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Kashima
AFC Champions League Elite
10:00
UTC, Wednesday 28 October 2026
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Pohang Steelers

Kashima vs Pohang Steelers: preview, line-ups and kick-off time

Kashima Antlers host Pohang Steelers at Kashima Soccer Stadium on Wednesday 28 October 2026, kick-off 10:00 UTC, in the AFC Champions League Elite (round 3). Kashima have had 4 days of rest since playing Kashiwa (Japanese J1 League); Pohang Steelers have had 15 after facing Darul Ta'zim. The forecast at kick-off is 13°C, dry.

Predicted line-ups

Predicted elevens. Official team sheets usually arrive about an hour before kick-off. About predicted line-ups.

Kashima 4-4-2

Coach: Toru Oniki

  1. 1 Tomoki Hayakawa GK
  2. 23 Keisuke Tsukui DEF
  3. 55 Naomichi Ueda DEF
  4. 3 Tae-Hyeon Kim DEF
  5. 7 Ryoya Ogawa DEF
  6. 30 Minato Yoshida FWD
  7. 6 Kento Misao MID
  8. 8 Matheus Bueno MID
  9. 27 Yuta Matsumura MID
  10. 40 Yuma Suzuki FWD
  11. 9 Léo FWD

Bench

  • 21 Taiki Yamada GK
  • 5 Ikuma Sekigawa DEF
  • 25 Ryuta Koike DEF
  • 77 Aleksandar Čavrić MID
  • 10 Gaku Shibasaki MID
  • 24 Haruki Hayashi MID
  • 17 José Elber MID
  • 14 Yuta Higuchi MID
  • 34 Homare Tokuda FWD

Pohang Steelers 4-4-2

Coach: Park Tae-Ha

  1. 21 In-Jae Hwang GK
  2. 13 Min-Jun Kang DEF
  3. 20 Chan-Yong Park DEF
  4. 4 Min-Kwang Jeon DEF
  5. 77 Wanderson DEF
  6. 31 Kento Nishiya MID
  7. 8 Seung-Ho Kim MID
  8. 16 Dong-Jin Kim MID
  9. 11 Juninho FWD
  10. 18 Sang-Hyeok Cho FWD
  11. 25 Jorge Teixeira FWD

Bench

  • 1 Pyung-Gook Yoon GK
  • 36 Ho-Jin Kim DEF
  • 17 Kwang-Hoon Shin DEF
  • 5 Si-Woo Jin DEF
  • 3 Ye-Sung Kim DEF
  • 14 Chang-Woo Lee MID
  • 37 Han-Min Jung FWD
  • 10 Jakob Tranziska FWD
  • 30 Yong-Hak Kim FWD