Team

Team's are what are used to separate members of AKB48, SKE48, NMB48, HKT48 and JKT48 up. By using 'Teams', stage shows can have a low number of members. Teams are named after the letters used in their group's name. Kenkyuusei is sometimes referred to as a Team, but is not officially. Teams also have Team Captains, and Teams usually have a number of around 16 members.

In the case when a Team's name has already been taken up, roman numerals are used to signify which number of letter that team is.

Currently, the only situation where Teams weren't used, was in SDN48, where members were separated by using generations instead.

Sometimes, there are special groups made within the AKB48 Group, such as single coupling song groups, like Team PB and Team YJ. Special teams, such as Team Undecided and Team Unknown, are also used for when a member is either transferred or promoted, but there either is no team spot available, or they haven't been allocated to a team yet.

Currently, a special Team, Team Kaigai is being used for AKB48 members who are temporarily transferred to sister groups abroad.

AKB48

• Team A - (Captain Shinoda Mariko)
• Team K - (Captain Oshima Yuko)
• Team B - (Captain Umeda Ayaka)
• Team 4 (Disbanded)

SKE48

• Team S - (Currently no Captain)
• Team KII - (Captain Takayanagi Akane)
• Team E - (Captain Umemoto Madoka)

NMB48

• Team N - (Captain Yamamoto Sayaka)
• Team M - (Captain Shimada Rena)
• Team BII - (Captain Kamieda Emika)

HKT48

• Team H - (Captain Anai Chihiro)

JKT48

• Team J - (Captain Devi Kinal Putri)