| Club: | Urawa Red Diamonds |
| Season: | 2023 |
| Manager: | Maciej Skorża |
| Stadium: | Saitama Stadium 2002 and Urawa Komaba Stadium Saitama, Saitama |
| League: | J1 League |
| League Result: | 4th |
| Cup1 Result: | Third round |
| Cup2: | J.League Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Runners-up |
| Cup3: | AFC Champions League |
| Cup3 Result: | Group stage |
| Cup4: | FIFA Club World Cup |
| Cup4 Result: | Fourth place |
| League Topscorer: | José Kanté (8) |
| Season Topscorer: | José Kanté (14) |
| Highest Attendance: | 45,575 vs Kashima Antlers (4 June; J1 League) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 5,351 vs Kansai University (7 June; Emperor's Cup) |
| Average Attendance: | 26,836 |
| Largest Win: | 6–0 vs Hanoi FC (4 October; AFC Champions League) |
| Largest Loss: | 3–0 vs Nagoya Grampus (2 August;Third Round Emperor's Cup) 3–0 vs Manchester City (19 December; Semifinal Club World Cup) |
| Prevseason: | 2022 |
| Nextseason: | 2024 |
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The 2023 Urawa Red Diamonds season was their 73rd season in existence and the 23rd consecutive season in the J1 League. In addition to the league, the club competed in the Emperor's Cup, the J. League Cup, the 2023–24 AFC Champions League and the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup.
| Transfers in[1] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Join on | Pos. | Player | Moving from | Transfer type |
| 3 Jul | MF |  Hiroki Abe |  FC Barcelona B | Free transfer |
| 1 Jun | DF | Yuta Miyamoto |  KMSK Deinze | Loan return |
| 13 Mar | FW | José Kanté |  Cangzhou Mighty Lions | Free transfer |
| Pre-season | GK | Shun Yoshida | Oita Trinita | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | DF |  Marius Høibråten | FK Bodø/Glimt | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | DF | Takuya Ogiwara | Kyoto Sanga | Loan return |
| Pre-season | MF | Ken Iwao | Tokushima Vortis | Full transfer; Loan made permanent |
| Pre-season | MF | Yota Horiuchi | Urawa Reds U18s | Promotion |
| Pre-season | FW | Toshiki Takahashi | Roasso Kumamoto | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | FW | Shinzo Koroki | Consadole Sapporo | Loan return |
| Transfers out | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leave on | Pos. | Player | Moving to | Transfer type |
| 3 Jul | MF | Kai Matsuzaki | Vegalta Sendai | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | GK | Ryo Ishii | Thespakusatsu Gunma | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | DF | Yuta Miyamoto | KMSK Deinze | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | DF | Yudai Fujiwara | Machida Zelvia | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | DF | Kota Kudo | Fujieda MYFC | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | DF | Ryuya Fukushima | Kochi United | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Ataru Esaka |  Ulsan Hyundai | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Daiki Kaneko | Kyoto Sanga | Full transfer; Loan made permanent |
| Pre-season | MF | Hidetoshi Takeda | Mito HollyHock | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | FW | Kenyu Sugimoto | Júbilo Iwata | Full transfer; Loan made permanent |
| Pre-season | FW | Kasper Junker | Nagoya Grampus | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | FW | Rei Kihara | Nagano Parceiro | Loan transfer |
See main article: 2023 J1 League.
The full league fixtures were released on 20 January 2023.[2]
See main article: 2023 Emperor's Cup. As Urawa is a J1 club, it starts the competition at the second round.
See main article: 2023 J.League Cup. The club started the competition at the group stage.
See main article: 2023-24 AFC Champions League. Urawa qualified to the play-off round of the competition because they are the defending champions and would not qualify to the Champions League by their national competitions. This is due to the club not being able to finish in a sufficiently high position in the J1 League and in the Emperor's Cup during the 2022 season.
The two-legged final was originally scheduled to be played on 19 and 26 February. However, Urawa's main stadium, the Saitama Stadium 2002 was not available due to pitch maintenance around this date, and then, would see Urawa having to host the second leg at the Urawa Komaba Stadium. As a result of this conflict, the AFC decided to rearrange the dates even further on the calendar, rescheduling the matches to late April and early May.
See main article: 2023 FIFA Club World Cup.
Urawa Red Diamonds qualified for the 2023 FIFA Club World Cup as winners of the 2022 AFC Champions League final. They will play the 2023 CONCACAF Champions League winners, Club León, in the quarterfinals.
Updated as of 2 July 2023.[3]
| Player | J1 League | Emperor's Cup | J.League Cup | 2022 ACL Final | 2023–24 ACL | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW | 30 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | ||
| 2 | FW | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 3 | MF | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| DF | 28 | Alexander Scholz | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| MF | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||
| DF | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||
| 7 | DF | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| MF | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| FW | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| 10 | DF | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| FW | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| FW | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| MF | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| MF | 35 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Total | 26 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 32 | ||||