1978 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations

1978 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations

Aryamehr, now Azadi Stadium hosted the first leg
Iran Ghana
Cancelled
First leg
Iran Ghana 3 0
Date	19 May 1978
Venue	Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran
Referee	Abdulwahab Al Bannai (Kuwait)
Attendance	8,000
Second leg
Ghana Iran
Cancelled
Date	1978
Venue	Accra Sports Stadium, Accra

The 1978 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations was the first edition of the Afro-Asian Cup of Nations, it was contested by Ghana, winners of the 1978 African Cup of Nations, and Iran, winners of the 1976 AFC Asian Cup. The tournament planned to be played into two legs. The first leg was played in Tehran and Iran beat Ghana 3–0. However the second leg which was to be played in Accra was cancelled due to the Iranian Revolution.

Qualified teams

Country	Qualified as	Previous appearance in tournament
Ghana	1978 African Cup of Nations champions	Debut
Iran	1976 Asian Cup champions	Debut

Match details

First leg

19 May 1978

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Iran	3–0	Ghana
Ghelichkhani Khalilian Mazloomi	Report

Aryamehr Stadium, Tehran

Attendance: 8,000

Referee: Abdulwahab Al Bannai (Kuwait)

Iran: GK – Karim Boostani DF – Mehdi Dinvarzadeh 3 DF – Kazem Seyed Alikhani DF – Mohammad Dadkan MF – Ahmad Sanjari 1 MF – Kamal Khalilian MF – Hossein Hosseini 2 MF – Majeed Salimpour MF – Ali Akbar Yousefi FW – Parviz Ghelichkhani FW – Gholam Hossein Mazloomi Substitutes: DF – Habib Khabiri MF – Mohammad Mayeli Kohan 3 MF – Mohammad Ahmadzadeh 1 MF – Alireza Heydari 2 Manager: ... ...

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Second leg

Ghana	Cancelled	Iran

Accra Sports Stadium, Accra

The trophy was not awarded, because the second leg was cancelled.

External links

• 1978 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations - rsssf.com
• 1978 Afro-Asian Cup of Nations - teammelli.com