is a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J. League Division 1. The team's name comes from the Italian word "Gamba" meaning "leg" and the Japanese ganbaru
(???,
?
), meaning "to do your best" or "to stand firm". Located in Suita, Osaka, the team's home stadium is Osaka Expo '70 Stadium. Gamba are one of only six teams to have competed in Japan's top flight of football every year since its inception in 1993.
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History
Founded in 1980 as
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (which is renamed to "Panasonic Corporation" on October 1st, 2008) soccer club
in
Nara Prefecture and a member of the
Japan Soccer League. It was mostly made of remaining players and staff of the defunct Yanmar Club, the former B-team of Yanmar Diesel F.C., later to be known as
Cerezo Osaka. Gamba Osaka was an original member of the J. League in 1993.
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. In an
AFC Champions League match in 2006, Gamba Osaka defeated Vietnamese side
Da Nang FC in a record equaling victory of 15-0. In the
2008 Pan-Pacific Championship final, Gamba Osaka destroyed the
Houston Dynamo of
Major League Soccer a stunning 6 goals to 1 to win the tournament, with
Bare making 4 of the goals.
In October 2008, Gamba for the first time in their history, reached the final of the
AFC Champions League when they defeated fellow Japanese and league rivals
Urawa Reds 4-2 on aggregate after a 1-1 draw at home in the first leg, Gamba registered one of the most historic comebacks in Champions League history when they came back from being behind 1-0 before half time to win 1-3 with all goals scored in the second half at
Saitama. Gamba Osaka went on to win the 2008 AFC Champions League title after winning 5-0 on aggregate against the giant-killing
Australian team
Adelaide United in the Final. They became the fifth Japanese club to win the maximum Asian title, after Urawa,
Júbilo Iwata, and then-company-affiliated Yomiuri (
Tokyo Verdy) and Furukawa Electric (
JEF United Ichihara Chiba).
In December 2008, Gamba made it to the semi finals of the
2008 FIFA Club World Cup after beating
Australian team
Adelaide United 1-0. They were beaten in the semi finals by
Premier League and
UEFA Champions League winners
Manchester United. On the 21st December 2008 they played for third place against
Mexican side
C.F. Pachuca winning the match 1-0.
On January 1, 2009,
Ryuji Bando scored in extra time to lift Gamba Osaka to a 1-0 win over
Kashiwa Reysol and take the 88th
Emperor's Cup in Tokyo. The victory secured Gamba a place in the
AFC Champions League, where it will defend the title it won last year. This is the team's second ever Cup win, with the last 18 years ago in its previous incarnation as Matsushita Electric Industrial Soccer Club.
Team Record
J.League
Season
| League
| Place
| GP
| Pts
| Win
| Draw
| Lose
| Average Crowd
|
1993
| J1 1st stage
| 8 / 10
| 18
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8
|
10
| 21,571
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J1 2nd stage
| 6 / 10
| 18
|
8
|
10
|
J1 Total
| 7 / 10
| 36
|
16
|
20
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1994
| J1 1st stage
| 10 / 12
| 22
|
7
|
15
| 22,367
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J1 2nd stage
| 10 / 12
| 22
|
8
|
14
|
J1 Total
| 10 / 12
| 44
|
15
|
29
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1995
| J1 1st stage
| 11 / 14
| 26
| 31
| 10
|
16
| 13,310
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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
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1997
| J1 1st stage
| 8 / 17
| 16
| 24
| 8
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8
| 8,443
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J1 2nd stage
| Runners-up / 17
| 16
| 34
| 12
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4
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J1 Total
| 4 / 17
| 32
| 58
| 20
|
12
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1998
| J1 1st stage
| 14 / 18
| 17
| 17
| 7
|
10
| 8,723
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J1 2nd stage
| 16 / 18
| 17
| 13
| 5
|
12
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J1 Total
| 15 / 18
| 34
| 30
| 12
|
22
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1999
| J1 1st stage
| 10 / 16
| 15
| 17
| 6
| 0
| 9
| 7,996
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J1 2nd stage
| 13 / 16
| 15
| 15
| 5
| 1
| 9
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J1 Total
| 11 / 16
| 30
| 32
| 11
| 1
| 18
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2000
| J1 1st stage
| 13 / 16
| 15
| 17
| 5
| 2
| 8
| 9,794
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J1 2nd stage
| 4 / 16
| 15
| 28
| 10
| 0
| 5
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J1 Total
| 6 / 16
| 30
| 45
| 15
| 2
| 13
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2001
| J1 1st stage
| 5 / 16
| 15
| 25
| 9
| 0
| 6
| 11,723
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J1 2nd stage
| 11 / 16
| 15
| 17
| 5
| 2
| 8
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J1 Total
| 7 / 16
| 30
| 42
| 14
| 2
| 14
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2002
| J1 1st stage
| 4 / 16
| 15
| 27
| 9
| 1
| 5
| 12,762
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J1 2nd stage
| Runners-up / 16
| 15
| 27
| 10
| 0
| 5
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J1 Total
| 3 / 16
| 30
| 54
| 19
| 1
| 10
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2003
| J1 1st stage
| 12 / 16
| 15
| 16
| 4
| 4
| 7
| 10,222
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J1 2nd stage
| 7 / 16
| 15
| 23
| 6
| 5
| 4
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J1 Total
| 10 / 16
| 30
| 39
| 10
| 9
| 11
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2004
| J1 1st stage
| 4 / 16
| 15
| 24
| 7
| 3
| 5
| 12,517
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J1 2nd stage
| 3 / 16
| 15
| 27
| 8
| 3
| 4
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J1 Total
| 3 / 16
| 30
| 51
| 15
| 6
| 9
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2005
| J1
| Champions / 18
| 34
| 60
| 18
| 6
| 10
| 15,966
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2006
| J1
| 3 / 18
| 34
| 66
| 20
| 6
| 8
| 16,259
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2007
| J1
| 3 / 18
| 34
| 67
| 19
| 10
| 5
| 17,439
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2008
| J1
| 8 / 18
| 34
| 50
| 14
| 8
| 12
| 16,128
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Other domestic competitions
Emperor's Cup
Season
| Result
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1992
| Quarter-finals
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1993
| 2nd Round
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1994
| Semi-finals
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1995
| Semi-finals
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1996
| Semi-finals
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1997
| Quarter-finals
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1998
| 3rd Round
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1999
| 3rd Round
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2000
| Semi-finals
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2001
| Quarter-finals
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2002
| 4th Round
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2003
| 4th Round
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2004
| Semi-finals
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2005
| Quarter-finals
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2006
| Runners-up
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2007
| Semi-finals
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2008
| Champions
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J. League Cup
Season
| Result
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1992
| Group Stage
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1993
| Semi-finals
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1994
| Semi-finals
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1995
| Not Held
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1996
| Group Stage
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1997
| Group Stage
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1998
| Group Stage
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1999
| 2nd Round
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2000
| 2nd Round
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2001
| 2nd Round
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2002
| Semi-finals
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2003
| Quarter-finals
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2004
| Quarter-finals
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2005
| Runners-up
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2006
| Quarter-finals
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2007
| Champions
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2008
| Semi-finals
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Super Cup
Season
| Result
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2006
| Runners-up
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2007
| Champions
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2009
| Runners-up
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Major International Competitions
Season
| Competition
| Result
| Average Crowd
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2006
| AFC Champions League
| Round 1
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2006
| A3 Champions Cup
| Runners-up
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2008
| Pan-Pacific Championship
| Champions
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2008
| AFC Champions League
| Champions
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2008
| FIFA Club World Cup
| Third Place
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2009
| AFC Champions League
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Players
Current squad
As of August 27, 2009
No.
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| Position
| Player
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| Naoki Matsuyo
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2
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| Sota Nakazawa
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4
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| Kazumichi Takagi
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5
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| Satoshi Yamaguchi (Captain (football))
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7
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| Yasuhito Endo
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8
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| Shinichi Terada
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9
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| Lucas Severino
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10
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| Takahiro Futagawa
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11
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| Ryuji Bando
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13
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| Michihiro Yasuda
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14
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| Shoki Hirai
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16
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| Hayato Sasaki
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17
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| Tomokazu Myojin
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18
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| Cho Jae-Jin
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19
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| Takumi Shimohira
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No.
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20
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| Shu Kurata
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21
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| Akira Kaji
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22
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| Yosuke Fujigaya
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24
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| Kenta Hoshihara
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25
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| Takuya Takei
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26
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| Yoichi Futori
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27
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| Hideo Hashimoto
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28
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| Shunya Suganuma
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29
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| Atsushi Kimura
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30
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| Masato Yamazaki
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31
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| Kodai Yasuda
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32
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| Shohei Otsuka
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33
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| Takashi Usami
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39
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| Pedro Bispo Moreira Júnior
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Out on loan
No.
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| Position
| Player
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| Masaki Kinoshita (On loan to Roasso Kumamoto)
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| Daiki Niwa (footballer) (On loan to Avispa Fukuoka)
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| Park Dong-Hyuk (On loan to Kashiwa Reysol)
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| Akihiro Ienaga (On loan to Oita Trinita)
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| Masafumi Maeda (On loan to Ventforet Kofu)
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| Shigeru Yokotani (On loan to Ehime F.C.)
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| Hideya Okamoto (On loan to Avispa Fukuoka)
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Notable Players
- Akihiro Nagashima 1983 - 1993
- Withaya Laohakul 1986 - 1987
- Hiromitsu Isogai 1992 - 1996
- Koji Kondo 1991 - 1998
- Edivaldo 1992
- Jia Xiuquan 1993
- Sergei Aleinikov 1993 - 1995
- Oleg Protasov 1994 - 1995
- Akhrik Tsveiba 1994 - 1996
- Hans Gillhaus 1995 - 1996
- Tsuneyasu Miyamoto 1995 - 2007
- Boban Babunski 1996 - 1998
- Mladen Mladenovic 1996 - 1997
- Junichi Inamoto 1997 - 2001
- Nebojša Krupnikovic 1997 - 1998
- Amir Karic 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 Hrgovic 2001
- Magrão 2002-2004
- Marcelinho Carioca 2002
- Fabinho 2002
- Francisco Arce 2003
- Araújo 2005
- Kazuki Teshima 2006
- Magno Alves 2006-2007
- Bare 2007-2008
World Cup players
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World Cup 1998
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World Cup 2002
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World Cup 2006
- Yasuhito Endo
- Akira Kaji
- Tsuneyasu Miyamoto
- Masashi Oguro
Honours
Japanese Competitions
Matsushita
(Amateur era)
- All Japan Senior Football Championship
- *Winners (1) : 1983
- Japan Soccer League Division 2
- *Winners (1) : 1985-86
- Emperor's Cup:
- *Winners (1) : 1990
Gamba Osaka
(Professional era)
- J. League Division 1
- *Champions (1) : 2005
- Emperor's Cup
- *Winners (1) : 2008
- *Runners-up (1) : 2006
- J. League Cup
- *Winners (1) : 2007
- *Runners-up (1) : 2005
- Super Cup
- *Winners (1) : 2007
- *Runners-up (2) : 2006, 2009
Major International Competitions
- AFC Champions League
- *Winners (1) : 2008
- FIFA Club World Cup
- *Third Place : 2008
Minor International Competitions
- Queen's Cup
- *Winners (1) : 1992
- A3 Champions Cup
- *Runners-up (1) : 2006
- Pan-Pacific Championship
- *Winners (1) : 2008
Managers
Manager
| Nat.
| Tenure
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Kunishige Kamamoto
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| 1992-1994
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Siegfried Held
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| 1995
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Josip Kuže
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| 1996-1997
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Friedrich Koncilia
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| 1997-1998
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Frédéric Antonetti
| collapsed
| 1998-1999
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Hiroshi Hayano
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| 1999-2001
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Kazuhiko Takemoto
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| 2001
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Akira Nishino
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| 2002-
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