2020 IFAF World Junior Championship

The 2020 IFAF U-19 World Championship was scheduled as an international American football tournament for junior teams (19 years and under) which would have taken place at Canton, Ohio from late June to early July 2020. This would have been the second time that Canton, Ohio hosted an IFAF World Junior Championship, the first being the inaugural 2009 IFAF U-19 World Championship.

2020 IFAF World Junior Championship
IFAF World Junior Football Championship
Tournament details
Host nation United States
DatesJune 2020 – July 2020
No. of nations4, 6 or 8
2018
2024

The event was cancelled by IFAF 3 March 2020 due to complications from the Coronavirus pandemic. The next scheduled world junior championship will be a U-20 competition hosted by Football Canada in Edmonton, Alberta in July 2024.[1]

Participants and Seeding

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The dates participants were not announced by IFAF or USA Football prior to the tournament.[2] Based on continental competitions, these are the available teams based on IFAF ranking:

References

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  1. ^ "EDMONTON SELECTED AS HOST OF 2024 IFAF WORLD JUNIOR FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP". footballcanada.com. Retrieved 2020-08-23.
  2. ^ "IFAF has now cancelled two major world championships". 30 March 2020.
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