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The 2017 IFAF Women's World Championship was the third
IFAF Women's World Championship The IFAF Women's World Championship is the international championship for women in American football. The first event was held in 2010, in Stockholm, Sweden, with six countries competing. The United States took home the gold while not letting an ...
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American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...
competition for women. It was held between June 24 and 30, 2017. The tournament was hosted at McLeod Stadium in
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. The defending champion is United States.


Participating teams


Preliminary stage


Placement games


5th placed game


Bronze medal game


Championship game


See also

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Football Canada Football Canada is the governing body for amateur gridiron football in Canada headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. Football Canada focuses primarily its own Canadian form of the sport, and is currently the world's only national governing body for C ...
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American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team with ...


References


External links


Official website
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