Canada wins U20 football championship | CityNews Edmonton

Canada has claimed top honours for the third consecutive time at the IFAF U20 World Junior Football Championships.

Edmonton and Football Alberta played host to the 2024 tournament, with games being played at Commonwealth Stadium and Clarke Stadium.

Canada 1 opened their title defense with a blistering 110-0 victory over Brazil, before defeating Austria 27-20 in the tournament’s semi-final game.

Canada’s opponent for the final? Not America. For the second straight tournament, the finals did not feature the nation that claims to be the greatest at football.

Canada’s opponent however, was Japan, who ended up defeating Australia 50-6 in their opener, before defeating the United States 41-20 in the semi-final.

With the NFL’s Lombardi Trophy in the house, Canada and Japan battled to one of the lowest-scoring games of the tournament, with the Canadian’s ending up victorious, taking the game 20-9.

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This is the fourth tournament Canada has won since the football tournaments began in 2009.