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Winnipeg Blue Bombers (Winnipeg,MB) were founded in 1930 as the Winipeg Football Club,which is its legal organization name. In 1935,before an exhibition game again North Dakota State University,that Winnipeg Tribune sports writer Vince Leah nicknamed the team the Blue Bombers of Western Football and the nickname has continued to be used as well as Winnipeg Football Club.
In 1935,the Blue Bombers became the first team in Western Canada to win the Grey Cup (23rd Grey Cup) by beating the Hamilton Tigers 18-12. From 1990-2018,they held the longest playoff drought of 28 seasons until beating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 33-12 in the 107th Grey Cup.
They have won 12 Grey Cups,last win in 2021,which is the 3rd most in the CFL behind the Edmonton Eskimos (14) and Toronto Argonauts (17).
NAMES
| Winnipegs | 1930-1937 |
| Winnipeg Blue Bombers | 1938- |
AFFILIATIONS
| CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE | 1958- |
| WESTERN INTERPROVINCIAL FOOTBALL UNION | 1958-1960 |
| Western Football Conference | 1961-1980 |
| West Division | 1981-1986/1996/2002-2005/2014- |
| East Division | 1987-1994/1997-2001/2006-2013) |
| North Division | 1995 |
GREY CUP CHAMPIONS
| 12 | 1935,1939,1941,1958,1959,1961,1962,1984,1988,1990,2019,2021 |
GREY CUP APPEARANCES
| # | SEASON | W/L | OPPONENT | SCORE | HOST CITY | VICTORY # | APP |
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| 1935 | 23RD | W | HAMILTON TIGERS | 18-12 | HAMILTON | 1 | |
| 1937 | 25TH | L |  TORONTO ARGONAUTS |
4-3 | TORONTO | - | 1 |
| 1938 | 26TH | L | TORONTO ARGONAUTS |
30-7 | TORONTO | - | 2 |
| 1939 | 27TH | W |  OTTAWA ROUGH RIDERS |
8-7 | OTTAWA | 2 | 3 |
| 1941 | 29TH | W | OTTAWA ROUGH RIDERS |
18-16 | TORONTO | 3 | 4 |
| 1945 | 33RD | L | TORONTO ARGONAUTS |
35-0 | TORONTO | - | 5 |
| 1946 | 34TH | L | TORONTO ARGONAUTS |
28-6 | TORONTO | - | 6 |
| 1947 | 35TH | L | TORONTO ARGONAUTS |
10-9 | TORONTO | - | 7 |
| 1950 | 38TH | L | TORONTO ARGONAUTS |
13-0 | TORONTO | - | 8 |
| 1952 | 40TH | W |  EDMONTON ESKIMOS |
21-14 | TORONTO | 10 | 9 |
| 1953 | 41ST | L |  HAMILTON TIGER-CATS |
12-6 | TORONTO | - | 10 |
| 1957 | 45TH | L | HAMILTON TIGER-CATS |
32-7 | TORONTO | - | 11 |
| 1958 | 46TH | W | HAMILTON TIGER-CATS |
35-28 | VANCOUVER | 4 | 12 |
| 1959 | 47TH | W | HAMILTON TIGER-CATS |
21-7 | TORONTO | 5 | 13 |
| 1961 | 49TH | W | HAMILTON TIGER-CATS |
21-14 (OT) | TORONTO | 6 | 14 |
| 1962 | 50TH | W | HAMILTON TIGER-CATS |
28-27 | TORONTO | 7 | 15 |
| 1965 | 53RD | L | HAMILTON TIGER-CATS |
22-16 | TORONTO | - | 16 |
| 1984 | 50TH | W | HAMILTON TIGER-CATS |
47-17 | EDMONTON | 8 | 17 |
| 1988 | 76TH | W |  BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS |
22-21 | OTTAWA | 9 | 18 |
| 1990 | 78TH | W | EDMONTON ESKIMOS |
50-11 | VANCOUVER | 10 | 19 |
| 1992 | 80TH | L |  CALGARY STAMPEDERS |
24-10 | TORONTO | - | 20 |
| 1993 | 78TH | L | EDMONTON ESKIMOS |
33-23 | CALGARY | - | 21 |
| 2001 | 89TH | L | CALGARY STAMPEDERS |
27-19 | MONTREAL | - | 22 |
| 2007 | 95TH | L |  SASKATCHEWAN ROUGHRIDERS |
23-19 | TORONTO | - | 23 |
| 2011 | 76TH | L | BRITISH COLUMBIA LIONS |
34-23 | VANCOUVER | - | 24 |
| 2019 | 107TH | W | HAMILTON TIGER-CATS |
33-12 | CALGARY | 11 | 25 |
| 2021 | 108TH | W | HAMILTON TIGER-CATS |
33-25 | HAMILTON | 12 | 26 |
| 2022 | 109TH | L | TORONTO ARGONAUTS |
24-23 | REGINA | - | 27 |
| 2023 | 110TH | L |  montreal Alouettes |
28-24 | HAMILTON | - | 28 |
DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIPS
| WEST | 21 | 1935,1937-1939,1941,1945-1947,1950,1953,1957-1959,1961-1962,1965,1984,2019,2021-2023 |
| EAST | 7 | 1988,1990,1992-1993,2001,2007,2011 |
DIVISION TITLES
| WEST | 17 | 1935-1936,1939-1941,1947,1950,1952,1958-1962,1972,2021-2023 |
| EAST | 7 | 1987,1990,1992-1994,2001,2011 |
PLAYOFFS APPEARANCES (SINCE 1958)
| 45 | 1958-1962,1965-1966,1971-1972,1975-1978,1980-1996,2000-2003,2006-2008,2011,2016-2019,2021-2023 |
LOGOS
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(1936-1962) |
(1963-1994) |
(1995-2004) |
(2005-2011) |
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(2012-) |
HELMETS
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(1962-?) |
(C.1960s-C.1970s) |
(C.1970s-1994) |
(1995-1997) |
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(1998-2004) |
(2005-2011) |
(2012-2015) |
(2013-) |
STADIUMS
| Osborne Stadium (1935-1952) | ||
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CANAD INNS STADIUM (WINNIPEG,MB) (1953-2012) |
IG FIELD (WINNIPEG,MB) (2013-) |
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