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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.
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.
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.
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, [nb 1] is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
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.
The American 7s Football League (A7FL) is a sports league in the United States which plays a seven-man version of gridiron football called American 7s Football. Launched in 2015, its games are played without football helmets or other protective equipment. [2]
Gridiron Classic may refer to one of two American football post-season games: Gridiron Classic (1999–2005), an all-star game held in Florida; Gridiron Classic (2006–2009), an FCS bowl game between champions of the Northeast Conference and Pioneer Football League; See also. Dixie Gridiron Classic; Magnolia Gridiron All-Star Classic
Don Shula, who won 328 games as head coach of the Baltimore Colts (1963 to 1969) and then the Miami Dolphins (1970 to 1995), leads the National Football League in all-time wins