# 2023 Montedio Yamagata season

The 2023 season was Montedio Yamagata's 39th season in existence and the club's eighth consecutive season in the second division of Japanese football. In addition to the domestic league, Montedio Yamagata participated in this season's edition of the Emperor's Cup.

## Players
### First-team squad

As of 6 April 2023.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | JPN | Masaaki Goto |
| 2 | DF | JPN | Shumpei Naruse (on loan from Nagoya Grampus) |
| 3 | DF | JPN | Yuta Kumamoto |
| 4 | DF | JPN | Keisuke Nishimura (on loan from Omiya Ardija) |
| 5 | DF | JPN | Hiroki Noda |
| 6 | DF | JPN | Takumi Yamada |
| 7 | MF | JPN | Kenya Okazaki |
| 8 | MF | JPN | Yudai Konishi |
| 9 | FW | BRA | Dellatorre |
| 10 | FW | POR | Tiago Alves |
| 11 | FW | JPN | Yoshiki Fujimoto |
| 13 | MF | JPN | Shuto Kawai |
| 14 | MF | JPN | Takayuki Arakaki |
| 15 | MF | JPN | Ibuki Fujita |
| 16 | GK | JPN | Ko Hasegawa |
| 17 | MF | JPN | Taiki Kato |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | MF | JPN | Shuto Minami |
| 21 | MF | JPN | Wataru Tanaka |
| 22 | DF | JPN | Taiju Yoshida |
| 23 | GK | JPN | Eisuke Fujishima |
| 24 | FW | JPN | Rui Yokoyama |
| 25 | MF | JPN | Shintaro Kokubu |
| 26 | MF | JPN | Ayumu Kawai |
| 27 | DF | JPN | Keita Yoshioka |
| 32 | GK | JPN | Ryusuke Otomo |
| 36 | FW | JPN | Junya Takahashi |
| 41 | MF | JPN | Masahito Ono |
| 42 | DF | JPN | Zain Issaka |
| 47 | MF | JPN | Towa Arakawa |
| 49 | FW | JPN | Yusuke Goto |
| 50 | MF | JPN | Kaisei Kano |
| 51 | DF | JPN | Jo Soma |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | JPN | Kiriya Sakamoto (at Sagan Tosu) |
| — | FW | JPN | Kanta Matsumoto (at Tegevajaro Miyazaki) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | FW | JPN | Kanato Abe (at ReinMeer Aomori) |

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date | Source |
| GK | | | | | |
| GK | | | | | |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date | Source |
| GK | | | | | |
| GK | | | | | |

## Pre-season and friendlies

Win  Draw  Loss  Fixtures

## Competitions
### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| J2 League | 18 February 2023 | 12 November 2023 | Matchday 1 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 32 | 27 | +5 | 045.00 |
| Emperor's Cup | 7 June 2023 | | Second round | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | +1 | 100.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 21 | 10 | 1 | 10 | 33 | 27 | +6 | 047.62 |
Last updated: 11 June 2023 Source: Soccerway

### J2 League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 3 | Tokyo Verdy (O, P) | 42 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 57 | 31 | +26 | 75 | Qualification for the promotion play-offs |
| 4 | Shimizu S-Pulse | 42 | 20 | 14 | 8 | 78 | 34 | +44 | 74 | Qualification for the promotion play-offs |
| 5 | Montedio Yamagata | 42 | 21 | 4 | 17 | 64 | 54 | +10 | 67 | Qualification for the promotion play-offs |
| 6 | JEF United Chiba | 42 | 19 | 10 | 13 | 61 | 53 | +8 | 67 | Qualification for the promotion play-offs |
| 7 | V-Varen Nagasaki | 42 | 18 | 11 | 13 | 70 | 56 | +14 | 65 | |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 17 May 2023. Source: Worldfootball

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| Ground | A | A | A | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H |
| Result | W | W | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | L | W | D | L | W | L | W | |
| Position | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 17 | 18 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 20 | 18 | |

#### Matches

The league fixtures were announced on 20 January 2023.