Kashima Antlers

Kashima Antlers
鹿島アントラーズ

Full name	Kashima Antlers F.C.
Founded	1947 (1947) (Sumitomo Metals FC)
Ground	Kashima Soccer Stadium Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Ground Capacity	40,728 [1]
Chairman	Shigeru Ibata
Manager	Toninho Cerezo
League	J. League Division 1
2013	5th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Kashima Antlers (鹿島アントラーズ, Kashima Antorāzu) are a Japanese professional association football club playing in the J. League Division 1. Antlers is derived from the city name, Kashima, which literally means "deer island".

Since the J. League's creation and introduction of professional Japanese football in 1993, Kashima have proved by far Japan's most successful club team, having won the J. League title a record seven times, the J. League Cup a record five times and the Emperor's Cup four times for an unprecedented total of sixteen major domestic titles. Kashima have finished in the top five of the league for over seventy percent of all seasons played to date, recorded an average end of season league placing of third and capturing a major domestic title in over sixty percent of all seasons played to date.

Kashima are also one of only four teams to have competed in Japan's top flight of professional football every year since its inception.

Overview

Inside the Kashima Soccer Stadium

Outside the Kashima Soccer Stadium

Founded in 1947 as Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. in Osaka. It played in the semi-professional Japan Soccer League and moved to Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture in 1975. They were promoted to the JSL's top flight in 1984, but never made much of an impact, going down in 1985/86, returning in 1986/87 and going down again in 1988/89. Its last standing in the JSL was 2nd in the Second Division for 1991/92.

After the formation of the fully professional J. League, Sumitomo, like all other clubs, stripped the corporate brand from the team name and reformed as the Kashima Antlers. Kashima was essentially promoted to the new top flight, as many JSL First Division teams decided to relegate themselves being unprepared for professionalism. (Of the original 10 J. League founding member clubs, Kashima and Shimizu S-Pulse were newly promoted. Ironically, Kashima had defeated a forerunner of Shimizu's, Nippon Light Metal/Hagoromo Club, to earn its JSL Second Division place back in 1974).

Since the J. League's creation and introduction of professional Japanese football in 1993, Kashima have consistently been amongst the strongest teams in the country, holding several distinctions and records. Led by former Brazilian star and Japanese national team coach Zico in the team's formative years, Kashima were the first team to win a J. League stage, claiming the 1st stage of the inaugural season in 1993. This laid a platform for continuous greatness and long after the Kashima icon had departed, in 2000 Kashima became the first and only J. League team to achieve the "treble", by winning all three major titles: J. League, J. League Cup, and Emperor's Cup in the same year.

In recent times, by clinching the 2007 J. League title they became the first and only team in Japan to have won ten domestic titles in the professional era. In 2008 they became the first and only club to successfully defend the J. League title on two separate occasions. In 2009 they became the first and only club to win three consecutive J. League titles. Most recently, with victories in back to back J. League Cups in 2011 and 2012, Kashima extended their unmatched record of major domestic titles in the professional era to sixteen.

To this day, Kashima has maintained strong ties with the football community in Brazil, a fact borne out of Zico's past affiliation with the club. Kashima's Brazilian connection has manifested itself in both the club's player transfer and coaching policy resulting in only two non-Brazilian foreign players and predominantly Brazilian managers signing for Kashima since the inception of the J. League.

Its hometowns are Kashima, Itako, Hasaki and Kamisu, all in Ibaraki Prefecture. The team plays at Kashima Soccer Stadium.

Slogans

Players

Current squad

Updated 20 January 2014 ^[2] Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Akihiro Sato 4 DF Kazuya Yamamura 5 MF Takeshi Aoki 6 MF Koji Nakata 8 MF Luís Alberto 10 MF Masashi Motoyama 11 FW Davi 13 MF Atsutaka Nakamura 15 DF Gen Shoji 16 DF Shuto Yamamoto 17 DF Takanori Maeno 18 FW Shuhei Akasaki 19 FW Yuta Toyokawa 20 MF Gaku Shibasaki 21 GK Hitoshi Sogahata

No. Position Player 22 DF Daigo Nishi 23 DF Naomichi Ueda 24 DF Yukitoshi Ito 25 MF Yasushi Endo 27 MF Takahide Umebachi 28 MF Shoma Doi 29 GK Shinichiro Kawamata 30 MF Ryuta Miyauchi 31 GK Yuto Koizumi 32 MF Taro Sugimoto 33 MF Caio 34 FW Yoshiki Nakagawa 35 MF Takuya Nozawa 40 MF Mitsuo Ogasawara

2013 Season Transfers

Managers

Manager	Nationality	Tenure
Masakatsu Miyamoto	Japan	Jan 1992–June 1994
Edu	Brazil	June 1994–Dec 1995
João Carlos	Brazil	Jan 1996–July 1998
Takashi Sekizuka (interim)	Japan	July 1998
Zé Mario	Brazil	July 1, 1998–Aug 1999
Takashi Sekizuka (interim)	Japan	Aug 1999
Zico (interim)	Brazil	Aug 20, 1999–Dec 31, 1999
Toninho Cerezo	Brazil	Jan 1, 2000–Dec 31, 2005
Paulo Autuori	Brazil	Dec 30, 2005–Nov 29, 2006
Oswaldo de Oliveira	Brazil	Jan 1, 2007–Dec 31, 2011
Jorginho	Brazil	Jan 1, 2012–Dec 31, 2012
Toninho Cerezo	Brazil	Jan 1, 2013–

Record as J. League member

Honors

Sumitomo Soccer Club (Amateur era)

• Shakaijin Cup
  • Winners (1): 1973
• Japan Soccer League Division 2
  • Champions (2): 1984, 1986-1987

Kashima Antlers (Professional era)

• J. League Division 1:
  • Champions (7): 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009

• J.League 1° stage
  • Winners (2): 1993, 1997

• J.League 2° stage
  • Winners (3): 1998, 2000, 2001

• Emperor's Cup:
  • Winners (4): 1997, 2000, 2007, 2010

• J. League Cup:
  • Winners (5): 1997, 2000, 2002, 2011, 2012

• Xerox Super Cup:
  • Winners (5): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2009, 2010

International

• A3 Champions Cup:
  • Winners (1): 2003

• Suruga Bank Championship:
  • Winners (2): 2012, 2013

References

External links

• (Japanese) Official Website

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