 1 | EAST | EAST | EAST | EAST | EAST | EAST | EAST | EAST | EAST | EAST | 11th | – | – | – |
| Nagoya Grampus | Aichi | 12 | 4th | 3rd | 6th | 4th | 8th | 9th | – | 3rd | 1st | 2nd | 5th | 8th | 4th | |
| Kyoto Sanga | Kyoto | 9 | 2nd | 5th | 5th | 5th | 7th | 6th | – | 4th | 2nd | 10th | – | – | – | – |
| Kyoto Tachibana HS | Kyoto | 2 | – | – | – | 8th | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cerezo Osaka | Osaka | 11 | 3rd | 4th | 4th | 1st | 4th | 2nd | 5th | 6th | 7th | 6th | 10th | – | – | |
| Gamba Osaka | Osaka | 9 | – | – | 7th | 2nd | 1st | 5th | 3rd | 2nd | 3rd | 3rd | 12th | – | – | |
| Hannan Univ. HS | Osaka | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6th | 9th | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Riseisha HS | Osaka | 3 | – | – | – | – | 9th | – | – | – | – | 8th | 12th | – | – | |
| Kobe Koryo Gakuen HS | Hyogo | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | 9th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Vissel Kobe | Hyogo | 12 | – | 2nd | 1st | 3rd | 6th | 3rd | 1st | 7th | 6th | 7th | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | |
| Yonago Kita HS | Tottori | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7th | 10th | – | – | – | 7th | 11th | – |
| Rissho Univ. Shonan HS | Shimane | 1 | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Sakuyo Gakuen HS | Okayama | 1 | – | 9th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Fagiano Okayama | Okayama | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10th | |
| Hiroshima Minami HS | Hiroshima | 1 | 9th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Sanfrecce Hiroshima | Hiroshima | 13 | 1st | 1st | 3rd | 6th | 5th | 1st | 2nd | 1st | 5th | 1st | 7th | 1st | 3rd | |
| Ehime FC | Ehime | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10th | – | – | – | – | – |
| Avispa Fukuoka | Fukuoka | 6 | 6th | 8th | 9th | – | – | – | 8th | 8th | 9th | – | – | – | – | |
| Higashi Fukuoka HS | Fukuoka | 13 | 5th | 7th | 2nd | 7th | 2nd | 4th | 4th | 5th | 8th | 9th | 9th | 6th | 8th | |
| Sagan Tosu | Saga | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5th | 1st | 9th | 6th | |
| Ohzu HS | Kumamoto | 8 | – | – | 10th | – | – | 8th | 10th | – | 4th | 4th | 6th | 4th | 1st | |
| Oita Trinita | Oita | 2 | – | – | – | – | 3rd | 10th | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Kamimura Gakuen HS | Kagoshima | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10th | 5th | |
| Kagoshima Josei High School | Kagoshima | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12th | – |