Gamba Osaka

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Gamba Osaka
ガンバ大阪

Full name

Gamba Osaka

Nickname(s)

Founded

1980

Ground

Osaka Expo '70 Stadium,
Suita, Osaka

Capacity

21,000

Chairman

Izumi Sano

Manager

Akira Nishino (2002 - )

League

J. League

2006

3rd place





Home colours





Away colours

Gamba Osaka (ガンバ大阪, Gamba Ōsaka^?) is a Japanese professional soccer (football) club, currently playing in the J. League Division 1. Gamba means "leg" in Italian; in Japanese it represents gambaru (頑張る, gambaru^?), meaning "to do your best" or "to stand firm". Located in Suita, Osaka, the team's home stadium is Osaka Expo '70 Stadium.

1 History
2 Team Record
3 Players
4 Titles
- 4.1 Matsushita
- 4.2 Gamba Osaka
5 Managers
6 External links

[edit] History

Founded in 1980 as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. soccer club in Nara Prefecture and a member of the Japan Soccer League, Gamba joined the J. League in 1992.

In 2005 the club claimed its first J. League championship on a dramatic final day during which any of five clubs could have claimed the championship. Gamba needed to win, and have cross town rivals Cerezo Osaka draw or lose. Gamba defeated a valiant Kawasaki Frontale 4-2, while victory was snatched from Cerezo by a last minute FC Tokyo equalizer. Recently in an AFC Champions League match, Gamba Osaka defeated Vietnamese side Da Nang FC in a record equalling victory of 15-0.

[edit] Team Record

[edit] J.League

Season	League	Place	GP	Pts	Win	Draw	Lose	Average Crowd
1993	J1 1st stage	8 / 10	18	-	8	-	10	21,571
	J1 2nd stage	6 / 10	18	-	8	-	10
	J1 Total	7 / 10	36	-	16	-	20
1994	J1 1st stage	10 / 12	22	-	7	-	15	22,367
	J1 2nd stage	10 / 12	22	-	8	-	14
	J1 Total	10 / 12	44	-	15	-	29
1995	J1 1st stage	11 / 14	26	31	10	-	16	13,310
	J1 2nd stage	13 / 14	26	26	8	-	18
	J1 Total	14 / 14	52	57	18	-	34
1996	J1	12 / 16	30	33	11	-	19	8,004
1997	J1 1st stage	8 / 17	16	24	8	-	8	8,443
	J1 2nd stage	Runners-up / 17	16	34	12	-	4
	J1 Total	4 / 17	32	58	20	-	12
1998	J1 1st stage	14 / 18	17	17	7	-	10	8,723
	J1 2nd stage	16 / 18	17	13	5	-	12
	J1 Total	15 / 18	34	30	12	-	22
1999	J1 1st stage	10 / 16	15	17	6	0	9	7,996
	J1 2nd stage	13 / 16	15	15	5	1	9
	J1 Total	11 / 16	30	32	11	1	18
2000	J1 1st stage	13 / 16	15	17	5	2	8	9,794
	J1 2nd stage	4 / 16	15	28	10	0	5
	J1 Total	6 / 16	30	45	15	2	13
2001	J1 1st stage	5 / 16	15	25	9	0	6	11,723
	J1 2nd stage	11 / 16	15	17	5	2	8
	J1 Total	7 / 16	30	42	14	2	14
2002	J1 1st stage	4 / 16	15	27	9	1	5	12,762
	J1 2nd stage	Runners-up / 16	15	27	10	0	5
	J1 Total	3 / 16	30	54	19	1	10
2003	J1 1st stage	12 / 16	15	16	4	4	7	10,222
	J1 2nd stage	7 / 16	15	23	6	5	4
	J1 Total	10 / 16	30	39	10	9	11
2004	J1 1st stage	4 / 16	15	24	7	3	5	12,517
	J1 2nd stage	3 / 16	15	27	8	3	4
	J1 Total	3 / 16	30	51	15	6	9
2005	J1	Champions / 18	34	60	18	6	10	15,966
2006	J1	3 / 18	34	66	20	6	8	16,259
2007	J1

[edit] Other domestic competitions

[edit] Emperor's Cup

Season	Result
1992	Quarter-finals
1993	2nd Round
1994	Semi-finals
1995	Semi-finals
1996	Semi-finals
1997	Quarter-finals
1998	3rd Round
1999	3rd Round
2000	Semi-finals
2001	Quarter-finals
2002	4th Round
2003	4th Round
2004	Semi-finals
2005	Quarter-finals
2006	Runners-up
2007

[edit] J. League Cup

Season	Result
1992	Group Stage
1993	Semi-finals
1994	Semi-finals
1995	Not Held
1996	Group Stage
1997	Group Stage
1998	Group Stage
1999	2nd Round
2000	2nd Round
2001	2nd Round
2002	Semi-finals
2003	Quarter-finals
2004	Quarter-finals
2005	Runners-up
2006	Quarter-finals
2007

[edit] Super Cup

Season	Result
2006	Runners-up
2007	Winners

[edit] Major International Competitions

Season	Competition	Result	Average Crowd
2006	AFC Champions League	Round 1	?
2006	A3 Champions Cup	Runners-up	?

[edit] Players

[edit] Current squad

As of February 9, 2007

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Naoki Matsuyo
2	DF	Sota Nakazawa
3	DF	Toru Irie
4	DF	Noritada Saneyoshi
5	DF	Sidiclei
6	DF	Satoshi Yamaguchi
7	MF	Yasuhito Endo
8	MF	Akihiro Ienaga
9	FW	Magno Alves
10	MF	Takahiro Futagawa
11	FW	Ryuji Bando
13	MF	Michihiro Yasuda
14	FW	Shoki Hirai
15	DF	Ryota Aoki
16	MF	Masafumi Maeda
17	MF	Tomokazu Myojin

No.	Position	Player
18	FW	Bare
19	FW	Satoshi Nakayama
20	MF	Shinichi Terada
21	DF	Akira Kaji
22	GK	Yosuke Fujigaya
24	MF	Shigeru Yokotani
25	FW	Hideya Okamoto
26	DF	Hirotada Ito
27	MF	Hideo Hashimoto
28	DF	Ryujiro Ueda
29	GK	Atsushi Kimura
30	DF	Takumi Shimohira
31	MF	Shu Kurata
32	FW	Kenta Hoshihara

[edit] Notable Players

Akihiro Nagashima 1983 - 1993
Hiromitsu Isogai 1992 - 1996
Edivaldo 1992
Jia Xiuquan 1993
Serguei Aleinikov 1993 - 1995
Oleg Protasov 1994 - 1995
Akhric Tsveiba 1994 - 1996
Hans Gillhaus 1995 - 1996
Tsuneyasu Miyamoto 1995 - 2007
Boban Babunski 1996 - 1998
Mladen Mladenović 1996 - 1997
Junichi Inamoto 1997 - 2001
Nebojša Krupniković 1997 - 1998
Amir Karič 1997 - 1998
Patrick Mboma 1997 - 1998
Ryota Tsuzuki 1997 - 2002
Yuji Hironaga 1998 - 1999
Anto Drobnjak 1998 - 1999
Piotr Swierczewski 1998
Masashi Oguro 1999 - 2005
Nino Bule 2000-2001
Mirko Hrgović 2001
Magrão 2002-2004
Marcelinho Carioca 2002
Fabinho 2002
Francisco Arce 2003
Araújo 2005
Kazuki Teshima 2006

[edit] World Cup players

World Cup 1998

Patrick Mboma

World Cup 2002

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto

World Cup 2006

[edit] Titles

[edit] Matsushita

Emperor's Cup: (1) 1990
Queen's Cup (Thailand): (1) 1992

[edit] Gamba Osaka

J. League: (1) 2005
Japanese Super Cup (1): 2007

[edit] Managers

Manager	Nat.	Tenure
Kunishige Kamamoto	Japan	1992-1994
Siegfried Held	Germany	1995
Josip Kuže	Croatia	1996-1997
Friedrich Koncilia	Austria	1997-1998
Frédéric Antonetti	France	1998-1999
Hiroshi Hayano	Japan	1999-2001
Kazuhiko Takemoto	Japan	2001
Akira Nishino	Japan	2002-