2025 IFAF World Championship

2025 IFAF World Championship
Tournament details
Dates–
No. of nations8
← 2015
TBD →

The 2025 IFAF World Championship is the upcoming sixth instance of the IFAF World Championship for American football. In December 2018, the IFAF announced that the games, which were originally scheduled to be held in Wollongong, Australia, from 29 July to 5 August 2019, would be postponed to 2023 citing the large number of withdrawals from top nations.[1] In October 2022, the tournament was postponed until 2025.

Background

Bidding process

On 13 July 2018, Australia was announced by IFAF as the host for the 2019 championship.[2]

On 11 December 2021, IFAF announced that Germany would replace Australia as hosts of the rescheduled 2023 IFAF World Championship.[3]

On 9 October 2022, IFAF announced that the tournament would be moved again, to 2025, entering talks with the German federation about hosting.[4]

Qualification

Team Method of
qualification 		Date of
qualification 		Finals
appearances 		Last
appearance 		Consecutive
finals
appearances 		Previous best
performance
United States United States Defending champions 18 July 2015 4 2015 4 Winners (2007, 2011, 2015)
Australia Australia Oceania Representative 29 July 2019 4 2015 3 5th place (1999, 2015)
 Germany Host 11 December 2021 4 2011 1 3rd place (2003, 2007)
 Italy Europe 1 31 October 2021 2 1999 1 4th place (1999)
 Sweden Europe 2 31 October 2021 3 2007 1 3rd Place (1999)
TBD Americas Qualifier TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD (TBD)
TBD Asian Qualifier TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD (TBD)
TBD African Qualifier TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD (TBD)

References

  1. ^ "IFAF postpones World Championships until 2023". American Football International. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Australia wins bid to host 2019 IFAF Men's World Championship". AFI Review. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  3. ^ Lloyd, Owen (11 December 2021). "Germany announced as host for 2023 IFAF World Championship". Inside the Games. Retrieved 26 December 2021.
  4. ^ IFAF (9 October 2020). "World Championship (M-Tackle) to Move to 2025". Retrieved 18 October 2022.