| European Championship | |
| Sport: | American football |
| Founded: | 1983 |
| Champion: | (1st title) |
| Most Champs: | (5 titles) |
| Website: | www.ifafeurope.org |
The European Championship is a continental competition of American football founded in 1983 and contested by the member countries of IFAF Europe. The tournament also serves as a qualifier for the IFAF World Cup. This Championship is also known as, "the Golden Fair League." Until 2014 the European Federation of American Football coordinated the competition. The first Championship tournament was held in 1983.
In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European champion Italy national American football team announced that it refused to play against Russia in October 2022 in a qualifier for the 2023 IFAF European Championships.[1]
| Year | Host | Final | Third place match | ||||||||
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| width=15% | Winner | width=8% | Score | width=15% | Runner-up | width=15% | 3rd Place | width=8% | Score | width=15% | 4th Place |
| 1983 Details |  Italy | 18–6 | 27–20 | ||||||||
| 1985 Details | Italy | 13–2 | 13–0 | ||||||||
| 1987 Details |  Finland | 24–22 | 38–23 | ||||||||
| 1989 Details |  West Germany | 26–0 | 29–9 | ||||||||
| 1991 Details | Finland | 14–3 | 17–12 | ||||||||
| 1993 Details | Italy | 17–7 | 21–3 | ||||||||
| 1995 Details |  Austria | 27–7 | 18–0 | ||||||||
| 1997 Details | Italy | 27–6 | 14–7 | ||||||||
| 2000 Details | Finland | 30–29 | |||||||||
| 2001 Details | Germany | 19–7 | |||||||||
| 2005 Details |  Sweden | 16–7 | 34–12 | ||||||||
| 2010 Details | Germany | 26–10 | 30–0 | ||||||||
| 2014 Details | Austria | 30–27 | 35–21 | ||||||||
| 2018 Details | Finland | 28–14 | 35–21 | ||||||||
| 2021 Details | Europe | 41–14 | 14–6 | ||||||||
| 2023 Details | Europe | 28–0 | 26–7 | ||||||||
| Name | 1983 | 1985 | 1987 | 1989 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995 | 1997 | 2000 | 2001 | 2005 | 2010 | 2014 | 2018 | 2021 | 2023 |
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| Runner-up | Winner | 3 place | Runner-up | Runner-up | Winner | Winner | Winner | Winner | Runner-up | 3 place | 5 place | 4 place | 3 place | 3 place | ||
| 3 place | 3 place | Runner-up | 3 place | 3 place | QF | Runner-up | Winner | Runner-up | Winner | Winner | ||||||
| Winner | Runner-up | Winner | 4 place | Q3 | Runner-up | Runner-up | 3 place | Winner | ||||||||
| 4 place | Winner | Winner | 4 place | Semi-finalist | Semi-finalist | 4 place | 6 place | 5 place | 8 place | |||||||
| Q1 | Q3 | 4 place | Q | Runner-up | Semi-finalist | Winner | 4 place | 5 place | 4 place | Runner-up | ||||||
| 4 place | 4 place | QF | QF | 4 place | Q | QF | Runner-up | 3 place | Winner | 4 place | ||||||
| 5 place | Q1 | Q2 | 3 place | Q | QF | 3 place | Runner-up | Runner-up | 5 place | Winner | ||||||
| 4 place | Q | Semi-finalist | QF | |||||||||||||
| Q1 | Q1 | 3 place | Q | Q | ||||||||||||
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| Q1 | Q | Q | QF | |||||||||||||
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| Q | 6 place | 6 place | 6 place | |||||||||||||
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| 7 place |
| width=5% | Pos. | width=25% | Team | width=10% | Champion | width=10% | Runner-up | width=10% | Third | width=10% | Fourth |
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| 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||||
| 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | – | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 4 | 2 | – | 1* | 4 | |||||||
| 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||||
| 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||
| 7 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | |||||||
| 8 | – | – | 1* | 1 | |||||||
| 9 | – | – | 1 | – |