Osaka derby

Osaka derby

Nagai Stadium, one of the derby's venue
Location	Osaka Prefecture
Teams	Cerezo Osaka Gamba Osaka
First meeting	22 December 1982 Emperor's Cup Matsushita Electric 0–3 Yanmar Diesel
Latest meeting	2 October 2024 J1 League Cerezo 1–0 Gamba
Stadiums	Nagai Stadium, Yodoko Sakura Stadium (Cerezo) Suita Stadium (Gamba)
Statistics
Meetings total	74
Most wins	Gamba Osaka (30)
Top scorer	Fernandinho Hiroaki Morishima Masashi Oguro (6 goals each)
All-time series	Cerezo: 29 Drawn: 15 Gamba: 30
Largest victory	Gamba 7–1 Cerezo J.League Division 1 (2 October 2004)

The Osaka derby (大阪ダービー, Ōsaka dābī) is the local derby in Osaka Prefecture, Japan, between fierce rivals Gamba Osaka (based in Suita) and Cerezo Osaka (based in Osaka City).^[1]

In the 1970s, Yanmar Diesel, co-founder of the Japan Soccer League in 1965, had its reserve squad, Yanmar Club, play in the JSL's Second Division. At the end of 1979, the reserve club was closed by the parent company. Most of its players and staff found refuge when Matsushita Electric Industrial took them in with the aim of forming a new club to compete in the JSL. The new Matsushita Electric SC was formed initially playing in Nara and over the years began moving into Osaka for games.^[2]

The two clubs met in the 1982 and 1984 Emperor's Cups – both won by Yanmar – before their first league meeting during the 1986–87 season. At the time, newcomers Matsushita Electric struggled and ended up being relegated; they did not return until 1988–89 season. At the end of 1990–91 season, Yanmar lost top division status for the first time. Matsushita Electric, who had already applied to take part in the new J.League, was chosen instead to be the representative of Osaka in the new league, taking the name Gamba Osaka.

After competing for three seasons in the old Japan Football League, Yanmar Diesel, which had taken the name Cerezo Osaka in 1994, was promoted to the J. League. Since then, both clubs meet in every top division season except in 2002, 2007 to 2009, and 2015 to 2016, when Cerezo competed in second division, as well as in 2013, when Gamba did the same.

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Fernandinho	Gamba	6
	Hiroaki Morishima	Cerezo
	Masashi Oguro	Gamba
4	Araújo	Gamba	5
	Akinori Nishizawa	Cerezo
	Kota Yoshihara	Gamba
7	Yasuhito Endo	Gamba	4
	Krupni	Gamba
9	Hiroyuki Abe	Gamba	3
	Ademilson	Gamba
	Magno Alves	Gamba
	Hwang Sun-hong	Cerezo
	Hiromi Kojima	Gamba
	Shu Kurata	Gamba Cerezo
	Masanobu Matsunami	Gamba
	Yoshito Okubo	Cerezo
	Hiroaki Okuno	Cerezo
	Akihiro Sato	Gamba
	Kenyu Sugimoto	Cerezo
	Takayuki Yokoyama	Cerezo

Player	Gamba	Cerezo
Yoji Mizuguchi	1980	1967–1971
Hirokazu Sasaki	1980–1992	1994–1995
Tomoo Kudaka	1981–1993	1994–1995
Tomoyuki Kajino	1983–1992	1992–1993
Witthaya Laohakul	1987–1990	1977–1978
Lange	1991–1992	1987–1991
Katsuhiro Kusaki	1992–1993	1981–1992
Daisuke Saito	1997–1999	2000–2002
Yuji Hironaga	1998–1999	2003–2004
Ryuji Bando	1998–1999, 2006–2009	2010–2013
Toru Araiba	1998–2003	2013–2014
Hideo Hashimoto	1998–2011	2015–2016
Hiroshige Yanagimoto	1999–2002	2003–2006
Arata Kodama	2001–2005	2012
Motohiro Yoshida	2003–2004	2005–2007
Akihiro Ienaga	2004–2007, 2012–2013	2010
Akira Kaji	2006–2014	1998–1999
Shu Kurata	2007–2009, 2012–	2011
Sota Nakazawa	2007–2012	2015–2016
Adriano	2011	2010
Yohei Takeda	2012	2013
Takeru Kishimoto	2024–	2016–2017
Riku Matsuda	2024–	2016–2023
Tokuma Suzuki	2024–	2022–2023