diff --git a/pandas/tests/reshape/test_concat.py b/pandas/tests/reshape/test_concat.py
index 2ea7ab827732e..990669f1ae13a 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/reshape/test_concat.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/reshape/test_concat.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
     read_csv,
 )
 import pandas._testing as tm
+from pandas.core.arrays import SparseArray
 from pandas.core.construction import create_series_with_explicit_dtype
 from pandas.tests.extension.decimal import to_decimal
 
@@ -2739,3 +2740,13 @@ def test_concat_empty_df_object_dtype():
     result = pd.concat([df_1, df_2], axis=0)
     expected = df_1.astype(object)
     tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
+
+def test_concat_sparse():
+    # GH 23557
+    a = pd.Series(SparseArray([0, 1, 2]))
+    expected = pd.DataFrame(data=[[0, 0], [1, 1], [2, 2]]).astype(
+        pd.SparseDtype(np.int64, 0)
+    )
+    result = pd.concat([a, a], axis=1)
+    tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)