2011 IFAF World Championship

2011 IFAF World Championship
Tournament details
Host nation	Austria
Dates	July 8 – July 16
No. of nations	8
Champions	United States
Runner-up	Canada
Third-place	Japan
MVP of the tournament	Nate Kmic
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The 2011 IFAF World Championship was the fourth instance of the IFAF World Championship, an international American football tournament. It began on July 8, 2011 with the final games commencing on July 16. It was hosted by Austria, with games taking place in three cities: Vienna, Innsbruck^[1] and Graz; Vienna hosted the medal games.^[2]

Austria won the bid to host the games. There were a record number of attendees at the 2009 IFAF Congress, the meeting which decided the host nation.^[3] The format was changed for 2011: for the first time, eight qualifying teams were divided into two groups, with the group winners competing for the Championship. Four teams automatically qualified: Austria (as host nation), the United States (as the defending World Champions), and Germany and France (for reaching the final in the 2010 EFAF European Championship. Four other teams were accepted through qualifiers in the four regions of the International Federation of American Football: Asia, Europe, Oceania and Pan-America.^[2]

The United States and Canada won Group A and Group B, respectively, and played each other in the Gold Medal match on July 16, 2011. In front of the largest crowd to ever watch a World Championship game (20,000), the United States beat Canada, 50–7.

Qualifying

List of qualified teams

The following 8 teams qualified for the final tournament.

EFAF (3)

Austria - qualify automatically as host nation.
Germany - qualify as a result of reaching the final of the 2010 EFAF European Championship.
France - qualify as a result of reaching the final of the 2010 EFAF European Championship.

PAFAF (3)

United States - qualify automatically as current champions through winning the 2007 IFAF World Cup.
Canada
Mexico

AFAF (1)

Japan - qualified after defeating South Korea in a qualifying match in February 2011 (76–0).^[4]

OFAF (1)

Australia

Venues

Below is a list of the venues which hosted games during the 2011 IFAF World Championship. Each preliminary round group was hosted in a single arena in Innsbruck (Group A) and Graz (Group B). The knockout phase and Finals took place at Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna.

Preliminary round		Knockout stage
Innsbruck	Graz	Vienna
Tivoli-Neu Capacity: 17,400	UPC-Arena Capacity: 15,400	Ernst-Happel-Stadion Capacity: 53,008

Rosters

Matches

Group 1

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA
United States	3	3	0	126	14
Mexico	3	2	1	94	32
Germany	3	1	2	52	90
Australia	3	0	3	20	156

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Australia	0	0	0	0	0
United States	13	21	13	14	61

at Tivoli-Neu, Innsbruck, Austria

Date: July 8, 2011
Game time: 15:00
Game weather: 24°C, light wind, sunny
Game attendance: 6,000
Box score

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Mexico	7	3	2	10	22
Germany	0	7	0	8	15

at Tivoli-Neu, Innsbruck, Austria

Date: July 8, 2011
Game time: 19:00
Game weather: 23°C, light wind, cloudy
Game attendance: 4,500
Box score

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Australia	0	0	0	0	0
Mexico	7	21	25	12	65

at Tivoli-Neu, Innsbruck, Austria

Date: July 10, 2011
Game time: 15:00
Game weather: 28°C, no wind, cloudy
Game attendance: 5,000
Referee: K. Yokochi
Box score

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
United States	7	21	20	0	48
Germany	0	7	0	0	7

at Tivoli-Neu, Innsbruck, Austria

Date: July 10, 2011
Game time: 19:00
Game weather: 26°C, light wind, cloudy
Game attendance: 6,800
Referee: F. Rasmussen
Box score

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Germany	14	9	0	7	30
Australia	7	7	6	0	20

at Tivoli-Neu, Innsbruck, Austria

Date: July 12, 2011
Game time: 15:00
Game weather: 30°C, light wind, sunny
Game attendance: 1,500
Referee: K.Yokochi
Box score

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Mexico	0	0	7	0	7
United States	0	10	0	7	17

at Tivoli-Neu, Innsbruck, Austria

Date: July 12, 2011
Game time: 19:00
Game weather: 28°C, light wind, sunny
Game attendance: 4,800
Referee: F.Rasmussen
Box score

Group 2

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA
Canada	3	3	0	112	51
Japan	3	2	1	86	47
France	3	1	2	44	96
Austria	3	0	3	36	84

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Japan	0	17	0	7	24
Austria	0	6	0	0	6

at UPC-Arena, Graz Austria

Date: July 9, 2011
Game time: 15:00
Game weather: 32°C, light wind, sunny
Game attendance: 6,000
Referee: Bill LeMonnier
Box score

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Canada	7	17	7	14	45
France	7	3	0	0	10

at UPC-Arena, Graz, Austria

Date: July 9, 2011
Game time: 19:00
Game weather: 28°C, light wind, sunny
Game attendance: 5,000
Box score

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
France	0	0	7	3	10
Japan	7	14	7	7	35

at UPC-Arena, Graz, Austria

Date: July 11, 2011
Game time: 15:00
Game weather: 28°C, light wind, cloudy
Game attendance: 2,500
Referee: Bill LeMonnier
Box score

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Austria	0	0	0	14	14
Canada	7	7	7	15	36

at UPC-Arena, Graz, Austria

Date: July 11, 2011
Game time: 19:00
Game weather: 26°C, light wind, cloudy
Game attendance: 4,500
Referee: H.H.Rieske
Box score

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Canada	7	10	0	14	31
Japan	7	7	6	7	27

at UPC-Arena, Graz, Austria

Date: July 13, 2011
Game time: 15:00
Game weather: 30°C, light wind, cloudy
Game attendance: 2,000
Referee: H.H.Rieske
Box score

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
France	0	0	17	7	24
Austria	0	3	0	13	16

at UPC-Arena, Graz, Austria

Date: July 13, 2011
Game time: 19:00
Game weather: 30°C, light wind, sunny
Game attendance: 4,800
Referee: W.D.Le Monnier
Box score

7th place match

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Australia	0	3	7	0	10
Austria	14	14	6	14	48

at Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria

Date: July 15, 2011
Game time: 15:00
Game weather: 23°C, light wind, sunny
Game attendance: 4,128
Referee: K.Yokochi
Box score

5th place match

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
France	0	7	7	3	17
Germany	0	7	7	7	21

at Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria

Date: July 16, 2011
Game time: 15:00
Game weather: 25°C, Light wind, Sunny
Game attendance: 16,800
Referee: W.D. Le Monnier
Box Score

Bronze medal match

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Mexico	0	7	0	7	14
Japan	0	10	7	0	17

at Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria

Date: July 15, 2011
Game time: 19:00
Game weather: 23°C, Light wind, Sunny
Game attendance: 4,128
Referee: H. Henning
Box Score

Gold medal match

Quarter	1	2	3	4	Total
Canada	0	7	0	0	7
United States	7	30	13	0	50

at Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria

Date: July 16, 2011
Game time: 19:00
Game weather: 28°C, Light wind, Sunny
Game attendance: 20,000
Referee: F. Rasmussen
Box score

The United States routed Canada 50-7 in the Gold Medal game of the 2011 IFAF Senior World Championship. The 20,000 fans in attendance at Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, Austria, set a record for an IFAF Championship game. The game was never close, with Team USA leading 37-7 at halftime. Team USA dominated the rushing game, outgaining Canada 247-48, with four different players scoring touchdowns on the ground. While Henry Harris led the way for the Americans on the ground, with 114 yards on 15 carries and a TD, RB Nate Kmic was the only American to score two touchdowns on the day. Team USA quarterback Cody Hawkins was 13 of 21 for 161 yards and 2 TD passes. The U.S. defense recorded four sacks, and Jordan Lake caught two interceptions. One bright spot for team Canada was Shamawd Chambers, whose 7 receptions for 74 yards bested the Americans.

Individual Statistics

Passing

#	Player	Att	Comp	YDS	TD	INT
1	Joachim Ullrich	96	58	881	6	5
2	Michael Faulds	97	64	805	6	4
3	Cody Hawkins	88	60	784	5	1
4	Max Sprauel	98	57	575	5	1
5	Tetsuo Takata	80	48	559	3	1
6	Rodrigo O.Perez	72	49	556	3	1
7	Kiernan Dorney	83	40	465	3	3
8	Christoph Gross	72	31	377	1	4
9	Bruno Daniel Marques	42	22	368	2	2
10	Thomas Haider	38	23	363	3	2

Receiving

#	Player	No.	YDS	TD	Long
1	Niklas Romer	14	253	2	50
2	Nate Kmic	6	236	1	53
3	Jose Antonio Alfonso	13	226	1	76
4	Scott Valberg	13	189	1	52
5	Shamawd Chambers	13	174	2	47
6	Jakob Dieplinger	9	173	2	54
7	Michihiro Ogawa	9	157	1	38
8	Oscar Ruiz	12	152	1	44
9	Jeremy Rabot	10	139	2	71
10	Locklan Gilbert	5	134	2	76

All-tournament teams

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Head Coach of the tournament: Mel Tjeerdsma
MVP of the tournament: Nate Kmic #1 RB

First team selections

Position	No.	Name
OL	70	Santiago Maltos
OL	77	Dane Wardenburg
OL	75	Nick Rossi
OL	61	Matt Norman
OL	66	Zachary Pollari
RB	33	Matt Walter
RB	28	Henry Harris
RB/WR	1	Nate Kmic
WR	84	Shamawd Chambers
WR	11	Naoki Maeda
QB	7	Cody Hawkins
K	19	Jose Carlos Maltos

DL	91	Charles Bay
DL	99	Daniel Calvin
DL	90	Adriano Belli
LB	44	Zach Watkins
LB	54	Anthony Maggiacomo
LB	56	Manuel Padilla
LB	23	Osayi Osunde
DB	20	Sammy Okpro
DB	12	DeWayne Lewis
DB	27	Jeff Franklin
DB	21	Koki Kato

Second team selections

Position	No.	Name
OL	79	Valentin Gruber
OL	65	Josh Koeppel
OL	50	Nick Wieland
OL	67	Alex Alvarez
OL	64	Sascha Sauer
RB	22	Dimitri Kiernan
RB	23	Jonathan Barrera
RB/WR	84	Niklas Römer
WR	1	Jakob Dieplinger
WR	18	Jeremy Rabot
QB	3	Michael Faulds
K	15	Daisuke Aoki

DL	45	Giovanni Nanguy
DL	43	Yasuo Wakisaka
DL	98	Tyler Roach
LB	43	Terrence Jackson
LB	5	Jorge Valdez
LB	13	Jasson Scott
LB	58	Florian Hueter
DB	22	Stefan Virgil
DB	21	Troy Adams
DB	7	Leonard Greene
DB	3	Arnaud Vidaller

References

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^ Japan to play at WC
^ IFAF Names World Championship All-Tournament Team

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[ifaf-2] IFAF (2009-07-05). "Austria to Host 2011 IFAF Senior World Championship". IFAF. Archived from the original on 2012-11-16. Retrieved 18 January 2015. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

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[5] IFAF Names World Championship All-Tournament Team

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