Austria national American football team

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Association | AFBÖ
Region | Europe (EFAF)
Founded | 1982
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Colors | Red, Grey, White
Head coach | Max Sommer
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The Austrian national American football team is the official American football senior national team of Austria and current 2023 European champion. Its players are mostly recruited from the Austrian Football League but a few also play in other European leagues, mostly the German Football League.

## European Championship record

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The team placed third at the 1995 European Championship of American football (hosted by Austria) and also third place in the 2010 European Championship.

The Team placed second at the 2014 European Championship (hosted in Austria), losing the final in double overtime to Germany in front of 27000 spectators at Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadion[1] and placed second again in 2018.

The 2021 European Championship of American football was less successful for Austria as they unexpectedly lost against  Italy in the group phase and thus only placed fifth overall. Austria also placed fifth in the first ever European Championship of American football in 1983.

However in the 2023 European Championship of American football, Austria defeated Italy 24-14, and then Finland 28-0 to win their first European championship in their history.

* 1983 (5th)
* 1995 (3rd)
* 2010 (3rd)
* 2014 (2nd)
* 2018 (2nd)
* 2021 (5th)
* 2023 (1st)

## IFAF World Championship record

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Year  | Position  | GP  | W  | L  | PF  | PA

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1999 | Did not participate
2003
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2011 | 7th | 4 | 1 | 3 | 84 | 94
2015 | Did not participate

## Roster

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Austria National Football Team roster

Quarterbacks

*   * 8 Christoph Gross
*   * 13 Thomas Haider

Running backs

*   * 31 Harald Egger
*   * 26 Florian Grein
*   * 23 Florian Hiess
*   * 20 Mario Nerad
*   * 12 Jordan Gurney

Wide receivers

*   * 5 Thimothee Bach
*   * 1 Jakob Dieplinger
*   * 11 Maximilian Herdey
*   * 80 Wolfrum Hofbauer
*   * 17 Stefan Holzinger
*   * 15 Armando Ponce de Leon
*   * 88 Andreas Pröller
*   * 18 Daniel Stanzel

|  | Offensive linemen

*   * 67 Norbert Baumberger OL
*   * 61 Robert Dragotinits OL
*   * 79 Valentin Gruber OL
*   * 70 Michael Habetin OL
*   * 66 Bernd Leitsoni OL
*   * 75 Alexander Milanovic OL
*   * 60 Michael Pribyl OL
*   * 78 Thomas Tippold OL

Defensive linemen

*   * 94 Florian Grünsteidl DL
*   * 99 Johannes Kain DL
*   * 71 Michael Kühnmeyer DL
*   * 89 Roman Meklau DL
*   * 92 Armin Novidi DL
*   * 50 Mario Rinner DL
*   * 90 Alexander Tahiri DL

|  | Linebackers

*   * 49 Simon Blach
*   * 56 Alexander Cucek
*   * 54 Andreas Düringer
*   * 58 Florian Hueter
*   * 47 Dustin Illetschko
*   * 55 Christoph Schilcher
*   * 32 Michael Suess
*   * 10 Philip Stojaspal

Defensive backs

*   * 4 Daniel Auböck DB
*   * 21 Markus Krause DB
*   * 7 Johannes Neusser DB
*   * 30 Christof Promitzer DB
*   * 28 Christoph Putz DB
*   * 24 Manuel Schneeweiss DB
*   * 42 Christoph Schreiner DB
*   * 9 Peter Tutsh DB

Special Teams

*   * 2 Peter Kramberger K/P

|  | Inactive List

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Roster Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine updated 2011-07-11

## Germany Austria series

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In 2021 the German and Austrian governing bodies AFVD and AFBÖ announced their intention to hold recurring matchups between the two national teams every other year with the first to be held in 2022.[2][3]

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## References

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1. ^ "American Football EM Finale 2014 - Bittersweet Glory". 22 June 2014.
2. ^ "Nationalmannschaft: Länderspielserie gegen Top-Team Österreich ab 2022 – AFVD".
3. ^ "Team Austria: Gespräche über Länderspielserie gegen Top-Team Deutschland". 4 August 2021.

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