- Address: Suita
- Country: Japan
- Capacity: 39,000
- Opened: 10 October 2015
- Main use: Football
- Tenants: Gamba Osaka (football)
Extra stadium info – Panasonic Stadium Suita
Gamba Osaka use the venue for home games. The club was founded in 1980 under a different name. Gamba Osaka won the AFC Champions League, the Asian football championship for clubs, in 2008 for the first time in their history. They won the title after beating Adelaide United from Australia in a two-legged final. The 2008 AFC Champions League final was the first final of the championship to feature a club from Australia. Gamba Osaka won the first leg, which took place in Japan in front of 20,000 fans. They also won the second leg, which took place in Australia in front of a crowd of 17,000.
The world championship for football clubs
Gamba Osaka played their first-ever world championship games in 2008. They reached the semi-finals of the FIFA Club World Cup that year. Gamba Osaka were defeated by the English football giants Manchester United in the semi-finals of the tournament. Manchester United Football Club won the FIFA Club World Cup in 2008 after beating Liga Deportiva Universitaria from Ecuador. They won their first-ever world championship title in 1999. Manchester United won the title after beating Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras from Brazil in the Japanese city of Tokyo. Roy Maurice Keane scored the only goal of the match. 53,000 spectators showed up for the game between Manchester United and Palmeiras.
The Japanese top-flight football league
In 2016, Gamba Osaka played all their home games in the Japanese top-flight football league at the Panasonic Stadium Suita for the first time in their history. They drew an average home attendance of 25,000 during that league season. Gamba Osaka finished fourth place after gathering 58 points in the Japanese top-flight football league in 2016. They won 17 of the 34 league games that year. Seven of those 34 matches ended in a draw and 10 matches ended in a loss.
