Gamba Osaka(ガンバ大阪,Ganba Ōsaka?) 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 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. Gamba are one of only six teams to have competed in Japan's top flight of football every year since its inception 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 2008Pan-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.
Akihiro Nagashima 1983 - 1993
Edivaldo 1992
Jia Xiuquan 1993
Sergei Aleinikov 1993 - 1995
Oleg Protasov 1994 - 1995
Akhrik Tsveiba 1994 - 1996
Hans Gillhaus 1995 - 1996
Boban Babunski 1996 - 1998
Mladen Mladenović 1996 - 1997
Nebojša Krupniković 1997 - 1998
Amir Karič 1997 - 1998
Patrick Mboma 1997 - 1998
Piotr Swierczewski 1998
Mirko Hrgović 2001
Francisco Arce 2003
Japan
Germany
Croatia
Austria
France
