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The 2025 Edmonton Elks season is scheduled to be the 67th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 76th overall. The Elks will attempt to improve upon their 7–11 record from 2024 , qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2019 , and win their 15th Grey Cup championship.
This is a complete list of seasons competed by the Edmonton Elks (formerly the Edmonton Eskimos), a Canadian Football League team. While the team was founded in 1949, they did not join the CFL until it was founded in 1958. Throughout their history, Edmonton has won 14 Grey Cups.
The Edmonton Elks were a "community owned" team (owned by local shareholders) since their inception in 1949 to midway through the 2024 season. [1] Edmonton Elks Football Team, Inc., was governed by a ten-member board of directors. [7] The board consisted of a chairman, treasurer, secretary, and seven directors.
The 2024 Edmonton Elks season was the 66th season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 75th overall. The Elks improved upon their 4–14 record from 2023 , but were eliminated from playoff contention for the fourth consecutive season.
In September 2024, it was reported that the Edmonton Elks and Calgary Stampeders were bidding to host the Grey Cup game in 2026, with the Elks seeking to renovate Commonwealth Stadium. [3] On November 8, 2024, it was officially announced that Calgary would be the host.
The Elks struggled on the field and started the season 0–7 for the first time in franchise history. The only other Edmonton-based senior football team to start a season 0–7 was the 1938 Edmonton Eskimos who went winless in the then-eight-game Western Interprovincial Football Union season.
For the 1979 season, they drew an average 42,540 spectators, selling out seven of eight games. [25] The all-time regular-season attendance record is 62,517, set against the Saskatchewan Roughriders on September 26, 2009. [26] 28 regular-season Edmonton Elks games have sold out at Commonwealth. With the laying of artificial turf in 2010, the ...
Ricky Ray is the Elks' all-time leader in passing yards, completions, and touchdowns. The following is an incomplete list of starting quarterbacks that have started a regular season or post-season game for the Edmonton Eskimos / Elks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). They are listed in order of appearance during the regular season or post ...