title: 2011 Gamba Osaka season
text: # 2011 Gamba Osaka season
  
  The 2011 Gamba Osaka season was Gamba Osaka's 19th season in the J.League Division 1 and 25th overall in the Japanese top flight. It also includes the 2011 J.League Cup, 2011 Emperor's Cup, and the 2011 AFC Champions League.
  
  ## Players
  
  | No. | Name | GP (J1) | GS (J1) |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Yosuke Fujigaya | 34 | 0 |
  | 29 | Atsushi Kimura | 0 | 0 |
  | 2 | Sota Nakazawa | 27 | 5 |
  | 3 | Jung-Ya Kim | 2 | 0 |
  | 4 | Kazumichi Takagi | 8 | 1 |
  | 5 | Satoshi Yamaguchi | 30 | 2 |
  | 6 | Takumi Shimohira | 21 | 1 |
  | 15 | Hiroki Fujiharu | 9 | 1 |
  | 21 | Akira Kaji | 28 | 0 |
  | 28 | Shunya Suganuma | 0 | 0 |
  | 30 | Tatsuya Uchida | 3 | 0 |
  | 7 | Yasuhito Endō | 31 | 4 |
  | 8 | Hayato Sasaki | 3 | 1 |
  | 10 | Takahiro Futagawa | 28 | 5 |
  | 11 | Takashi Usami | 13 | 4 |
  | 13 | Seung-Yong Kim | 14 | 4 |
  | 17 | Tomokazu Myojin | 25 | 2 |
  | 23 | Takuya Takei | 30 | 2 |
  | 25 | Shigeru Yokotani | 1 | 0 |
  | 27 | Hideo Hashimoto | 1 | 0 |
  | 31 | Kotaro Omori | 0 | 0 |
  | 9 | Adriano | 8 | 9 |
  | 9 | Rafinha | 15 | 11 |
  | 14 | Shoki Hirai | 11 | 5 |
  | 16 | Shohei Otsuka | 0 | 1 |
  | 18 | Shota Kawanishi | 1 | 4 |
  | 22 | Keun-Ho Lee | 31 | 15 |
  | 24 | Kenta Hoshihara | 0 | 0 |
  | 33 | Afonso | 0 | 0 |
  
  ## Competitions
  
  ### J.League
  
  **Table**
  
  | Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Kashiwa Reysol (C) | 34 | 23 | 3 | 8 | 65 | 42 | +23 | 72 | Qualification for 2012 AFC Champions League group stage |
  | 2 | Nagoya Grampus | 34 | 21 | 8 | 5 | 67 | 36 | +31 | 71 | Qualification for 2012 AFC Champions League group stage |
  | 3 | Gamba Osaka | 34 | 21 | 7 | 6 | 78 | 51 | +27 | 70 | Qualification for 2012 AFC Champions League group stage |
  | 4 | Vegalta Sendai | 34 | 14 | 14 | 6 | 39 | 25 | +14 | 56 | |
  | 5 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 34 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 46 | 40 | +6 | 56 | |
  
  * ↑ League champions also qualified for the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup play-off stage.The winners of the 2011 Emperor's Cup, FC Tokyo, which played in the 2011 J.League Division 2, also qualified for the group stage of the 2012 AFC Champions League.
  
  **Results by round**
  
  | Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
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  | Ground | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | A |
  | Result | W | D | W | W | L | D | L | W | D | W | W | W | L | D | L | W | W | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | W | D | L | W | L | W | W | D | W | W |
  | Position | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
  
  ### AFC Champions League
  
  **Group stage**
  
  Group E :
  
  | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Gamba Osaka | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 7 | +6 | 10 |
  | Tianjin Teda | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | +2 | 10 |
  | Jeju United | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | −4 | 7 |
  | Melbourne Victory | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | −4 | 6 |
  
  **Group stage**
  
  **Tiebreakers**
  
  * Gamba Osaka and Tianjin Teda are ranked by their head-to-head records, as shown below.
  
  | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Gamba Osaka | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 3 |
  | Tianjin Teda | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | 3 |
  