Mercari Stadium

History

Kashima Soccer Stadium (カシマサッカースタジアム, Kashima Sakkā Sutajiamu), currently known as Mercari Stadium (メルカリスタジアム) for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in the city of Kashima, in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. It is the home stadium of J1 League club Kashima Antlers. In 2025, e-commerce company Mercari, the owner of the Kashima Antlers since 2019, acquired the naming rights to the stadium and gave it the "nickname" Mercari Stadium, by which it would be referred in matches and events, while the official name remained unchanged. League, Kashima's forerunner, Sumitomo Steel S.C., played at the nearby Sumitomo Steel plant's athletic grounds.