The 2023 Yokohama F. Marinos season was the club's 51st season in existence and the 41st consecutive season in the top flight of Japanese football. In addition to the domestic league, in which they are the defending champions, Yokohama F. Marinos participates in this season's editions of the Emperor's Cup, the J.League Cup and the AFC Champions League.
The club officially started the 2023 season resuming training sessions on 10 January 2023. They unveiled the team for the 2023 season including new signings presentations, as well as new shirt number system, on 14 January 2023.
Players Current squad
Out on loan
Transfers
Transfers inJoin onPos.PlayerMoving fromTransfer type21 MarFW Kenyu Sugimoto Júbilo IwataLoan transfer2 MarMF Manato Yoshida NIFS KanoyaLoan transfer; 2023 DSP22 FebGK Jun Ichimori Gamba OsakaLoan transferPre-seasonGK Hiroki Iikura Vissel KobeFull transferPre-seasonGK Fuma Shirasaka Kagoshima UnitedLoan returnPre-seasonDF Takumi Kamijima Kashiwa ReysolFull transferPre-seasonMF Kenta Inoue Oita TrinitaFull transferPre-seasonMF Takuto Kimura Meiji UniversityFull transferPre-seasonMF Yuhi Murakami Kanto Gakuen UniversityFull transferPre-seasonMF Keigo Sakakibara ReinMeer AomoriLoan returnPre-seasonFW Asahi Uenaka V-Varen NagasakiFull transfer
Transfers outLeave onPos.PlayerMoving toTransfer typePre-seasonGK Yohei Takaoka Vancouver WhitecapsFull transferPre-seasonGK Hirotsugu Nakabayashi Nankatsu SCFull transferPre-seasonDF Ko Ikeda Esperanza SCFull transferPre-seasonDF Yusuke Nishida Nagano ParceiroLoan transferPre-seasonMF Naoki Tsubaki JEF United ChibaFull transferPre-seasonMF Tomoki Iwata Celtic FCLoan transferPre-seasonMF Jun Amano Jeonbuk Hyundai MotorsLoan transferPre-seasonMF Takumi Tsukui Azul Claro NumazuLoan transferPre-seasonMF Shunsuke Hirai Reilac ShigaLoan transferPre-seasonFW Yushi Yamaya Geylang InternationalFull transferPre-seasonFW Léo Ceará Cerezo OsakaFull transferPre-seasonFW Teruhito Nakagawa FC TokyoFull transferPre-seasonFW Ryonosuke Kabayama Sagan TosuFull transferPre-seasonFW Talla Ndao FC OsakaFull transfer
Pre-season friendlies
Mid-season friendlies
Competitions Overall record
J1 League
Marinos is the current champions of the competition, winning the last season title on the last round after beating Vissel Kobe by 3–1. They stayed 2 points off Kawasaki Frontale, who also won their last league match against FC Tokyo, meaning that if Marinos had lost to Vissel, Frontale would be crowned J1 champions for a third consecutive season. With this title win, Marinos started the season as the second team with most J1 League titles, with 5 in total. They need 3 more titles to tie with 8-times J1 champions Kashima Antlers.
League table
Results summary
Matches The opening match was released by the J.League on 23 December 2022. The full league fixtures were released on 20 January 2023.
Emperor's Cup
As a J1 League club, Marinos starts the competition at the second round, not having to play prefectural qualifiers.
J.League Cup
As Marinos qualified for the AFC Champions League, the club would immediately be awarded a bye from the competition's group stage, entering it only in the quarter-finals. However, as the continental tournament only starts on September, instead of early in the year (as usual), Marinos had to play the group stage alongside the other 19 participating teams.
Quarter-finals
Yokohama F. Marinos won 5–3 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
Urawa Red Diamonds won 2–1 on aggregate.
Super Cup
AFC Champions League
Marinos qualified to play the 2023–24 AFC Champions League as 2022 J1 League champions. With the title, the club earned a direct entry to the competition's group stage. The group stage is planned by the AFC to start on 18 September 2023.
Group stage
Goalscorers
Player J1 League Emperor's Cup J.League Cup AFC CL Super Cup Total1FW 11 Anderson Lopes 210210242MF 7 Élber 90011113FW 20 Yan Matheus 6011084FW 30 Takuma Nishimura 302117FW 14 Asahi Uenaka 3040076MF 23 Ryo Miyaichi 3111067MF 18 Kota Mizunuma 1022058MF 10 Marcos Júnior 201003DF 27 Ken Matsubara 201003MF 25 Kaina Yoshio 102003––Own goal300003 12 DF 2 Katsuya Nagato 200002MF 6 Kota Watanabe 200002MF 16 Joel Chima Fujita 200002FW 31 Kenyu Sugimoto 10010216 DF 5 Eduardo 010001MF 8 Takuya Kida 100001MF 17 Kenta Inoue 010001MF 35 Keigo Sakakibara 001001FW 29 Nam Tae-hee 001001FW 36 Yuhi Murakami 000101 Total623189294
References
External links Official website