American Football Championship 2005

At the American Football European Championship 2005 a total of eleven teams took part, which were divided into three groups. According to their strength, the three groups held a tournament for three consecutive years, so that the European Championship began in 2003. The respective tournament winner qualified for the next higher group and thus took part in the tournament again the following year.

Group A

The actual European Championship was held from July 28 to 30, 2005 in Malmö, Sweden, in play-off mode.

All games were played in Malmö Hästhagens Idrottsplats .

The participating teams in the final round (Group A) were:

•  Sweden (hosts)
•  Germany (defending champion)
•  Finland
•  Great Britain (Winner Group B , 2004)

Semifinals

date	Kick off	Team 1	Result	Team 2	Stadion
July 28, 2005	14:00	Germany	34: 0 (7: 0, 7: 0, 7: 0, 13: 0)	Great Britain	Malmö Hästhagens IP, Malmö (Sweden)
July 28, 2005	18:00	Finland	19:23 (9: 0, 7: 9, 3: 7, 0: 7)	Sweden	Malmö Hästhagens IP, Malmö (Sweden)

3rd place match

date	Kick off	Team 1	Result	Team 2	Stadion
July 30, 2005	13:00	Finland	34:12 (7: 0, 20: 6, 7: 0, 0: 6)	Great Britain	Malmö Hästhagens IP, Malmö (Sweden)

final

date	Kick off	Team 1	Result	Team 2	Stadion
July 30, 2005	18:00	Sweden	16: 7 (0: 7, 7: 0, 0: 0, 9: 0)	Germany	Malmö Hästhagens IP, Malmö (Sweden)

Group B

The group B tournament took place in August 2004 in Amiens, France. The tournament was held as a round-robin tournament. The winner of the tournament was Great Britain, which qualified for the actual finals .

The games were all played at the Stade Moulonguet in Amiens.

The participating teams in Group B were:

•  France (hosts)
•  Great Britain
•  Spain
•  Russia (Winner Group C , 2003)

Games

date	Kick off	Team 1	Result	Team 2	Stadion
August 23, 2004	14:00	France	28: 0	Spain	Stade Moulonguet, Amiens (France)
August 23, 2004	19:00	Great Britain	24:21	Russia	Stade Moulonguet, Amiens (France)
August 25, 2004	14:00	Spain	0:41	Great Britain	Stade Moulonguet, Amiens (France)
August 25, 2004	19:00	Russia	6:19	France	Stade Moulonguet, Amiens (France)
August 28, 2004	14:00	Spain	6:31	Russia	Stade Moulonguet, Amiens (France)
August 28, 2004	19:00	Great Britain	18:17	France	Stade Moulonguet, Amiens (France)

Closing table

	team	Sp	Points	TD	Diff.
1.	Great Britain	3	6-0	83:38	+45
2.	France	3	4: 2	64:24	+40
3.	Russia	3	2: 4	58:49	+9
4th	Spain	3	0: 6	6: 100	−94

Group C

The group C tournament took place from July 27th to August 2nd, 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark . It was the first time for the Czech Republic to take part in an international competition with a national team. The very young team from Russia emerged as the winner of the tournament and thus qualifier for Group B , and prevailed against the tournament favorites from Italy in the final.

The participating teams in Group C were:

•  Denmark (hosts)
•  Italy
•  Netherlands
•  Russia
•  Czech Republic

Preliminary round matches

date	Kick off	Team 1	Result	Team 2
July 27, 2003	18:00	Denmark	3: 7 (3: 0, 0: 7, 0: 0, 0: 0) report , statistics	Czech Republic
July 29, 2003	14:00	Czech Republic	14:28 report , statistics	Italy
July 29, 2003	18:00	Netherlands	10:28 (0:14, 2: 0, 0:14, 8: 0) Report , statistics	Russia
July 31, 2003	14:00	Italy	63:21 report , statistics	Netherlands
July 31, 2003	18:00	Russia	42:15 Report , statistics	Denmark

Preliminary round table

	team	Sp	Points	TD	Diff.
1.	Italy	2	4-0	91:35	+56
2.	Russia	2	4-0	70:25	+45
3.	Czech Republic	2	2: 2	21:31	−10
4th	Denmark	2	0: 4	18:49	−31
5.	Netherlands	2	0: 4	31:91	−60

3rd place match

date	Kick off	Team 1	Result	Team 2
August 2, 2003	12:00	Denmark	20:45 statistics	Czech Republic

final

date	Kick off	Team 1	Result	Team 2
August 2, 2003	16:00	Italy	35:43 report , statistics	Russia

Web links

• Statistics on efaf.info - Official homepage of the EFAF

Individual evidence

1. ↑ European Championships (C-Group) starts at Copenhagen (report on efaf.info )