Team Z

Team Z occupies the lowest rung of the five strata that divide the Blue Lock intake, its roster drawn from the eleven weakest-graded players at the program's launch. The Japanese side plays in blue and black. That bottom placement proves misleading, because the group turns out to be far tougher than its label suggests.

Through the First Selection the team refuses to fold, stringing together enough wins to take second in its group while every player hardens into a genuine striker and the unit gels. Their high point is toppling the supposedly unbeatable Team V. The run leaves a lasting mark on the wider story: no other original team sends half its members to the Third Selection, and Team Z later dominates the Blue Lock Eleven roster with four starters and two substitutes. Several of the same names go on to start in the Neo Egoist League and to join the rebuilt Japan U-20, supplying four of that side's six returning starters. Their stage results read as a 1-5 loss to Team X, a 2-1 win over Team Y, a 4-4 draw with Team W, and a 5-4 triumph over Team V.

Yoichi Isagi wears number eleven and anchors the group alongside Meguru Bachira, Rensuke Kunigami, Hyoma Chigiri, Gin Gagamaru, Jingo Raichi, Gurimu Igarashi, Wataru Kuon, Asahi Naruhaya, Yudai Imamura, and goalkeeper Okuhito Iemon, with Ryosuke Kira counted as a brief former member. In scoring, Kunigami and Kuon each bag three, Isagi adds two goals and a team-high three assists, Chigiri scores twice, and Bachira contributes a goal with five assists. The team is disbanded once its members scatter across the later selections.