# 2022–23 WE League Cup

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

| | Matchday | Date |
| Group stage | Matchday 1 | 20 or 21 August |
| Group stage | Matchday 2 | 27 or 28 August |
| Group stage | Matchday 3 | 3 or 4 September |
| Group stage | Matchday 4 | 10 or 11 September |
| Group stage | Matchday 5 | 17 or 18 or 19 September |
| Group stage | Matchday 6 | 24 or 25 September |
| Final | Final | 1 October |

## Group stage
### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 1 | Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | +7 | 11 | Advance to the final |
| 2 | AC Nagano Parceiro Ladies | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 11 | |
| 3 | Chifure AS Elfen Saitama | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | −2 | 5 | |
| 4 | Mynavi Sendai Ladies | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 5 | |
| 5 | Omiya Ardija Ventus | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | −2 | 4 | |
| 6 | Albirex Niigata Ladies | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 4 | |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |
| 1 | Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 8 | Advance to the final |
| 2 | INAC Kobe Leonessa | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 5 | +2 | 8 | |
| 3 | JEF United Ichihara Chiba Ladies | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | |
| 4 | Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sagamihara | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | −3 | 2 | |
| 5 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 2 | |

## Awards

| Award | Player | Club |
| MVP | | |

## Top scorers

    As of 1 October 2022
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Riko Ueki | Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza | 6 |
| 2 | Kozue Ando | Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies | 4 |
| 3 | Yuika Sugasawa | Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies | 3 |
| 3 | Aoba Fujino | Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza | 3 |
| 3 | Rio Takizawa | AC Nagano Parceiro Ladies | 3 |
| 6 | Miyu Yakata | MyNavi Sendai | 2 |
| 6 | Hikaru Naomoto | Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies | 2 |
| 6 | Kiko Seike | Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies | 2 |
| 6 | Mayu Karahashi | Chifure AS Elfen Saitama | 2 |
| 6 | Miho Kamogawa | JEF United Chiba Ladies | 2 |
| 6 | Tomoko Muramatsu | Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza | 2 |
| 6 | Kana Fujiwara | Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sagamihara | 2 |
| 6 | Ayaka Michigami | Albirex Niigata Ladies | 2 |
| 6 | Mina Tanaka | INAC Kobe Leonessa | 2 |
| 6 | Moeno Sakaguchi | INAC Kobe Leonessa | 2 |
| 6 | Haruna Kawashima | Sanfrecce Hiroshima Regina | 2 |

## TV broadcasting

* BS TV Tokyo Corporation (final match only)

## Internet live streaming

* 2022-23 WE League Cup playlist on YouTube (all matches)