2007 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations
# 2007 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations

The 2007 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations, officially called AFC Asia/Africa Challenge Cup 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.

## 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

| 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 |||
| Assistant referees: ... ... (...) ... ... (...) Fourth official: ... ... (...) | Man of the Match: ... ... (...) |

## Winners

* 2007 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations
* Japan 2nd title
