* Because of its potential to help promote the sport, Japan Football Association assisted with the development of the Captain Tsubasa series.
    * Captain Tsubasa has inspired the likes of prominent footballers such as Hidetoshi Nakata,[9] Seigo Narazaki, Zinedine Zidane, Francesco Totti, Fernando Torres and Alessandro Del Piero [10] to play football and choose it as a career.
    * Some characters in the Captain Tsubasa series are based on real life football players. For example Juan Diaz, Brain Cruyfford and Mark Owairan are based on Diego Maradona, Johan Cruijff and Saeed Al-Owairan respectively.
    * Real life players such as Yasuhiko Okudera and Ruud Gullit have been actively featured in the manga.
    * A part of a scene from the famous Nankatsu-Toho Final appeared in another football anime called Pegasus.
    * There is a small parody of captain Tsubasa in the first episode of "Eyeshield 21" which is an American football anime.
    * Shaolin Soccer was inspired by Captain Tsubasa.[11] The final shot in the movie, in which the ball mimics the form of a tiger, is based on Hyuga's trademark tiger shot.
    * In the Arabic dub of the show, Tsubasa is called Majed after the Saudi football star Majed Abdullah.
    * Recently a Japanese-aid truck in Iraq was decorated with images of Captain Tsubasa, to dissipate people's fear of it, due to the popularity of the program.
    * In volume 52 of JoJo's Bizarre adventure, inside of Coco Jumbo's stand-created room, there's a Tv showing the face of the protagonist Tsubasa Oozora.
    * Captain Tsubasa has been very successful in Mexico and other Latin American countries that have a great love for football. In Mexico there were several name changes, as the series being called Super Campeones. Tsubasa Ozora was named Oliver Atom, Kojiro Hyuga was named Steve Hyuga, Genzo Wakabayashi was named Benji Price, Taro Misaki was named Tom Becker and Ken Wakashimazu was named Richard Tex-Tex, among others. Of the most popular characters, Aoi Shingo actually kept his name intact, although he was known as Terry in Spain dubbing.
    * In Brazil, even though all Japanese family names were retained (except for Roberto, who had his Hongo surname replaced with the nickname Maravilha, which means "wonder"), three of the characters had their given names changed: Ozora was renamed Oliver Tsubasa, Genzo was rebaptized Benji Wakabayashi and Taro was rechristened Carlos Misaki.
    * Captain Tsubasa was also highly popular in Italy. Entitled "Holly & Benji", most of the characters' Japanese names were changed to English names, such as Oliver "Holly" Hutton (pronounced "Atton") for Captain Tsubasa and Benji Price for Genzo Wakabayashi. Other notable names included Mark Landers, as Tsubasa Ozora's arch-rival Kojiro Hyuga. The team names were also changed to more English sounding names such as the "New Team" for Nankatsu (probably due to the "N" on their jerseys),"Saint Francis" for Shutetsu, "Mambo" for Musashi FC, and "Muppet" for Meiwa FC. Also, in Mexican version, the name for Nankatsu team was changed to Niupi, Meiwa FC was translated to "Franco Canadiense", Toho to "Colegio Superior", Musashi FC to "Colegio Aleman".
    * As of may 2006 Captain Tsubasa has sold the 7th most copies of any manga serialized in Shounen Jump, out selling series such as Rurouni Kenshin and Yu Yu Hakusho.