Kashima Antlers F.C. Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Kashima City, Ibaraki Prefecture; Representative Director and President: Fumiaki Koizumi; hereinafter "Kashima Antlers") and Namegata City, Ibaraki Prefecture (Mayor: Toshimi Takasu) are pleased to announce the launch of "Everyone for Antlers' Future 2026," a crowdfunding project utilizing the Hometown Tax Donation System, starting on Thursday, October 1st.
This project aims to improve the facilities of Kashima Antlers. This year, the main target of support is the purchase of a wrapped bus for academy players, who are expected to play an active role in the top team in the future, to use for transportation.
Players such as Yuma Suzuki, Daiki Yamada, Homare Tokuda, Yugo Okawa, Aruto Udenba, and Minato Yoshida, who are currently active in the top team and other areas, have also been developed through this academy, and nurturing the next generation is one of the club's important missions.
For those who support us, we have prepared limited rewards (returns) for the "Everyone for Antlers' Future 2026" crowdfunding project, according to the amount of support.
These will include specialty products from Namegata City and event-type rewards such as tickets to a special match featuring a mixed team of youth players and Antlers OBs.
In "Everyone for Antlers' Future 2025," which was carried out with Itako City in 2025, we received 66.78 million yen in support from 1,268 people, which was used for the maintenance of a training ground for juniors (elementary school age), which began operation in April.
Details of this project will be announced sequentially.
Everyone for Antlers' future. We appreciate your support.
Project Overview
■Title
Everyone for Antlers' Future 2026
■Executors
Namegata City, Kashima Antlers
■Target Amount
65 million yen
Period
October 1, 2026 (Thu) 19:00 - December 21, 2026 (Mon) 23:00
Format
Hometown Tax Donation Type / All-in Format
*A format in which collected donations can be received regardless of whether the target amount is achieved.
Use of Funds
Purchase of a wrapped bus for academy transportation
*This project is a Hometown Tax Donation type crowdfunding project utilizing "READYFOR," Japan's first crowdfunding service operated by READYFOR Inc. (Location: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director and CEO: Haruka Mera), and donations to the project are eligible for tax benefits.
*Personal donations to this project are subject to Namegata City's Hometown Tax Donation system. Due to the Hometown Tax Donation system, gifts will not be sent to donors from Namegata City. We appreciate your understanding.