2015 IFAF World Championship
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| Tournament details | |
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| Host nation |
 United States |
| Dates | July 8 – July 19 |
| No. of nations | 8 |
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The 2015 IFAF World Championship will be the fifth instance of the IFAF World Championship, an international American football tournament. The United States will host the tournament.[1] Seven teams have confirmed their participation for the tournament in Canton, Ohio.[2] Tournament was initially supposed to be hosted by Stockholm, Sweden with all games to be taken place at the new Tele2 Arena. However, on Friday, 19 December 2014, the local organizing committee (LOC) for the Stockholm 2015 VM Amerikansk fotboll announced that it could not raise the sponsor structure to run the event and thus had to cancel.
History
The 2015 games in Sweden were originally scheduled to be the first ever to consist of a field of 12 national teams in World Championships. The teams were to be divided into four groups for the preliminary round.[3]
Qualifying
Teams with an asterisk have confirmed their participation in Canton.
| Confederation | Qualifying event | Date | Venue | Vacancies | Qualified | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | Host nation | 12 October 2011 | 4 |  Sweden | ||
| 2014 European Championships | 3 June 2014 |  Austria |  Germany | |||
| 4 June 2014 | Austria | |||||
| 7 June 2014 |  France* | |||||
| Americas | 2011 IFAF World Championship | 16 July 2011 | Austria | 4 | United States* | |
 Canada* | ||||||
 Mexico* | ||||||
| American Qualifier Game (Panama vs Brazil) | 31 January 2015 |  Panama |  Brazil* | |||
| Asia | Asian Qualifier Game (Korea vs Kuwait) | 12 April 2014 |  South Korea | 2 | South Korea* | |
| Asian Qualifier Game (Japan vs Philippines) | 26 April 2014 |  Japan | Japan* | |||
| Oceania | Oceanian Qualifier | 3 December 2013 | 1 |  Australia* | ||
| Africa | African Qualifier Game (Egypt vs Morocco) | 13 December 2014 |  Egypt | 1 |  Morocco | |
| Total | 12 | |||||
Notes
Venue
Sweden
All games of the tournament were to be played in the 30,000 spectator Tele2 Arena located in Stockholm.
| All Games | |
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| Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Tele2 Arena Capacity: 30,370 | |
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United States
All games will be held at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, OH.
| All Games | ||
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| Canton, OH | ||
| Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium Capacity: 22,375 | ||
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Matches
Group 1
| Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Canada |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Japan |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mexico |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Group 2
| Team | Pld | W | L | PF | PA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| France |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Australia |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Korea |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brazil |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
References
- ↑ http://www.americanfootballinternational.com/usa-football-to-host-2015-ifaf-world-championships/
- ↑ "IFAF EXECUTIVE BOARD DECIDE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH SENIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP". International Federation of American Football. December 29, 2014. Archived from the original on January 31, 2015. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
- ↑ IFAF (2011-10-12). "SWEDEN TO HOST 2015 INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AMERICAN FOOTBALL SENIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS". IFAF. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
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