The 2025 IFAF World Championship is the upcoming sixth instance of the IFAF World Championship for American football. In December 2018, the IFAF announced that the games, which were originally scheduled to be held in Wollongong, Australia, from 29 July 2019 to 5 August 2019, would be postponed to 2023 citing the large number of withdrawals from top nations.^[1] In October 2022, the tournament was postponed until 2025.

Background

Bidding process

On 13 July 2018, Australia was announced by IFAF as the host for the 2019 championship.^[2]

On 11 December 2021, IFAF announced that Germany would replace Australia as hosts of the rescheduled 2023 IFAF World Championship.^[3]

On 9 October 2022, IFAF announced that the tournament would be moved again, to 2025, entering talks with the German federation about hosting.^[4]

Qualification

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification	Finals appearances	Last appearance	Consecutive finals appearances	Previous best performance
United States	Defending champions	18 July 2015	4	2015	4	Winners (2007, 2011, 2015)
Australia	Oceania Representative	29 July 2019	4	2015	3	5th place (1999, 2015)
Germany	Host	11 December 2021	4	2011	1	3rd place (2003, 2007)
Italy	Europe 1	31 October 2021	2	1999	1	4th place (1999)
Sweden	Europe 2	31 October 2021	3	2007	1	3rd Place (1999)
TBD	Americas Qualifier	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD (TBD)
TBD	Asian Qualifier	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD (TBD)
TBD	African Qualifier	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD (TBD)