2007 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations

The 2007 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations, officially called AFC Asia/Africa Challenge Cup was the eighth and final edition of the Afro-Asian Cup of Nations and was played between the winners of the 2004 AFC Asian Cup Japan and the winners of the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations Egypt. The competition returned after 10 years, the previous edition was held in 1997. It was held into one leg in Japan.^[1]

2007 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations

Nagai stadium hosted the match
Japan Egypt 4 1
Date	17 October 2007
Venue	Nagai Stadium, Osaka
Man of the Match	Yoshito Ōkubo (Japan)
Referee	Grzegorz Gilewski (Poland)
Attendance	41,901
← 1997

Qualified teams

Country	Qualified as	Previous appearance in tournament
Egypt	2006 Africa Cup of Nations champions	1 (1987)
Japan	2004 AFC Asian Cup champions	1 (1993)

Match details

17 October 2007

19:30 UTC+9

Japan	4–1	Egypt
Ōkubo 21', 42' Maeda 53' Kaji 68'		Fadl 58'

Nagai Stadium, Osaka

Attendance: 41,901

Referee: Grzegorz Gilewski (Poland)

Japan

Egypt

Japan: GK – Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi DF – Yūichi Komano DF – Akira Kaji DF – Yuji Nakazawa  58' MF – Yuki Abe MF – Keita Suzuki  73' MF – Kengo Nakamura MF – Yasuhito Endō  73' MF – Satoru Yamagishi  73' FW – Ryoichi Maeda FW – Yoshito Ōkubo Substitutes: MF – Jungo Fujimoto  73' MF – Yasuyuki Konno  73' FW – Hideo Hashimoto  73' Manager: Ivica Osim

Egypt: GK – Mohamed Abdel Monsef DF – Hany Said DF – Mahmoud Fathalla DF – Ahmed Elmohamady DF – Sayed Moawad MF – Mohamed Homos MF – Abdul Rahman Mohie  52' MF – Hosny Abd Rabo FW – Amr Zaki  79' FW – Mohamed Fadl FW – Ahmed Hassan Farag  46' Substitutes: MF – Omar Gamal  46' MF – Gomaa Mashhour  52' FW – Akram Abdel-Majeed  90+2'  79' Manager: Hassan Shehata

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Winners

2007 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations
Japan 2nd title