2020 Kashima Antlers season

Kashima Antlers
2020 season
Chairman	Fumiaki Koizumi
Manager	Antônio Carlos Zago
Stadium	Kashima Soccer Stadium
J1 League	5th
Emperor's Cup	Preseason
J.League Cup	Group stage
AFC Champions League	Qualifying play-off
Top goalscorer	; Everaldo (18)
Home colours	Away colours
	← 2019 →

The 2020 season is Kashima Antlers's 28th consecutive season in the J1 League, the top flight of Japanese football, since the introduction of professional football in 1993. The club finished the 2019 J1 League in third place, securing a play-off spot in the 2020 AFC Champions League.^[1] In addition to these competitions, they will also compete in the Emperor's Cup and J.League Cup.

Squad[]

As of 23 February 2020.^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	KOR	Kwoun Sun-tae
2	DF	JPN	Atsuto Uchida (captain)
3	DF	JPN	Tatsuki Nara
4	MF	BRA	Léo Silva
5	DF	JPN	Daiki Sugioka
6	MF	JPN	Ryota Nagaki
7	MF	BRA	Juan Alano
8	MF	JPN	Shoma Doi
9	FW	BRA	Everaldo
11	MF	JPN	Ryuji Izumi
14	DF	JPN	Katsuya Nagato
15	FW	JPN	Sho Ito
16	DF	JPN	Shuto Yamamoto
19	FW	JPN	Itsuki Someno
20	MF	JPN	Kento Misao
21	GK	JPN	Hitoshi Sogahata


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	DF	JPN	Rikuto Hirose
24	DF	JPN	Yukitoshi Ito
25	MF	JPN	Yasushi Endo
26	DF	JPN	Ryotaro Araki
27	MF	JPN	Yuta Matsumura
28	DF	JPN	Koki Machida
30	MF	JPN	Shintaro Nago
31	GK	JPN	Yuya Oki
33	DF	JPN	Ikuma Sekigawa
34	MF	JPN	Kotaro Arima
35	DF	JPN	Shogo Sasaki
36	FW	JPN	Ayase Ueda
37	MF	JPN	Kei Koizumi
38	GK	JPN	Taiki Yamada
39	DF	JPN	Tomoya Inukai (df)
41	MF	JPN	Ryōhei Shirasaki

Competitions[]

J1 League[]

League table[]

Pos	Team v t	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
3	Nagoya Grampus	34	19	6	9	45	28	+17	63	Qualification for AFC Champions League group stage^[a]
4	Cerezo Osaka	34	18	6	10	46	37	+9	60	Qualification for AFC Champions League play-off round^[a]
5	Kashima Antlers	34	18	5	11	55	44	+11	59
6	FC Tokyo	34	17	6	11	47	42	+5	57
7	Kashiwa Reysol	34	15	7	12	60	46	+14	52

Source: Meiji Yasuda J1 League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goal scored; 6) Number of wins; 7) Goals scored; 8) Fair-play points.
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Since the winners of the 2020 Emperor's Cup, Kawasaki Frontale, qualified for the Champions League group stage, the spot given to the Emperor's Cup winners (Champions League group stage) was passed to the third-placed team and the spot given to the third-place team (Champions League play-off round) was passed to the fourth-placed team.

Results summary[]

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	18	5	11	55	44	+11	59	8	5	4	27	22	+5	10	0	7	28	22	+6

Last updated: 19 December 2020.
Source: see below

Results by matchday[]

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	H	H	H
Result	L	L	L	L	W	L	D	W	W	D	L	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	L	W	W	L	W	W	L	W	D	W	L	W	W	D
Position	18	18	18	18	15	17	17	12	12	12	12	13	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5

Updated to match(es) played on 19 December 2020. Source: See Below
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Results[]

23 February 2020 1	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	3–0	Kashima Antlers	Hiroshima
14:03 JST	Vieira 20' Pereira 25' Morishima 84'	Report		Stadium: Edion Stadium Hiroshima Attendance: 18,713

4 July 2020 2	Kawasaki Frontale	2–1	Kashima Antlers	Kawasaki, Kanagawa
19:03 JST	Taniguchi 2' Hasegawa 30' Ienaga 43' Yamane 81'	Report	Uchida 17' Own goal 32' Machida 76' Nagaki 87'	Stadium: Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium Attendance: 0^[a]

8 July 2020 3	Kashima Antlers	0–2	Consadole Sapporo	Kashima, Ibaraki
19:03	Endo 80'	Report	Suzuki 7' Arano 37' Suga 49' Fukai 53' Sugueno 89' Kaneko 90+1' Lucas Fernandes 90+3'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 0^[a]

12 July 2020 4	Urawa Red Diamonds	1–0	Kashima Antlers	Midori-ku, Saitama
19:00 JST	Ewerton 15' 52' Shibato 77' Sekine 81'	Report	Nagaki 34' Machida 48'	Stadium: Saitama Stadium 2002 Attendance: 3,094 Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura

18 July 2020 5	Kashima Antlers	4–2	Yokohama F. Marinos	Kashima, Ibaraki
18:00	Ueda 4', 58' Everaldo 67' Shirasaki 82'	Report	Marcos Júnior 12', 70'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 3,090 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

22 July 2020 6	Shonan Bellmare	1–0	Kashima Antlers	Hiratsuka
19:03 JST	Saito 22' Ishihara 66'	Report	Ueda 34' Someno 72' Inukai 86'	Stadium: Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka Attendance: 3,498 Referee: Minoru Tōjō

26 July 2020 7	Kashima Antlers	2–2	FC Tokyo	Kashima, Ibaraki
18:33	Alano 27' Everaldo 34' Doi 75'	Report	Nagai 22' Watanabe 45' Morishige 45+5' 90' Diego Oliveira 90+5'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 3,027 Referee: Jumpei Iida

1 August 2020 8	Oita Trinita	1–4	Kashima Antlers	Ōita
19:03 JST	Takazawa 5' Shimakawa 27'	Report	Everaldo 15', 40', 55' Misao 66' Ito 90+5'	Stadium: Showa Denko Dome Oita Attendance: 4,225 Referee: Hiroki Kasahara

8 August 2020 9	Kashima Antlers	2–0	Sagan Tosu	Kashima, Ibaraki
18:33	Izumi 69' Everaldo 80'	Report	Morishita 5'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 3,913 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

16 August 2020 (2020-08-16) 10	Kashima Antlers	2–2	Vissel Kobe	Kashima, Ibaraki
18:33 JST	Silva 34' Everaldo 38' Hirose 71' Araki 90+4'	Report	Dankler 19' Goke 61' Iniesta 63' Douglas 67'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 4,766 Referee: Minoru Tōjō

19 August 2020 11	Yokohama FC	1–0	Kashima Antlers	Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama
19:03 JST	Minagawa 25'	Report	Nara 10'	Stadium: NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium Attendance: 2,773 Referee: Masuya Ueda

23 August 2020 12	Kashima Antlers	1 – 1	Gamba Osaka	Kashima
19:00 JST	Uchida 39' Inukai 89' 90+5'	Report	Onose 6' Higashiguchi 47' Ono 87'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 4,949 Referee: Yusuke Araki

26 August 2020 13	FC Tokyo	1 – 2	Kashima Antlers	Chōfu
19:00 JST	Sekigawa 45+1' (o.g.) Arthur Silva 62'	Report	Everaldo 48' Juan Alano 57' Nagato 78' Misao 86'	Stadium: Ajinomoto Stadium Attendance: 4,390 Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura

29 August 2020 14	Kashiwa Reysol	2 – 3	Kashima Antlers	Kashiwa
19:00 JST	Takahashi 27' 45+5' Richardson 34' Olunga 57' 84' Toshima 73'	Report	Izumi 32' Misao 72' Doi 89' 90+1'	Stadium: Sankyo Frontier Kashiwa Stadium Attendance: 2,728 Referee: Yoshiro Imamura

5 September 2020 15	Nagoya Grampus	1 – 3	Kashima Antlers	Toyota
18:00 JST	Inagaki 40' 49' Abe 83'	Report	Izumi 16' Misao 35' Araki 37' Doi 63'	Stadium: Toyota Stadium Attendance: 4,951 Referee: Koichiro Fukushima

9 September 2020 16	Kashima Antlers	2 – 1	Vegalta Sendai	Kashima
19:00 JST	Everaldo 45+2' Ueda 83'	Report	Hamasaki 21' Nagasawa 87' Shiihashi 90+5'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 3,839 Referee: Minoru Tōjō

12 September 2020 17	Shimizu S-Pulse	1 – 2	Kashima Antlers	Shizuoka
18:00 JST	Dangda 79'	Report	Inukai 16' Everaldo 29' Doi 32' Araki 65'	Stadium: IAI Stadium Nihondaira Attendance: 4,774 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

19 September 2020 18	Cerezo Osaka	1 – 2	Kashima Antlers	Osaka
18:00 JST	Bruno Mendes 36' Seko 86'	Report	Juan Alano 32' Misao 39' Everaldo 46'	Stadium: Yanmar Stadium Nagai Attendance: 6,836 Referee: Hajime Matsuo

23 September 2020 19	Kashima Antlers	1 – 0	Shonan Bellmare	Kashima
20:00 JST	Koizumi 41' Inukai 49' Juan Alano 90+4'	Report	Okamoto 46'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 3,194 Referee: Jumpei Iida

27 September 2020 20	Kashima Antlers	0 – 2	Oita Trinita	Kashima
18:00 JST	Juan Alano 62' Sekigawa 76'	Report	Shimakawa 45' Kozuka 57' Mun 65' Takazawa 80'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 6,982 Referee:

3 October 2020 21	Gamba Osaka	2 – 0	Kashima Antlers	Suita
19:00 JST	Patric 66' Watanabe 90+3'	Report	Everaldo 67'	Stadium: Panasonic Stadium Suita Attendance: 9,313 Referee: Ryuji Sato

10 October 2020 22	Kashima Antlers	3 – 2	Yokohama FC	Kashima
16:00 JST	Koizumi 36' Everaldo 58' Misao 69' Tashiro 88' (o.g.) Koizumi 90+2'	Report	Senuma 2' Matsuo 13'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 5,671 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

14 October 2020 23	Sagan Tosu	0 – 2	Kashima Antlers	Tosu
18:45 JST	Matsuoka 60'	Report	Shirasaki 12' Shirasaki 41' Inukai 86'	Stadium: Ekimae Real Estate Stadium Attendance: 3,882 Referee:

18 October 2020 24	Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo	1 – 0	Kashima Antlers	Sapporo
13:00 JST	Komai 41' Kim 45+1'	Report		Stadium: Sapporo Dome Attendance: 5,359 Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura

21 October 2020 25	Vissel Kobe	1 – 3	Kashima Antlers	Kobe
18:00 JST	Fujimoto 61'	Report	Ueda 12' Izumi 43' Doi 78'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 6,553 Referee:

24 October 2020 26	Kashima Antlers	1 – 0	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Kashima
14:00 JST	Machida 59' Everaldo 76'	Report		Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 7,466 Referee:

31 October 2020 27	Kashima Antlers	0 – 2	Nagoya Grampus	Kashima
17:00 JST	Silva 10' Everaldo 45+3' Alano 61' 68'	Report	Kanazaki 7' Naruse 70' Abe 82' Mateus 90+2'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 8,912 Referee:

3 November 2020 28	Yokohama F. Marinos	2 – 3	Kashima Antlers	Yokohama
13:00 JST	Mizunuma 17' Erik 27' 68' Ohgihara 67' Ito 87'	Report	Koizumi 6' Ueda 39' Everaldo 65' 78' Endo 84'	Stadium: Nissan Stadium Attendance: 20,515 Referee: Yudai Yamamoto

14 November 2020 29	Kashima Antlers	1 – 1	Kawasaki Frontale	Kashima
17:00 JST	Inukai 52' Ueda 57' Everaldo 75' Misao 90+3'	Report	Wakizaka 7' Taniguchi 34' Jesiel 90+2'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 13,463 Referee: Ryuji Sato

21 November 2020 30	Vegalta Sendai	1 – 3	Kashima Antlers	Sendai
15:00 JST	Nagasawa 76'	Report	Nara 45+3' Everaldo 47' Alano 57' Ueda 62'	Stadium: Yurtec Stadium Sendai Attendance: 7,487 Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura

25 November 2020 31	Kashima Antlers	1 – 4	Kashiwa Reysol	Kashima
19:00 JST	Inukai 45+2' Kim 56' (o.g.)	Report	Cristiano 6' 83' Kitazume 26' Olunga 75' Kamiya 90+1'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 4,327 Referee: Minoru Tojo

29 November 2020 32	Kashima Antlers	4 – 0	Urawa Reds	Kashima
15:00 JST	Ueda 11', 50' Everaldo 64' Silva 81'	Report	Nagasawa 6' Leonardo 41' Yamanaka 90+2'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 11,645 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

12 December 2020 33	Kashima Antlers	2 – 0	Shimizu S-Pulse	Kashima
16:00 JST	Ueda 4', 12'	Report	Hwang 6' Elsinho 79' Valdo 80'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 7,907 Referee: Ryuji Sato

19 December 2020 34	Kashima Antlers	1 – 1	Cerezo Osaka	Kashima
14:00 JST	Misao 32' Nagaki 56' Everaldo 90'	Report	Matsuda 83'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 11,251 Referee:

Emperor's Cup[]

J.League Cup[]

Group stage[]

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	FRO	GRA	ANT	SSP
1	Kawasaki Frontale	3	2	1	0	10	5	+5	7	—	—	—	5–1
2	Nagoya Grampus	3	2	1	0	6	2	+4	7^[b]	2–2	—	1–0	—
3	Kashima Antlers	3	1	0	2	5	6	−1	3	2–3	—	—	—
4	Shimizu S-Pulse	3	0	0	3	3	11	−8	0	—	0–3	2–3	—

Source: Table, Results
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Match played behind closed doors
^ Most points among the 2nd place finishers in each group.

AFC Champions League[]

Qualifying play-offs[]

28 January 2020 (2020-01-28)	Kashima Antlers	0–1	Melbourne Victory	Kashima Soccer Stadium, Kashima
19:00 UTC+9		Live Report Stats Report	Nabbout 54'	Attendance: 4,275 Referee: Mooud Bonyadifard (Iran)

Statistics[]

Scorers[]

Rank	No.	Pos	Player	J1 League	J.League Cup	Total
1	9	FW	Everaldo	18	0	18
2	36	FW	Ayase Ueda	10	0	10
3	8	MF	Shoma Doi	6	0	6
4	7	MF	Juan Alano	4	0	4
5	11	MF	Ryuji Izumi	3	0	3
	41	MF	Ryōhei Shirasaki	2	1	3
	15	FW	Sho Ito	1	2	3
8	39	DF	Tomoya Inukai	2	0	2
8	26	MF	Ryotaro Araki	2	0	2
10	4	MF	Léo Silva	1	0	1
	20	MF	Kento Misao	1	0	1
	25	MF	Yasushi Endo	1	0	1
	37	MF	Kei Koizumi	1	0	1
	27	MF	Yuta Matsumura	0	1	1
	19	FW	Itsuki Someno	0	1	1
Own goals				3	0	3
Total				55	5	60

Last updated: 8 April 2021.
Source: Competitions

Clean sheets[]

Rank	No.	Pos.	Player	J.League	Emperor's Cup	J.League Cup	AFC Champions League	Total
1	31	GK	Yuya Oki	6	0	0	0	6
Total				6	0	0	0	6

Last updated: 8 April 2021.
Source: Competitions

References[]

^ "J1 League". Soccerway. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ "Players" (in Japanese). Kashima Antlers Official Website. Retrieved 23 February 2020.

[table_note_res_CLGS0.79677817076295-3] Since the winners of the 2020 Emperor's Cup, Kawasaki Frontale, qualified for the Champions League group stage, the spot given to the Emperor's Cup winners (Champions League group stage) was passed to the third-placed team and the spot given to the third-place team (Champions League play-off round) was passed to the fourth-placed team.

[closed_doors-4] Match played behind closed doors

[table_hth_GRA0.5017404772815-5] Most points among the 2nd place finishers in each group.

[1] "J1 League". Soccerway. Retrieved 11 July 2020.

[2] "Players" (in Japanese). Kashima Antlers Official Website. Retrieved 23 February 2020.

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Club	Players History Statistics All articles
Stadium	Kashima Soccer Stadium
Honors	J.League (1996 1998 2000 2001 2007 2008 2009 2016) Emperor's Cup (1997 2000 2007 2010 2016) J.League Cup (1997 2000 2002 2011 2012 2015) Japanese Super Cup (1997 1998 1999 2000 2010 2017) AFC Champions League {2018) Suruga Bank Championship (2012 2013) A3 Champions Cup (2003)
Personalities	Zico Jorginho Masakatsu Miyamoto Naoki Soma Yutaka Akita Bismarck Akira Narahashi Yasuto Honda Toninho Cerezo Oswaldo de Oliveira Yoshiyuki Hasegawa Kurosaki Hisashi Leonardo Mitsuo Ogasawara Kōji Nakata Masashi Motoyama Toru Araiba Daijiro Takakuwa Hitoshi Sogahata Takuya Nozawa Carlos Alberto Alcindo Marquinhos Atsuto Uchida Takayuki Suzuki Atsushi Yanagisawa Go Oiwa Shinzo Koroki João Carlos Daiki Iwamasa Yuya Osako Mu Kanazaki
Seasons	1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 [ja] 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Matches	2016 FIFA Club World Cup Final 2018 AFC Champions League Final
Sponsors	Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Lixil Group Riso Kagaku Corporation Nike Sony All Nippon Airways Asahi Breweries Suntory Showa Corporation KDDI Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Segway Inc.
Training ground	Club House Ground Forest of Heisei

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	18	5	11	55	44	+11	59	8	5	4	27	22	+5	10	0	7	28	22	+6

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	18	5	11	55	44	+11	59	8	5	4	27	22	+5	10	0	7	28	22	+6

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	18	5	11	55	44	+11	59	8	5	4	27	22	+5	10	0	7	28	22	+6