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The CFL returned to an all-Canadian format in 1996 with nine teams; [7] the league conducted a dispersal draft to distribute players from the disbanded American-based teams; however, the Ottawa Rough Riders, in existence since 1876, folded after the 1996 season (another dispersal draft was conducted the next year to distribute the former Rough ...
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 ...
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 ...
Edmonton made it to nine Grey Cups in a ten-year span from 1973 to 1982. In the 1980s and 90s the team's marquee player was Gizmo Williams who still holds many CFL records in punt and kickoff returns and was a key part in Grey Cup victories in 1987 and 1993 under head coach Ron Lancaster.
Royal Athletic Park. 3,800 [e] Victoria, British Columbia. CFL Touchdown Pacific series (2024) 2024. [15] Notes. ^ The seating capacity can increase to 25,000 via temporary seating. ^ The seating capacity can increase to 5,000 via standing room.
109th Grey Cup. The 109th Grey Cup decided the Canadian Football League (CFL) championship for the 2022 season. The game was played on November 20, at Mosaic Stadium in Regina, Saskatchewan. [ 6 ] It marked the fourth Grey Cup game to be held in Regina, and the first to be held at the new Mosaic Stadium as opposed to Taylor Field.
The 112th Grey Cup will be played to decide the Canadian Football League (CFL) championship for the 2025 season. [ 1 ] The game is scheduled to be played at Princess Auto Stadium in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It will be the fifth time that Winnipeg has hosted the Grey Cup, with the most recent being in 2015. The game will be televised in Canada ...
A second folding in 1987 led to a nine-year hiatus of CFL football in the city. The current Alouettes franchise was established in 1996 by the owners of the Baltimore Stallions . The Stallions were disbanded at the same time as the Alouettes' re-establishment after having been the most successful of the CFL's American expansion franchises ...