Kashima Antlers

Kashima Antlers
Basic data
Surname	Football Club Kashima Antlers ( Japanese : 鹿島 ア ン ト ラ ー ズ)
Seat	Kashima , Japan
founding	1993
president	Shigeru Ibata
Website	so-net.ne.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Antonio Carlos Zago
Venue	Kashima Soccer Stadium
Places	42,300
league	J1 League
2019	3rd place
home Away Alternatively

The Kashima Antlers ( Japanese 鹿島 ア ン ト ラ ー ズ , Kashima antorāzu , from English antlers : antlers ) are a Japanese professional football club from the city of Kashima ( Ibaraki Prefecture ). The Antlers, who, in keeping with their name, have a deer as their mascot , are the record champions of the professional league J. League, which has been active since 1993, with eight titles . In 2007 they even managed to double the championship and the Kaiser Cup .

Club history

1991–1993: Founding and introduction of professional football

The club, which is operated by the associated joint-stock company KK Kashima Antlers FC ( 株式会社 鹿島 ア ン ト ラ ー ズ ・ エ フ ・ シ ー , kabushiki-gaisha Kashima Antorāzu efu shī ; English Kashima Antlers FC, Ltd. ), belongs to just under ten percent of the five hometowns of the club - besides Kashima, these are Kamisu , Itako , Hokota and Namegata - over 90 percent of 39 local companies. He emerged in February 1991 from the (until 1975 in Osaka ) Sumitomo Kinzoku Kōgyō Shukyū-dan (English Sumitomo Metal Industries' football club ), a works team of the mining company Sumitomo Kinzoku Kōgyō . The first star of the newly formed team was the Brazilian Zico , who was signed in May 1991. It was not until July of the same year that the name "Kashima Antlers" was adopted after a fan decision. It was officially founded in October 1991. In the following year, further changes came into force that led the club towards professional football. A club logo, a mascot and the club anthem were introduced. At the beginning of 1993 the new clubhouse, the training grounds and the stadium were inaugurated. In May 1993 the first game took place in the new Kashima Soccer Stadium . In the friendly game, the Antlers met the Brazilian club Fluminense Rio de Janeiro .

In the course of the decision to establish a professional soccer league in Japan and to locate several clubs in smaller cities, the Sumitomo team was also brought into a new joint venture , in which, in addition to the steel company, the city of Kashima and the surrounding communities are primarily involved involved. The new team, which should be named Antlers, immediately won the first half of the first J. League season in 1993, which entitled them to participate in the championship finals. Although this was lost to Verdy Kawasaki , it was an enormous success for a team whose predecessor had never won a national title or even made it to a cup final. The Antlers lost their first cup final just a few weeks after losing in the championship final 6-2 to the Yokohama Marinos .

1994–2000: Establishment of the most successful team in Japan

The first big success was a few years away. With the engagement of the Brazilian coach João Carlos , the club started its successful years. In the 1996 season, the championship title went to Kashima for the first time. They just prevailed against Nagoya Grampus Eight and Yokohama Wings . The following year they won both the Imperial Cup and the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup . The most successful year in the club's history was the year 2000, when the triple of all national competitions could be won (no team has been able to repeat this feat in Japan so far). The master maker of this period was the Brazilian Toninho Cerezo . In 2002/03 the club was entitled to participate in the newly created AFC Champions League for the first time . Without a win, they were eliminated early in the group stage. The first international triumph followed in 2003: winning the first edition of the A3 Champions Cup , which is held between Japan, China and South Korea . In three of three matches, the Antlers won twice and only played a draw against the South Korean representative Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma . Even before and after this success, the national team was a little quieter. In 2004 and 2006, the club only came in sixth in the league competition. The last success was celebrated in 2002 with the victory of the Super Cup.

In the 2006 season, successful coach Toninho Cerezo was replaced by his compatriot Paulo Autuori . But even this did not bring the desired results. It was only with Oswaldo de Oliveira that success was brought back to the club. Between 2007 and 2009, the team won the national championship three times in a row.

In September 2008, the club hit the global press after a fan was banned from the stadium for life. During the game against Kashiwa Reysol , a spectator hit the corner kick, Alex , a Reysol player, with a flag. The game ended 1-1.

In 2010, the team won the group stage of the 2010 AFC Champions League . As the only team in the competition, the club won all matches and did not show any nakedness. But already in the first round of the knockout phase, Oliveira's team was eliminated after 1-0 against the South Korean team Pohang Steelers . Last year they failed in the same round at FC Seoul . At the AFC Champions League 2008 the team celebrated their highest success so far in this tournament. On March 12, 2008, the Antlers won the away game against FC Krung Thai Bank from Thailand with 9: 1. The Brazilian Marquinhos scored three goals . The players also won the second leg at their home Kashima Soccer Stadium after 8: 1. Since fewer teams qualified for the knockout phase at the time, the Antlers were in the quarter-finals, where they also failed (1: 1 and 0: 1 against Adelaide United ).

The Antlers win their first title of the 2010 season in February. In the final of the Xerox Super Cup , the club prevailed after a 1-1 with 5-3 on penalties against Gamba Osaka . Soon afterwards, for the European summer transfer period, top performer Atsuto Uchida moved to Germany, to FC Schalke 04 . On October 29, 2011, the Kashima Antlers won this title for the fourth time in the final of the J.League Cup against the Urawa Reds 1-0 ail.

successes

National

• Japanese Master (8)

1996 , 1998 , 2000 , 2001 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2016

• Imperial Cup (5)

1997, 2000, 2007, 2010, 2016

• J. League Cup (6)

1997, 2000, 2002, 2011, 2012, 2015

• Japanese Supercup (6)

1997, 1998, 1999, 2009, 2010, 2017

Continental

• AFC Champions League (1)
  • 2018

• A3 Champions Cup (1)
  • 2003

• Copa Suruga Bank (2)
  • 2012, 2013

Stadion

Kashima Soccer Stadium

The club plays its home games at the Kashima Soccer Stadium in Kashima in Ibaraki prefecture from. The stadium has a capacity of 42,300 spectators. The sports facility is owned by Ibaraki Prefecture.

Coordinates: 35 ° 59 ′ 31 ″  N , 140 ° 38 ′ 25 ″  E

Current squad

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Kwoun Sun-tae 2 FROM Atsuto Uchida ( team captain ) 3 FROM Tatsuki Nara 4th MF Léo Silva 5 FROM Daiki Sugioka 6th MF Ryota Nagaki 7th MF Juan Alano 8th MF Shoma Doi 9 ST Everaldo 11 MF Ryūji Izumi 14th FROM Katsuya Nagato 15th ST Shō Itō 16 FROM Shūto Yamamoto 17th FROM Bueno 19th ST Itsuki Someno 20th MF Kento Misao 21st TW Hitoshi Sogahata

No. position Surname 22nd FROM Rikuto Hirose 24 FROM Yukitoshi Itō 25th MF Yasushi Endo 26th FROM Ryotaro Araki 27 MF Yuta Matsumura 28 FROM Kōki Machida 30th MF Shintaro Nago 31 TW Yuya Oki 33 FROM Ikuma Sekigawa 35 FROM Shogo Sasaki 36 ST Ayase Ueda 37 MF Kei Koizumi 38 TW Taiki Yamada 39 FROM Tomoya Inukai 41 MF Ryōhei Shirasaki

Borrowed Players

No. position Surname ST Yūki Kakita (on loan to Tokushima Vortis )

Coach chronicle

Since the introduction of a professional league and the re-establishment of the club, the club has been looked after by nine coaches in ten coaching periods. The Japanese Takashi Sekiduka only worked for the club on an interim basis. The Japanese Masakatsu Miyamoto was the first person responsible for this post . Since its replacement in 1994, the board has relied primarily on Brazilian soccer teachers. The best known is the former Brazilian international Zico . He is also the only person in the club's history who has been under contract with the club both as an active player and as a coach.

Name of the trainer	from	to	comment
Masakatsu Miyamoto	July 1, 1992	June 30, 1996
Edu	July 1, 1994	January 31, 1996
João Carlos	February 1, 1996	May 6, 1998	• 1996: Japanese Champion • 1997: Imperial Cup • 1997: Yamazaki Nabisco Cup • 1997: Japanese Super Cup • 1998: Japanese Super Cup
Takashi Sekizuka	May 7, 1998	August 14, 1998	• Interim trainer
Zé Mario	August 15, 1998	August 19, 1999	• 1998: Japanese Champion • 1999: Japanese Super Cup
Takashi Sekizuka	August 19, 1999	August 25, 1999	• Interim trainer
Zico	August 20, 1999	January 31, 2000
Toninho Cerezo	February 1, 2000	January 31, 2006	• 2000: Japanese champion • 2000: Yamazaki Nabisco Cup • 2000: Imperial Cup • 2001: Japanese champion • 2001: Yamazaki Nabisco Cup • 2003: A3 Champions Cup
Paulo Autuori	February 1, 2006	January 31, 2007
Oswaldo de Oliveira	February 1, 2007	December 31, 2011	• 2007: Japanese Champion • 2007: Imperial Cup • 2008: Japanese Champion • 2009: Japanese Champion • 2009: Japanese Super Cup • 2010: Japanese Super Cup • 2011: Yamazaki Nabisco Cup
Jorginho	February 1, 2012	January 31, 2013	• 2012: Suruga Bank Cup • 2012: Yamazaki Nabisco Cup
Toninho Cerezo	1st February 2013	July 21, 2015	• 2013: Suruga Bank Cup
Masatada Ishii	July 21, 2015	May 31, 2017
Gō Ōiwa	June 1, 2017	January 1, 2020
Antonio Carlos Zago	January 2, 2020	today

Season placement

season	league	Teams	space	spectator	Emperor's Cup	J. League Cup	Supercup	AFC CL	FIFA Club World Cup
1992					Quarter finals	Semifinals
1993	J1	10	2.	14,016	2nd place	Group stage
1994	J1	12	3.	16,812	1 round	1 round
1995	J1	14th	7th	19,141	Semifinals
1996	J1	16	1.	15,386	Quarter finals	Group stage
1997	J1	17th	2.	16,985	winner	winner	winner
1998	J1	18th	1.	15,345	Semifinals	Semifinals	winner
1999	J1	16	9.	17,049	4th round	2nd place	winner
2000	J1	16	1.	17,507	winner	winner
2001	J1	16	1.	22,425	Quarter finals	Semifinals	2nd place
2002	J1	16	4th	21,590	2nd place	winner	2nd place
2003	J1	16	5.	21,204	Semifinals	2nd place		Group stage
2004	J1	16	6th	17,585	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
2005	J1	18th	3.	18,641	Quarter finals	Group stage
2006	J1	18th	6th	15,433	Semifinals	2nd place
2007	J1	18th	1.	16,239	winner	Semifinals
2008	J1	18th	1.	19,714	5th round	Quarter finals	2nd place	Quarter finals
2009	J1	18th	1.	21,617	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	winner	Round of 16
2010	J1	18th	4th	20,966	winner	Quarter finals	winner	Round of 16
2011	J1	18th	6th	16,156	4th round	winner	2nd place	Round of 16
2012	J1	18th	11.	15,381	Semifinals	winner
2013	J1	18th	5.	16,419	4th round	Quarter finals
2014	J1	18th	3.	17,665	2nd round	Group stage
2015	J1	18th	5.	16,423	3rd round	winner		Group stage
2016	J1	18th	1.	19,103	winner	Group stage			2nd place
2017	J1	18th	2.	20,467	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	winner	Round of 16
2018	J1	18th	3.	20,547	Semifinals	Semifinals		winner	4th Place
2019	J1	18th	3.	20,571	2nd place	Semifinals		Quarter finals
2020	J1	18th

Awards

Player of the year

• Jorginho (1996)
• Marquinhos (2008)
• Mitsuo Ogasawara (2009)

Top scorer of the year

• Marquinhos (2008)

Young Player of the Year

• Atsushi Yanagisawa (1997)
• Gaku Shibasaki (2012)
• Caio (2014)
• Hiroki Abe (2018)

Eleven of the year

• Shunzō Ōno (1993)
• Santos (1993)
• Yasuto Honda (1993)
• Naoki Sōma (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)
• Jorginho (1996)
• Yutaka Akita (1997, 1998, 2000, 2001)
• Bismarck (1997)
• Atsushi Yanagisawa (1998, 2001)
• Daijirō Takakuwa (2000)
• Mitsuo Ogasawara (2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009)
• Akira Narahashi (2001)
• Kōji Nakata (2001)
• Hitoshi Sogahata (2002)
• Daiki Iwamasa (2007, 2008, 2009)
• Atsuto Uchida (2008, 2009)
• Marquinhos (2008)
• Yuya Osako (2013)
• Gaku Shibasaki (2014)
• Mu Kanazaki (2015)
• Gen Shōji (2016, 2017)
• Daigo Nishi (2017, 2018)

Best goal scorers

season	Surname	nation	Gates
2017	Mu Kanazaki	Japan	12
2018	Yuma Suzuki	Japan	11
2019	Serginho	Brazil	12
2020

Web links

Commons : Kashima Antlers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (Japanese, English)
• History of the club (English)
• Kashima Antlers in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kashima Antlers in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Kashima Antlers in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ク ラ ブ プ ロ フ ィ ー ル ( Memento from February 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Lifelong stadium ban for Japanese fans
3. ↑ Match report: FC Krung Thai Bank - Kashima Antlers
4. ↑ Antlers win Super-Cup ( Memento from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) from February 27, 2010 on transfermarkt.de
5. ↑ Atsuto Uchida changes to the miners ( memento from February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) from June 13, 2010 to transfermarkt.de
6. ↑ J. League Data Site