Gamba Osaka U-23

Full name	Gamba Osaka Under-23
Founded	2016
Dissolved	2020
Ground	Panasonic Stadium Suita Expo '70 Commemorative Stadium
Capacity	39,694 21,000
Owner	Panasonic
Chairman	Takashi Yamauchi
Manager	Hitoshi Morishita
League	J3 League
2020	14th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Gamba Osaka Under−23 was a Japanese football team based in Suita, Osaka. It was the reserve team of Gamba Osaka and played in J3 League which they have done since their entry to the league at the beginning of the 2016 season. They played the majority of their home games at Panasonic Stadium Suita with some played at Expo '70 Commemorative Stadium.

History

Gamba joined J3 League in 2016 along with the reserve teams of neighbours Cerezo Osaka and also FC Tokyo. None of these clubs are eligible for promotion to J2 League additionally they can only name 3 outfield players over the age of 23 in any one match.^[1] Gamba played their first J3 game on 13 March 2016, a 0-0 draw at home to YSCC Yokohama in front of 3,359 spectators.^[2]

League record

Season	Division	Tier	Teams	Pos.	GP	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Attendance/G	Top scorer
2016	J3	3	16	9th	30	10	8	12	42	41	1	38	2,401	Ritsu Doan 10
2017			17	16th	32	7	5	20	31	65	-34	26	1,226	Kazunari Ichimi 8
2018			17	6th	32	13	8	11	53	43	10	47	1,382	Kazunari Ichimi 8
2019			18	17th	34	9	8	17	54	55	-1	35	1,263	Shoji Toyama 10
2020 †			18	14th	34	9	8	17	43	55	-12	35	595	Shoji Toyama 10

Key

Coaching staff

The Coaching Staff for the 2020 J3 League season;^[3]

Position	Staff
Manager	Hitoshi Morishita
Goalkeeper Coach	Tomoyuki Sano
Coach	Yuji Miyahara

Current squad

As of 12 July 2020^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 MF  JPN Yuya Fukuda 15 MF  JPN Yosuke Ideguchi 20 MF  JPN Daisuke Takagi 23 MF  JPN Mizuki Ichimaru 24 DF  JPN Keisuke Kurokawa 26 MF  JPN Kohei Okuno 27 DF  JPN Ryu Takao 28 DF  PHI Jefferson Tabinas 29 MF  JPN Yuki Yamamoto 30 FW  JPN Dai Tsukamoto 31 GK  JPN Haruki Saruta 32 MF  JPN Ren Shibamoto 34 FW  JPN Shuhei Kawasaki 35 DF  JPN Tatsuya Yamaguchi

No. Pos. Nation Player 36 FW  JPN Riku Matsuda 37 FW  JPN Haruto Shirai 38 FW  JPN Shoji Toyama 40 DF  KOR Shin Won-ho 41 GK  JPN Naoki Yoshikawa 42 DF  JPN Daisuke Takagi * 43 MF  JPN Ko Ise 44 MF  JPN Ryusei Sugano 45 DF  JPN Keishi Murakami 46 DF  JPN Hayate Toma 47 MF  JPN Motonobu Ogino 48 MF  JPN Kanta Nagakawa 49 DF  JPN Shinri Ono 50 GK  KOR Lee Yun-oh

* = Overage player