AFC–OFC Challenge Cup

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 Asian Cup and those of the Asian Games.

Participating in team

2001

2003

Results

2001-08-15
Japan  3–0  Australia
Yanagisawa  19'
Hattori  53'
Nakayama  65' (pen.)
Shizuoka Stadium, Fukuroi, Shizuoka
Attendance: 46,404
Referee: Zhang Jianjun (China)

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

2003-10-12
Iran  3–0  New Zealand
Karimi  24', 37'
Kaebi  67'
Azadi Stadium, Tehran
Attendance: 40,000
Referee: Kousa Mohammed (Syria)

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