| Club: | Sanfrecce Hiroshima |
| Season: | 2023 |
| Manager: | Michael Skibbe |
| Stadium: | Edion Stadium Hiroshima Hiroshima, Hiroshima |
| League: | J1 League |
| League Result: | 3rd |
| Cup1 Result: | Third round |
| Cup2: | J.League Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Group stage |
| League Topscorer: | Douglas Vieira (6 goals) |
| Season Topscorer: | Douglas Vieira (6 goals) |
| Highest Attendance: | 15,749 vs Kashiwa Reysol (19 March; J1 League) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 3,263 vs FC Tokushima (7 June; Emperor's Cup) |
| Average Attendance: | 13,532 |
| Largest Win: | 5–0 vs Vissel Kobe (5 April; J.League Cup) 5–0 vs FC Tokushima (7 June; Emperor's Cup) |
| Largest Loss: | 0–2 vs Vissel Kobe (13 May; J1 League) 0–2 vs Albirex Niigata (1 July; J1 League) |
| Updated: | 2 July 2023 |
| Prevseason: | 2022 |
| Nextseason: | 2024 |
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The 2023 Sanfrecce Hiroshima season is their 85th season in existence and their 15th consecutive season in the J1 League. In addition to the league, the club competed in the Emperor's Cup and J. League Cup. As the third-placed team on last season's J1 League, they would have been qualified to the 2023–24 AFC Champions League play-offs. However, on 6 May, they lost their continental participation spot as Urawa Red Diamonds won the 2022 AFC Champions League.
| Transfers in[1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Join on | Pos. | Player | Moving from | Transfer type |
| Pre-season | GK |  Yudai Tanaka | Blaublitz Akita | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | DF | Takaaki Shichi | Avispa Fukuoka | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | DF | Shuto Nakano | Toin University of Yokohama | Free transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Hiroya Matsumoto | Zweigen Kanazawa | Loan return |
| Pre-season | MF | Taichi Yamasaki | Juntendo University | Free transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Sota Koshimichi | Sanfrecce Hiroshima U18s | Promotion |
| Transfers out | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leave on | Pos. | Player | Moving to | Transfer type |
| Pre-season | DF | Yuki Nogami | Nagoya Grampus | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | DF | Osamu Henry Iyoha | Kyoto Sanga | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | DF | Yuta Imazu | V-Varen Nagasaki | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Tomoya Fujii | Kashima Antlers | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Kodai Dohi | Ventforet Kofu | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Motoki Ohara | Mito HollyHock | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | FW |  Júnior Santos | Fortaleza EC | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | FW | Ryo Nagai | Fagiano Okayama | Full transfer; Loan made permanent |
See main article: 2023 J1 League. After the club surpassed many fans' expectations with their last season's performances, the club finished in the 3rd place on the 2022 J1 League. This season, their squad was barely touched, with only a few regulars leaving the team.
The opening match was released by the J.League on 23 December 2022.[2] The full league fixtures were released on 20 January 2023.[3]
See main article: 2023 Emperor's Cup. As a J1 League club, it started in the 2nd round of the competition. Sanfrecce was the runner-up of the competition in the previous season.[4] [5]
See main article: 2023 J.League Cup. As every other club, Sanfrecce starts the competition at the group stage. The club will play the season as the defending champions, after they won past Cerezo Osaka in the 2022 J.League Cup Final by a 2–1 win, which was earned with a last-minute comeback.[6]
| Player | J1 League | Emperor's Cup | J.League Cup | AFC CL | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | ||
| 2 | MF | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ||
| 3 | FW | 11 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | ||
| DF | 19 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | |||
| 5 | MF | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| 6 | DF | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| MF | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| FW | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| DF | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||
| DF | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| 11 | FW | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| DF | 24 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| DF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| MF | 30 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Total | 20 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 36 | ||||