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The American Flag Football League (AFFL), previously only an amateur tournament, is due to launch a professional league in spring 2025 with players earning $1,000 a week. Its first franchises, the ...
Flag football is a variant of gridiron football (American football or Canadian football depending on location) where, instead of tackling players to the ground, the defensive team must remove a flag or flag belt from the ball carrier ("deflagging") to end a down. In flag football, contact is limited between players.
The team is governed by USA Football. As of 2024, the International Federation of American Football (IFAF) ranks the United States men's team 1st worldwide. [2] Team USA has won the won the IFAF Flag Football World Championship six times, most recently in 2024. In 2022, Team USA won a gold medal at the World Games.
In 2008, the women competed in the IFAF Flag Football World Championship where they finished fourth. They then won silver in 2010, [2] 2012, [3] and 2014. [4] They lost to Canada twice [3] and Mexico once. In the 2018 finals they defeated Panama 27–12 to win gold. [5] Then the team defeated Mexico, winning the 2021 IFAF Women's Flag Football ...
The 2024 IFAF Men's Flag Football World Championships was the 11th World Championships in men's flag football. The tournament took place in Lahti , Finland, August 27-30, 2024. The United States capture their fifth consecutive and overall sixth titles, after they defeated Austria 53–21 in the gold-medal game.
The flag football competition at the 2022 World Games took place in July 2022, [1] in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. [ 2 ] Originally scheduled to take place in July 2021, the Games were rescheduled for July 2022 as a result of the 2020 Summer Olympics postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic . [ 3 ]
The 2028 Summer Olympics will introduce the sport of flag football for the first time. Two events, one for men and one for women, will be held. Flag football, a non-contact variant of American football in which players remove flags attached to the ball carrier instead of tackling them, was previously contested at the 2022 World Games and will be featured at the 2025 World Games.
IFAF Flag Football World Championship is the international championship in flag football, organized by International Federation of American Football. [1] The men's and women's competitions are usually held in the same venue. The tournament starts with pool play to fill in the seeding and follows an elimination-style of play after that.