The 2022–23 WE League Cup is the 1st season of the WE League Cup, a women's football cup tournament that will be contested annually between WE League clubs. As the league have as of the 2022–23 season only 11 clubs featuring in the tournament and the plan was to make a group stage between the knockouts, it was necessary that six teams featured in a group, and five in another. The winner of each group got a ticket to the final, which will be contested by Urawa Red Diamonds and Tokyo Verdy Beleza. Despite the tournament refers to itself as if it was played between two different years, the tournament starts and ends on 2022, as the "–23" refers to the Japan professional women's football season on the WE League, which starts in 2022 and (actually) ends on 2023. The final of this edition will be played on 1 October 2022.
Schedule MatchdayDateGroup stageMatchday 120 or 21 AugustMatchday 227 or 28 AugustMatchday 33 or 4 SeptemberMatchday 410 or 11 SeptemberMatchday 517 or 18 or 19 SeptemberMatchday 624 or 25 SeptemberFinal1 October
Group stage
Group A
Group B
Final
Awards AwardPlayerClubMVP
Top scorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1Riko UekiNippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza62Kozue AndoUrawa Red Diamonds Ladies43Yuika SugasawaUrawa Red Diamonds Ladies3Aoba FujinoNippon TV Tokyo Verdy BelezaRio TakizawaAC Nagano Parceiro Ladies6Miyu YakataMyNavi Sendai2Hikaru NaomotoUrawa Red Diamonds LadiesKiko SeikeUrawa Red Diamonds LadiesMayu KarahashiChifure AS Elfen SaitamaMiho KamogawaJEF United Chiba LadiesTomoko MuramatsuNippon TV Tokyo Verdy BelezaKana FujiwaraNojima Stella Kanagawa SagamiharaAyaka MichigamiAlbirex Niigata LadiesMina TanakaINAC Kobe LeonessaMoeno SakaguchiINAC Kobe LeonessaHaruna KawashimaSanfrecce Hiroshima Regina
TV broadcasting BS TV Tokyo Corporation (final match only)
Internet live streaming (all matches)
See also Japan Football Association (JFA) 2023 in Japanese football 2022–23 WE League season 2023 Nadeshiko League 2023 Empress's Cup
References
External links 2022–23 Matches, weleague.jp 2022–23 Standings, weleague.jp 2022–23 Final Result, data.weleague.jp