2024 IFAF World Junior Championship
The 2024 IFAF World Junior Championship was an international American football tournament for junior teams. The competition was co-hosted by Football Canada and Football Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta in June 2024. Although Football Canada had won the most IFAF World Junior Championships with three prior to the tournament, the country has not hosted the event since it started in 2009.
Nine nations qualified for the tournament:
- - host and defending champion
- - silver medallist from the 2018 championship
- - bronze medallist from the 2018 championship
- - European U-19 champions from 2023 European Junior Championship of American football
- - European U-19 runner-up
- - Asia representative
- - Oceania representative
- - South America representative
- - Central America representative
Seeding
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- 5. II
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Games
Quarterfinal
Game 1Game 2
Game 3
''Game 4''
Semifinal
Game 5Game 6 - semifinal
Game 7
''Game 8 - semifinal''
Placement and medal games
Game 9 - seventh place/South American titleGame 10 - bronze medal game
Game 11 - fifth place game
''Game 12 - gold medal game''
Final placement
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- 5. II
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Headlines
- The gold medal final was the first IFAF game broadcast on a North American sports network, TSN in Canada.
- The 110 points scored by Canada against Brazil was the most ever in an IFAF international American Football game, and the largest margin of victory.
- Canada is the first nation to win three world junior championships in a row.
- Canada becomes the only nation to medal in every world junior championship.
- This event was the first time the United States has not medalled at an IFAF event they have participated in.
- Austria is the first European team to win a medal at this event.