The Shamrock Bowl is the championship game of the
American Football Ireland
American Football Ireland (AFI) is the national governing body for American football on the island of Ireland, with teams across both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Founded in 1984, it is entirely run by volunteers and played by ...
(AFI), the highest level of
American football
American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...
on the island of Ireland, culminating a
season
A season is a division of the year based on changes in weather, ecology, and the number of daylight hours in a given region. On Earth, seasons are the result of the axial parallelism of Earth's axial tilt, tilted orbit around the Sun. In temperat ...
that begins in March of the current calendar season. The Shamrock Bowl uses
Roman numerals
Roman numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient Rome and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Europe well into the Late Middle Ages. Numbers are written with combinations of letters from the Latin alphabet, eac ...
to identify each game, similar to the
Super Bowl
The Super Bowl is the annual History of the NFL championship, league championship game of the National Football League (NFL) of the United States. It has served as the final game of every NFL season since 1966 NFL season, 1966 (with the excep ...
.
The reigning champions are UCD, who beat the Dublin Rebels 36–14 at
Dubarry Park
Dubarry Park is a rugby union stadium in Cornamangh townland, near the Coosan area of Athlone, County Westmeath, Ireland. It is the home ground of Buccaneers RFC and has a capacity of 10,000 spectators. Between 2005 and 2015, it hosted Irela ...
to win Shamrock Bowl XXXVI.
Results
Appearances by team
Notes
References
External links
AFI official website
{{IAFL
Irish American Football League
Recurring sporting events established in 1986
1986 establishments in Ireland
American football bowls in Europe