Top 6

The Top 6 gathers the finest six talents left standing after the Second Selection, the players judged the sharpest the Blue Lock Project has produced. Rather than staying together, they are paired off into three two-man cores, seeding Team A with Rin Itoshi and Ryusei Shido, Team B with Tabito Karasu and Eita Otoya, and Team C with Kenyu Yukimiya and Seishiro Nagi.

Membership is settled at the Third Selection tryout, where Jinpachi Ego weighs several measures together: how many goals a player scored against Team World Five, career goals dating back to the First Selection, the personal assessments handed down by the Team World Five squad, and Ego's own read on each candidate. From that calculus he ranks the field, placing Rin Itoshi first, then Ryusei Shido, Tabito Karasu, Eita Otoya, Kenyu Yukimiya, and Seishiro Nagi, with Meguru Bachira landing just outside the cut in seventh.

The six confirmed names are Rin Itoshi at the summit, followed by Ryusei Shido, Tabito Karasu, Eita Otoya, Kenyu Yukimiya, and Seishiro Nagi. Their shirt numbers vary widely, from Itoshi's number one to Shido's 111, reflecting how scattered their origins were across the program before this elite band was drawn together. The grouping is later disbanded once the tryout teams take shape.