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.
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
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 |
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| 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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