The Asian Cup Winners' Cup was an

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competition run by the

Asian Football Confederation The Asian Football Confederation is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in some countries/territories in Asia and Oceania. It has 47 member countries most of which are located in Asia. Australia, formerly ...

(AFC). The competition was started in 1991 as a tournament for all the domestic cup winners from countries affiliated to the AFC. The winners of the Cup Winners' Cup used to contest the

Asian Super Cup The Asian Super Cup was an annual football competition between the winners of the Asian Club Championship and the Asian Cup Winners' Cup. The competition started in 1995, but came to an end in 2002 after both major AFC tournaments were merged int ...

against the winners of the Asian Club Championship. The most successful clubs in the competition are Al Hilal from

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the Ara ...

and Nissan FC from

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Finals

Records and statistics

The following table lists countries by number of winners and runner-up in Asian Cup Winners' Cup.

By nation

By club

The following table lists clubs by number of times winners and runners-up in Asian Cup Winners' Cup. ''¹ including Nissan FC.''
''² Yokohama Flügels was merged with

Yokohama Marinos is a Japanese professional football club based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The club competes in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country. Having won the J-League title four tim ...

to Yokohama F. Marinos in 1999.''

Winning coaches

The following table lists the winning coaches of the Asian Cup Winners' Cup.

External links

Asian Cup Winners Cup
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{{AFC men's competitions Defunct Asian Football Confederation club competitions Recurring sporting events established in 1990