Organising body | CAF AFC |
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Founded | 1986 |
Abolished | 2000 |
Region | Africa Asia |
Number of teams | 2 |
Related competitions | CAF Champions League AFC Champions League |
Last champions | Raja Casablanca (1st title) [1] |
Most successful club(s) | 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.
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]
† | Match was won during extra time |
# | Match was won on away goals |
* | Match was won on a penalty shoot-out |
Country | Club | Winners | Runners-up | Years won [A] | Years runner-up [A] |
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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 | |
Nation | Winners | Runners-up |
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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 |
Cup | Winners | Runners-up |
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African Champions' Cup / CAF Champions League | 8 | 3 |
Asian Club Championship | 3 | 8 |
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