Austria national American football team

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Association	AFBÖ
Region	Europe (EFAF)
Founded	1982
IFAF Affiliation
Colors	Red, Grey, White
Head coach	Max Sommer
General manager

The Austrian national American football team is the official American football senior national team of Austria and current 2023 European champion. Its players are mostly recruited from the Austrian Football League but a few also play in other European leagues, mostly the German Football League.

European Championship record

The team placed third at the 1995 European Championship of American football (hosted by Austria) and also third place in the 2010 European Championship.

The Team placed second at the 2014 European Championship (hosted in Austria), losing the final in double overtime to Germany in front of 27000 spectators at Vienna's Ernst-Happel-Stadion^[1] and placed second again in 2018.

The 2021 European Championship of American football was less successful for Austria as they unexpectedly lost against Italy in the group phase and thus only placed fifth overall. Austria also placed fifth in the first ever European Championship of American football in 1983.

However in the 2023 European Championship of American football, Austria defeated Italy 24-14, and then Finland 28-0 to win their first European championship in their history.

1983 (5th)
1995 (3rd)
2010 (3rd)
2014 (2nd)
2018 (2nd)
2021 (5th)
2023 (1st)

IFAF World Championship record

Year	Position	GP	W	L	PF	PA
1999	Did not participate
2003
2007
2011	7th	4	1	3	84	94
2015	Did not participate

Roster

Austria National Football Team roster

Quarterbacks

8 Christoph Gross

13 Thomas Haider

Running backs

31 Harald Egger

26 Florian Grein

23 Florian Hiess

20 Mario Nerad

12 Jordan Gurney

Wide receivers

5 Thimothee Bach

1 Jakob Dieplinger

11 Maximilian Herdey

80 Wolfrum Hofbauer

17 Stefan Holzinger

15 Armando Ponce de Leon

88 Andreas Pröller

18 Daniel Stanzel

Offensive linemen

67 Norbert Baumberger

OL

61 Robert Dragotinits

OL

79 Valentin Gruber

OL

70 Michael Habetin

OL

66 Bernd Leitsoni

OL

75 Alexander Milanovic

OL

60 Michael Pribyl

OL

78 Thomas Tippold

OL

Defensive linemen

94 Florian Grünsteidl

DL

99 Johannes Kain

DL

71 Michael Kühnmeyer

DL

89 Roman Meklau

DL

92 Armin Novidi

DL

50 Mario Rinner

DL

90 Alexander Tahiri

DL

Linebackers

49 Simon Blach

56 Alexander Cucek

54 Andreas Düringer

58 Florian Hueter

47 Dustin Illetschko

55 Christoph Schilcher

32 Michael Suess

10 Philip Stojaspal

Defensive backs

4 Daniel Auböck

DB

21 Markus Krause

DB

7 Johannes Neusser

DB

30 Christof Promitzer

DB

28 Christoph Putz

DB

24 Manuel Schneeweiss

DB

42 Christoph Schreiner

DB

9 Peter Tutsh

DB

Special Teams

2 Peter Kramberger

K/P

Inactive List

Roster Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine updated 2011-07-11

Germany Austria series

In 2021 the German and Austrian governing bodies AFVD and AFBÖ announced their intention to hold recurring matchups between the two national teams every other year with the first to be held in 2022.^[2]^[3]