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AFC?OFC Challenge Cup

Organising body	AFC and OFC
Founded	2001
Abolished	2003
Region	Asia Oceania
Number of teams	2
Last champions	Iran (1st title)
Most successful team(s)	Iran   Japan (1 title each)

The AFC?OFC Challenge Cup was a football tournament, set up as the successor of the discontinued Afro-Asian Cup of Nations . It was a biannual event, with Oceania represented by the winners of the OFC Nations Cup and Asia alternately by the winners of the AFC Asian Cup and those of the Asian Games . It is staged as a home and away format. ^[1]

The cup was first played with Japan beating Australia 3?0 in 2001. ^[2]

Results and statistics [ edit ]

Finals [ edit ]

Year	Hosts		Winners	Score	Runners-up
2001	Japan		Japan	3?0	Australia
2003	Iran		Iran	3?0	New Zealand

Most successful national teams [ edit ]

Team	Winners	Runners-Up
Japan	1 (2001)	?
Iran	1 (2003)	?
Australia	?	1 (2001)
New Zealand	?	1 (2003)

Results by confederation [ edit ]

Editions [ edit ]

2001 AFC?OFC Challenge Cup [ edit ]

15 August 2001

19:14 JST

Japan   ( 2000 AFC Asian Cup Champion)	3?0	Australia ( 2000 OFC Nations Cup Champion)
Yanagisawa 19' Hattori 53' Nakayama 65' ( pen. )

Shizuoka Stadium , Fukuroi , Shizuoka

Attendance: 46,404

Referee: Zhang Jianjun ( China )

2003 AFC?OFC Challenge Cup [ edit ]

The match was originally planned as two-legged tie on 28 March in Auckland and 4 April in Tehran , but then postponed due to Iraq War .

12 October 2003

19:00 IRT

Iran   ( 2002 Asian Games Champion)	3?0	New Zealand ( 2002 OFC Nations Cup Champion)
Karimi 24' , 37' Kaebi 67'

Azadi Stadium , Tehran

Attendance: 40,000

Referee: Kousa Mohammed ( Syria )

See also [ edit ]

• Afro-Asian Cup of Nations
• CONMEBOL?UEFA Cup of Champions
• Panamerican Championship

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• AFC?OFC Challenge Cup ? RSSSF (archived 29 May 2010)