Kashima

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Squad of Kashima

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Club · Japan · J1 League

«The Deer»

293 Matches

158 wins

65 draws

70 losses

476–303 Goals

+173 Difference

1.6 Scored per game

Form L L L W D W

Kashima sits in Ibaraki prefecture. The football club that plays there did not begin as a town club at all.

What followed made the town a football address. Kashima Antlers won the J1 League in 1996 and were still winning it twenty years later, in 2016, with six titles in between — the run through 2007, 2008 and 2009 is the one supporters return to, three seasons when nobody in Japan could get near them. The Emperor's Cup has come to Kashima five times, the J-League Cup six.

The one trophy that sits apart is the AFC Champions League of 2018. Domestic dominance is one thing; the continental title took the club out of Japan and into a competition where the history between opponents adds an edge, and Kashima came back with it.

Home is Kashima Soccer Stadium, 40,728 seats, known since 2025 by the commercial name Mercari Stadium. The players go out in deep red shirts and navy shorts, the two colours the club has kept throughout.

The Super Cup of Japan has been won six times, most recently in 2017 — a match that tends to pit the league champions against the cup holders, which in several of those years meant Kashima meeting sides they had already beaten months earlier. Rivalry here is less about geography than about repetition: the clubs Kashima kept running into in finals through the 1990s and again after 2009 are the ones that come with an edge.

Fixtures and results

23 Sep	Emperor’s Cup	Ventforet Kofu H	3:1	W
19 Sep	J1 League	Kawasaki Frontale A	3:3	D
15 Sep	AFC Champions League	Newcastle Jets H	7:1	W
11 Sep	J1 League	Vissel Kobe A	1:2	L
6 Sep	J1 League	Urawa H	0:1	L
2 Sep	J1 League	Mito Hollyhock A	2:4	L

AFC Champions League

Group stage · East Region

Full table

matches counted in total: 293

293 Matches

158 wins

65 draws

70 losses

476–303 Goals

+173 Difference

1.6 Scored per game

Match outcomes matches counted in total: 293

158 65 70

wins losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	293	152	141
Scored	476	267	209
Conceded	303	136	167
Scored per game	1.6	1.8	1.5
Conceded per game	1.0	0.9	1.2
Difference	+173	+131	+42

by appearances over the last year

Aleksandar Čavrić Forward 29 Matches

Naomichi Ueda Defender 29 Matches

Leonardo de Sousa Pereira Forward 28 Matches

Gaku Shibasaki Midfielder 28 Matches

Yuma Suzuki Midfielder 28 Matches

Ryoya Ogawa Defender 27 Matches

Kento Misao Midfielder 27 Matches

Haruki Hayashi Midfielder 27 Matches

Gamba Osaka

SHANGHAI SIPG

Beijing Guoan

Vissel Kobe

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Age	Matches
77	Aleksandar Čavrić	Forward		29
55	Naomichi Ueda	Defender		29
9	Leonardo de Sousa Pereira	Forward		28
10	Gaku Shibasaki	Midfielder		28
40	Yuma Suzuki	Midfielder		28
7	Ryoya Ogawa	Defender		27
6	Kento Misao	Midfielder		27
24	Haruki Hayashi	Midfielder		27
1	Tomoki Hayakawa	Goalkeeper		26
3	Tae-Hyeon Kim	Defender		25
27	Yuta Matsumura	Midfielder		24
14	Yuta Higuchi	Midfielder		20
29	Yuji Kajikawa	Goalkeeper		20
23	Keisuke Tsukui	Midfielder		19
5	Ikuma Sekigawa	Defender		19
22	K. Nonon	Midfielder		19
71	Ryotaro Araki	Midfielder	24	19
13	Kei Chinen	Midfielder		17
25	Ryuta Koike	Defender		14
17	Elber	Midfielder		14
11	Kyosuke Tagawa	Forward		13
21	Taiki Yamada	Goalkeeper		12
2	Koki Anzai	Defender		12
34	H. Tokuda	Forward		11
19	Sue Morooka	Forward		11
30	M. Yoshida	Forward		10
16	Shuhei Mizoguchi	Defender	22	10
37	Rikuto Hirose	Defender		9
8	Matheus Bueno Batista	Midfielder		9
4	Kaito Chida	Defender		6
35	Anthony Mototsuna	Defender		6
18	Yan Matheus Santos Souza	Forward		5
32	Haruto Matsumoto	Defender		4
20	Yu Funabashi	Midfielder		3
19	Sho Omori	Defender		1
28	Yugo Okawa	Defender		1