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2008.01.01
Kashima Antlers won the 87th Emperor's Cup



Kashima Antlers beat Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2-0 in National Stadium Tokyo. Kashima won the league-cup dobule title of this season. Kashima has being losing the league champion status for several years' depression, but the 2007 new coach Oswaldo de Oliveira made steady efforts to chang the club to be the top again. 87th Emperor's Cup Results
Note that due to the modification of the ACL scheme, this year's emperor's cup winner does not qualify to the ACL 2009.

Hiroshima, they relegated to J2, sweeped this years coufused football away after the J1/J2 playoffs and became the cup finalist. This might help preventing players from being transferred to J1 clubs, as the emperor's cup period is the organization time for J.League clubs that most clubs have fixed next year's model.

At the start of season 2007, everyone thought 07 would be the Gamba Osaka's season. But Kashima takes the domestic double and Urawa opens the history to the world.


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