Gamba Osaka

Gamba Osaka
Basic data
Surname	Gamba Osaka
Seat	Suita , Japan
founding	1991
Colours	blue - black
president	Teruhisa Noro
Website	gamba-osaka.net
First soccer team
Head coach	Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (2018–)
Venue	Suita City Football Stadium
Places	39,694
league	J1 League
2019	7th place
home Away

Gamba Osaka ( Japanese ガ ン バ 大阪 , Gamba Ōsaka ) is a Japanese football club . He is a founding member of the local professional league J. League and its two-time champion.

history

The team from Suita , a city in Osaka prefecture , was founded in 1980 in Nara prefecture as a works team for the electronics company Matsushita (now Panasonic ). Under the name Matsushita Denki Sangyō Soccer-bu (( 松下 電器 産業 サ ッ カ ー 部 ), Matsushita for short ; English Matsushita FC ) they won the Japanese Cup in 1990 .

The association is now a stock corporation founded in 1991, the KK Gamba Ōsaka (English Gamba Ōsaka Co., Ltd.), which is majority owned by Panasonic; other shareholders are Kansai Denryoku , Ōsaka Gas and JR Nishi-Nihon .

There are two explanations for the club name Gamba , which probably both apply (when the J. League was founded, it was common practice to give former works teams new, Europeanized names): on the one hand, gamba means something like leg in Italian , on the other hand, gambaru is Japanese Verb for “fight resolutely” and the imperative gambare a popular cheer in Japan. In keeping with the Italian-Japanese name, the club colors and jersey were blue-black, which on the one hand reflects the company colors of Panasonic and on the other hand is reminiscent of the Club Atalanta Bergamo, which is known in Japan .

Gamba initially one of the weakest teams in the league and was not infrequently at the bottom of the table, but never rose from the first division. Better placements were achieved from 1997, when the Cameroonian Patrick M'Boma (33 goals in 40 games) was able to sign a real international star who almost led Gamba to the championship final. In the second half of 1997, the club was at the top of the table four game days before the end, but ended the season only in fourth place. In 2005, the team was able to wrest the title from local rivals Cerezo in stoppage time in one of the most exciting finals in football history (on the last day of the match five teams had a chance to win the title, and the league lead changed four times in the last 90 minutes) became Japanese champion for the first time.

In the following years, gamba established itself in the top region of the table and, with one exception (2008: 8th place), always ended up in second or third place. In the 2012 season there was a total crash and relegation to the 2nd division . The time of the second division was limited to one season, as Gamba managed to rise again as the undisputed leader of the table. In the year after the return , the start was not very successful with a win and the relegation place 16 after 6 game days. In the further course of the season Gamba climbed to 2nd place and even took first place from Urawa Red Diamonds on the penultimate matchday . At the end of the season, the second championship in the club's history was determined by a 0-0 win at Tokushima Vortis , as the pursuers Urawa Red Diamonds lost 2-1 to Nagoya Grampus .

successes

• J1 League

Champion: 2005 , 2014

Runner-up: 2010, 2015

• J2 League

Master: 2013

• J. League Cup

Winner: 2007, 2014

Finalist: 2005, 2015, 2016

• Imperial Cup

Winner: 1990, 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015

Finalist: 2006, 2012

• Supercup

Winner: 2007, 2015

• Queen's Cup

Winner: 1992

• AFC Champions League

Winner: 2008

Stadion

The new Suita City Football Stadium in October 2015

The Osaka Expo '70 Stadium was Gamba Osaka's home stadium until 2015

Gamba played his home games until 2015 in the Osaka Expo '70 stadium , which was built by Suita on the occasion of the Expo '70 in the Senri-Bampakukōen ( 千里 万博 公園 , "Senri-Expo-Park") district. On February 14, 2016, the Suita City Football Stadium with 39,694 seats was opened as a new venue . It was financed almost entirely by donations.

Suita City Football Stadium coordinates: 34 ° 48 ′ 9.7 ″  N , 135 ° 32 ′ 17.6 ″  E

Current squad

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Masaaki Higashiguchi 3 FROM Gen Shōji 4th FROM Hiroki Fujiharu 5 FROM Genta Miura ( team captain ) 7th MF Yasuhito Endo 8th MF Kosuke Onose 9 ST Ademilson 10 MF Shu Kurata 11 ST Yuji Ono 13 FROM Shunya Suganuma 14th MF Yūya Fukuda 15th MF Yōsuke Ideguchi 16 TW Jun Ichimori 17th MF Ryō Shinzato 18th ST Patric 19th FROM Kim Young-gwon 20th ST Daisuke Takagi 21st MF Shinya Yajima 22nd FROM Oh Jae-suk

No. position Surname 23 MF Mizuki Ichimaru 24 FROM Keisuke Kurokawa 25th TW Kei Ishikawa 26th MF Kohei Okuno 27 FROM Ryu Takao 28 FROM Tabinas Jefferson 29 MF Yuki Yamamoto 30th FROM Dai Tsukamoto 31 TW Haruki Saruta 32 MF Ren Shibamoto 33 ST Takashi Usami 34 ST Shuhei Kawasaki 35 FROM Tatsuya Yamaguchi 36 FROM Riku Matsuda 37 ST Haruto Shirai 38 ST Shōji Tōyama 39 ST Kazuma Watanabe 40 FROM Shin Won-ho 50 TW Lee Yun-oh MF Ko Ise FROM Shohei Ogushi FROM Shinri Ono MF Motonobu Ogino MF Ryusei Sugano FROM Hayate Toma MF Kanta Nagakawa TW Yu Fukumoto FROM Keishi Murakami TW Naoki Yoshikawa

Season placement

season	league	Teams	space	spectator	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	AFC CL	FIFA Club World Cup	Supercup
1992					Group stage	Quarter finals
1993	J1	10	7th	21,571	Semifinals	2nd round
1994	J1	12	10.	22,367	Semifinals	Semifinals
1995	J1	14th	14th	13,310		Semifinals
1996	J1	16	12.	8.004	Group stage	Semifinals
1997	J1	17th	4th	8,443	Group stage	Semifinals
1998	J1	18th	15th	8,723	Group stage	3rd round
1999	J1	16	11.	7,996	2nd round	4th round
2000	J1	16	6th	9,794	2nd round	Semifinals
2001	J1	16	7th	11,723	2nd round	Quarter finals
2002	J1	16	3.	12,762	Semifinals	4th round
2003	J1	16	10.	10,222	Quarter finals	4th round
2004	J1	16	3.	12,517	Quarter finals	Semifinals
2005	J1	18th	1.	15,966	2nd place	Semifinals
2006	J1	18th	3.	16,259	Quarter finals	2nd place	Group stage
2007	J1	18th	3.	17,439	winner	Semifinals			winner
2008	J1	18th	8th.	16,128	Semifinals	winner	winner	3rd place
2009	J1	18th	3.	17,712	Quarter finals	winner	Round of 16
2010	J1	18th	2.	16,654	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Round of 16
2011	J1	18th	3.	16,411	Semifinals	3rd round	Round of 16
2012	J1	18th	17. ▼	14,778	Quarter finals	2nd place	Group stage
2013	J2	22nd	1. ▲	12,286		3rd round
2014	J1	18th	1.	14,749	winner	winner
2015	J1	18th	2.	15,999	2nd place	winner	Semifinals		winner
2016	J1	18th	4th	25,342	2nd place	Quarter finals	Group stage
2017	J1	18th	10.	24,277	Semifinals	Quarter finals	Group stage
2018	J1	18th	9.	23,485	Quarter finals	2nd round
2019	J1	18th	7th	27,708	Semifinals	3rd round
2020	J1

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nationality	from	to
Yoji Mizuguchi	Japan	February 1, 1980	January 31, 1992
Kunishige Kamamoto	Japan	February 1, 1992	January 31, 1995
Sigfried Held	Germany	February 1, 1995	November 29, 1995
Josip Kuže	Croatia	February 1, 1996	January 31, 1998
Friedrich Koncilia	Austria	February 1, 1998	May 10, 1998
Frédéric Antonetti	France Italy	May 14, 1998	June 1, 1999
Hiroshi Hayano	Japan	June 2, 1999	October 14, 2001
Kazuhiko Takemoto	Japan	October 15, 2001	January 31, 2002
Akira Nishino	Japan	February 1, 2002	January 31, 2012
José Carlos Serrão	Brazil	February 1, 2012	March 25, 2012
Masanobu Matsunami	Japan	March 26, 2012	January 31, 2014
Kenta Hasegawa	Japan	1st February 2013	January 31, 2018
Levir Culpi	Brazil	1st February 2018	23rd July 2018
Tsuneyasu Miyamoto	Japan	July 24, 2018	today

Awards

Player of the year

• Araújo (2005)
• Yasuhito Endo (2014)

Top scorer of the year

• Patrick M'Boma (1997)
• Araújo (2005)
• Magno Alves (2006)

Young Player of the Year

• Takashi Usami (2010)
• Yosuke Ideguchi (2016)

Eleven of the year

• Patrick M'Boma (1997)
• Junichi Inamoto (2000)
• Yasuhito Endo (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015)
• Masashi Ōguro (2004)
• Fernandinho (2005)
• Araújo (2005)
• Satoshi Yamaguchi (2006, 2007, 2008)
• Akira Kaji (2006)
• Magno Alves (2006)
• Baré (2007)
• Takashi Usami (2014, 2015)
• Patric (2014)
• Yosuke Ideguchi (2017)
• Hwang Ui-jo (2018)

Best goal scorers

season	Surname	nation	Gates
2017	Shun Nagasawa	Japan	10 goals
2018	Hwang Ui-jo	South Korea	15 goals
2019	Ademilson	Brazil	10 goals
2020

Gamba Osaka U23

Gamba Osaka U23
Surname	Gamba Osaka U23
Venue	Suita City Football Stadium Osaka Expo '70 Stadium
Places	39,694 21,000
Head coach	Hitoshi Morishita
league	J3 League
2019	17th place
home Away

Gamba Osaka U23 is Gamba Osaka's reserve team and has been playing in the J3 League since 2016 . The team cannot be promoted to the J2 League and only three players over the age of 23 can be used in a game.

Stadion

The club plays its home games at the Suita City Football Stadium or the Osaka Expo '70 Stadium in Suita, Osaka Prefecture . The Suita City Football Stadium has a capacity of 39,694 people, the Expo '70 Stadium a capacity of 21,000 people.

Coordinates of the stages

Stadion	Coordinates
Suita City Football Stadium	34 ° 48 '10.1 "  N , 135 ° 32' 17.6"  E
Osaka Expo '70 stadium	34 ° 48 ′ 37 "  N , 135 ° 32 ′ 33"  E

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	spectator
2016	J3	16	9.	2401
2017	J3	17th	16.	1226
2018	J3	17th	6th	1382
2019	J3	18th	17th	1263
2020	J3

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nationality	from	to
Noritada Saneyoshi	Japan	February 1, 2016	January 31, 2017
Tsuneyasu Miyamoto	Japan	1st February 2017	23rd July 2018
Noritada Saneyoshi	Japan	July 24, 2018	January 31, 2019
Hitoshi Morishita	Japan	1st February 2019	today

Best goal scorers

season	Surname	Gates
2016	Ritsu Doan	10
2017	Kazunari Ichimi	8th
2018	Kazunari Ichimi	8th
2019	Akito Takagi	11
2020

Web links

Commons : Gamba Osaka  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (Japanese, English)
• Gamba Osaka in the database of weltfussball.de
• Gamba Osaka in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Gamba Osaka in the soccerway.com database
• Gamba Osaka U23 in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Gamba Osaka U23 in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ク ラ ブ 概要 ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Giappone, i tifosi del Gamba Osaka hanno l'clonato Atalanta . La Gazetta dello Sport, January 30, 2015 (Italian).
3. ↑ J. League Data Site