J. League
| Pld | +/- | Pts | ||
| 14 | Reysol | 10 | -3 | 11 |
| 15 | Antlers | 11 | -5 | 11 |
| 16 | Albirex | 11 | -5 | 9 |
| 17 | Gamba | 10 | -9 | 8 |
| 18 | Consadole | 11 | -10 | 4 |
ACL
| Pld | +/- | Pts | ||
| 1 | Adelaide Utd | 6 | +5 | 13 |
| 2 | Bunyodkor | 6 | +1 | 10 |
| 3 | Steelers | 6 | +2 | 9 |
| 4 | Gamba | 6 | -8 | 3 |
Next Five
| 5.19 | J1 | F. Marinos | A |
| 5.25 | J1 | Sagan | H |
| 6.16 | J1 | Reds | H |
| 6.23 | J1 | Consadole | A |
| 6.27 | J1 | Grampus | H |
Last Five
| 5.16 | ACL | Adelaide Utd | H | 0–2 |
| 5.12 | J1 | Vegalta | H | 1–1 |
| 5.6 | J1 | Ardija | A | 0–1 |
| 5.2 | ACL | Steelers | A | 0–2 |
| 4.28 | J1 | Antlers | A | 0–5 |
Latest News
| Serrao axed! | Posted on 2012-03-26 | |
 | Jose Carlos Serrao has been told to clear his desk after less than three months at the helm of the club. The successor to the position will be Gamba legend Masanobu Matsunami, who has spent the six years since his retirement in 2005 working to earn his coaching badges with the Gamba youth team. Jose Carlos took charge of just five matches and lost every one of them as he led the club to their worst ever start to a season. The poor start leaves the team in the relegation places in the league and with only an outside chance of progressing from their Champions League group. The problems came to a head yesterday as a crowd of just over 15 thousand at Banpaku watched the home side hand a 2-0 lead to the visitors. At times the home fans fell deafeningly silent in protest at how poorly their beloved team were being managed. Representatives from the club held an urgent meeting with select fans and it was agreed that enough was enough. Serrao's reign becomes the shortest lived in Gamba history - a stark contrast to his predecessor Akira Nishino, whose 10 year reign is the longest in the club's history. Also following Serrao out the door are head coach Wagner Lopes and physical coach Wellington. Lopes was believed to be manager in all but name following the JFA's refusal to allow him to take the post due to not having the required coaching badges and was expected to take over from Serrao once he acquired those badges. Wellington was one of two coaches (the other being Fernando, who remains at the club) brought in by Serrao. Matsunami's only previous managerial experience came with the Gamba youth team in 2008 but he showed his potential credentials by leading a team that contained the likes of Takashi Usami and Shohei Otsuka to the J. Youth Cup title - the fourth in the club's history. He was promoted to first team coach in 2010 and now makes the step up to the top job. Also receiving a promotion is fellow ex-Gamba player Noritada Saneyoshi, who takes up the head coach role. Saneyoshi joined the coaching staff in 2008 following his retirement a year earlier, working alongside Matsunami as youth coach that year before stepping up to become first team coach in 2009. We look forward to Matsunami's leadership and hope he can lead the team to their first win at the weekend! | Related Players Masanobu Matsunami Noritada Saneyoshi Tags Jose Carlos Serrao Masanobu Matsunami Noritada Saneyoshi Record-breaker Sota Nakazawa Wagner Lopes |
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| Otsuka joins JEF United on loan. | Posted on 2012-03-24 | |
 | Young striker Shohei Otsuka has joined J2 side JEF United on loan until the end of the season. Otsuka made just three appearances last season but managed goals in two of them, scoring his first league goal in the home win over Kashiwa Reysol and then grabbing a goal against Urawa Reds in the Nabisco Cup. With at least four strikers ahead of him in the pecking order it seems like he wasn't going to add too many more appearances to his total of 13 so far and has, therefore, been allowed to move to Chiba to try to get some valuable experience under his belt. We wish Shohei the best of luck and hope to see him back at Banpaku soon! | Related Players Shohei Otsuka Tags Loan (Out) Shohei Otsuka |
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| The 2012 fixtures are out! | Posted on 2012-02-01 | |
 | The J.League have revealed the full list of fixtures for 2012. The first two fixtures were released last month as an appetiser but now all 34 are in the open and as usual some dates stick out a lot more than others. Here's our pick of five matches to look out for: Kawasaki Frontale (H), April 14th Clashes between Gamba and Frontale are never dull and with Jose Carlos Serrao looking likely to continue the Gamba tradition of attacking football you can put your money on this one being yet another high scoring affair. It'll be tough to beat the bar set by the nine goal thriller of 2011 but I'm sure the teams will give it a good go. Consadole Sapporo (A), June 23rd Sapporo are another of the new faces to J1 for 2012 and this season will see Gamba travel to the Sapporo Dome for the first time. Gamba have never won a league match away to Consadole at any of their other homes so they will be hoping that the Dome proves to be a much better hunting ground! Cerezo Osaka (H), August 11th Gamba travel to Nagai Stadium in the second week but we'll have to wait until Summer for the return fixture with Gamba's lovable neighbours popping in to visit in August. Gamba haven't lost to the Pigs at home in league play since 2003 and may well be looking to complete a double over them if all goes well in March. Sagan Tosu (A), September 1st Gamba's first trip to Tosu for a league encounter comes at the start of September. Bsed on previous years the newly promoted side could be locked in either a relegation battle or title battle by then so either way the tie is likely to be intense. Gamba will be looking to preserve their 100% win record against the Kyushu club. Jubilo Iwata (A), December 1st For the third consecutive year Gamba will finish the season in Shizuoka prefecture, this time visiting Jubilo Iwata rather than their neighbours Shimizu S-Pulse. Gamba captain Tomokazu Myojin could very well get his hands on the J.League trophy at the end of this match if the title goes to the wire again and if Gamba come out on top this time! Of course there are plenty more matches where they came from including our regular clashes with Urawa and Yasuyuki Konno's return to Tokyo. Head over to the fixtures page to check them all out! | Tags Fixtures J.League New Season |
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| Korean striker Lee signs in! | Posted on 2012-02-01 | |
 | Gamba have signed striker Lee Seung-Yeoul from FC Seoul. The young Korean is one of South Korea's rising stars and promises to be an interesting addition to Serrao's squad. The signing fills Gamba's foreign player quota for 2012 and restores the South Korean influence in the club following the departure of Lee Keun-Ho and Kim Seung-Yong to Ulsan Hyundai last month. His ability to play out wide and as a support forward means that he shares more than just his family name with the former of those two and he is expected to fulfil a similar role to Gamba's top scorer from 2011. Gamba are believed to have parted with a sum in the region of €1.49 million (approx. ¥150 million, £1.25 million, US$2 million) to prise the South Korea international from Seoul, where he had spent all four years of his career so far, after having their original attempt to bring him in on loan turned down. Seung-Yeoul was named as K-League Rookie of the Year following his debut season in 2008 and has since gone on to represent his national side on the biggest stage of all after a 5 minute cameo at the end of South Korea's 2-0 win over Greece in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He fell out of favour for the Taegeuk Warriors in 2011 after a drop of form, ironically losing his place just as Lee Keun-Ho began to force his way back into the reckoning as a result of his form for Gamba. He will no doubt be hoping that this new challenge will have the same outcome for him and so are we! Welcome to Banpaku Seung-Yeoul! | Related Players Lee Seung-Yeoul Tags Lee Seung-Yeoul Transfer (In) |
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| A new era begins! | Posted on 2012-01-19 | |
 | Gamba's 2012 pre-season officially kicked off today with some interesting announcements. Firstly, Tomokazu Myojin remains in his position of captain but following the departure of former vice-captain Satoshi Yamaguchi a new deputy needed to be chosen and Yasuhito Endo will be that man. Secondly, there were a lot of departures and arrivals during the Winter and this means a lot of players changing squad numbers. Below is a list of all the movers and shakers: 4. Hiroki Fujiharu (Previously #15) 5. Daiki Niwa (Returning from loan) 6. Shigeru Yokotani (Previously #25) 11. Paulinho (New signing) 13. Shinichi Terada (Returning from loan) 14. Shu Kurata (Returning from loan) 15. Yasuyuki Konno (New signing) 19. Kotaro Omori (Previously #31) 20. Akihiro Sato (New signing) 22. Yohei Takeda (New signing) 25. Hiroyuki Abe (New signing) 26. Takaharu Nishino (Promoted from youth) 27. Tatsuya Uchida (Previously #30) 28. Katsuhisa Inamori (Promoted from youth) 30. Eduardo (New signing) 31. Ken Tajiri (Promoted from youth) The rumours of Konno taking the number 15 shirt were true after all. Paulinho takes over the number 11 from Usami and the number 22 shirt returns into the hands of a goalkeeper after just over a year in the possession of former striker Lee Keun-Ho. As is traditional, there is also a new slogan for the 2012 season. This year the club have gone with the simple "Yakudo.", which translates literally to "lively motion" or "throb". Make of that what you will! The uniforms are to remain the same as last season. Although the special Brazil-inspired "cup away" strip that made a total of two or three appearances last season seems to have been dropped. That's all to report for now. Let's hope for a lot of lively, throbbing football from Gamba in 2012! | Tags New Season |
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