Four teams automatically qualified: Austria (as host nation), the United States (as the defending World Champions), and Germany and France (for reaching the final in the 2010 EFAF European Championship.

Four other teams were accepted through qualifiers in the four regions of the International Federation of American Football: Asia, Europe, Oceania and Pan-America.

In front of the largest crowd to ever watch a World Championship game (20,000), the United States won second title, after beat Canada, 50–7 in final.

The 20,000 fans in attendance at Ernst Happel Stadium in Vienna, Austria, set a record for an IFAF Championship game.

Team USA dominated the rushing game, outgaining Canada 247-48, with four different players scoring touchdowns on the ground.