2015 IFAF World Championship qualifying

Kuwait at Korea

1 2 3 4 Total Kuwait 0 7 0 0 7 • South Korea 21 14 20 14 69 Date: April 12 Location: Mokdong Baseball Stadium, Seoul, South Korea Game start: 3:30 PM Elapsed time: 3:50

Philippines at Japan

1 2 3 4 Total Philippines 0 0 0 0 0 • Japan 30 14 21 21 86 Date: April 26 Location: VITAL Field, Tokyo, Japan Game start: 1:00 PM Elapsed time: 3:50 Game attendance: 931

Austria at Germany

1 2 3 4 OT Total Austria 0 9 0 8 10 27 • Germany 14 0 0 3 13 30 Date: June 7 Location: Ernst Happel Stadium, Vienna, Austria Game start: 19:00 PM Elapsed time: 3:30 Game attendance: 27.000

France at Finland

1 2 3 4 Total • France 7 7 14 7 35 Finland 0 7 0 14 21 Date: June 7 Location: Ernst Happel Stadium, Vienna, Austria Game start: 14:00 PM Elapsed time: 3:30 Game attendance: 15.000

Morocco at Egypt

1 2 3 4 Total • Morocco 8 0 6 12 26 Egypt 0 0 6 0 6 Date: December 13 Location: German University in Cairo Stadium, Cairo, Egypt Game start: 15:00 PM

Brazil at Panama

1 2 3 4 Total • Brazil 7 7 6 6 26 Panama 7 0 7 0 14 Date: January 31, 2015 Location: Estadio Rommel Fernandez, Panama City, Panama Game start: 18:00 PM

This article describes the qualification for the 2015 IFAF World Championship. The final tournament was to be contested by twelve teams, but five teams that later qualify withdrew from the tournament. Sweden qualified automatically as original hosts of the tournament but was among the teams that withdrew. The United States hosted the tournament instead which would have still automatically qualified as defending world champions if Sweden did not withdrew from the tournament.

The Kuwait Gridiron Football National team lost the first Asian World Championship Qualifier against Korea by a score of 69–7.

Japan defeated Philippines 86–0 in Tokyo to secure a spot in the final tournament.

The European participants won a seed in the tournament by finishing top-3 in the 2014 EFAF European Championship.

The first seed is for Germany for being the champion and the second is Austria who was the runner-up. Both teams played the gold medal game were the defending champion Germany won during overtime the host team Austria by a score of 30 to 27.

The last seed was for the third place France by beating Finland during the European Championship bronze medal game with a score of 35 to 21.

The first participation of Africa on the IFAF World Championship Competition. The qualifier was decided in one game the December 13, 2014. Between the two teams Egypt and Morocco. It was held in the Cairo, Egypt.

USA will be the first representative as the reigning champion by winning the 2011 IFAF World Championship. IFAF Americas have three more spots; the first two will be represented by Canada and Mexico respectively, these countries qualified directly by finishing second and fourth at the last World Championship.

Panama as the champion of the Central American Bowl will play a game for the last seed in the road to the IFAF World Championship 2015, facing the national team of Brazil. The game is going to be held on January 31, 2015 being Panama the host nation.

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