| Club: | Yokohama F. Marinos |
| Season: | 2023 |
| Chairman: | Akihiro Nakayama |
| Manager: | Kevin Muscat |
| Stadium: | Nissan Stadium |
| League: | J1 League |
| League Result: | 2nd |
| Cup1 Result: | Third round |
| Cup2: | J.League Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Semi-finals |
| Cup3: | AFC Champions League |
| Cup3 Result: | Group stage |
| Cup4: | Japanese Super Cup |
| Cup4 Result: | Winners |
| League Topscorer: | Anderson Lopes (21 goals) |
| Season Topscorer: | Anderson Lopes (24 goals) |
| Highest Attendance: | 42,772 (v. Kawasaki Frontale, J1 League, 15 July)[1] |
| Lowest Attendance: | 4,287 (v. Briobecca Urayasu, Emperor's Cup, 7 June) |
| Average Attendance: | 27,301 |
| Largest Win: | 5–0 (v. Yokohama FC, J1 League, 8 April) 6–1 (v. Sagan Tosu, J.League Cup, 18 June) |
| Largest Loss: | 4–1 (v. Yokohama FC, J1 League, 26 August) |
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| Updated: | 23:06, 20 November 2023 (UTC) |
| Prevseason: | 2022 |
| Nextseason: | 2024 |
The 2023 Yokohama F. Marinos season is 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.[2]
See main article: article.
| Transfers in[3] | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Join on | Pos. | Player | Moving from | Transfer type |
| 21 Mar | FW |  Kenyu Sugimoto | Júbilo Iwata | Loan transfer |
| 2 Mar | MF | Manato Yoshida | NIFS Kanoya | Loan transfer; 2023 DSP |
| 22 Feb | GK | Jun Ichimori | Gamba Osaka | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | GK | Hiroki Iikura | Vissel Kobe | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | GK | Fuma Shirasaka | Kagoshima United | Loan return |
| Pre-season | DF | Takumi Kamijima | Kashiwa Reysol | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Kenta Inoue | Oita Trinita | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Takuto Kimura | Meiji University | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Yuhi Murakami | Kanto Gakuen University | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Keigo Sakakibara | ReinMeer Aomori | Loan return |
| Pre-season | FW | Asahi Uenaka | V-Varen Nagasaki | Full transfer |
| Transfers out | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leave on | Pos. | Player | Moving to | Transfer type |
| Pre-season | GK | Yohei Takaoka |  Vancouver Whitecaps | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | GK | Hirotsugu Nakabayashi | Nankatsu SC | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | DF | Ko Ikeda | Esperanza SC | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | DF | Yusuke Nishida | Nagano Parceiro | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Naoki Tsubaki | JEF United Chiba | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Tomoki Iwata | Celtic FC | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Jun Amano |  Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Takumi Tsukui | Azul Claro Numazu | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | MF | Shunsuke Hirai | Reilac Shiga | Loan transfer |
| Pre-season | FW | Yushi Yamaya |  Geylang International | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | FW |  Léo Ceará | Cerezo Osaka | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | FW | Teruhito Nakagawa | FC Tokyo | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | FW | Ryonosuke Kabayama | Sagan Tosu | Full transfer |
| Pre-season | FW | Talla Ndao | FC Osaka | Full transfer |
See main article: 2023 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.
The opening match was released by the J.League on 23 December 2022.[4] The full league fixtures were released on 20 January 2023.[5]
See main article: 2023 Emperor's Cup. As a J1 League club, Marinos starts the competition at the second round, not having to play prefectural qualifiers.
See main article: 2023 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.
Yokohama F. Marinos won 5–3 on aggregate.
Urawa Red Diamonds won 2–1 on aggregate.
See main article: 2023 Japanese Super Cup.
See main article: 2023–24 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.[6]
See main article: 2023–24 AFC Champions League group stage.
| Player | J1 League | Emperor's Cup | J.League Cup | AFC CL | Super Cup | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW | 11 | 21 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 24 | ||
| 2 | MF | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 11 | ||
| 3 | FW | 20 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | ||
| 4 | FW | 30 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | ||
| FW | 14 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||
| 6 | MF | 23 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||
| 7 | MF | 18 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | ||
| 8 | MF | 10 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| DF | 27 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||
| MF | 25 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||
| – | – | Own goal | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||
| 12 | DF | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| MF | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| MF | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||
| FW | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||
| 16 | DF | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||
| MF | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| MF | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| MF | 35 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| FW | 29 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||
| FW | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
| Total | 62 | 3 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 94 | ||||