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
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ChairmanFumiaki Koizumi

ManagerAntônio Carlos Zago

StadiumKashima Soccer Stadium

J1 League5th

The 2020 season was 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 also competed in the Emperor's Cup and J.League Cup.

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Date	Position	Player	From	Type	Source
3 January 2020	DF	Daiki Sugioka	Shonan Bellmare	Full	^[3]
3 January 2020	DF	Rikuto Hirose	Yokohama F. Marinos	Full	^[4]
3 January 2020	DF	Katsuya Nagato	Vegalta Sendai	Full	^[5]
4 January 2020	MF	Juan Alano	SC Internacional	Full	^[6]
4 January 2020	DF	Tatsuki Nara	Kawasaki Frontale	Full	^[7]
4 January 2020	MF	Ryuji Izumi	Nagoya Grampus	Full	^[8]
4 January 2020	FW	Everaldo	Querétaro F.C.	Full	^[9]
31 January 2020	MF	Kazune Kubota	Fagiano Okayama	Return from loan	^[10]
1 February 2020	MF	Ryotaro Araki	Higashi Fukuoka High School	Full	^[11]
1 February 2020	MF	Yuta Matsumura	Shizuoka Gakuen HS	Full	^[12]
1 February 2020	FW	Itsuki Someno	Shoshi HS	Full	^[13]
8 September 2020	DF	Keigo Tsunemoto	Meiji University	Loan (designated special player)	^[14]

Date	Position	Player	To	Type	Source
26 December 2019	FW	Yuki Kakita	Tokushima Vortis	Loan	^[15]
3 January 2020	FW	Takeshi Kanamori	Sagan Tosu	Full	^[16]
3 January 2020	MF	Atsutaka Nakamura	Montedio Yamagata	Full	^[17]
3 January 2020	GK	Shinichiro Kawamata	Nankatsu SC	Full	^[18]
3 January 2020	FW	Takeshi Kanamori	Sagan Tosu	Full	^[19]
3 January 2020	DF	Jung Seung-hyun	Ulsan Hyundai	Full	^[20]
3 January 2020	FW	Kazuma Yamaguchi	Mito Hollyhock	Loan	^[21]
3 January 2020	MF	Kotaro Arima	Tochigi SC	Loan	^[22]
3 January 2020	DF	Yuta Koike	Sint-Truidense	End of loan	^[23]
15 January 2020	DF	Itsuki Oda	Machida Zelvia	Loan	^[24]
25 January 2020	FW	Serginho	Changchun Yatai	Full	^[25]
28 January 2020	FW	Leandro	FC Tokyo	Loan	^[26]
30 January 2020	MF	Yuki Soma	Nagoya Grampus	End of loan	^[27]
25 March 2020	MF	Kazune Kubota	Matsumoto Yamaga	Full	^[28]
16 June 2020	DF	Bueno	Atlético Mineiro	Loan	^[29]
21 August 2020	DF	Shogo Sasaki	Iwate Grulla Morioka	Loan	^[30]
31 August 2020	DF	Atsuto Uchida		Retired	^[31]

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

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

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

2020 Kashima Antlers season

Transfers

Arrivals

Departures

Competitions

J1 League

League table

Results summary

Results by matchday

Results

Emperor's Cup

J.League Cup

Group stage

AFC Champions League

Qualifying play-offs

Statistics

Scorers

Clean sheets

References

Related Articles

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

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

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: Nobotsugu Murakami

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

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

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

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: Yusuke Araki

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: Koichiro Fukushima

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

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: Minoro Tojo

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: Yusuke Araki

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