Asian Super Cup

The Asian Super Cup was an Asian club football competition, which was held from 1995 to 2002 between the annual winners of the Asian Club Championship and the Asian Cup Winners' Cup and organized by the Asian Football Confederation ( AFC). It was comparable to the UEFA Super Cup and the South American Recopa.

In 2003 there was the Asian club football to far-reaching restructuring in the course of which both previous qualifying competitions for the AFC Champions League were merged, which is open only to clubs from the strongest associations in Asia. The next best organizations send their participants in the AFC Cup, for " footballing developing countries " of the AFC President's Cup is intended. The sending a Supercup was therefore superfluous. This measure was part of the plan presented by the AFC Vision Asia, with which you tried to carry the enormous developmental differences within the continent invoice and prevent the disintegration of the federation in various spheres of interest.

The competition was each played in home and away matches. Stock in the addition of both games Torgleichstand was the away goals rule, their number was the same, there were at the end of normal time in the return leg extension and possibly penalties.

Games and winners

The eight sweeps to five times the representative of the national champion and three times that of the Cup Winners' Cup competition prevailed.