Gamba Osaka

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is a Japanese professional soccer (football) club, currently playing in the J. League Division 1. The team is located in Suita, Osaka, in the northeastern part of Osaka Prefecture.

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.

Their home stadium is Osaka Expo '70 Stadium in Suita.

Gamba means "leg" in Italian, but to Japanese it represents , meaning "to do your best" or "to stand firm".

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 valient Kawasaki Frontale 4-2, while victory was snatched from Cerezo by a last minute FC Tokyo equalizer.

Contents

1 Current squad
2 Former Players
3 Titles

3.1 Matsushita
3.2 Gamba Osaka

4 External links

Current squad

Former Players

Akihiro Nagashima () 1983 - 1993
Hiromitsu Isogai () 1992 - 1996
Edivaldo Martins da Fonseca ()1992
Jia Xiuquan () 1993
Serguei Aleinikov () 1993 - 1995
Oleg Protasov () 1994 - 1995
Hans Gillhaus () 1995 - 1996
Boban Babunski () 1996 - 1998
Junichi Inamoto () 1997 - 2001
Piotr Crupnikovic (

Yugoslavia) 1997 - 1998

Amir Karic () 1997 - 1998

Patrick Mboma () 1997 - 1998

Anto Drobnjak (

Yugoslavia) 1998 - 1999

Piotr Swierczewski () 1998

Masashi Oguro () 1999 - 2005

Marcelinho Carioca ()) 2002

Francisco Arce () 2003

Clemerson de Araújo Soares () 2005

Titles

Matsushita

Emperor's Cup: (1) 1990/1991

Gamba Osaka

J. League Champions: (1) 2005

External links

[Gamba Osaka Official Web Site] (Japanese only)

Japan Professional Football League Members in 2006 season
Division 1 (J1)
Niigata \| Kashima \| Chiba \| Omiya \| Urawa \| FC Tokyo \| Kawasaki \| Yokohama FM
Kofu \| Shimizu \| Iwata \| Nagoya \| Kyoto \| G.Osaka \| C.Osaka \| Hiroshima \| Fukuoka \| Oita
Division 2 (J2)
Sapporo \| Sendai \| Yamagata \| Mito \| Kusatsu \| Kashiwa Tokyo V. \| Yokohama FC \| Shonan \| Kobe \| Tokushima \| Ehime \| Tosu

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