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 (16)
Home colours	Away colours
	← 2019 2021 →

The 2020 season is Kashima Antlers's 28th consecutive season in the J1 League 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 e	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
33	18	4	11	54	43	+11	58	8	4	4	26	21	+5	10	0	7	28	22	+6

Last updated: 12 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
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

Updated to match(es) played on 12 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

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	Total
1	9	FW	Everaldo	7	7
2	36	FW	Ayase Ueda	2	2
3	8	MF	Shoma Doi	1	1
	11	MF	Ryuji Izumi	1	1
	15	FW	Sho Ito	1	1
	26	MF	Ryotaro Araki	1	1
	39	DF	Tomoya Inukai	1	1
	41	MF	Ryōhei Shirasaki	1	1
Own goals				1	1
Total				16	16

Last updated: 23 August 2020.
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	1	0	0	0	1
Total				1	0	0	0	1

Last updated: 8 August 2020.
Source: Competitions

References

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

[table_note_res_CLGS0.2002806156875-3] 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_GRA0.051629857649854-5] 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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