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Canadian Football League attendance has averaged no fewer than 20,000 spectators per game for every season since 1963.The CFL consistently draws, on average, the third or fourth largest crowds to its games of any professional sports league in North America, ranking behind the National Football League and Major League Baseball, about on par with Liga MX and ahead of Major League Soccer, the ...
The 111th Grey Cup was played to decide the Canadian Football League (CFL) championship for the 2024 season. [4] The game was played on November 17, 2024, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia. [5] The Toronto Argonauts defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 41–24 to win their league-leading 19th Grey Cup championship. It was the ...
The defending champions are the Toronto Argonauts who won the 111th Grey Cup in 2024, their second title in 3 years. Six teams in CFL history have won the Grey Cup at home, the 2013 Saskatchewan Roughriders, the 2012 Toronto Argonauts, the 2011 BC Lions, the 1994 BC Lions, the 1977 Montreal Alouettes, and 1972 Hamilton Tiger-Cats. [115]
The Baltimore Stallions were the only American team to appear in the Grey Cup (twice, losing in 1994 and winning the following year). Although the first Grey Cup game was in 1909, none were played from 1916 to 1919 or in 2020, thus the most recent final was the 111th Grey Cup game which was played on November 17, 2024, at BC Place in Vancouver.
The 2024 CFL Draft took place on April 30, 2024. [3] The Lions had nine selections in the eight-round draft. [5] Not including traded picks, the team selected sixth in each round of the draft after finishing second in the 2023 league standings of teams that did not qualify for the 110th Grey Cup game.
The game set a Grey Cup attendance record of 68,318 (which still stands as of 2022), even though it was a bitterly cold day and Montreal was in the midst of one of its frequent transit strikes. Local fans led the many football tourists to the game in a march across town, trekking from downtown to the east-end stadium on the morning of the game.
This game was a rematch of the 2019 Grey Cup, and was the first rematch Grey Cup game since 2010. [18] This was also the first game since 2013 where a team played a Grey Cup in its home stadium. The Tiger-Cats entered the game with the league's longest active Grey Cup championship drought, having last won in 1999 , after Winnipeg ended their ...
Attendance: 20,013 The 36th Grey Cup was ... The 36th Grey Cup was played on November 27, 1948, before 20,013 fans at Varsity Stadium at Toronto. ... and as of 2024 ...