Host country Iran Champions Aboomoslem (1st title) | Venue(s) 1 (in 1 host cities) Runners-up Fajr Sepasi | |
Dates 15 October – 17 October Teams 4 (from 1 confederation) | ||
The 2001 AK Pipe International Cup was a friendly football tournament that took place in Mashhad, Iran. The tournament was sponsored by Aria Kavan Trading & Production Group.
Revenues generated from ticket sales for this tournament went towards refugees from war torn Afghanistan.
Köpetdag Aşgabat fielded two Iranian footballers in the game against Aboomoslem, the two were Ali Khosravi and Mehdi Khazaei.
Participant teams
Initially this tournament was going to be held in August 2001 and the four participants were going to be Persepolis F.C., Partsazan Khorasan, Köpetdag Aşgabat and AK Pipe Mashhad. However Persepolis F.C. decided not to take part in the tournament due to several players' injuries.
The tournament was postponed to October and the participants were as follow: