2018 European Championship of American football
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| Host nation |
 Germany
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| Dates | – |
| No. of nations | 6 |
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The 2018 European Championship will be the 14th European Championship in American Football. It will be held in Germany.
The Qualification to the European Championship 2018 is held in three stages. In the first round twelve teams play a single playoff round. The six winners and two further teams play the second round, two tournaments of four teams. Another two teams enter the qualification in the third in playoff games against the two tournament winners of the second round. Four teams are already qualified for the European Championship 2018. Altogether an all-time record number of twenty teams compete to win the European title in 2018.
The first round was played from August to October 2015. Six of the twelve teams took part in one of the tournaments of the last championship. These were the seeded teams playing against an unseeded team. The seeded teams were the hosts of their playoff game. Israel defeating Spain was the only unseeded team to make it to the next round.
The second round tournaments was played in 2016. As runner-up and third of the B Group Tournament in 2013 Italy and Great Britain earned a spot as host nation of one of the tournaments.
Italy and Great Britain as the winners of the tournaments in Italy and Great Britain respectively will play against 
Sweden and 
Denmark (fifth and sixth place at the 2014 EFAF Championship) with the winners advancing to the 2018 tournament in Germany.
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