AFC Champions League EliteMatchday 4Pohang Steelers vs Gamba Osaka 3-3
- Wanderson Oliveira55'
- Jorge Luiz Barbosa Teixeira77'
- Kim Gwang-Won89'
- Ryotaro Meshino34'
- Eli Adams69'
- Koshiro Sumi79'
- Kick-off
- Wed, 4 Nov 2026 · 10:00 (UTC)
- Venue
- Pohang Steel Yard, Pohang
- Referee
- Adel Ali Ahmed Khamis Al Naqbi
Match timeline
- 89’Goal!
Pohang SteelersKim Gwang-WonAssist: Cho Sang-Hyeok3 – 3 - 88’Substitution
Pohang SteelersKim Gwang-Won ONJin Si-woo OFF - 81’Substitution
Gamba OsakaShuto Abe ONJuanpe Jiménez OFF - 79’Goal!
Gamba OsakaKoshiro SumiAssist: Ryoya Yamashita2 – 3 - 77’Goal!
Pohang SteelersJorge Luiz Barbosa TeixeiraAssist: Kim Dong-Jin2 – 2 - 72’Substitution
Pohang SteelersJorge Luiz Barbosa Teixeira ONJakob Tranziska OFF - 72’Substitution
Gamba OsakaRyoya Yamashita ONEli Adams OFF - 72’Substitution
Gamba OsakaIssam Jebali ONShu Kurata OFF
Show 10 earlier events
- 69’Goal!
Gamba OsakaEli Adams1 – 2 - 63’Substitution
Pohang SteelersKi Sung-Yueng ONKento Nishiya OFF - 61’Substitution
Gamba OsakaKoshiro Sumi ONTsuyoshi Ogashiwa OFF - 61’Substitution
Gamba OsakaTakeru Kishimoto ONSoya Fujiwara OFF - 57’Yellow card
Pohang SteelersPark Chan-yong - 55’Goal!
Pohang SteelersWanderson OliveiraAssist: Kim Dong-Jin1 – 1 - 51’Yellow card
Gamba OsakaSoya Fujiwara - 45’Substitution
Pohang SteelersCho Sang-Hyeok ONJung Han-Min OFF - 45’Substitution
Pohang SteelersWanderson Oliveira ONAn Jae-Joon OFF - 34’Goal!
Gamba OsakaRyotaro MeshinoAssist: Soya Fujiwara0 – 1 - 1’Kick-off
Key stats
- 44%Possession56%
- 12Shots15
- 1.67xG1
- 6Shots on Target4
- 1Corners4
- 5Fouls16
- 1Offsides1
- 1Saves4
- 440Passes563
- 1Yellow Cards1
Lineups
Confirmed selections
Pohang Steelers4 - 1 - 4 - 1
- 21In-Jae
- 4Min-Gwang
- 20Chan-Yong
- 5Si-woo
- 3Kim
- 8Seung-Ho
- 37Han-Min
- 31Nishiya
- 16Dong-Jin
- 9Jae-Jun
- 10Tranziska
Substitutions
- 45’↑18 Cho Sang-Hyeok↓37 Jung Han-Min
- 45’↑ Wanderson Oliveira↓ An Jae-Joon
- 63’↑40 Ki Sung-Yueng↓31 K. Nishiya
- 72’↑ Jorge Luiz Barbosa Teixeira↓10 J. Tranziska
- 88’↑22 K. Gwang-won↓5 Jin Si-woo
Unused substitutes 14 Lee Chang-Woo, 77 Wanderson, 17 Shin Kwang-Hoon, 12 Hwang Jae-Hwan, 25 Jorge Luiz, 33 Jo Sung-Wook, 13 Kang Min-Jun, 1 Yun Pyeong-Gook, 30 Kim Yong-Hak
Coach Seong-jae Kim
Gamba Osaka4 - 2 - 3 - 1
- 22Ichimori
- 28Fujiwara
- 19Ikegaya
- 2Fukuoka
- 47Nakano
- 78Juanpe
- 16Suzuki
- 20Adams
- 10Kurata
- 8Meshino
- 24Ogashiwa
Substitutions
- 61’↑39 K. Sumi↓24 T. Ogashiwa
- 61’↑15 T. Kishimoto↓28 S. Fujiwara
- 72’↑17 R. Yamashita↓20 E. Adams
- 72’↑11 I. Jebali↓10 S. Kurata
- 81’↑13 S. Abe↓ Juanpe Jiménez
Unused substitutes 31 Zhang Ao lin, 35 T. Tono, 37 N. Nakatsumi, 1 M. Higashiguchi, 21 R. Hatsuse
Coach Tomokazu Myojin
Match facts
- Competition
- AFC Champions League Elite
- Round
- Matchday 4
- Date
- Wed, 4 Nov 2026
- Kick-off
- 10:00 (UTC)
- Venue
- Pohang Steel Yard, Pohang
- Referee
- Adel Ali Ahmed Khamis Al Naqbi
- Pohang Steelers coach
- Seong-jae Kim
- Gamba Osaka coach
- Tomokazu Myojin
League table
AFC Champions League Elite · East Region
| # | Team | P | W | D | L | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | +5 | 12 | |
| 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | +10 | 10 | |
| 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | +5 | 8 | |
| 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | +5 | 7 | |
| 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 7 | |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 7 | |
| 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | +3 | 7 | |
| 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 7 | |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -2 | 4 | |
| 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 4 | |
| 12 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | -1 | 3 | |
| 13 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -5 | 3 | |
| 14 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | -4 | 1 | |
| 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | -7 | 1 | |
| 16 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | -13 | 0 |
Player ratings
- 1
Kim Dong-Jin8.4 - 2
Jorge Luiz8.2 - 3
Wanderson7.6 - 4
K. Gwang-won7.4 - 5
Cho Sang-Hyeok6.8 - 6
J. Tranziska6.6 - 7
Jung Han-Min6.6 - 8
Jin Si-woo6.5 - 9
An Jae-Jun6.4 - 10
Ye-Sung Kim6.4 - 11
Kim Seung-Ho6.3 - 12
K. Nishiya6.2 - 13
Jeon Min-Gwang6.1 - 14
Ki Sung-Yueng6.0 - 15
Park Chan-Yong6.0 - 16
Hwang In-Jae5.8 - 17
Yun Pyeong-Gook0.0 - 18
Shin Kwang-Hoon0.0 - 19
Lee Chang-Woo0.0 - 20
Kim Yong-Hak0.0 - 21
Kang Min-Jun0.0 - 22
Jo Sung-Wook0.0 - 23
Hwang Jae-Hwan0.0
- 1
R. Meshino7.8 - 2
K. Sumi7.1 - 3
E. Adams7.0 - 4
S. Fukuoka6.9 - 5
R. Yamashita6.8 - 6
Ginjiro Ikegaya6.8 - 7
S. Nakano6.6 - 8
I. Jebali6.5 - 9
S. Kurata6.5 - 10
T. Suzuki6.4 - 11
T. Ogashiwa6.4 - 12
J. Ichimori6.3 - 13
T. Kishimoto6.2 - 14
S. Fujiwara6.2 - 15
Juanpe6.1 - 16
S. Abe6.0 - 17
Zhang Ao lin0.0 - 18
T. Tono0.0 - 19
N. Nakatsumi0.0 - 20
M. Higashiguchi0.0 - 21
R. Hatsuse0.0
Match ratings from API-Football, out of 10.
MVP of the match

Rated 8.4, the best on the pitch — 2 assists in 90 minutes.
Head to head


2 goals3 goals
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- 2026AFC Champions League Two
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Team form comparison
Last 5 matches, all competitions
- W-D-L
- 0-3-2
- Scored / match
- 0.6
- Conceded / match
- 1.6
- W-D-L
- 3-1-0
- Scored / match
- 2.3
- Conceded / match
- 0.8
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Match report
Pohang Steelers and Gamba Osaka shared six goals in a 3-3 draw at Pohang Steel Yard, with both sides leading at different points before Kim Gwang-Won levelled it on 89 minutes. Gamba led 3-2 going into the closing stages, but Pohang rescued a point late on.
Gamba took the lead in the 34th minute when Ryotaro Meshino scored from Soya Fujiwara's assist. Pohang made two changes at half-time, and Wanderson Oliveira, who had come on in the 45th minute, equalised on 55 minutes from Kim Dong-Jin's pass. The half-time score was 0-1.
Gamba went back in front on 69 minutes through Eli Adams, then made two changes on 72 minutes as Pohang did the same. Jorge Luiz Barbosa Teixeira, who had come on in the 72nd minute, brought Pohang level on 77 minutes, before Koshiro Sumi, on as a substitute in the 61st minute, restored Gamba's lead on 79 minutes from Ryoya Yamashita's assist, with Yamashita having come on in the 72nd minute. Kim Gwang-Won, introduced in the 88th minute, scored from Cho Sang-Hyeok's assist a minute later to make it 3-3.
Gamba had 56% of possession and made 563 passes to Pohang's 440, while also having more shots, 15 to 12, and more corners, 4 to 1. Pohang had 6 shots on target to Gamba's 4 and a higher xG, 1.67 to 1, as well as a 4-1 lead in saves against them.
Gamba had one booking, for Soya Fujiwara on 51 minutes, while Pohang's yellow card went to Park Chan-yong on 57 minutes. There were no red cards.
Match record
- Competition
- AFC Champions League Elite
- Round
- Matchday 4
- Kick-off
- Venue
- Pohang Steel Yard, Pohang
- Referee
- Adel Ali Ahmed Khamis Al Naqbi
- Match ID
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18 events
- 34’Goal!
Gamba OsakaRyotaro MeshinoAssist: Soya Fujiwara0 – 1 - 45’Substitution
Pohang SteelersCho Sang-Hyeok ONJung Han-Min OFF - 45’Substitution
Pohang SteelersWanderson Oliveira ONAn Jae-Joon OFF - 51’Yellow card
Gamba OsakaSoya Fujiwara - 55’Goal!
Pohang SteelersWanderson OliveiraAssist: Kim Dong-Jin1 – 1 - 57’Yellow card
Pohang SteelersPark Chan-yong - 61’Substitution
Gamba OsakaKoshiro Sumi ONTsuyoshi Ogashiwa OFF - 61’Substitution
Gamba OsakaTakeru Kishimoto ONSoya Fujiwara OFF - 63’Substitution
Pohang SteelersKi Sung-Yueng ONKento Nishiya OFF - 69’Goal!
Gamba OsakaEli Adams1 – 2 - 72’Substitution
Pohang SteelersJorge Luiz Barbosa Teixeira ONJakob Tranziska OFF - 72’Substitution
Gamba OsakaRyoya Yamashita ONEli Adams OFF - 72’Substitution
Gamba OsakaIssam Jebali ONShu Kurata OFF - 77’Goal!
Pohang SteelersJorge Luiz Barbosa TeixeiraAssist: Kim Dong-Jin2 – 2 - 79’Goal!
Gamba OsakaKoshiro SumiAssist: Ryoya Yamashita2 – 3 - 81’Substitution
Gamba OsakaShuto Abe ONJuanpe Jiménez OFF - 88’Substitution
Pohang SteelersKim Gwang-Won ONJin Si-woo OFF - 89’Goal!
Pohang SteelersKim Gwang-WonAssist: Cho Sang-Hyeok3 – 3



