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The 2015 AFC Asian Cup Final was a football match which took place on 31 January 2015 at Stadium Australia in Sydney, Australia, to determine the winner of 2015 AFC Asian Cup. It was played between and host nation . Australia won the match 2–1 in extra time. Australia, being the winner of the cup final, gained entry in the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, which is to be hosted by Russia. Before the match, South Korea had reached the AFC Asian Cup final three times (1972, 1980 and 1988), finishing runners-up in all attempts since a knockout system was introduced. However, prior to such a system, South Korea had won the tournament twice (1956 and 1960). Australia had reached only one final (2011) since moving to the Asian Football Confederation from the Oceania Football Confederation in 2006. ==Background== Prior to the tournament, the two finalists had previously met each other 26 times, with South Korea winning nine games and Australia ten.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url= http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/Socceroo/Socceroo.shtml )〕 The two sides first met on 14 November 1967 in the final of the 1967 Quoc Khanh Cup, held in South Vietnam. Australia won the match 3–2 and secured the nation's first honour in international football.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/blog/2015/01/29/once-more-against-our-biggest-rival )〕 The last meeting between the two teams, a 0–0 draw, took place on 20 July 2013, at the 2013 EAFF East Asian Cup in South Korea. Australia, who began the 2015 Asian Cup as one of the favourites,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.goal.com/en-au/news/4222/betting/2014/12/11/6966432/afc-asian-cup-betting-preview-socceroos-second-favourites )〕 was ranked 100 in the FIFA World Rankings and tenth among AFC teams, while South Korea was ranked 69 overall, and third among AFC teams. South Korea entered the 2015 Asian Cup as two-time Asian champions, having won the first two instalments of the tournament. However, the 2015 final was South Korea's first appearance in the final in 26 years and only their third appearance in the final since a knockout system was introduced. South Korea was first crowned champions of Asia in the inaugural 1956 edition of the Asian Cup, held in Hong Kong. There, the competition was formatted as a round-robin tournament between four teams with no final, and South Korea won the tournament after just three matches. South Korea successfully defended their title in 1960 on home soil. It was not until 1972 that South Korea would get the chance to contest the Asian title again, in the tournament's first ever final after the change to a knockout format. South Korea lost the match against 2–1 in extra time. South Korea again failed to win the final match in 1980, when they lost 3–0 against host nation . In 1988, South Korea contested the final against in Qatar. After remaining scoreless at the end of extra time, the match was decided in a penalty shoot-out, with the Saudis taking home the title through a 4–3 win. The 2015 final was Australia's second consecutive time contesting an Asian Cup final out of only three appearances since moving to the Asian Football Confederation from the Oceania Football Confederation in 2006. In 2011, Australia lost to 1–0 in extra time. Stadium Australia was announced as the venue of the 2015 final on 27 March 2013, along with the announcement of the five stadiums used in the tournament.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/site/_content/document/00001214-source.pdf )〕 The venue was chosen in preference to Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, which was instead selected to host the opening match of the tournament between Australia and Kuwait. The stadium chosen for the final had the largest capacity of those used in the tournament, with a capacity crowd of 84,000. It was first opened in 1999, and was built to host the 2000 Sydney Olympics. The venue has played host to a number of Sydney's major sporting events, and it was used for seven matches in the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, including four group matches, a quarter-final and semi-final match, as well as the final.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.austadiums.com/stadiums/stadiums.php?id=121 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2015 AFC Asian Cup Final」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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