2025 IFAF World Championship

American football tournament

2025 IFAF World ChampionshipTournament details

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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

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### Bidding process

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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

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Team  | Method of
qualification  | Date of
qualification  | Finals
appearances  | Last
appearance  | Consecutive
finals
appearances  | Previous best
performance

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United States | Defending champions  | 18 July 2015 | 4  | 2015 | 4  | Winners (2007, 2011, 2015)
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

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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.

## External links

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* 2019 IFAF World Championship on Facebook

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IFAF World Championship

Tournaments|

* Italy 1999
* Germany 2003
* Japan 2007
* Austria 2011
* United States 2015
* ~~Australia 2019~~
* ~~Germany 2023~~
* 2025

Qualification|

* 1999
* 2003
* 2007
* 2011
* 2015
* ~~2019~~

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