[Machine Translation] Tokyo Verdy's tumultuous 2023 season, which marked the club's return to J1 after a 16-year absence! Tokyo Verdy started the season under coach Hiroshi Shirofuku with strong ambitions to be promoted. They fought with the style they had "thoroughly" built up since the previous year, and at one point they were in the automatic promotion zone. However, they struggled with a string of home matches in which they failed to win. Still, they maintained their never-give-up attitude, and on the final day of the season, they moved up to third place. With one last spot up for grabs, the team was in the J1 promotion playoffs. Verdy advanced to the final, where they clashed with Shimizu S-Pulse in front of 53,264 spectators at the National Stadium. Verdy could have been promoted even with a draw, but a penalty kick in the 63rd minute put them in a tight spot. The match went into added time.... [2023 Meiji Yasuda Seimei J2 League Season Review / 2023 J.LEAGUE ALL GOALS / Players' Talk: Yuto Tsunashima and Takeki Yamada / Trajectory to J1 Promotion