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Afro-Asian Club Championship

The Afro-Asian Club Championship, sometimes referred to as the Afro-Asian Cup, 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 to 1998.

Eight of the eleven editions were won by African teams, with three of those from Egypt.

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. A rift was created when AFC representatives supported Germany in the vote for hosting the 2006 FIFA World Cup rather than South Africa.

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

An announcement was made in 2024 that a championship would be held in Qatar in January 2025. The game would be held in Lusail Stadium with Al Ahly SC (Egypt) against Al Ain FC (UAE).

Records and statistics

Finals

Results by club

Results by country

Results by continent

Winning coaches

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

See also

Notes

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A.&nbsp; 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.
B.&nbsp; Korean club Busan IPark were known as Daewoo Royals until 2000.
C.&nbsp; Japanese club JEF United Ichihara Chiba were founded as Furukawa Electric Soccer Club until 1991.
D.&nbsp; Japanese club Tokyo Verdy were called Yomiuri FC from their foundation in 1969 until 1993.

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