2023 IFAF World Championship

The 2023 IFAF World Championship is the upcoming sixth instance of the IFAF World Championship of American football. In December 2018, the IFAF announced that the games, which were originally scheduled to be held in Wollongong, Australia, from 29 July 2019 to 5 August 2019, will be postponed to 2023 citing the large number of withdrawals from top nations.[1]

2023 IFAF World Championship
Tournament details
Host nation Australia
Dates–
No. of nations16
← 2015
TBD →

Background

Bidding process

On 13 July 2018, Australia was announced by IFAF as the host for the 2019 championship.[2]

Qualification
Team Method of
qualification		 Date of
qualification		 Finals
appearance		 Last
appearance		 Consecutive
finals
appearances		 Previous best
performance		 IFAF Ranking
at start of event[3]
United States Defending champions 18 July 2015 3 2015 3 Winners (2007, 2011, 2015) 1
Australia Host 29 July 2019 3 2015 3 5th place (1999, 2015) 5

References
  1. "IFAF postpones World Championships until 2023". American Football International. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
  2. "Australia wins bid to host 2019 IFAF Men's World Championship". AFI Review. 13 July 2018. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
  3. "Tackle Football Adult Men World Rankings". ifaf.org. International Federation of American Football. Retrieved 24 November 2018.
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