2018 European Championship of American football

2018 European Championship of American football
Tournament details
Host nation  Germany
Dates
No. of nations 6
2014

The 2018 European Championship will be the 14th European Championship in American Football. It will be held in Germany.

Qualification

The Qualification to the European Championship 2018 is held in three stages. In the first round twelve teams play a single playoff round. The six winners and two further teams play the second round, two tournaments of four teams. Another two teams enter the qualification in the third in playoff games against the two tournament winners of the second round. Four teams are already qualified for the European Championship 2018. Altogether an all-time record number of twenty teams compete to win the European title in 2018.

First Round

The first round was played from August to October 2015. Six of the twelve teams took part in one of the tournaments of the last championship. These were the seeded teams playing against an unseeded team. The seeded teams were the hosts of their playoff game. Israel defeating Spain was the only unseeded team to make it to the next round.

Date Kickoff Away Score Home Game site
August 30 12:00 p.m. CEST Israel  28-20  Spain Estadio Santo Domingo, Alcorcón
September 26 6:00 p.m. CEST Slovakia  0-21    Switzerland Stadion Rankhof, Basel
Oktober 10 1:00 p.m. CEST Norway  0-20  Russia Zarskoje Selo Stadion, Pushkin
Oktober 10 2:00 p.m. CEST Hungary  0-56  Serbia Voždovac Stadium, Belgrade
Oktober 11 2:00 p.m. CEST Poland  7-14  Czech Republic Letní stadion, Pardubice
Oktober 24 6:00 p.m. CEST Belgium  3-17  Netherlands Mandemakers Stadion, Waalwijk

Second Round

The second round tournaments was played in 2016. As runner-up and third of the B Group Tournament in 2013 Italy and Great Britain earned a spot as host nation of one of the tournaments.

Tournament in Italy

Date Kickoff Away Score Home Game site
Semifinals
September 2 2:00 p.m. CEST Israel  10–40  Italy Stadio G. Teghil, Lignano Sabbiadoro
September 2 7:00 p.m. CEST Switzerland   0–17  Serbia Stadio G. Teghil, Lignano Sabbiadoro
Classification game
September 4 3:00 p.m. CEST Israel  0–51   Switzerland Stadio G. Teghil, Lignano Sabbiadoro
Final
September 4 7:00 p.m. CEST Serbia  14–17  Italy Stadio G. Teghil, Lignano Sabbiadoro

Tournament in Great Britain

Date Kickoff Away Score Home Game site
Semifinals
September 16 Russia  3–30  Great Britain Sixways Stadium, Worcester
September 16 Netherlands  13–20  Czech Republic Sixways Stadium, Worcester
Classification game
September 18 Russia  6–17  Netherlands Sixways Stadium, Worcester
Final
September 18 Czech Republic  13–38  Great Britain Sixways Stadium, Worcester

Third Round

Italy and Great Britain as the winners of the tournaments in Italy and Great Britain respectively will play against  Sweden and  Denmark (fifth and sixth place at the 2014 EFAF Championship) with the winners advancing to the 2018 tournament in Germany.

Teams

Venues

In a July 20, 2016 news release the American Football Verband Deutschland changed the plan to hold the event in several different cities and announced that all games would be held in Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark, Berlin[1]

See also

References

External links

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