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Highest rating reached by age 20 ranking
Ordered by the highest year-end rating among the fiscal years in which the player was age 20 or younger. It shows how strong a player became while young.
| Rank | Players | Rating | FY |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sota Fujii Active | 2122 | FY2022 (age 20) |
| 2 | Yoshiharu Habu Active | 1928 | FY1988 (age 18) |
| 3 | Akira Watanabe Active | 1898 | FY2004 (age 20) |
| 4 | Nagisa Fujimoto Active | 1890 | FY2025 (age 20) |
| 5 | Makoto Nakahara | 1863 | FY1967 (age 20) |
| 6 | Masayuki Toyoshima Active | 1851 | FY2010 (age 20) |
| 7 | Koji Tanigawa Active | 1850 | FY1981 (age 19) |
| 8 | Tatsuya Sugai Active | 1842 | FY2011 (age 19) |
| 9 | Nobuyuki Yashiki Active | 1839 | FY1990 (age 19) |
| 10 | Yasuhiro Masuda Active | 1823 | FY2017 (age 20) |
| 11 | Takumi Ito Active | 1821 | FY2022 (age 20) |
| 12 | Toshiyuki Moriuchi Active | 1813 | FY1990 (age 20) |
| 13 | Takuya Nagase Active | 1802 | FY2012 (age 20) |
| 14 | Yoshikazu Minami Active | 1785 | FY1982 (age 19) |
| 15 | Toshiaki Kubo Active | 1784 | FY1995 (age 20) |
| 16 | Yasumitsu Satoh Active | 1775 | FY1989 (age 20) |
| 17 | Manabu Senzaki Active | 1771 | FY1990 (age 20) |
| 18 | Yuuki Sasaki Active | 1769 | FY2013 (age 19) |
| 19 | Yasuaki Tsukada Active | 1766 | FY1984 (age 20) |
| 19 | Shota Chida Active | 1766 | FY2014 (age 20) |
| 21 | Seiya Kondou Active | 1762 | FY2016 (age 20) |
| 22 | Takayuki Yamasaki Active | 1760 | FY2000 (age 20) |
| 23 | Tetsuro Itodani Active | 1758 | FY2008 (age 20) |
| 24 | Taku Morishita Active | 1749 | FY1986 (age 20) |
| 25 | Kouru Abe Active | 1748 | FY2013 (age 19) |
| 26 | Satoshi Murayama | 1740 | FY1988 (age 19) |
| 27 | Bungo Fukusaki | 1736 | FY1979 (age 20) |
| 28 | Daisuke Nakagawa Active | 1733 | FY1988 (age 20) |
| 29 | Koichi Fukaura Active | 1722 | FY1991 (age 20) |
| 30 | Hiroyuki Miura Active | 1721 | FY1993 (age 20) |
| 31 | Masataka Goda Active | 1719 | FY1990 (age 20) |
| 32 | Osamu Nakamura Active | 1713 | FY1982 (age 20) |
| 33 | Keiichi Sanada Active | 1707 | FY1992 (age 20) |
| 34 | Shintaro Saito Active | 1699 | FY2012 (age 19) |
| 35 | Tadahisa Maruyama Active | 1694 | FY1990 (age 20) |
| 35 | Kensuke Kitahama Active | 1694 | FY1995 (age 20) |
| 37 | Shingo Sawada Active | 1693 | FY2010 (age 19) |
| 38 | Takanori Hashimoto | 1692 | FY2002 (age 20) |
| 38 | Akira Inaba Active | 1692 | FY2008 (age 20) |
| 40 | Akira Shima Active | 1688 | FY1982 (age 20) |
| 41 | Chikara Akutsu Active | 1684 | FY2002 (age 20) |
| 42 | Akihiro Takada Active | 1681 | FY2022 (age 20) |
| 43 | Taichi Takami Active | 1676 | FY2013 (age 20) |
| 44 | Ichiro Hiura Active | 1675 | FY1984 (age 19) |
| 45 | Keita Inoue Active | 1669 | FY1983 (age 20) |
| 45 | Ayumu Matsuo Active | 1669 | FY1999 (age 20) |
| 47 | Wataru Yashiro Active | 1668 | FY2012 (age 19) |
| 48 | Hirotaka Kajiura Active | 1664 | FY2015 (age 20) |
| 49 | Akihito Hirose Active | 1663 | FY2006 (age 20) |
| 50 | Kiyozumi Kiriyama | 1662 | FY1967 (age 20) |
Ratings are this site's own calculations (official games since FY1964; each fiscal year is scaled so that the average is 1600). Only fiscal years with 20 or more games are counted; the current year is excluded. Age is the player's age in that fiscal year.