American Football World Cup (also known as the IFAF World Cup and Gridiron World Cup) is an international competition held every four years since 1999 to decide the world champion of American football. Italy hosted the 1999 Cup and Germany hosted the 2003 Cup. Japan won both titles. The United States did not compete in the first two World Cups. The competition is run by the IFAF and it consists of a qualification round and a final tournament. In 2007, the 3rd American Football World Cup took place in Kawasaki, Japan. In 2007, the total number of teams in the competition exceeded 20 countries as, besides the six nations that qualified for the final tournament, five teams competed in direct qualification games. In Europe, the continental federation EFAF also used its European Championships as one qualifier. United States won the IFAF cup in 2007. Austria was awarded as host nation for the 2011 IFAF World Cup.

Results

World Cup summaries

Year	Host		Final				Third Place Match
			Winner	Score	Runner-up		3rd Place	Score	4th Place
1999 Details	Italy			6-0 (OT)				38-13
2003 Details	Germany			34-14				36-7
2007 Details	Japan			23-20 (2 OT)				7-0
2011 Details	Austria

Standings

Team	1999 6	2003 4	2007 6	2011 8
	5th	-	-
	6th	-	-
	-	4th	6th
	-	3rd	3rd
	4th	-	-
	1st	1st	2nd
	2nd	2nd	-
	-	-	5th
	3rd	-	4th
	-	-	1st

Ranking

Pos.	Team	Champion	Runner-up	Third	Fourth
1st		2 (1999, 2003)	1 (2007)	-	-
2nd		1 (2007)	-	-	-
3rd		-	2 (1999, 2003)	-	-
4th		-	-	2 (2003, 2007)	-
5th		-	-	1 (1999)	1 (2007)
6th		-	-	-	1 (2003)
7th		-	-	-	1 (1999)

See also

• International Federation of American Football

References

External links

• 2007 World Cup official site
• World Cup 1999 Info
• World Cup 2003 Info
• IFAF World Cup blog