2011 Kashima Antlers season

Kashima Antlers
2011 season
Manager	Oswaldo de Oliveira
J.League Division 1	6th
Emperor's Cup	Fourth round
J.League Cup	Champions
Super Cup	Runners-up
AFC Champions League	Round of 16
Home colours	Away colours
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The 2011 Kashima Antlers season was Kashima Antlers's 19th season in J.League Division 1 and 23rd season overall in the top flight (counting the Japan Soccer League and participation in the inaugural J.League Cup). It also included the 2011 J.League Cup, 2011 Emperor's Cup, and the 2011 AFC Champions League. They finished the season 6th in the championship and lost the chance to break the record of 7 championships they share with Tokyo Verdy.

Players

Current squad

As of 15 December 2010 Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

2011 season transfers

In Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Out Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Competitions

Super Cup

26 February 2011	Nagoya Grampus	1 – 1 (3 – 1 p)	Kashima Antlers	Nissan Stadium
Saturday 13:37	Masukawa 54'	Report	66' Nozawa	Attendance: 35,963 Referee: Nishimura
	Penalties
	Kennedy Fujimoto Santos Ogawa		Iwamasa Motoyama Alex Araiba

J.League

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
4	Vegalta Sendai	34	14	14	6	39	25	+14	56
5	Yokohama F. Marinos	34	16	8	10	46	40	+6	56
6	Kashima Antlers	34	13	11	10	53	40	+13	50
7	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	34	14	8	12	52	49	+3	50
8	Júbilo Iwata	34	13	8	13	53	45	+8	47

Updated to match(es) played on December 3, 2011. Source: J.League Division 1
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal differential; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head results; 5th disciplinary points; 6th draw. If two clubs are tied for first place, both clubs will be declared.

Matches

6 March 2011 Round 1	Kashima Antlers	3 – 3	Omiya Ardija	Kashima Soccer Stadium
Sunday 15:00	Inoha 47', Iwamasa 58', Tsubouchi 90' (o.g.)	Report	11', 64' Lee, 49' Ueda	Attendance: 23,262 Referee: Yoshida

12 March 2011 Round 2	Shimizu S-Pulse	0 – 0	Kashima Antlers	Nihondaira Sports Stadium
Saturday 13:00		Report		Attendance: 15,528 Referee: Kenji Ogiya

20 March 2011 Round 3	Kashima Antlers	1 – 2	Albirex Niigata	Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium
Sunday 16:00	Nozawa 56' (pen)	report	59', pen' Lopes, 88' Young-Cheol	Attendance: 10,602 Referee: Masaaki Toma

2 April 2011 Round 4	Nagoya Grampus	2-1	Kashima Antlers	Toyota Stadium
Saturday 13:00	35' Kennedy, 79' Burzanović	report	2' Osako	Attendance: 12,845 Referee: Toshmitsu Yoshida

10 April 2011 Round 5	Kashima Antlers	v	Vegalta Sendai
Sunday 16:00

16 April 2011 Round 6	Kashiwa Reysol	v	Kashima Antlers
Saturday 15:30

23 April 2011 Round 7	Kashima Antlers	v	Yokohama F. Marinos
Saturday 15:00

29 April 2011 Round 8	Avispa Fukuoka	v	Kashima Antlers
Friday 13:00

17 August 2011 Round 9	Kashima Antlers	v	Cerezo Osaka
Wednesday 19:00

27 July 2011 Round 10	Kashima Antlers	v	Gamba Osaka
Wednesday 19:00

15 May 2011 Round 11	Kawasaki Frontale	v	Kashima Antlers
Sunday 16:00

21 May 2011 Round 12	Kashima Antlers	v	Urawa Red Diamonds
Saturday 16:00

29 May 2011 Round 13	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	v	Kashima Antlers
Sunday 19:00

11 June 2011 Round 14	Montedio Yamagata	v	Kashima Antlers
Saturday 16:00

15 June 2011 Round 15	Kashima Antlers	v	Ventforet Kofu
Wednesday 19:00

18 June 2011 Round 16	Kashima Antlers	v	Júbilo Iwata
Saturday 19:00

22 June 2011 Round 17	Vissel Kobe	v	Kashima Antlers
Wednesday 19:00

25 June 2011 Round 18	Kashima Antlers	v	Kawasaki Frontale
Saturday 18:30

31 July 2011 Round 19	Cerezo Osaka	v	Kashima Antlers
Sunday 18:00

6 August 2011 Round 20	Kashima Antlers	v	Montedio Yamagata
Saturday 18:30

13 August 2011 Round 21	Vegalta Sendai	v	Kashima Antlers
Saturday 19:00

20 August 2011 Round 22	Kashima Antlers	v	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Saturday 18:30

24 August 2011 Round 23	Ventforet Kofu	v	Kashima Antlers
Wednesday 19:00

28 August 2011 Round 24	Kashima Antlers	v	Avispa Fukuoka
Sunday 18:30

10 September 2011 Round 25	Albirex Niigata	v	Kashima Antlers
Saturday

18 September 2011 Round 26	Kashima Antlers	v	Nagoya Grampus
Sunday

24 September 2011 Round 27	Urawa Red Diamonds	v	Kashima Antlers
Saturday

2 October 2011 Round 28	Kashima Antlers	v	Kashiwa Reysol
Sunday

15 October 2011 Round 29	Júbilo Iwata	v	Kashima Antlers
Saturday

22 October 2011 Round 30	Kashima Antlers	v	Vissel Kobe
Saturday

29 October 2011 Round 31	Gamba Osaka	v	Kashima Antlers
Saturday

19 November 2011 Round 32	Omiya Ardija	v	Kashima Antlers
Saturday

26 November 2011 Round 33	Kashima Antlers	v	Shimizu S-Pulse
Saturday

3 December 2011 Round 34	Yokohama F. Marinos	v	Kashima Antlers
Saturday

Results by round

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	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A
Result	D
Position	7

Updated to match(es) played on 6 March 2011. Source: "World-Football.net".
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

J.League Cup

2011-10-29 Final	Urawa Reds	0 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Kashima Antlers	Tokyo National Stadium, Tokyo
13:10		report (Japanese)	Yuya Osako 105'	Attendance: 46,599 Referee: Minoru Tojo

Emperor's Cup

2011-10-12 Second round	Kashima Antlers	2 – 0	University of Tsukuba	Kashima Soccer Stadium, Kashima
19:00	Tashiro 33' Osako 38'	Report		Attendance: 3,468 Referee: Minoru Tojo

2011-11-16 Third round	Kashima Antlers	2 – 1 (a.e.t.)	Kataller Toyama	Kashima Soccer Stadium, Kashima
19:00	Koroki 28' Nozawa 101'	Report	Fukuda 42'	Attendance: 3,465 Referee: Toshimitsu Yoshida

2011-12-17 Fourth round	Kashima Antlers	0 – 1	Kyoto Sanga	Marugame Stadium, Marugame
17:00		report (Japanese)	Takumi Miyayoshi 59'	Attendance: 5,671 Referee: Itaru Hirose

AFC Champions League

Group stage

Standings

Group H
Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Suwon Bluewings	6	3	3	0	12	3	+9	12
Kashima Antlers	6	3	3	0	9	3	+6	12
Sydney FC	6	1	2	3	6	11	−5	5
Shanghai Shenhua	6	0	2	4	3	13	−10	2

Matches

2 March 2011 Group Stage	Shanghai Shenhua	0 – 0	Kashima Antlers	Hongkou Stadium, Shanghai
20:00 UTC+08:00		Report		Attendance: 20,036 Referee: Khalil Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia)

6 April 2011 Group Stage	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	1 – 1	Kashima Antlers	Suwon World Cup Stadium, Suwon
19:30 UTC+09:00	Yeom Ki-Hoon 67'	Report	K. Nakata 71'	Attendance: 7,689 Referee: Abdullah Al Hilali (Oman)

13 April 2011¹ Group Stage	Sydney FC	0 – 3	Kashima Antlers	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney
20:00 UTC+10:00		Report	Nozawa 41' Gabriel 51' Koroki 90+2'	Attendance: 7,320 Referee: Ali Al Badwawi (UAE)

19 April 2011 Group Stage	Kashima Antlers	1 – 1	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo²
14:00 UTC+09:00	Tashiro 55'	Report	Yeom Ki-Hun 48'	Attendance: 4,619 Referee: Abdulrahman Abdou (Qatar)

3 May 2011 Group Stage	Kashima Antlers	2 – 0	Shanghai Shenhua	National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo²
15:00 UTC+09:00	Koroki 32', 80'	Report		Attendance: 11,954 Referee: Andre El Haddad (Lebanon)

10 May 2011¹ Group Stage	Kashima Antlers	2 – 1	Sydney FC	National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo²
15:00 UTC+09:00	Osako 64' Nozawa 84'	Report	Jurman 26'	Attendance: 3,164 Referee: Khalil Al Ghamdi (Saudi Arabia)

Note 1: The Kashima Antlers v Sydney FC match was postponed from 16 March 2011 to 10 May 2011 due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.^[1] The return match, Sydney FC v Kashima Antlers, was brought forward from 10 May 2011 to 13 April 2011.^[2] All home matches of the Kashima Antlers were moved to the National Olympic Stadium in Tokyo as the Kashima Soccer Stadium in Kashima was damaged in the earthquake.

Knock-out stage

25 May 2011 Round of 16	FC Seoul	3 – 0	Kashima Antlers	Seoul World Cup Stadium, Seoul
19:30 UTC+09:00	Bang Seung-Hwan 38' Damjanović 55' Ko Myong-Jin 90+2'	Report		Attendance: 12,725 Referee: Nawaf Shukralla (Bahrain)

References

^ AFC President offers condolences
^ "Dates set for Sydney FC v Kashima Antlers". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-03-15.

[postponed-1] AFC President offers condolences

[2] "Dates set for Sydney FC v Kashima Antlers". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-03-15.

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Honours	J.League (1996 1998 2000 2001 2007 2008 2009 2016) Emperor's Cup (1997 2000 2007 2010 2016) J.League Cup (1997 2000 2002 2011 2012 2015) Japanese Super Cup (1997 1998 1999 2000 2010 2017) AFC Champions League (2018) Suruga Bank Championship (2012 2013) A3 Champions Cup (2003)
Personalities	Zico Jorginho Masakatsu Miyamoto Naoki Soma Yutaka Akita Bismarck Akira Narahashi Yasuto Honda Toninho Cerezo Oswaldo de Oliveira Yoshiyuki Hasegawa Kurosaki Hisashi Leonardo Mitsuo Ogasawara Kōji Nakata Masashi Motoyama Toru Araiba Daijiro Takakuwa Hitoshi Sogahata Takuya Nozawa Carlos Alberto Alcindo Marquinhos Atsuto Uchida Takayuki Suzuki Atsushi Yanagisawa Go Oiwa Shinzo Koroki João Carlos Daiki Iwamasa Yuya Osako Mu Kanazaki
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Training ground	Club House Ground Forest of Heisei