| Club: | Vissel Kobe |
| Season: | 2018 |
| Manager: | Takayuki Yoshida |
| Mgrtitle: | Manager |
| Chairman: | Katsuhiro Shimizu |
| Chrtitle: | Chairman |
| League: | J1 League |
| League Result: | 10th |
| Cup1: | Emperor's Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Fourth round |
| Cup2: | J. League Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Quarter-final |
| League Topscorer: | Hirotaka Mita (6 goals) |
| Season Topscorer: | Wellington (11 goals) |
| Highest Attendance: | 26,603 (vs. Sagan Tosu, 10 November, J1 League) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 2,202 (vs. Fukuoka University, 6 June, Emperor's Cup) |
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| Prevseason: | 2017 |
| Nextseason: | 2019 |
The 2018 Vissel Kobe season was Vissel Kobe's fifth season back in the J1 League following their promotion in 2013 and their 20th J1 League season. They also competed in the 2018 Emperor's Cup and the 2018 J.League Cup.
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See main article: List of J1 League football transfers winter 2017–18. In:Out:
See main article: List of Japanese football transfers summer 2018. In:[2] [3] [4] Out:[5]
See main article: 2018 J1 League.
See main article: 2018 J. League Cup.
See main article: 2018 Emperor's Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players away on loan:|-|colspan="14"|Players who left Vissel Kobe during the season:|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=80 | J-League | width=80 | J-League Cup | width=80 | Emperor's Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW |  | 17 | Wellington | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 | |||||||||
| 2 | FW |  | 19 | Kazuma Watanabe | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 | |||||||||
| MF | | 8 | Hirotaka Mita | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 4 | FW | 10 | Lukas Podolski | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 5 | FW | | 33 | Shuhei Otsuki | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| 6 | FW | | 21 | Junya Tanaka | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| MF |  | 5 | Jung Woo-young | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| MF |  | 8 | Andrés Iniesta | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| FW | | 38 | Daiju Sasaki | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| FW | | 9 | Mike Havenaar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 14 | Naoyuki Fujita | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 20 | Asahi Masuyama | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 27 | Yuta Goke | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 24 | Masatoshi Mihara | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Own goal | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||||
| 14 | FW | | 16 | Kyogo Furuhashi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| FW | | 11 | Leandro | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| MF | | 35 | Takuya Yasui | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| TOTALS | 31 | 16 | 9 | 56 | |||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | J-League | J. League Cup | Emperor's Cup | Total | ||||||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | GK | Daiki Maekawa | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 2 | | DF | Daisuke Nasu | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 3 | | DF | Hirofumi Watanabe | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 4 | | DF | Kunie Kitamoto | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 6 | | DF | Shunki Takahashi | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 7 | | MF | Hirotaka Mita | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | FW | Lukas Podolski | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||||
| 14 | | MF | Naoyuki Fujita | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 15 | | DF | Daiki Miya | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 16 | | FW | Kyogo Furuhashi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 17 | | FW | Wellington | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | | GK | Kim Seung-gyu | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 21 | | FW | Junya Tanaka | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 22 | | DF | Wataru Hashimoto | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 23 | | MF | Yoshiki Matsushita | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 24 | | MF | Masatoshi Mihara | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| 25 | | DF | Leo Osaki | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 27 | | MF | Yuta Goke | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 30 |  | DF | Theerathon Bunmathan | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 35 | | MF | Takuya Yasui | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
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| 9 | | FW | Mike Havenaar | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Players who left Vissel Kobe during the season: | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | | MF | Jung Woo-young | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| TOTALS | 41 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 57 | 1 | |||||||