American football at the 2017 World Games – Men's tournament
# American football at the 2017 World Games – Men's tournament

The men's tournament in American football at the 2017 World Games in Wrocław was played between 22 and 24 July. 172 American football competitors, from 4 nations, participated in the tournament. The American football competition took place at Olympic Stadium.

## Team USA situation

Following the 2015 split between IFAF Paris and IFAF New York, IFAF Paris expelled USA Football in 2017. USA Football was replaced by the United States Federation of American Football in Paris, while New York retained USA Football as their active member. Since IFAF Paris was recognized by the IWGA and International Olympic Committee at the time, the United States Federation of American Football was permitted to organize the United States national American football team for the 2017 World Games.

Players, mainly professional Americans playing in Europe, were chosen for the team on May 31, 2017. Players were promised full funding from the United States Federation of American Football; however, the funding was withdrawn just days before the competition and players had to provide their own transportation to Wroclaw. As a result, most of the team withdrew from the competition and were instead replaced by volunteers who were already in Europe at the time. Most of the team arrived the day before their opening match vs the Germany national American football team. The Americans lost to Germany 13–14, which was the first loss ever for a United States national American football team in international competition.

## Qualification

| Means of qualification | Date | Qualified |
| - | - | - |
| Host country | 23 April 2016 | Poland |
| IFAF Americas Qualifiers | 23 April 2016 | United States |
| IFAF Asia Qualifiers | 23 April 2016 | Japan (withdrew) |
| IFAF Europe Qualifiers | 23 April 2016 | Germany |
| Reallocation | | France |

## Venue

* All matches
* Wrocław, Poland
* Olympic Stadium
* Capacity: 11,000

## Knockout stage

* All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00)

### Bracket

| Semifinals | Semifinals | Gold medal match | Gold medal match |
| - | - | - | - |
| 22 July | 22 July |
| United States | 13 |
| United States | 13 | 24 July | 24 July |
| Germany | 14 | 24 July | 24 July |
| Germany | 14 | Germany | 6 |
| 22 July | 22 July | | Germany | 6 |
| 22 July | 22 July | France | 14 |
| Poland | 2 | France | 14 |
| France | 28 | | |
| France | 28 | Bronze medal match | Bronze medal match |
| | | 24 July | 24 July |
| | | United States | 14 |
| | | Poland | 7 |

### Semifinals

**United States v Germany**

| Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| United States | 0 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 13 |
| Germany | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 14 |

at Olympic Stadium, Wrocław

* Date: 22 July 2016
* Game time: 13:00
* Referee: Perez Canto Juan (FRA)
* Report

**Poland v France**

| Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Poland | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| France | 7 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 28 |

at Olympic Stadium, Wrocław

* Date: 22 July 2016
* Game time: 19:00
* Referee: Doboczky Zoltan (GER)
* Report

### Bronze medal match

| Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| United States | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 14 |
| Poland | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 |

at Olympic Stadium, Wrocław

* Date: 24 July 2016
* Game time: 13:00
* Referee: Doboczky Zoltan (GER)
* Report

### Gold medal match

| Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Germany | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| France | 0 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 14 |

at Olympic Stadium, Wrocław

* Date: 24 July 2016
* Game time: 19:00
* Referee: Walentynowicz Krzysztof (POL)
* Report

## Final standing

| Rank | Team |
| - | - |
| | France |
| | Germany |
| | United States |
| 4 | Poland |

* 2017 Men's World Games champions
* France 1st title

## Medalist

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Men's tournament | France | Germany | United States |
