# 2023 All Japan Senior Football Championship

The 59th All Japan Senior Football Championship (Japanese: 第59回全国社会人サッカー選手権大会, Hepburn: Dai 59-kai zenkoku shakai hito sakkā senshuken taikai), officially the 2023 All Japan Adults Football Tournament, and most known as the 2023 Shakaijin Cup, was the 59th edition of the annually contested single-elimination tournament (or cup) for the best-ranked amateur clubs in Japan. As it's restricted to non-league clubs (Participating on Regional or Prefectural Leagues; not included in the nation-wide league competitions), the defending champions, Briobecca Urayasu, could not defend their title as they are playing the 2023 season in the Japan Football League, Japan's 4th-tier league. All the matches were streamed in the "Shakaijin Cup" channel.

## Venues

* Saga City
** Saga Stadium (SAGAスタジアム)
** Saga Sunrise Park Ball Game Field A/B (SAGAサンライズパーク_ボールフィールド A/B)
** Saga Healthy Active Life Promote Center Soccer/Rugby Field (佐賀市健康運動センターサッカー・ラグビー場)
* Tosu City
** Ekimae Real Estate Stadium (駅前不動産スタジアム)
** Tosu Stadium Northern Ground A/B (鳥栖スタジアム北部グラウンド A/B)

## Holding method

Every match at the tournament was played with 40 minutes per half, instead of the usual 45, with every match being played under 80 minutes of action in total, excluding added time. The match would go directly to a penalty shoot-out, if a winner was not decided after the full-time whistle. Up to five substitutions in three or less substitution breaks (excluding half-time) were allowed at the tournament, as per FIFA recommendation.
The top three teams qualified to play on the 2023 edition of the Japanese Regional Champions League, which serves as Japan Football League's play-off tournament. However, the top three teams do not necessarily mean the semi-finalists. Instead, it refers to the best-ranked teams in the "Shakaijin" among those that have not finished as champions of their respective Regional Leagues.
About individual suspensions, players or officials should be suspended for an upcoming fixture if they: Receive a yellow card in two consecutive matches; receive a red card. Also, accumulated yellow cards would be reset to zero after the quarter-finals.

## Participating teams

Regional champions who were at the time already qualified for the Regional Champions League are denoted in bold. Teams from the 6th tier or below can not participate in the Regional Champions League and are denoted in italics.
| Region | Slots | Team | Division (tier) |
| Saga (Host) | 1 | Brew Kashima | Kyushu Soccer League (5) |
| Hokkaido | 2 | Hokkaido Tokachi Sky Earth | Hokkaido Soccer League (5) |
| Hokkaido | 2 | BTOP Hokkaido | Hokkaido Soccer League (5) |
| Tohoku | 2 | FC La Universidad de Sendai (ja) | Tohoku Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Tohoku | 2 | Cobaltore Onagawa | Tohoku Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Kantō | 7 | Tochigi City | Kantō Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Kantō | 7 | Tokyo United | Kantō Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Kantō | 7 | Tokyo 23 FC | Kantō Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Kantō | 7 | Vonds Ichihara | Kantō Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Kantō | 7 | Joyful Honda Tsukuba | Kantō Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Kantō | 7 | Toho Titanium | Kantō Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Kantō | 7 | Atsugi Hayabusa (ja) | Kantō Soccer League D2 (6) |
| Hokushin'etsu | 2 | Artista Asama | Hokushin'etsu Football League (5) |
| Hokushin'etsu | 2 | NUHW FC (ja) | Niigata Prefectural League D1 (7) |
| Tōkai | 4 | Wyvern FC | Tōkai Adult Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Tōkai | 4 | FC Kariya | Tōkai Adult Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Tōkai | 4 | Gakunan F. Mosuperio (ja) | Tōkai Adult Soccer League D2 (6) |
| Tōkai | 4 | Toyota SC (ja) | Tōkai Adult Soccer League D2 (6) |
| Region | Slots | Team | Division (tier) |
| Kansai | 5 | Arterivo Wakayama | Kansai Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Kansai | 5 | Basara Hyogo (ja) | Kansai Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Kansai | 5 | Moriyama Samurai 2000 (ja) | Kansai Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Kansai | 5 | Asuka FC (ja) | Kansai Soccer League D1 (5) |
| Kansai | 5 | Hannan University Club (ja) | Kansai Soccer League D2 (6) |
| Chugoku | 3 | Belugarosso Iwami | Chugoku Soccer League (5) |
| Chugoku | 3 | Fukuyama City | Chugoku Soccer League (5) |
| Chugoku | 3 | Baleine Shimonoseki | Chugoku Soccer League (5) |
| Shikoku | 2 | FC Tokushima | Shikoku Soccer League (5) |
| Shikoku | 2 | KUFC Nankoku (ja) | Shikoku Soccer League (5) |
| Kyushu | 4 | J-Lease FC | Kyushu Soccer League (5) |
| Kyushu | 4 | Veroskronos Tsuno | Kyushu Soccer League (5) |
| Kyushu | 4 | Nobeoka Agata | Kyushu Soccer League (5) |
| Kyushu | 4 | KMG Holdings FC (ja) | Kyushu Soccer League (5) |

## Schedule

All times on UTC+09:00, according to Japan Standard Time (JST).

### Quarter-finals

Joyful Honda Tsukuba and FC Kariya qualified to the Regional Champions League.

### Final

| GK | 21 | Takuya Kojima |
| DF | 2 | Ryosuke Oshima |
| DF | 5 | Shuto Izuka |
| DF | 6 | Kazunari Ishida | 80+1' |
| DF | 28 | Ren Iijima |
| MF | 8 | Masayuki Saito |
| MF | 10 | Ryo Ozaki (c) |
| MF | 23 | Shinichiro Sonoda | 56' |
| MF | 26 | Kaito Kinoshita | 64' |
| FW | 9 | Naoto Suzuki |
| FW | 20 | Yutaka Ito | 79' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 16 | Yusei Narita |
| DF | 3 | Teruyuki Moniwa |
| DF | 13 | Aoi Chishima |
| DF | 25 | Kimiaki Nishikawa |
| MF | 7 | Tatsuki Onuma | 64' |
| FW | 29 | Chihiro Otomo | 56' |
| FW | 30 | Ryoto Kamiya | 79' |
| Manager: ||
| Koji Kadota ||
| GK | 31 | Kenta Isobe |
| DF | 3 | Yusei Ohashi |
| DF | 4 | Daichi Yamada (c) |
| DF | 5 | Yuki Futatsugi |
| MF | 6 | Yuto Shibata | 40' |
| MF | 14 | Masafumi Kiyomoto |
| MF | 18 | Shuto Tatsuta | 58' |
| MF | 22 | Tessei Kinoshita | 40' |
| MF | 24 | Koshiro Onda |
| FW | 11 | Junya Kitano | 78' |
| FW | 15 | Haruki Shinjo | 29' |
| Substitutes: ||
| GK | 1 | Hironobu Yoshizaki |
| DF | 13 | Yuji Yoshitani | 40' |
| MF | 7 | Sho Horino | 58' |
| MF | 10 | Ryo Taguchi |
| MF | 17 | Tomoya Seki | 40' |
| MF | 20 | Toki Yamase | 29' |
| FW | 9 | Tatsuro Yamauchi | 78' |
| Manager: ||
| Eishi Kaizu ||
| Assistant referees: Kazuki Nakamura Hiro Yamaguchi Fourth official: Yoshiki Hirose | Match rules 80 minutes. Penalty shoot-out if scores still level. Seven named substitutes. Maximum of five substitutions. |

## Top scorers

| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Kai Nomura | FC Tokushima | 5 |
| 2 | Shun Aoki | Joyful Honda Tsukuba | 3 |
| 2 | Masayuki Saito | FC Kariya | 3 |
| 2 | Itsuki Takagai | Artista Asama | 3 |
| 5 | Daiki Deoka | FC Tokushima | 2 |
| 5 | Masaya Inoue | Nobeoka Agata | 2 |
| 5 | Masafumi Kiyomoto | Arterivo Wakayama | 2 |
| 5 | Shuta Kotaka | Joyful Honda Tsukuba | 2 |
| 5 | Kazuma Kuwata | Joyful Honda Tsukuba | 2 |
| 5 | Tatsuki Onuma | FC Kariya | 2 |
| 5 | Ryosuke Oshima | FC Kariya | 2 |
| 5 | Ryo Ozaki | FC Kariya | 2 |
| 5 | Keisuke Sasaki | La Universidad de Sendai | 2 |
| 5 | Takeru Sato | NUHW FC | 2 |
| 5 | Tomoya Seki | Arterivo Wakayama | 2 |
| 5 | Takuma Sonoda | J-Lease FC | 2 |