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Gridiron football (/ ˈ ɡ r ɪ d aɪ. ər n / GRID-eye-ərn), [1] also known as North American football, [2] or in North America as simply football, is a family of team sports derived from rugby football (and football, by extension) primarily played in the United States and Canada.
American football and Canadian football are very similar gridiron codes; talented Canadian youth players are often recruited by American universities offering scholarships, and conversely the Canadian Football League enforces roster minimums for Canadian-trained players to prevent its clubs from fielding American-dominated teams.
The National Gridiron League (NGL) was a proposed gridiron football league. In 2022, after three years of postponed seasons, the organization rebranded as the United Football League (UFL)., [1] prior to the current UFL (formed from the merger of the 2020s USFL and XFL leagues). In 2024, the NGL resurfaced to claim to be launching in 2025.
The Gridiron Developmental Football League (GDFL) is a low-level American football minor league [1] [2] based in Memphis, Tennessee, using the franchise model. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The GDFL acts as an umbrella group that encompasses teams from across the Contiguous United States .
The defending champions are the United States, who won the 2015 championship after winning both the 2007 and 2011 editions. The U.S. team did not compete in the World Cup until 2007 and have won every tournament since. Prior to the American entrance, Japan won the 1999 and 2003 championships.
The first clash of codes game in the UK between rugby league and rugby union received a lot of media attention and was labelled as The Clash of the Codes. The game was between Bath and Wigan and saw league side Wigan win with an aggregate score of 101–50 across two games. [2] [3]
The club has yet to re-enter a team in ACT Gridiron competition, but fielded a Women's team in the 2022 Gridiron NSW competition. In 2021 the league saw the introduction of the Gungahlin Wolves Gridiron Club. The club was formed by president Jason Ray and won the Junior championship in the club's inaugural season.
The Gridiron Classic was an annual post-season college football game played from 2006 through 2009. It featured the conference champions from the Pioneer Football League (PFL) and Northeast Conference (NEC), [ 1 ] conferences within NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), formerly known as Division I-AA.