November 18, 2010
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Groups, schedule announced for Worlds: Canada’s pool does not include USA


The groups and game schedule have been announced for the fourth IFAF Senior World Championship of American Football, which will be played in Austria from July 8-16, 2011.

Team Canada’s senior national team Head coach Larry Haylor will be announcing tryouts in the next couple weeks. Tryouts will be across the country starting in February. Tryout locations will include Toronto, Guelph, Quebec, the maritimes and western provincial locations.

Stay tuned to CFC for the announcements. Also, make sure you post your HILITE VIDEOS in the CFC ‘PROSPECT VIDEO‘ section for Team Canada coaches to view and evaluate.

– PARIS, FRANCE – The Austrian capital of Vienna will host the Gold and Bronze Medal games and the fifth and seventh place playoffs as the senior national teams of eight nations from four continents assemble in Europe for the International Federation of American Football showpiece tournament. Two groups of four teams will play in the cities of Innsbruck and Graz in the quest to earn a place in the medal games.

“Never before have there been more participants, better stadiums or greater expectations in the history of the IFAF Senior World Championship,” said MICHAEL ESCHLBOECK, President of the American Football Bund Österreich (Austrian Federation of American Football).

“We believe this tournament will be very important for our sport and its international future. We want to bring the world closer together on the gridiron and make the 2011 IFAF World Championship a truly outstanding event for the global American football community.”

Reigning champion the United States, whose first world championship was won in Japan in 2007, will face European champion Germany in Group A and will also take on Australia and fellow PAFAF (Pan American Federation of American Football) nation Mexico. Group A games will be played in Innsbruck and those teams will kick off the IFAF Senior World Championship when USA faces Australia and Germany takes on Mexico on Friday, July 8.

Host Austria is matched in Group B with European Championship runner up France, first time entrant on the world stage at senior level Canada, and either Japan or Korea, who meet for the right to represent AFAF (Asian Federation of American Football) in Tokyo on February 26.

Either two-time champion (1999 and 2007) Japan or Korea will face home team Austria and an anticipated vociferous home crowd on Saturday, July 9 in Graz, while France and Canada meet in the other Group B game.

Each team will face its group opponent once and from the final standings the group winners will advance to the IFAF Senior World Championship Game to play for the Gold Medal on Saturday, July 16 in the Austrian capital Vienna. The two second-placed teams will contest the Bronze Medal in Vienna on Friday, July 15.

IFAF Senior World Championship Groups

Group A
Group B
USA
Austria
Germany
France
Australia
Japan or Korea
Mexico
Canada

IFAF Senior World Championship Schedule

Date City
Friday, July 8 USA vs. Australia Germany vs. Mexico Innsbruck
Saturday, July 9 Austria vs. Japan France vs. Canada Graz
Sunday, July 10 Mexico vs. Australia Germany vs. USA Innsbruck
Monday, July 11 Japan vs. France Canada vs. Austria Graz
Tuesday, July 12 Australia vs. Germany USA vs. Mexico Innsbruck
Wednesday, July 13 Austria vs. France Canada vs. Japan Graz
Friday, July 15 Bronze Medal Game Fifth Place Game Vienna
Saturday, July 17 Gold Medal Game Seventh Place Game Vienna

Japan won the first IFAF Senior World Championship played in Palermo in Italy with a 6-0 overtime victory over Mexico. Four years later in Frankfurt, Germany, Japan ran out 34-14 winners over Mexico. In 2007 on home soil in Kawasaki, Japan took the United States to double overtime before finally surrendering the world title they had held for eight years by a score of 23-20.
During the nine games of the 2007 IFAF Senior World Championship, more than 22,000 fans flocked to the host stadiums and almost one million people visited the official websites.

For more information and for details on travel packages to Austria, visit www.IFAF.org and www.americanfootball2011.com and for more information about Team USA, visit www.USAFootball.com.

About IFAF The International Federation of American Football (IFAF) unites 59 countries on five continents through a burgeoning international sport. With national football federations in existence for more than 75 years, IFAF was created in 1998 to organize and further develop the game through international cooperation and global competition. The IFAF office is located near Paris, France.

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