Football Nation

Football Nation is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuki Otake. It began serialization in Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior magazine in December 2009.

Publication

Written and illustrated by Yuki Otake, Football Nation began serialization in Shogakukan's Big Comic Superior magazine on December 11, 2009. The series went on hiatus on August 28, 2020, due to Otake's recovery from breast cancer surgery. It resumed serialization on July 9, 2021. Its chapters have been compiled into twenty volumes as of December 2025.
In July 2016, the series had an illustration collaboration with fellow soccer manga series Aoashi and Be Blues! which are also published by Shogakukan in the magazines Big Comic Spirits and Weekly Shōnen Sunday respectively.

Reception

The series had over 2 million copies in circulation by December 2024.
The series has been recommended by Japanese footballers like Hideto Takahashi, Kengo Nakamura, Yasuyuki Konno, Wataru Endō, Daisuke Matsui, Kento Hashimoto, Shinji Okazaki, and Shūichi Gonda.