Kashima Antlers

Encyclopedia : K : KA : KAS : Kashima Antlers

is a J. League team. Antlers is derived from the city name, Kashima, which literally means "deer island".

Founded in 1947 as Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. in Osaka. It played in the semi-professional Japan Soccer League and moved to Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture in 1975. After the formation of the fully professional J. League, Sumitomo, like all other clubs, stripped the corporate brand from the team name and reformed as the Kashima Antlers. Its hometowns are Kashima, Itako, Hasaki and Kamisu, all in Ibaraki Prefecture. The team plays at Kashima Stadium.

Led by former Brazilian star and Japanese national team coach Zico, Kashima won the J. League 1st stage championship in 1993. In the 2000 season, it became the first J. League team to achieve the "treble", winning all three major titles: J. League, J. League Cup, and Emperor's Cup.

Contents

1 Titles
2 Current Squad
3 Former players
4 External link

Titles

J. League Championships: (4) 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001
J. League stage championships: (4) 1993 1st stage, 1998 2nd stage, 2000 2nd stage, 2001 2nd stage (two-stage format suspended for 1996 season, scrapped after 2004 season)
Emperor's Cup: (2) 1997, 2000
League Cup: (1) 2000
A3 Mazda Champions Cup: (1) 2003

Current Squad

(as of: March 25, 2006)

Former players

External link

#redirect [[Template:Ja icon]] [Official Site]

Japan Professional Football League Members in 2006 season
Division 1 (J1)
Niigata \| Kashima \| Chiba \| Omiya \| Urawa \| FC Tokyo \| Kawasaki \| Yokohama FM
Kofu \| Shimizu \| Iwata \| Nagoya \| Kyoto \| G.Osaka \| C.Osaka \| Hiroshima \| Fukuoka \| Oita
Division 2 (J2)
Sapporo \| Sendai \| Yamagata \| Mito \| Kusatsu \| Kashiwa Tokyo V. \| Yokohama FC \| Shonan \| Kobe \| Tokushima \| Ehime \| Tosu

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.