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The Kashima Antorāzu are a professional football club based in Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan. They currently play in the J1 League, the top tier of Japanese professional football leagues. The club has financial backing from Mercari, a Japanese e-commerce company.
Since the J.League's creation and introduction of professional Japanese football in 1993, Kashima have proven themselves to be by far Japan's most successful football club in terms of trophies won, having won the J1 League title a record 8 times, the J.League Cup a record 6 times, the Emperor's Cup 5 times and the Japanese Super Cup a record 6 times for an unprecedented nineteen major domestic titles. Continentally, Kashima became Asian champions when they won the AFC Champions League in 2018. The club also won the J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship on 2 occasions in 2012 and 2013.
Internationally, Kashima has made two appearances in the FIFA Club World Cup where in the 2016 edition, the club qualified as the host of the tournament. Kashima notably became the only club to qualify from the first round until the final where they would go on to lose to 2015–16 UEFA Champions League winners, Real Madrid 4–2 after extra time with Gaku Shibasaki scoring both goals for Kashima.
Kashima are also one of only two clubs to have competed in Japan's professional top-flight football every year since its inception (the other being Yokohama F. Marinos).
The club crest not only resembles deer but it also reflects the image of a rose thorn as it is the official flower of Ibaraki, the home prefecture of the club. Deer are amiable animals and are viewed in some religions as spiritual messengers.
In fact, Kashima Shrine, one of the most famous shrines in Japan and located in close proximity to the club headquarters, has kept and raised deer for more than 1,300 years as a spiritual symbol.
After the formation of the fully professional J.League, Sumitomo, like all other clubs, stripped the corporate brand from the club's name and reformed as the Kashima Antlers in April 1992. Kashima was essentially promoted to the new top flight, as many JSL First Division clubs 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 clubs in the country, holding several distinctions and records. Led by former Brazil national team star and Japan national team coach Zico in the club's formative years, Kashima were the first club 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 J.League club 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 club 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 occasions. In 2009 they became the first and only club to win three consecutive J.League titles. With victories in back to back J.League Cups in 2011, 2012 and most recently followed by their 2015 victory, Kashima extended their unmatched record of major domestic titles in the professional era to seventeen. at the Azadi Stadium vs Persepolis|335x335px]]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 three non-Brazilian foreign players and predominantly Brazilian managers signing for Kashima since the inception of the J.League.
The population of Kashima city is a mere 60,000 and for that reason club has also adopted the surrounding cities of Itako, Kamisu, Namegata and Hokota as its official hometowns, all in Ibaraki Prefecture. The combined population of five cities is 280,000. Antlers home games are played at Kashima Soccer Stadium, one of the 2002 FIFA World Cup venues with capacity of 40,000.
During the 2016 FIFA Club World Cup, Kashima became the first Asian club to reach the FIFA Club World Cup final and notably became the only club to qualify from the first round until the final following a 3–0 victory over South American winners, Atlético Nacional. In the final, after a 2–2 draw against European champions Real Madrid after 90 minutes, they were beaten 4–2 after extra time.
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In 2008 a 500-metre LED wraparound advertising board, the longest in Asia, was installed at the front of the second tier. In 2017, the latest large electronic screens were added to both the north and south stands as part of the commitment to improving the viewing environment for visitors.
| Technical advisor | Zico |
| Manager | Toru Oniki |
| Assistant manager | Masaki Chugo |
| Coaches | Atsushi Yanagisawa Makoto Tanaka |
| Goalkeeping coach | Hitoshi Sogahata |
| Technical staff | Suguru Arie Tomofumi Kuriyama |
| Physical coach | Ryosuke Ito |
| Conditioning coach | Hiroyuki Furuta |
| Physiotherapists | Yoshihiko Nakagawa Atsushi Inaba |
| Athletic trainers | Toshihiro Hashimoto Kenichi Nakata Tsukasa Ohashi |
| Interpreters | Kenta Kasai Kentaro Seki Masaya Kawakubo Kim Young-ha |
| Competent | Yuji Takada |
| Side affairs | Keisuke Okawa Shinpei Okiji |
| Dietitian | Aya Ishibashi |
| Team doctors | Hiroshi Jonouchi Jun Seki Ryo Matsunaga Takashi Sando Tomoo Ishii Toshiaki Nagamine Hiroshi Kimura |
| +Kashima Antlers honours !scope=col | Years |
| Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
| 1992 | – |
| 1993 | – |
| 1994 | – |
| 1995 | – |
| 1996 | – |
| 1997 | – |
| 1998 | – |
| 1999 | – |
| 2000 | – |
| 2001 | – |
| 2002 | – |
| 2003 | Winner |
| 2004 | – |
| 2005 | – |
| 2006 | – |
| 2007 | – |
| 2008 | – |
| 2009 | – |
| 2010 | – |
| 2011 | – |
| 2012 | Winner |
| 2013 | Winner |
| 2014 | – |
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| 2016 | Runners-up |
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| 2017 | – |
| 2018 | 4th place |
| 2019 | – |
| 2020 † | – |
| 2021 † | – |
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| NEXT |
| Glory Again– 原点からの挑戦– ( Challenge from the Beginning) |
| OVER'03 – カシマからアジア、そして世界へ – ( From Kashima to Asia, then to the World) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM 2004 – 奪冠10 – ( Take the Crown 10) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM 2005 – 反撃宣言 – ( Declaration of Counter-Attack) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM 2006 – 一新制覇 – ( Brand New Conquest) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM'07 – 魂 Spirits – |
| FOOTBALL DREAM 2008 – DESAFIO 挑戦 – ( Challenge) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM 2009 – PROGRESSO 飛躍 – ( Progress) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM 2010 – Evolução 新化 – ( Evolution) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM NEXT |
| SMILE AGAIN with PRIDE |
| RENASCIMENTO – 誇りを胸に – ( Rebirth – Carrying Pride in Our Hearts) |
| SPECTACLE – 戦 – ( Battle) |
| RISE TO THE CHALLENGE – 覚悟 – ( Ready) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM ともに ( Together) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM つなぐ ( Connected) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM こえる ( Surpassing) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM かわる ( Changing) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM みせる 2020シーズンスローガン (2020 Season Slogan) – Kashima Antlers (January 23, 2020). ( On Display) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM しんか ( Evolution) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM いどむ ( Challenge) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM ひとつに ( Be the One) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM かける ( Hang on) |
| FOOTBALL DREAM ONE |
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