Kashima Antlers

2019 season
Chairman	Shigeru Ibata
Manager	Go Oiwa
Stadium	Kashima Soccer Stadium
J1 League	3rd
Emperor's Cup	Runners-up
J.League Cup	Semi-finals
AFC Champions League	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Serginho (12) All: Serginho (20)
Highest home attendance	34,312 (30 Nov 2019 v Vissel Kobe, J1 League round 33)
Lowest home attendance	2,742 (3 Jul 2019 v Hokuriku University, Emperor's Cup 2nd Round)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The 2019 Kashima Antlers season involved the team competing in the J1 League, they finished 3rd in the 2018 J1 League.^[1] They also competed in the J.League Cup, Emperor's Cup, and AFC Champions League.

Squad

As of 16 February 2019.^[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 4 MF  BRA Léo Silva 5 DF  KOR Jung Seung-hyun 6 MF  JPN Ryota Nagaki 8 MF  JPN Shoma Doi 9 FW  JPN Yuma Suzuki 10 FW  JPN Hiroki Abe 11 MF  BRA Leandro 13 MF  JPN Atsutaka Nakamura 14 FW  JPN Takeshi Kanamori 15 FW  JPN Sho Ito 16 DF  JPN Shuto Yamamoto 17 MF  JPN Taiki Hirato 18 MF  BRA Serginho 19 FW  JPN Kazuma Yamaguchi 20 MF  JPN Kento Misao

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 GK  JPN Hitoshi Sogahata 22 DF  JPN Koki Anzai 23 DF  JPN Itsuki Oda 24 DF  JPN Yukitoshi Ito 25 MF  JPN Yasushi Endo 27 DF  BRA Bueno 28 DF  JPN Koki Machida 29 GK  JPN Shinichiro Kawamata 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 38 GK  JPN Taiki Yamada 39 DF  JPN Tomoya Inukai 41 MF  JPN Ryōhei Shirasaki — FW  JPN Ayase Ueda (special designated player)

Competitions

J1 League

League table

Results

Kashima Antlers v Oita Trinita

23 February 2019 1	Kashima Antlers	1–2	Oita Trinita	Kashima
15:03 JST[3]	Ito 48'	Report	Fujimoto 18', 69' Maeda  64'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 19,463 Referee: Hajime Matsuo

Kawasaki Frontale v Kashima Antlers

1 March 2019 2	Kawasaki Frontale	1–1	Kashima Antlers	Kawasaki
19:03 JST[4]	Nakamura 9' Oshima  66'	Report	Ito 21' Anzai  38' Abe  67'	Stadium: Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium Attendance: 23,927 Referee: Ryuji Sato

Kashima Antlers v Shonan Bellmare

9 March 2019 3	Kashima Antlers	1–0	Shonan Bellmare	Kashima
16:03 JST[5]	Leandro  52' Anzai 58' Kwoun  85'	Report	Okamoto  32'  45' Ohno  42'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 16,659 Referee: Futoshi Nakamura

Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo v Kashima Antlers

17 March 2019 4	Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo	1 – 3	Kashima Antlers	Sapporo
13:00	Suzuki  82' Anderson Lopes 85'	Report	Ito 12' 23' Léo Silva  58' Leandro 76'	Stadium: Sapporo Dome Attendance: 23,002 Referee: Jumpei Iida

Júbilo Iwata v Kashima Antlers

30 March 2019 5	Júbilo Iwata	1 – 1	Kashima Antlers	Iwata
14:00	Takahashi  32' Matsumoto 46' Ogawa  90+4'	Report	Léo Silva  34' 83'	Stadium: Yamaha Stadium Attendance: 13,111 Referee: Koichiro Fukushima

Kashima Antlers v Nagoya Grampus

5 April 2019 6	Kashima Antlers	2 – 1	Nagoya Grampus	Kashima
19:00	Doi 72' Léo Silva 81'	Report	Gabriel Xavier 47' Yonemoto  74' Maruyama  77' Mateus  90+7'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 14,163 Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura

FC Tokyo v Kashima Antlers

14 April 2019 7	FC Tokyo	3 – 1	Kashima Antlers	Chōfu
14:00	Nagai 5' Diego Oliveira 16' 29'	Report	Léo Silva 55'	Stadium: Ajinomoto Stadium Attendance: 38,414 Referee: Ryuji Sato

Kashima Antlers v Vegalta Sendai

20 April 2019 8	Kashima Antlers	1 – 0	Vegalta Sendai	Kashima
15:00	Inukai 66'	Report	Yoshio  38'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 16,844 Referee: Yoshiro Imamura

Yokohama F. Marinos v Kashima Antlers

28 April 2019 9	Yokohama F. Marinos	2 – 1	Kashima Antlers	Yokohama
13:00	Marcos Júnior  59' 82' Nakagawa 69'	Report	Koki Anzai 11'	Stadium: Nissan Stadium Attendance: 38,561 Referee: Koichiro Fukushima

Kashima Antlers v Shimizu S-Pulse

3 May 2019 10	Kashima Antlers	3 – 0	Shimizu S-Pulse	Kashima
15:00	Machida  1' Doi 10' Abe 69' Koki Anzai 72'	Report	Musaka  17' Tatsuta  65' Elsinho  77'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 31,182 Referee: Jumpei Iida

Vissel Kobe v Kashima Antlers

12 May 2019 11	Vissel Kobe	0 – 1	Kashima Antlers	Kobe
14:00	Yamaguchi  86'	Report	Serginho 17'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 20,119 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

Kashima Antlers v Matsumoto Yamaga

18 May 2019 12	Kashima Antlers	5 – 0	Matsumoto Yamaga	Kashima
15:00	Léo Silva 25' Shirasaki 47' 65' Serginho 54' Nakamura 83'	Report	Imai  60'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 20,700 Referee: Hiroyoshi Takayama

Sagan Tosu v Kashima Antlers

26 May 2019 13	Sagan Tosu	1 – 0	Kashima Antlers	Tosu
14:00	Isaac Cuenca  22' Toyoda 90+4'	Report		Stadium: Ekimae Real Estate Stadium Attendance: 14,130 Referee: Hajime Matsuo

Gamba Osaka v Kashima Antlers

1 June 2019 14	Gamba Osaka	1 – 1	Kashima Antlers	Suita
19:00	Meshino 13'	Report	Jung Seung-hyun  27' Serginho  30' Doi 43'	Stadium: Panasonic Stadium Suita Attendance: 30,495 Referee: Takuto Okabe

Kashima Antlers v Cerezo Osaka

14 June 2019 15	Kashima Antlers	2 – 0	Cerezo Osaka	Kashima
19:00	Serginho 50' (pen.) Shirasaki 72' Leandro  83'	Report		Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 10,208 Referee: Yusuke Araki

Kashima Antlers v Sanfrecce Hiroshima

30 June 2019 16	Kashima Antlers	2 – 2	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Kashima
20:30	Araki 1' (o.g.) Misao  44' Machida 74'	Report	Kashiwa 27' 90+4' Douglas Vieira  44' Sasaki  62' Rhayner  76' Patric  83'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 13,502 Referee: Minoru Tōjō

Kashima Antlers v Júbilo Iwata

6 July 2019 17	Kashima Antlers	2 – 0	Júbilo Iwata	Kashima
19:00	Machida  26' Shinzato 29' (o.g.) Koike 40' Kwoun Sun-tae  75'	Report	Rodrigues  43'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 17,442 Referee: Yoshiro Imamura

Vegalta Sendai v Kashima Antlers

13 July 2019 18	Vegalta Sendai	0 – 4	Kashima Antlers	Sendai
19:00		Report	Serginho 16' 45+1' Kwoun Sun-tae  59' Shirasaki 67' Doi 75' Nago  81'	Stadium: Yurtec Stadium Sendai Attendance: 17,639 Referee: Yudai Yamamoto

Kashima Antlers v Sagan Tosu

20 July 2019 19	Kashima Antlers	2 – 1	Sagan Tosu	Kashima
18:30	Leandro 20' (pen.)  55' Shirasaki 35' Inukai  42' Nagaki  59'	Report	Takahashi  19'  90' Kanazaki 23'  81'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 25,173 Referee: Massaki Iemoto

Urawa Reds v Kashima Antlers

31 July 2019 20	Urawa Reds	1 – 1	Kashima Antlers	Saitama
19:30	Koroki 88'	Report	Ito 77'	Stadium: Saitama Stadium 2002 Attendance: 37,265 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

Shonan Bellmare v Kashima Antlers

3 August 2019 21	Shonan Bellmare	3 – 2	Kashima Antlers	Hiratsuka
19:30	Yamasaki 49' Noda 52' Saka 90+6'	Report	Shirasaki  56' Serginho 61' Ito 73' (pen.)	Stadium: Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka Attendance: 14,237 Referee: Akihiko Ikeuchi

Kashima Antlers v Yokohama F. Marinos

10 August 2019 22	Kashima Antlers	2 – 1	Yokohama F. Marinos	Kashima
18:30	Serginho 1' Kwoun Sun-tae  69' Ueda 87'	Report	Ogihara  30'  76' Nakagawa 68'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 29,790 Referee: Koei Koya

Oita Trinita v Kashima Antlers

17 August 2019 23	Oita Trinita	0 – 1	Kashima Antlers	Ōita
19:00	Puangchan  29' Misao  73'	Report	Yuki Soma 71' Nagaki  90+2'	Stadium: Showa Denko Dome Oita Attendance: 28,574 Referee: Yudai Yamamoto

Kashima Antlers v Gamba Osaka

23 August 2019 24	Kashima Antlers	2 – 2	Gamba Osaka	Kashima
19:00	Serginho 44' Ito 58' Kei Koizumi  72' Misao  90+2'	Report	Ademilson 33' Kurata  45+1' Patric 73' (pen.)	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 16,063 Referee: Nobutsugu Murakami

Shimizu S-Pulse v Kashima Antlers

1 September 2019 25	Shimizu S-Pulse	0 – 4	Kashima Antlers	Shizuoka
18:00	Kazunori Yoshimoto  52' Junior Dutra  60'	Report	Endo 15' Serginho 34' (pen.) Ueda 73' 90+3'	Stadium: IAI Stadium Nihondaira Attendance: 15,480 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

Kashima Antlers v FC Tokyo

14 September 2019 26	Kashima Antlers	2 – 0	FC Tokyo	Kashima
19:00	Bueno 2' Misao  28' Serginho 78'	Report	Muroya  57'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 27,285 Referee: Minoru Tōjō

Kashima Antlers v Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo

28 September 2019 27	Kashima Antlers	1 – 1	Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo	Kashima
15:00	Serginho 50'	Report	Shindo 11' Miyazawa  56'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 19,314 Referee: Koei Koya

Cerezo Osaka v Kashima Antlers

6 October 2019 28	Cerezo Osaka	0 – 1	Kashima Antlers	Osaka
15:00	Kimoto  75'	Report	Inukai 6' Bueno  82'	Stadium: Yanmar Stadium Nagai Attendance: 23,001 Referee: Nobutsugu Murakami

Matsumoto Yamaga v Kashima Antlers

18 October 2019 29	Matsumoto Yamaga	1 – 1	Kashima Antlers	Matsumoto
19:00	Nagai 9'	Report	Endo  16' Bueno  53' Ueda 58' (pen.)	Stadium: Sunpro Alwin Attendance: 19,479 Referee: Yudai Yamamoto

Kashima Antlers v Urawa Reds

1 November 2019 30	Kashima Antlers	1 – 0	Urawa Reds	Kashima
18:00	Serginho 72' Kwoun Sun-tae  90+4'	Report	Sugimoto  62'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 14,439 Referee: Yusuke Araki

J.League Cup

Results

Urawa Reds v Kashima Antlers

4 September 2019 Quarter-final First Leg	Urawa Reds	2 - 3	Kashima Antlers	Saitama
19:30	Koroki 58' Makino 60' Sekine  67'	Report	Bueno 35' Doi 38'  83' Nago 43'	Stadium: Saitama Stadium 2002 Attendance: 21,148 Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura

Kashima Antlers v Urawa Reds

8 September 2019 Quarter-final Second Leg	Kashima Antlers	2 - 2 (5 – 4 agg.)	Urawa Reds	Kashima
18:30	Inukai 66' Kei Koizumi  68' Ito 87'  90+7' Jung Seung-hyun  90+3'	Report	Ewerton 28' Sekine 77'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 14,887 Referee: Ryuji Sato

Kawasaki Frontale v Kashima Antlers

9 October 2019 Semi-final First Leg	Kawasaki Frontale	3 – 1	Kashima Antlers	Kawasaki
19:00	Mawatari  9' Hasegawa  16' Morita 27' Wakizaka 82' Abe 85'	Report	Shirasaki 10' Leandro  44'	Stadium: Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium Attendance: 18,412 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

Kashima Antlers v Kawasaki Frontale

13 October 2019 Semi-final Second Leg	Kashima Antlers	0 – 0 (1 – 3 agg.)	Kawasaki Frontale	Kashima
19:00	Koike  27' Jung Seung-hyun  45+1'	Report		Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 19,127 Referee: Minoru Tōjō

Emperor's Cup

Kashima Antlers v Yokohama F. Marinos

25 September 2019 Round of 16	Kashima Antlers	4 – 1	Yokohama F. Marinos	Kashima
19:00	Nakamura 13', 30', 45+2' Ito  27' Bueno  67' Ito 77'	Report	Ito  16' Erik 23' Ōtsu  85'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 6,529 Referee: Takuto Okabe

Kashima Antlers v Honda

23 October 2019 Quarter-finals	Kashima Antlers	1 – 0	Honda	Kashima
19:00	Machida  38' Doi 65'	Report	Harada  78'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 6,660 Referee: Hajime Matsuo

AFC Champions League

Group standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SDL	KAS	GYE	JDT
1	Shandong Luneng	6	3	2	1	10	8	+2	11	Advance to knockout stage		—	2–2	2–1	2–1
2	Kashima Antlers	6	3	1	2	9	8	+1	10			2–1	—	0–1	2–1
3	Gyeongnam FC	6	2	2	2	9	8	+1	8			2–2	2–3	—	2–0
4	Johor Darul Ta'zim	6	1	1	4	4	8	−4	4			0–1	1–0	1–1	—

Results

Kashima Antlers v Johor Darul Ta'zim

5 March 2019 (2019-03-05) Group E	Kashima Antlers	2–1	Johor Darul Ta'zim	Kashima
19:00 UTC+9	Hirato 43' Serginho 56'	Live Report Stats Report	Diogo 80'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: 6,425 Referee: Turki Al-Khudhayr (Saudi Arabia)

Shandong Luneng v Kashima Antlers

12 March 2019 (2019-03-12) Group E	Shandong Luneng	2–2	Kashima Antlers	Jinan Olympic Sports Center Stadium, Jinan
15:30 UTC+8	Pellè 20' (pen.), 41'	Live Report Stats Report	Ito 10', 14'	Attendance: 12,185 Referee: Mooud Bonyadifar (Iran)

Gyeongnam FC v Kashima Antlers

9 April 2019 (2019-04-09) Group E	Gyeongnam FC	2 – 3	Kashima Antlers	Changwon Football Center, Changwon
18:30 UTC+9	Choi Jae-soo  50' Inukai 56' (o.g.) Mutch  62' 71'	Live Report Stats Report	Inukai  40'  84' Song Ju-Hun 75' (o.g.) Machida  80' Kanamori 90+1' Serginho 90+3'	Attendance: 2,194 Referee: Ahmed Al-Kaf (Oman)

Kashima Antlers v Gyeongnam FC

24 April 2019 (2019-04-24) Group E	Kashima Antlers	0 – 1	Gyeongnam FC	Kashima Soccer Stadium, Kashima
19:00 UTC+9	Koki Anzai  52'	Live Report Stats Report	Mutch  25' Ko Kyung-min  42' Kunimoto 63'	Attendance: 7,193 Referee: Ali Sabah (Iraq)

Johor Darul Ta'zim v Kashima Antlers

8 May 2019 (2019-05-08) Group E	Johor Darul Ta'zim	1 – 0	Kashima Antlers	Larkin Stadium, Johor Bahru
20:45 UTC+8	Syafiq Ahmad 69' Hazwan Bakri  87' Safawi Rasid  90+3' Gonzalo Cabrera  90+5'	Live Report Stats Report	Koki Anzai  87'	Attendance: 4,860 Referee: Mohanad Qassim (Iraq)

Kashima Antlers v Shandong Luneng

22 May 2019 (2019-05-22) Group E	Kashima Antlers	2 – 1	Shandong Luneng	Kashima Soccer Stadium, Kashima
19:00 UTC+9	Ito 68' 70'	Live Report Stats Report	Fellaini 11' Qi Tianyu  16'	Attendance: 8,836 Referee: Khamis Mohamed Al Kuwari

Round of 16

Kashima Antlers v Sanfrecce Hiroshima

18 June 2019 Round of 16 First Leg	Kashima Antlers	1 – 0	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Kashima Soccer Stadium, Kashima
19:00	Serginho 24'	Report	Inagaki  82'  86'	Attendance: 13,179 Referee: Aziz Asimov

Sanfrecce Hiroshima v Kashima Antlers

25 June 2019 Round of 16 Second Leg	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	3 – 2 (3 – 3 agg.)	Kashima Antlers	Edion Stadium Hiroshima, Hiroshima
19:00	Araki  54' Sasaki  65' 72' Patric 66' 90+6' (pen.) Nakabayashi  74' Douglas Vieira  80' Kashiwa  82'	Report	Misao  27' Doi 33' 89' Nago  35'	Attendance: 4,279 Referee: Ali Sabah

Quarter-finals

Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao v Kashima Antlers

28 August 2019 Quarter-final First Leg	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	0 – 0	Kashima Antlers	Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou
21:00	Xu Xin  74'	Report	Jung Seung-hyun  63'	Attendance: 39,998 Referee: Abdulrahman Al-Jassim

Kashima Antlers v Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao

18 September 2019 Quarter-final Second Leg	Kashima Antlers	1 – 1 (1 – 1 agg.)	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	Kashima Soccer Stadium, Kashima
19:00	Nagaki  46' Serginho 51' Ueda  87'	Report	Huang Bowen  9' Zheng Zhi  31' Talisca  34' 40' Yang Liyu  42'	Attendance: 13,835 Referee: Ahmed Al-Kaf

Statistics

Scorers

Rank	No.	Pos	Player	J1 League	Emperor's Cup	J.League Cup	AFC Champions League	Total
1	18	FW	Serginho	12	2	0	6	20
2	15	FW	Sho Ito	7	3	1	5	16
3	8	MF	Shoma Doi	5	1	1	2	9
4	41	MF	Ryōhei Shirasaki	5	0	1	0	6
5	13	MF	Atsutaka Nakamura	1	3	0	0	4
	36	FW	Ayase Ueda	4	0	0	0	4
	11	FW	Leandro	3	1	0	0	4
	4	MF	Léo Silva	4	0	0	0	4
9	22	DF	Koki Anzai	3	0	0	0	3
	39	DF	Tomoya Inukai	2	0	1	0	3
11	14	FW	Takeshi Kanamori	0	1	0	1	2
	27	DF	Bueno	1	0	1	0	2
	26	DF	Yuta Koike	2	0	0	0	2
14	47	MF	Yuki Soma	1	0	0	0	1
	34	MF	Kotaro Arima	0	1	0	0	1
	23	DF	Itsuki Oda	0	1	0	0	1
	17	MF	Taiki Hirato	0	0	0	1	1
	19	FW	Kazuma Yamaguchi	0	1	0	0	1
	16	DF	Shuto Yamamoto	0	0	0	1	1
	10	FW	Hiroki Abe	1	0	0	0	1
	25	MF	Yasushi Endo	1	0	0	0	1
	30	MF	Shintaro Nago	0	0	1	0	1
Subtotal				51	15	5	16	87
Own goals				3	0	1	1	5
Total				54	15	6	17	92

Clean sheets

Rank	No.	Player	J.League	Emperor's Cup	J.League Cup	AFC Champions League	Total
1	1	Kwoun Sun-tae	13	1	1	2	17
2	21	Hitoshi Sogahata	2	1	0	0	3
Total			15	2	1	2	20