The Japanese U18 Hockey Women’s National Youth Team (World Ranking: WR12) won 12-0 against Uzbekistan (WR47) in the third round of the AHF Youth Asia Cup (2025/Dazhou) in Dazhou, China.

With three wins (9 points), Japan finished first in Group A.

Japan will advance to the Top 4 League where they will play Group B 2nd place on July 9 (determined by the result of the match on July 7 at 20:30 (Japan time)).

Match report [FIH-TMS official website 

Player of the match was #5 DF Kurumi Yoshida (Nyu High School, Fukui).

FIH World Ranking as of July 2 (before the tournament)

Game №.9　China 09:00 Start

Japan		vs	Uzbekistan
		12 – 0

Official Match Record for Round 3 [Updated: 2025.7.7]

Score

• 4 min PC – #5 DF Kurumi Yoshida (Nyu High School, Fukui)
• 5 min FG – #13 FW Reika Tezuka (Nyu High School, Fukui)
• 22 min FG – #18 FW Suzuna Yamamoto (Ibuki High School, Shiga)
• 26 min PS – #13 FW Reika Tezuka (Nyu High School, Fukui)
• 32 min FG – #17 FW Sayo Koike (Gifu Kakamino High School, Gifu)
• 40 min PC – #16 FW Nene Fujii (Nyu High School, Fukui)
• 43 min FG – #10 MF Nana Hashimoto (Gifu Kakamino High School, Gifu)
• 43 min PC – #5 DF Kurumi Yoshida (Niu High School, Fukui)
• 44 min FG – #17 FW Sayo Koike (Gifu Kakamino High School, Gifu)
• 49 min PC – #4 DF Hinano Kimura (Gifu Kakamino High School, Gifu)
• 55 min FG – #17 FW Sayo Koike (Gifu Kakamino High School, Gifu)
• 60 min PC – #11 MF Yuzuki Togawa (Gifu Kakamino High School, Gifu)

Related Information

• U18 Hockey Women’s Youth Japan “AHF Youth Asia Cup (2025/Dazhou)”
• AHF Asian Hockey Federation [Official site]
• AHF Asian Hockey Federation [Official Facebook] 
• AHF Asian Hockey Federation [Official YouTube Channel] 
• FIH – TMS [Official website]
• Men’s U18 Youth National Team