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The 2023 All Japan High School Women's Soccer Tournament (第32回全日本高等学校女子サッカー選手権大会; All Japan 32nd High School Women's Soccer Tournament) marked the 32nd edition of the referred annually contested women's cup for High Schools over Japan. The tournament was, as usual, contested by 32 high schools in a knockout-stage format. Fujieda Junshin High School were the defending champions, winning the last championship by 1–0 against Jumonji High School. They eventually won the tournament against Jumonji in this 2023 edition as well, but now by 3–0.
Just like the men's tournament, from the first round (round of 32) to the quarter-finals, the matches had a duration of 80 minutes, split into two halves of 40 minutes each. The semi-finals and the final had the matches lasting 90 minutes. Should a match be tied, the match would directly go into penalty shoot-outs, except for the final, where overtime would be played if the match ended tied for 90 minutes.
All the matches were played in the Hyogo Prefecture. Some of the stadiums utilized two grounds, or fields, at the same place, being able to simultaneously hold matches. The selected venues were as follows:
The Hyogo prefectural qualification was the only one to directly qualify a prefectural qualification winner for the national competition without needing to play the regional qualification, as the Hyogo Prefecture will host the tournament, being granted to have a team to represent the prefecture as its tournament winner, and as its host team.
In parentheses: Each school's performance at the regional qualifying series.
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