2017 European Junior American Football Championship

The 2017 European Junior American Football Championship was the 13th edition of this tournament . It took place from 14 to 16 July 2017 in Villepinte near Paris .

qualification

In the qualification, eight teams were originally supposed to fight for two places for the final tournament. For this purpose, two tournaments were scheduled, in each of which four teams should compete for one of the two places. The German team was assigned the Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland as opponents, for the other tournament Serbia, Italy, Russia and Hungary were assigned as participants. A few weeks before the qualification it became known that the IFAF New York wants to organize its own European championship for juniors. At the same time, IFAF Europe announced that the Netherlands and Serbia are hosting the qualifying tournaments.

Tournament in Serbia

In the wake of the dispute between the associations, Hungary and Russia withdrew their participation in the qualifying tournament in Serbia, leaving Italy and Serbia as the only participants. Italy qualified for the finals in Paris with a narrow victory.

			Serbia	6: 7	Italy

Tournament in the Netherlands

The second qualifying tournament was held in Almere in the Netherlands. The reigning runner-up Germany went into the tournament as the favorite and, as expected, clearly prevailed.

	Almere June 2, 2017 5:00 p.m.		Germany	51: 0	Switzerland

	Almere June 2, 2017 8:00 p.m.		Netherlands	6:14	Spain

			Placement game
	Almere June 4, 2017 3:00 p.m.		Netherlands	20:21	Switzerland

			final
	Almere June 4th 2017		Germany	43-0	Spain		Spectators: 478
				(14: 0, 13: 0, 16: 0, 0: 0)

Final tournament

The final tournament was held in Paris from July 14th to 16th, 2017. Host France and defending champions Austria were directly qualified for the final tournament. Germany and Italy prevailed in the qualification and completed the field of participants.

Semifinals

	Villepinte July 14, 2017 2:00 p.m.		France	7-0	Germany		Stade Laurent Plegelatte
				(7: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0)

	Villepinte July 14, 2017 6:00 p.m.		Austria	19: 0	Italy		Stade Laurent Plegelatte
				(3: 0, 9: 0, 7: 0, 0: 0)

3rd place match

	Villepinte July 16, 2017 11:00 am		Germany	50: 0	Italy		Stade Laurent Plegelatte
				(14: 0, 7: 0, 20: 0, 9: 0)

final

	Villepinte July 16, 2017 3:00 p.m.		France	7:17	Austria		Stade Laurent Plegelatte
				(0: 7, 0: 7, 7: 0, 0: 3)

Web links

• EM Juniors 2017 on football-aktuell.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} EJC 2017 tournament lineup is set. In: eurobowl.info. IFAF, November 18, 2016, accessed December 23, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Both Denmark and France to hold contending European Junior Championships this summer. In: americanfootballinternational.com. March 13, 2017, accessed May 26, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Italy downs Team Serbia to qualify for IFAF Paris European Junior Championships. In: americanfootballinternational.com. May 8, 2017, accessed May 26, 2017 . 
4. ↑ European Junior Qualifiers continue with 4 teams battling for a spot. In: americanfootballinternational.com. June 2, 2017, accessed June 12, 2017 .