2015 IFAF World Championship
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host nation |
 United States
|
| Dates | July 9 – July 18 |
| No. of nations | 7 |
Champions 
|
United States
|
Runner-up 
|
 Japan
|
Third-place 
|
 Mexico
|
| MVP of the tournament |
Trent Steelman
|
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| Scoring summary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
9:37
|
South Korea | Interception return | South Korea 6–0 |
| 2 |
11:06
|
Australia | 3 yard run | Australia 7–6 |
| 2 |
10:02
|
Australia | Australia 14–6 | |
| 2 |
4:58
|
Australia | Australia 21–6 | |
| 2 |
0:00
|
Australia | Field Goal | Australia 24–6 |
| 3 |
10:14
|
Australia | Australia 31–6 | |
| 3 |
5:00
|
Australia | Australia 38–6 | |
| 3 |
0:10
|
Australia | Safety | Australia 40–6 |
| 4 |
9:00
|
Australia | Australia 47–6 | |
| Scoring summary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
11:47
|
France | 8 Anthony Dable – 102 yard Kick-off return TD | France 7–0 |
| 1 |
7:37
|
France | 12 Paul Durand to 11 Guillaume Rioux – 38 yard pass TD | France 14–0 |
| 1 |
0:55
|
France | 12 Paul Durand to 11 Guillaume Rioux – 5 yard pass TD | France 21–0 |
| 2 |
10:10
|
France | 10 Alexandre Sy – 20 yard Field Goal | France 24–0 |
| 4 |
5:46
|
Brazil | 1 Rhudson Fonsecsa – 2 yard run TD | France 24–6 |
| 4 |
0:49
|
France | 23 Stephen Yepmo – 53 yard run TD | France 31–6 |
| Scoring summary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
9:52
|
France | 12 Paul Durand to 44 Kévin Mwamba 4 yard pass TD | France 7–0 |
| 1 |
3:19
|
France | 10 Alexandre Sy – 37 yard Field Goal | France 10–0 |
| 2 |
11:51
|
France | 23 Stephen Yepmo – 41 yard run TD | France 17–0 |
| 2 |
6:15
|
Australia | 29 yard Field Goal | France 17–3 |
| 2 |
6:01
|
France | 8 Anthony Dable – 92 yard Kick-off return TD | France 24–3 |
| 2 |
5:49
|
France | 76 Willy N'Kishi – Safety | France 26–3 |
| 2 |
3:23
|
France | 23 Stephen Yepmo – 1 yard run TD | France 33–3 |
| 4 |
9:50
|
France | 18 Nicolas Khandar – 89 yard run TD | France 40–3 |
| 4 |
6:38
|
France | 18 Nicolas Khandar – 1 yard run TD | France 46–3 |
| 4 |
3:24
|
France | 2 Perez Mattison to 5 Rémi Bertellin – 6 yard pass TD | France 53–3 |
The 2015 IFAF World Championship was the fifth instance of the IFAF World Championship, an international American football tournament. The United States hosted the tournament. Seven teams had confirmed their participation for the tournament in Canton, Ohio.
The tournament was to be hosted by , Sweden with all games to be taken place at the new Tele2 Arena, but on 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. USA Football then stepped in and announced the Championships would be held at the Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton. Several days later both the German and Austrian teams announced they would not be able to attend the 2015 Championships citing the increased financial costs of travelling to the United States and also questioning the choice of Canton for hosting it due to the lack of facilities for a large number of teams.
The United States won their third consecutive championship in their third appearance, defeating Japan in the final. The Gold Medal Game international broadcast was carried on Sports Radio America.
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.
Budgetary considerations caused several teams to withdraw from the 2015 Championship. After the move of the tournament to Canton a new schedule containing only 8 teams was announced.
The schedule in Canton originally had five rounds, with teams divided into two brackets of four teams each. The preliminary rounds consisted of three games for each team against each of the other teams in their bracket. The top three finishers in the higher bracket- which included the higher seeded teams (USA, Canada, Japan, and Mexico), and the lone top finisher in the lower bracket would reach the semi-final and final single-elimination round.
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