| Afro-Asian Club Championship | |
| Organiser: | CAF AFC |
| Founded: | 1986 |
| Abolished: | 2000 |
| Region: | Africa Asia |
| Number Of Teams: | 2 |
| Related Comps: | CAF Champions League AFC Champions League |
| Current Champions: | (1st title)[1] |
| Most Successful Club: | (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 |
| Single match format | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Winner | Score | Runner-up | Venue | Attendance | Ref | |||
| Nation | Club | Club | Nation | ||||||
| align=center | 1986 |  | Daewoo Royals | 2 - 0 | FAR Rabat |  | Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, Riyadh | 20 000 | [5] |
| align=center | 1987 |  | Zamalek | 2 - 0 | Furukawa Electric |  | Cairo International Stadium, Cairo | 40 000 | |
| Two-legged format | |||||||||
| Season | Home | Score | Away | Venue | Attendance | Ref | |||
| Nation | Club | Club | Nation | ||||||
| 1988 | | Yomiuri | 1 - 3 | Al Ahly | | Nishigaoka Stadium, Tokyo | |||
| Al-Ahly | 1 - 0 | Yomiuri | | Cairo International Stadium, Cairo | ||||
| Al Ahly won 4 - 1 on aggregate | |||||||||
| 1989 | ES Sétif | 2 - 0 | Al-Sadd |  | 17 June Stadium, Constantine | ||||
| Al-Sadd | 1 - 3 | ES Sétif | Jassim bin Hamad Stadium, Doha | |||||
| ES Sétif won 5 - 1 on aggregate | |||||||||
| align=center bgcolor=EAEAEA | 1990 | Raja Casablanca and Liaoning FC not held | align=center bgcolor=EAEAEA | ||||||
| align=center bgcolor=EAEAEA | 1991 | JS Kabylie and Esteghlal not held | align=center bgcolor=EAEAEA | ||||||
| 1992 |  | Club Africain | 2 - 1 | Al-Hilal | Stade El Menzah, Tunis | ||||
| Al-Hilal | 2 - 2 | Club Africain | | King Fahd International Stadium, Riyadh | |||||
| Club Africain won 4 - 3 on aggregate | |||||||||
| 1993 |  | PAS Tehran | 0 - 0 | Wydad Casablanca | | Azadi Stadium, Tehran | |||
| Wydad Casablanca | 2 - 0 | PAS Tehran | | Stade Mohammed V, Casablanca | ||||
| Wydad Casablanca won 2 - 0 on aggregate | |||||||||
| 1994 | | Zamalek | 2 - 1 | Thai Farmers Bank |  | El Mahalla Stadium, El-Mahalla El-Kubra | |||
| Thai Farmers Bank | 1 - 0 | Zamalek | | Kasikorn Bank Stadium, Bangkok | ||||
| Thai Farmers Bank won on away goals after 2 - 2 on aggregate | |||||||||
| 1995 | | Thai Farmers Bank | 1 - 1 | Espérance | | Suphanburi | |||
| Espérance | 3 - 0 | Thai Farmers Bank | | Stade El Menzah, Tunis | ||||
| Espérance won 4 - 1 on aggregate | |||||||||
| 1996 | Orlando Pirates | 0 - 0 | Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma | | FNB Stadium, Johannesburg | ||||
| Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma | 5 - 0 | Orlando Pirates | Seoul Olympic Stadium, Seoul | |||||
| Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma won 5 - 0 on aggregate | |||||||||
| 1997 | | Pohang Steelers | 2 - 1 | Zamalek | | Pohang Steel Yard, Pohang | |||
| Zamalek | 1 - 0 | Pohang Steelers | | Cairo International Stadium, Cairo | ||||
| Zamalek won on away goals after 2 - 2 on aggregate | |||||||||
| 1998 | | Pohang Steelers | 2 - 2 | Raja Casablanca | | Pohang Steel Yard, Pohang | |||
| Raja Casablanca | 1 - 0 | Pohang Steelers | | Stade Mohamed V, Casablanca | ||||
| Raja Casablanca won 3 - 2 on aggregate | |||||||||
| align=center bgcolor=EAEAEA | 1999 | ASEC Mimosas and Júbilo Iwata not held | align=center bgcolor=EAEAEA | ||||||
| Country | Club | Winners | Runners-up | Years won | Years runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zamalek | 2 | 1 | 1987, 1997 | 1994 | |
| Thai Farmers Bank | 1 | 1 | 1994 | 1995 | |
| Busan IPark | 1 | 0 | 1986 | ||
| Al Ahly | 1 | 0 | 1988[6] | ||
| ES Sétif | 1 | 0 | 1989 | ||
| Club Africain | 1 | 0 | 1992 | ||
| Wydad Casablanca | 1 | 0 | 1993 | ||
| Espérance | 1 | 0 | 1995 | ||
| Seongnam FC | 1 | 0 | 1996[7] | ||
| Raja Casablanca | 1 | 0 | 1998 | ||
| Pohang Steelers | 0 | 2 | 1997, 1998[8] | ||
| FAR Rabat | 0 | 1 | 1986 | ||
| JEF United | 0 | 1 | 1987 | ||
| Tokyo Verdy | 0 | 1 | 1988 | ||
| Al-Sadd | 0 | 1 | 1989 | ||
| Al-Hilal | 0 | 1 | 1992 | ||
| PAS Tehran | 0 | 1 | 1993 | ||
| Orlando Pirates | 0 | 1 | 1996 | ||
| Nation | Winners | Runners-up | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 2 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 0 | ||
| 1 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 1 | ||
| 0 | 1 |
| Cup | Winners | Runners-up | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 3 | ||
| Asian Club Championship | 3 | 8 |
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 |
A. 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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