Austria national American football team

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The Austrian national American football team is the official American football senior national team of Austria. Its players are mostly recruited from the Austrian Football League but a few also play in other European leagues, mostly the German Football League.

European Championship record[]

The team placed third at the (hosted by Austria) and also third place in the 2010 European Championship.

The Team placed second at the 2014 European Championship (hosted in Austria), losing the final in double overtime to Germany in front of 27000 spectators at Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadion[1] and placed second again in 2018.

The was less successful for Austria as they unexpectedly lost against Italy in the group phase and thus only placed fifth overall. Austria also placed fifth in the first ever European Championship of American football in 1983.

  • 1983 (5th)
  • 1995 (3rd)
  • 2010 (3rd)
  • 2014 (2nd)
  • 2018 (2nd)
  • 2021 (5th)

IFAF World Championship record[]

Year Position GP W L PF PA
Italy 1999 Did Not Participate
Germany 2003
Japan 2007
Austria 2011 7th 4 1 3 84 94
United States 2015 Did Not Participate

Roster[]

Austria National Football Team roster
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Quarterbacks
  • 8
  • 13

Running Backs

  • 31
  • 26
  • 23
  • 20
  • 12

Wide Receivers

  •  5
  •  1
  • 11
  • 80
  • 17
  • 15
  • 88
  • 18
Offensive Linemen
  • 67 OL
  • 61 OL
  • 79 OL
  • 70 OL
  • 66 OL
  • 75 OL
  • 60 OL
  • 78 OL

Defensive Linemen

  • 94 DL
  • 99 DL
  • 71 DL
  • 89 DL
  • 92 DL
  • 50 DL
  • 90 DL
 Linebackers

Defensive Backs

  •  4 DB
  • 21 DB
  •  7 DB
  • 30 DB
  • 28 DB
  • 24 DB
  • 42 DB
  •  9 DB

Special Teams

  •  2 K/P
 Inactive List

Roster updated 2011-07-11

Germany Austria series[]

In 2021 the German and Austrian governing bodies AFVD and AFBÖ announced their intention to hold recurring matchups between the two national teams every other year with the first to be held in 2022.[2][3]

External links[]

References[]

  1. ^ https://www.laszlo-photo.com/photography/em-finale-2014-american-football/
  2. ^ https://www.afvd.de/2021/07/22/nationalmannschaft-laenderspielserie-gegen-top-team-oesterreich-ab-2022/
  3. ^ https://football.at/2021/08/team-austria-gespraeche-ueber-laenderspielserie-gegen-top-team-deutschland/
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