IFAF World Championship
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Most recent season or competition: 2015 IFAF World Championship |
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| Sport | American football |
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| Founded | 1999 |
| No. of teams | 7 (tournament) 71 (eligible national teams) |
| Most recent champion(s) |
 United States (3rd title) |
| Most titles |
United States (3 titles) |
| Official website | ifafworldchampionship.org |
The IFAF World Championship of American Football (also known as the IFAF World Cup) is an international American football competition held every four years and contested by teams representing member nations. The competition is run by the International Federation of American Football (IFAF), the international governing body for the sport. Seventy-one nations have a national American football team. The most recent tournament in 2015, there were seven teams in the tournament.
The defending champions are the United States, who won the 2015 championship after winning both the 2007 and 2011 editions. The American team did not participate of the World Cup until 2007 and won every tournament ever since. Prior to American participation, Japan won the 1999 and 2003 championships.
The championship was held in Italy in 1999, in Germany in 2003, in Kawasaki, Japan in 2007, and in Austria in 2011. The 2015 IFAF World Championship was originally going to be held in , Sweden, however local organizers had to cancel the event due to lack of sponsorship. The 2015 tournament was played in Canton, Ohio, United States.
At the 2011 championship, the championship tournament consisted of eight teams divided into two groups of four (there were six teams in 1999 and 2007, four in 2003, and seven in 2015). The opening round featured a round-robin tournament within the groups, with each team playing each other once. However, as opposed to a tournament bracket after the games were completed, the teams with the best record from each group met in the gold medal game, with the second-place teams in each group playing for the bronze medal, the third-place teams playing in the 5th-place game, and the fourth-place teams playing in the 7th-place game, thus guaranteeing each team four games.
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