| Club: | Vissel Kobe |
| Season: | 2020 |
| Manager: | Thorsten Fink (until 22 September 2020)[1] Atsuhiro Miura (from 24 September 2020)[2] |
| Mgrtitle: | Manager |
| Chairman: | Katsuhiro Shimizu |
| Chrtitle: | Chairman |
| Stdtitle: | Ground |
| Stadium: | Noevir Stadium Kobe Kobe, Japan (Capacity: 30,134) |
| League: | J1 League |
| League Result: | 14th |
| Cup1: | J. League Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Quarter-finals |
| Cup2: | Japanese Super Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Winners |
| Cup3: | AFC Champions League |
| Cup3 Result: | Semi-finals |
| League Topscorer: | Kyogo Furuhashi (12) |
| Season Topscorer: | Kyogo Furuhashi (17) |
| Highest Attendance: | 25,059 (vs. Yokohama, 23 February 2020, J1 League)[3] |
| Average Attendance: | 5,476[4] |
| Pattern B1: | _vissel20h |
| Pattern So1: | _vissel_kobe_2020h |
| Leftarm1: | 5F0101 |
| Body1: | 900 |
| Rightarm1: | 5F0101 |
| Shorts1: | 5F0101 |
| Socks1: | 5F0101 |
| Pattern B2: | _vissel_kobe_2020a |
| Pattern So2: | _vissel_kobe_2020a |
| Leftarm2: | fff |
| Body2: | fff |
| Rightarm2: | fff |
| Shorts2: | 231F20 |
| Socks2: | fff |
| Prevseason: | 2019 |
| Nextseason: | 2021 |
The 2020 Vissel Kobe season was Vissel Kobe's seventh consecutive season in the J1 League following promotion to the top flight in 2013 and their 22nd J1 League season overall. The club also took part in the J. League Cup, the 2020 Japanese Super Cup, and the 2020 AFC Champions League. The club secured their first ever appearances in the latter two competition as winners of the 2019 Emperor's Cup.[5] [6]
See main article: 2020 J1 League.
See main article: 2020 J.League Cup.
See main article: 2020 Japanese Super Cup.
See main article: 2020 AFC Champions League.
Matches
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Player | J.League | Emperor's Cup | J.League Cup | Japanese Super Cup | AFC Champions League | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 | FW |  Kyogo Furuhashi | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 17 | |
| 2 | 49 | FW |  Douglas | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |
| 3 | 5 | MF | Hotaru Yamaguchi | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |
| 4 | 14 | MF |  Andrés Iniesta | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
| 5 | 9 | FW | Noriaki Fujimoto | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| 27 | MF | Yuta Goke | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 13 | FW | Keijiro Ogawa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | |
| 8 | 33 | DF | Dankler | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| 9 | 21 | FW | Junya Tanaka | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 22 | DF | Daigo Nishi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 11 | 14 | MF | Takuya Yasui | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 24 | DF | Gōtoku Sakai | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| 41 | FW | Yutaro Oda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| Own goals | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 50 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 66 | ||||
| Rank | No. | Pos. | Player | J.League | Emperor's Cup | J.League Cup | Japanese Super Cup | AFC Champions League | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | GK | Hiroki Iikura | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | |
| Total | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | ||||