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1987 Afro Asian Club Championship

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Date
  
5 February 1988

Attendance
  
40,000

Venue
  
Cairo Stadium, Cairo

Referee
  
Mohamed Hansal (Algeria)

The 1987 Afro-Asian Club Championship, was the 2nd Afro-Asian Club Championship 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, it was the last time were contested over a single match; from 1988 until 1998 the competition was held in a two-legged tie format.

The match took place on 5 February 1988, on Cairo Stadium in Cairo, Egypt, between Zamalek, the 1986 African Cup of Champions Clubs winner, and Furukawa Electric (Now JEF United Ichihara), the 1986 Asian Club Championship winner.

Zamalek won the match 2–0, became the first African team to win the championship.

References

1987 Afro-Asian Club Championship Wikipedia