Final Standings

Pos		P	W	L	T	PF	PA
1	Japan	3	3	0	0	84	14
2	Mexico	3	2	1	0	143	6
3	Sweden	3	2	1	0	74	43
4	Italy	3	1	2	0	41	99
5	Australia	3	1	2	0	16	83
6	Finland	3	0	3	0	14	127

Reference: Compiled from Results in [1]

Group Standings

	P	W	L	T	PF	PA
Group A
*Mexico	2	2	0	0	143	0
Italy	2	1	1	0	28	61
Finland	2	0	2	0	7	117
Group B
*Japan	2	2	0	0	78	14
Sweden	2	1	1	0	36	24
Australia	2	0	2	0	6	76

Reference: [1]

Finals

Date	Team 1		Team 2
	5th Place
03.07.99	Australia	10	Finland	7
	3rd Place
03.07.99	Sweden	38	Italy	13
	Final
04.07.99	Japan	6	Mexico	0 ot

Reference: [1]

Group Stage Results

Date	Team 1		Team 2
	Group A
24.06.99	Italy	28	Finland	7
27.06.99	Finland	0	Mexico	89
30.06.99	Mexico	54	Italy	0
	Group B
25.06.99	Sweden	22	Australia	6
28.06.99	Sweden	14	Japan	24
01.07.99	Japan	54	Australia	0

Reference: [1]

Report

Japan and Mexico dominted proceedings in the first ever American Football World Cup, held in Palermo, Italy over the course of two weeks in 1999.

The two countries who have been playing the game the longest outside of USA and Canada unsurprisingly topped their groups with big victories, before Japan emerged victorious in the Final, decided by a single touchdown in overtime.

References

Websites

[1] Federation Italiano American Football (1999) World Cup ’99 [Internet] Available from: http://www.fiaf.net/worldcup/world_cup_99.htm [Accessed 3/8/00] [No longer available] – an Archive of the page is available on the Wayback Machine at: https://web.archive.org/web/20000129120844/http://www.fiaf.net/worldcup/world_cup_99.htm [Accessed 10 April 2019]

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Santina Farrinella

About this document

Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the

World Gridiron Archive

Last Updated: 10 April 2019

(c) Copyright Enda Mulcahy and World Gridiron Archive 2019