2024 IFAF World Junior Championship

2024 IFAF World Junior Championship
IFAF World Junior Football Championship
Tournament details
Host nation Canada
DatesJune 20 – June 30
No. of nationsEight teams
Final positions
Champions  Canada
Runner-up  Japan
Third-place  Austria
Tournament statistics
Attendance17,000 est.
MVP of the tournamentOffence: Michael Sazbo, QB, Austria Defence: Benjamin Blaise, DB/LB, Canada
2018
2026 (TBD) →

The 2024 IFAF World Junior Championship was an international American football tournament for junior teams (20 years and under). 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:

  •  Canada - host and defending champion
  •  Mexico - silver medallist from the 2018 championship
  •  United States - bronze medallist from the 2018 championship
  •  Austria - European U-19 champions from 2023 European Junior Championship of American football
  •  Sweden - European U-19 runner-up
  •  Japan - Asia representative
  •  Australia - Oceania representative
  •  Brazil - South America representative
  •  Panama - Central America representative

Canada, United States, Japan, Austria, Australia, Panama, Brazil and a "B team" from Canada (Canada II) participated in this competition.