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2. Canadian Football League - Wikipedia

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   A 2006 survey conducted at the University of Lethbridge confirmed that the CFL was the second most popular sports league in Canada, with the following of 19% of the total adult Canadian population compared to 30% for the NHL. The NFL had 11% following, with a total of 26% following at least one of the pro football leagues.

3. Canadian football - Wikipedia

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   Both the Canadian Football League (CFL), the sport's top professional league, and Football Canada, the governing body for amateur play, trace their roots to 1880 and the founding of the Canadian Rugby Football Union. The CFL is the most popular and only major professional Canadian football league.

4. Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada

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   By 2009 the CFL was the second-most-popular league in Canada, after the NHL. [31] A 2023 study shows that interest in the CFL had dropped over the previous 10 years. [32] The CFL has the fourth-highest average attendance of leagues in the United States and Canada, behind the NFL, MLB and MLS.

5. List of U.S. and Canadian cities by number of major ...

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   The Canadian Football League (CFL), a much smaller league (9 teams), was founded in 1958 and is popular in Canada. All six of these leagues draw 15,000 or more fans in attendance per game on average as of 2015. This list includes a ranking by teams in the Big Four (B4) and a separate ranking including MLS and CFL teams called the Big Six (B6).

6. Professional football in Canada - Wikipedia

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   Professional gridiron football is one of the most popular sports in Canada.Unlike most countries, but paralleling its counterpart, the United States, football in Canada refers to the gridiron-based game developed in both countries over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and not to association football (which is known in Canada as soccer).

7. Professional sports in Canada - Wikipedia

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   The Canadian Football League is the second most popular professional sports league in Canada. Each of the CFL's 9 teams draw anywhere from 20,000 to 40,000 ...

8. Canadian Football League in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In 1958, the first season officially played under the CFL moniker, Hamilton defeated Ottawa in a regular-season contest in front of about 15,000 in Philadelphia's cavernous Municipal Stadium, 24–18. It remains the only CFL game played outside Canada, involving two Canadian teams, that actually counted in the standings.

9. Comparison of American and Canadian football - Wikipedia

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   In the Canadian Football League, the clock is stopped while the officials place the ball, and then they whistle the game clock and play clock to begin in the last minutes of a half; whereas in the National Football League the clock remains running while the officials set the ball (dependent upon the result of the previous play—penalty ...