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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 Edmonton Elks are a professional Canadian football team based in Edmonton, Alberta. The club competes in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member of the league's West Division and plays their home games at Commonwealth Stadium. The Elks were founded in 1949 as the Edmonton Eskimos and have won the Grey Cup championship fourteen times ...
111th Grey Cup. The 111th Grey Cup will be played to decide the Canadian Football League (CFL) championship for the 2024 season. [1] The game is scheduled to be played on November 17, 2024, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia. [2] It will be the 17th time that Vancouver has hosted the Grey Cup, with the most recent being in 2014.
The CFL restored its reputation over time, enjoying new popularity into the 2000s such that it no longer had to rely on an exciting Grey Cup final to achieve stability for the next season. [ 77 ] In 2000 , the 8–10 BC Lions made history when they defeated the Montreal Alouettes, 28–26, becoming the first team in history to win the Grey Cup ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.