Kashima Antlers

General

Kit history

Kashima Antlers
Full name	Kashima Antlers F.C.
Founded	1947
Ground	Kashima Soccer Stadium Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan (Capacity: 40,728)
Owner	Mercari
Chairman	Fumiaki Koizumi
Manager	Antônio Carlos Zago
Current League	J1 League
2020	J1 League, 5th
Website	Club home page

Kashima Antlers are a Japanese professional association football club playing in the J1 League with financial backing from the Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal. 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 six times and the Emperor's Cup four times for an unprecedented total of seventeen 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 captured a major domestic title in over sixty percent of all seasons played to date.

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

External links

• (Japanese) Official Website
• (English) Official Website

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