The 2022–23 WE League Cup is the 1st season of the

WE League Cup The WE League Cup (Japanese: WEリーグカップ) is a cup competition for women's football clubs in Japan. Results Records and statistics Performances by club Top scorers by year See also * JFA * WE League * Empress's Cup (National Cu ...

, a

women's football Women's football most often refers to: * Women's association football Women's football may also refer to: * Women's gridiron football * Women's Australian rules football * Ladies' Gaelic football * Women's rugby league * Women's rugby union ...

cup tournament that will be contested annually between

WE League The , officially the , also known as the for sponsorship reasons, is the top flight of women's association football in Japan, starting from the 2021–22 season. It is the first fully-professional women's football league in Japan. The current ...

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 The or simply Urawa Reds (浦和レッズ, ''Urawa Rezzu''), also known as Mitsubishi Urawa Football Club from April 1992 to January 1996, are a professional association football, football club in the city of Saitama (city), Saitama, part of t ...

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

, which starts in

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

and (actually) ends on 2023. The final of this edition will be played on 1 October 2022.

Schedule

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Final

Awards

Top scorers

TV broadcasting

*BS TV Tokyo Corporation (final match only)

Internet live streaming

* (all matches)

References

External links

2022–23 Matches
weleague.jp
2022–23 Standings
weleague.jp
2022–23 Final Result
data.weleague.jp

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