2025 IFAF World Championship

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2025 IFAF World Championship
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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.

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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


TeamMethod of
qualification
Date of
qualification
Finals
appearances
Last
appearance
Consecutive
finals
appearances
Previous best
performance
Flag of the United States.svg United States Defending champions18 July 20154 2015 4Winners (2007, 2011, 2015)
Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Oceania Representative29 July 20194 2015 35th place (1999, 2015)
Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Host11 December 20214 2011 13rd place (2003, 2007)
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Europe 131 October 20212 1999 14th place (1999)
Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Europe 231 October 20213 2007 13rd Place (1999)
TBDAmericas QualifierTBDTBDTBDTBDTBD (TBD)
TBDAsian QualifierTBDTBDTBDTBDTBD (TBD)
TBDAfrican QualifierTBDTBDTBDTBDTBD (TBD)

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