Afro-Asian Club Championship

Afro-Asian Club Championship

Organiser(s)	CAF AFC
Founded	1986
Abolished	2000
Region	Africa Asia
Teams	2
Related competitions	CAF Champions League AFC Champions League
Last champions	Raja Casablanca (1st title) [1]
Most championships	Zamalek (2 titles) [2]

The Afro-Asian Club Championship, sometimes referred to as the Afro-Asian Cup, ^[2] was a football competition endorsed by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and Asian Football Confederation (AFC), contested between the winners of the African Champions' Cup and the Asian Club Championship, the two continents' top club competitions. The championship was modelled on the Intercontinental Cup (organised by Europe's UEFA and South America's CONMEBOL football federations and now replaced by the FIFA Club World Cup) and ran from 1987 ^[3] to 1999.

History

The first two competitions held in 1986 and 1987 were contested over a single match; from 1988 until 1998 the competition was held in a two-legged tie format. The last winners were Moroccan side Raja Casablanca, who defeated South Korean side Pohang Steelers in 1998.

The competition was officially discontinued following a CAF decision on 30 July 2000, after AFC representatives had supported Germany in the vote for hosting the 2006 FIFA World Cup rather than South Africa (who eventually won the bid for the 2010 FIFA World Cup).

In February 2018, CAF President Ahmad Ahmad stated that CAF would consider re-introducing the competition. ^[4]

Records and statistics

Finals

Key

†	Match was won during extra time
#	Match was won on away goals
*	Match was won on a penalty shoot-out

List of Afro-Asian Club Championship finals

Single match format
Year	Winner		Score	Runner-up		Venue	Attendance	Ref
	Nation	Club		Club	Nation
1986	South Korea	Daewoo Royals	2–0	FAR Rabat	Morocco	Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh	20 000	[5]
1987	Egypt	Zamalek	2–0	Furukawa Electric	Japan	Cairo International Stadium, Cairo	40 000
Two-legged format
Season	Home		Score	Away		Venue	Attendance	Ref
	Nation	Club		Club	Nation
1988	Japan	Yomiuri	1–3	Al Ahly	Egypt	Nishigaoka Stadium, Tokyo
	Egypt	Al-Ahly	1–0	Yomiuri	Japan	Cairo International Stadium, Cairo
	Al Ahly won 4–1 on aggregate
1989	Algeria	ES Sétif	2–0	Al-Sadd	Qatar	17 June Stadium, Constantine
	Qatar	Al-Sadd	1–3	ES Sétif	Algeria	Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha
	ES Sétif won 5–1 on aggregate
1990	Raja Casablanca and Liaoning FC not held
1991	JS Kabylie and Esteghlal not held
1992	Tunisia	Club Africain	2–1	Al-Hilal	Saudi Arabia	Stade El Menzah, Tunis
	Saudi Arabia	Al-Hilal	2–2	Club Africain	Tunisia	King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh
	Club Africain won 4–3 on aggregate
1993	Iran	PAS Tehran	0–0	Wydad Casablanca	Morocco	Azadi Stadium, Tehran
	Morocco	Wydad Casablanca	2–0	PAS Tehran	Iran	Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca
	Wydad Casablanca won 2–0 on aggregate
1994	Egypt	Zamalek	2–1	Thai Farmers Bank	Thailand	El Mahalla Stadium, El-Mahalla El-Kubra
	Thailand	Thai Farmers Bank	1–0	Zamalek	Egypt	Kasikorn Bank Stadium, Bangkok
	Thai Farmers Bank won on away goals after 2–2 on aggregate
1995	Thailand	Thai Farmers Bank	1–1	Espérance	Tunisia	Suphanburi
	Tunisia	Espérance	3–0	Thai Farmers Bank	Thailand	Stade El Menzah, Tunis
	Espérance won 4–1 on aggregate
1996	South Africa	Orlando Pirates	0–0	Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma	South Korea	FNB Stadium, Johannesburg
	South Korea	Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma	5–0	Orlando Pirates	South Africa	Seoul Olympic Stadium, Seoul
	Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma won 5–0 on aggregate
1997	South Korea	Pohang Steelers	2–1	Zamalek	Egypt	Pohang Steel Yard, Pohang		[5] [6]
	Egypt	Zamalek	1–0	Pohang Steelers	South Korea	Cairo International Stadium, Cairo
	Zamalek won on away goals after 2–2 on aggregate
1998	South Korea	Pohang Steelers	2–2	Raja Casablanca	Morocco	Pohang Steel Yard, Pohang		[1] [6]
	Morocco	Raja Casablanca	1–0	Pohang Steelers	South Korea	Stade Mohamed V, Casablanca
	Raja Casablanca won 3–2 on aggregate

Results by club

Country	Club	Winners	Runners-up	Years won [A]	Years runner-up [A]
Egypt	Zamalek	2	1	1987, 1997 [2]	1994
Thailand	Thai Farmers Bank	1	1	1994	1995
South Korea	Busan IPark [B]	1	0	1986
Egypt	Al Ahly	1	0	1988 [7]
Algeria	ES Sétif	1	0	1989
Tunisia	Club Africain	1	0	1992
Morocco	Wydad Casablanca	1	0	1993
Tunisia	Espérance	1	0	1995
South Korea	Seongnam FC	1	0	1996 [8]
Morocco	Raja Casablanca	1	0	1998
South Korea	Pohang Steelers	0	2		1997, 1998 [6]
Morocco	FAR Rabat	0	1		1986
Japan	JEF United [C]	0	1		1987
Japan	Tokyo Verdy [D]	0	1		1988
Qatar	Al-Sadd	0	1		1989
Saudi Arabia	Al-Hilal	0	1		1992
Iran	PAS Tehran	0	1		1993
South Africa	Orlando Pirates	0	1		1996

Results by country

Nation	Winners	Runners-up
Egypt	3	1
South Korea	2	2
Morocco	2	1
Tunisia	2	0
Thailand	1	1
Algeria	1	0
Japan	0	2
Iran	0	1
Qatar	0	1
Saudi Arabia	0	1
South Africa	0	1

Results by continent

Cup	Winners	Runners-up
African Champions' Cup / CAF Champions League	8	3
Asian Club Championship	3	8

Winning coaches

The following table lists the winning coaches of the Afro-Asian Club Championship.

Year	Winning Club	Coach
1986	Busan Daewoo Royals	Lee Cha-Man
1987	Zamalek SC	Essam Baheeg
1988	Al Ahly	Dietrich Weise
1989	ES Sétif	Bouzid Cheniti
1992	Club Africain	Youssef Zouaoui
1993	Wydad Casablanca	Yuri Sebastianko
1994	Thai Farmers Bank	Charnwit Polcheewin
1995	Esperance Tunis	Roberto di Baldos Amilton
1996	Ilhwa Chunma	Lee Jang-soo
1997	Zamalek SC	Ruud Krol
1998	Raja Casablanca	Oscar Fullone

See also

• FIFA Intercontinental Cup
• Afro-Asian Cup of Nations
• CAF Champions League
• AFC Champions League Elite
• Copa Interamericana
• Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004)
• FIFA Club World Cup

Notes

A.  ^{a b c d e} For clarity, years given in the winners' list do not necessarily correspond to the years when matches were actually played. The finals were always held between the African Champions' Cup winners from the earlier calendar year (given year minus 1) and the Asian Champions' Cup winners who won the title in the previous season (given year minus 1/given year), e.g. the inaugural 1986 final was held between 1985 African Champions' Cup winners FAR Rabat and the 1985–86 Asian Club Championship winners Daewoo Royals. However, FIFA designates at least some of these titles according to the year when the final matches were held. ^{[1] [2]}

B.  ^ Korean club Busan IPark were known as Daewoo Royals until 2000.

C.  ^ Japanese club JEF United Ichihara Chiba were founded as Furukawa Electric Soccer Club until 1991.

D.  ^ Japanese club Tokyo Verdy were called Yomiuri FC from their foundation in 1969 until 1993.

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General

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