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The Canadian Football League (CFL; French: Ligue canadienne de football—LCF) is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football . The league consists of nine teams, each located in a city in Canada.
The 1958 CFL season was the inaugural season of the Canadian Football League, although the season structure was essentially unchanged from the one established three years earlier when the league's founding unions (the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union and the Western Interprovincial Football Union) had effectively barred amateur teams from competing for the Grey Cup.
Ottawa Rough Riders. 1961. 16. Winnipeg Blue Bombers (13–3) 14. Hamilton Tiger-Cats (10–4) 49th. Winnipeg Blue Bombers. 1962.
The Canadian Major Football League is the governing body for the semi-professional game. Women's football has gained attention in recent years in Canada. The first Canadian women's league to begin operations was the Maritime Women's Football League in 2004. The largest women's league is the Western Women's Canadian Football League.
The Canadian field of play is 110 by 65 yards (100.6 by 59.4 m), compared to 100 by 531⁄3 yards (91.4 by 48.8 m) in American football. Since 1986, Canadian end zones are 20 yards (18.3 m) deep while the American end zones are 10 yards (9.1 m) deep. Canadian end zones were previously 25 yards (22.9 m), with Vancouver's BC Place the first to ...
Ohio Independent Championship (Ohio League), 1903–1919 [ 20 ] Interprovincial Rugby Football Union, 1907–1959 [ 21 ] New York Pro Football League, c. 1913–1920 [ 22 ] American Football League, 1926, 1936–1937, and 1940–1941 (all unrelated, three separate leagues) California Winter League, [ 23 ] 1927–1928.
The North Star Shield is a crystal shield engraved with the logo of the Canadian Premier League. [33] The inaugural season finished on November 2, 2019, when Forge FC became the first Canadian Premier League Champions, defeating Cavalry FC 2–0 over two legs in the Finals. [34] Forge midfielder Tristan Borges was named the first CPL Player of ...
The CFL plays Canadian football, a form of gridiron football which is somewhat different from the more common American football played in the United States and other parts of the world. The first American team, the Sacramento Gold Miners, joined in 1993. The league added three more American teams in 1994, after which two more teams joined, one ...