Kashima Antlers

Full name	Kashima Antlers F.C.
Nickname	-
Founded	1947
Ground	Kahima Stadium Kashima, Ibaraki
Capacity	41,800
Chairman	Hiroshi Ushijima
Manager	Toninho Cerezo (2000 - )
League	J. League Div.1
J. League 2004	6th place (1st: 5th, 2nd: 4th)
Home colours 　 Away colours

Kashima Antlers F.C.(鹿島アントラーズ) is a J. League team. The team name Antlers is taken from antler.

Founded in 1947 as Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. in Osaka city. It moved to Kashima, Ibaraki in 1975 and joined J. League on 1991. Its home towns are Kashima, Ibaraki, Itako, Ibaraki, Hasaki, Ibaraki and Kamisu, Ibaraki. It plays at Kashima Stadium.

Under Brazilian Zico, the once-national team captain , Kashima won the J. League 1st stage championship in 1993. In 2000, it won all three of the J. League, Nabisco Cup, and Emperor's Cup becoming the first team since the start of J. League to do so.

Contents

1 Titles 2 Current Star 3 Former Player 4 External Link

Titles

• 1993 - J. League 1st stage championship
• 1996 - J. League championship
• 1997 - J. League 1st stage championship, Nabisco Cup, Tenno Cup
• 1998 - J. League 2nd stage championship, J. League championship
• 2000 - J. League 2nd stage championship, J. League championship, Nabisco Cup, Emperor's Cup
• 2001 - J. League 2nd stage championship, J. League championship
• 2002 - Nabisco Cup
• 2003 - A3 Mazda Champion's Cup

Current Star

• Takayuki Suzuki

Former Player

• Alcindo Sartori
• Bebeto
• Bismarck
• Leonardo
• Milton Da Cruz (played 1984 Summer Olympics)
• Atsushi Yanagisawa
• Zico

External Link

• Official Site (http://www.so-net.ne.jp/antlers/index_e.html)

Japan Professional Football League Members in 2005 season

Division 1 (J1)

Niigata | Kashima | Kashiwa | Chiba | Omiya | Urawa | F.C. Tokyo | Tokyo V. | Kawasaki

Yokohama F.M. | Shimizu | Iwata | Nagoya | G.Osaka | C.Osaka | Kobe | Hiroshima | Oita

Division 2 (J2)

Sapporo | Sendai | Yamagata | Mito | Kusatsu | Yokohama FC | Shonan | Kofu | Kyoto | Tokushima | Fukuoka | Tosu

ja:鹿島アントラーズ