American football championship

The American Football European Championship is a tournament for national teams of the European American Football Associations , which belong to the International Federation of American Football Europe , the successor to the European Federation of American Football (EFAF), which was dissolved in 2014 . The first tournament took place in 1983. Host Italy was able to secure the title. Finland is the record holder with five European championship titles so far. France emerged victorious at the 2018 tournament , making them the current title holder.

The first European championship for youth teams took place in France in 1992 and ended with the victory of the Finnish youth. The current title holder is Austria.

The first Women's European Championship in American football took place in 2015.

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Seniors

The first European Championship in 1983 took place without qualification. All five participating nations competed against each other in a tournament and played a ranking list.

From 1985 to 2001 a final tournament was held, which consisted of the semi-finals, a final and usually a game for third place. The tournament was preceded by a qualification that had no fixed mode. In 1985 and 1993 there was no qualification because only four teams competed. With ten national teams, the 1991 European Championship had the largest field of participants to date.

Since 2003, the European American Football Championship has been held in three consecutive tournaments, which correspond to different levels of performance. The respective winner of the first two tournaments qualifies for the following higher class tournament. The European champion will be determined in the last tournament. The last-placed teams of the two higher-class tournaments start one class lower in the next tournament series. This mode is similar to a normal league system with the difference that every team that competes in the tournament series can win the title at the end of the series. In the years 2007 to 2010, the Austrian national team took part in all three tournaments, as it was able to complete the first two tournaments as winners.

Juniors

→ Main article : European Junior American Football Championship

The junior tournament has been held at different intervals since 1992. The delivery mode also changes. Twelve national associations are currently taking part in the competition. In the final tournament 2015, four teams compete against each other. In an upstream qualification, only two participants are determined for the final tournament. Germany as the host and Austria as the defending champion are already qualified.

The tournaments at a glance

Seniors

year	place		final				Game for third place				Attendees
			winner	Result	Second place		third place	Result	fourth place		Endr.	Ges.
1983	Castel Giorgio Italy		Italy	18: 6	Finland		BR Germany	27:20	France		5	5
1985	Milan Italy		Finland	13: 2	Italy		BR Germany	13: 0	France		4th	4th
1987	Helsinki Finland		Italy	24:22	BR Germany		Finland	38:23	Great Britain		4th	5
1989	Germany		Great Britain	26: 0	Finland		Germany	29: 9	Italy		4th	8th
1991	Helsinki Finland		Great Britain	14: 3	Finland		Netherlands	17:12	France		4th	10
1993	Bergamo Italy		Finland	17: 7	Italy		Germany	21: 3	Sweden		4th	4th
1995	Austria		Finland	27: 7	Italy		Austria	18: 0	Ukraine		4th	6th
1997	Bolzano Italy		Finland	27: 6	Sweden		Italy	14: 7	Great Britain		4th	6th
2000	Germany		Finland	30:29	Germany		Great Britain Ukraine Game not played				4th	5
2001	Germany		Germany	19: 7	Finland		Sweden	without a fight 1	Great Britain		4th	9
2005	Malmo Sweden		Sweden	16: 7	Germany		Finland	34:12	Great Britain		4th	11
2010	Germany		Germany	26:10	France		Austria	30: 0	Sweden		6th	14th
2014	Austria		Germany	30:27	Austria		France	35:21	Finland		6th	15th
2018	Vantaa Finland		France	28:14	Austria		Finland	35:21	Sweden		6th	20th
2021	Europe										4th	12

¹ Great Britain did not enter the semi-finals.

Achievements by participants

space	country		Placements				Participations (last participation)
			title	Vice	Third		final	Semifinals	Finals	championship
1.	Finland		5	4th	3		9 (2001)	13 (2018)	14 (2018)	14 (2018)
2.	Germany		3	3	4th		6 (2014)	10 (2014)	10 (2014)	11 (2014)
3.	Italy		2	3	1		5 (1995)	7 (1997)	? (1997)	(2014)
4th	Great Britain		2	0	1 1		2 (1991)	7 (2005)	(2018)	(2018)
5.	France		1	1	1		2 (2018)	6 (2018)	(2018)	(2018)
	Sweden		1	1	1		2 (2005)	6 (2018)	(2018)	(2018)
7th	Austria		0	2	2		2 (2018)	4 (2018)	(2018)	(2018)
8th.	Netherlands		0	0	1			1 (1991)	?	(2014)
9.	Ukraine		0	0	1 1			1 (2000)	?	?

¹ In 2000 there were two third places

Previous events

So far, the EM has been held thirteen times. The only team that has taken part in each final is Finland . In addition, the Finns are record holders with 5 championship titles and 9 finals. There have been a total of 5 different titleholders so far: In addition to Finland with five titles, Germany won the final three times, Italy and Great Britain twice, and Sweden and France each once.

Legend

EM - European champion Finalist - loser of the final 3rd place - winner of the 3rd place game 4th place - loser of the 3rd place game HF - semi-final participant VF - quarter-finals Q - Participant in the qualifying round Q3 - Participants in the 3rd qualifying round Q2 - Participants in the 2nd qualifying round Q1 - Participants in the 1st qualifying round

Teams

Surname	1983	1985	1987	1989	1991	1993	1995	1997	2000	2001	2005	2010	2014	2018
Finland	finalist	EM	3rd place	finalist	finalist	EM	EM	EM	EM	finalist	3rd place	5th place	4th Place	3rd place
Germany	3rd place	3rd place	finalist	3rd place		3rd place	VF		finalist	EM	finalist	EM	EM
Italy	EM	finalist	EM	4th Place	Q3	finalist	finalist	3rd place						Q3
Great Britain			4th Place	EM	EM			4th Place	HF	HF	4th Place	6th place		5th place
Sweden				Q1	Q3	4th Place	Q	finalist		HF	EM	4th Place	5th place	4th Place
France	4th Place	4th Place	Q2	Q2	4th Place	finalist				Q	VF	finalist	3rd place	EM
Austria	5th place		Q1		Q2		3rd place		Q	VF		3rd place	finalist	finalist
Netherlands			Q1	Q1	3rd place	Q								Q2
Ukraine							4th Place	Q	HF	VF
Norway				Q2			Q							Q1
Belgium					Q1		Q							Q1
Spain					Q1		Q	Q		VF				Q1
Russia					Q2				Q					Q2
Denmark										Q			6th place	6th place
Switzerland			Q2											Q2
Slovakia														Q1
Hungary														Q1
Poland														Q1
Israel														Q2
Serbia														Q2
Czech Republic														Q2

Web links

Commons : European Championship of American Football  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• EFAF homepage
• Football History , page with statistics and team lineups