111th Grey Cup
2024 CHAMPIONS HALL OF CHAMPIONS

TORONTO
ARGONAUTS (19)

TORONTO
ARGONAUTS (19)

CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CFL) or League de Football Canadien (LCF) and plays a version of Gridiron Football that is similar to American Football. The CFL plays Canadian Football and began in 1958, from a merger between the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (founded 1907) and the Western Interprovincial Football Union (founded 1936), having formerly been a member of the Canadian Football Council (CFC),which it withdrew from to form the CFL. It traces its history back to the 1880s. It remains the only Football League in North America that has its teams solely based in Canada, having briefly hosted USA teams from 1993-1995.

It is currently made up of 9 teams with the Ottawa RedBlacks having joined in 2014.

Each team plays 2 pre-season games, in May-June, before competing in a 18-game/21-week regular season including 3 bye weeks,between June and November. The regular season is followed by the Grey Cup Playoffs which end in November with the Grey Cup.

In 1995, the Baltimore Stallions became the only American team to win the 83rd Grey Cup, before the league returned to Canada-based teams in 1996 and has remained like that ever since.

Unlike the NFL,Canadian Football is played by teams of 12 players. The field is 110 yards long and 65 yards with 20 yard end zones,compared to American Football which is 100 yards long by 53 1/3 yards wide and has 10 yard end zones. A team has 3 downs (not 4 like in American Football) to make 10 yards/score or they lose the ball and where the Offence becomes the Defence.

DEFUNCT TEAMS
SACRAMENTO
GOLD MINERS

(SACRAMENTO,CA,USA)
(1993-1994)
HORNET STADIUM
LAS VEGAS
POSSE

(LAS VEGAS,NV,USA)
(1994)
SAM BOYD STADIUM
BALTIMORE
STALLIONS

(BALTIMORE,MD,USA)
(1994-1995)
MEMORIAL STADIUM
BIRMINGHAM
BARRACUDAS

(BIRMINGHAM,AL,USA)
(1995)
LEGION FIELD
MEMPHIS
MAD DOGS

(MEMPHIS,TN,USA)
(1995)
LIBERTY STADIUM
SAN ANTONIO
TEXANS

(SAN ANTONIO,TX,USA)
(1995)
ALAMODOME
SHREVEPORT
PIRATES

(SHREVEPORT,LA,USA)
(1994-1995)
INDEPENDENCE STADIUM
OTTAWA
ROUGH RIDERS

(OTTAWA,ON)
(1876-1996)
TD BANK STADIUM
OTTAWA
RENEGADES

(OTTAWA,ON)
(2002-2005)
TD BANK STADIUM
PROPOSED TEAMS
ATLANTIC
SCHOONERS

(DARTMOUTH,NS)
MIAMI
MANATEES

(MIAMI,FL)

EXPANSION HISTORY

1958-1986
9 British Columbia Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Eskimos
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Montreal Alouettes
Ottawa Rough Riders
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
1987-1992
8 British Columbia Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Eskimos
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Montreal Alouettes
Ottawa Rough Riders
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Montreal Alouettes (FOLDED)
1993
9 British Columbia Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Eskimos
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Ottawa Rough Riders
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Sacramento Gold Miners (EXPANSION)
1994
12 British Columbia Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Eskimos
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Ottawa Rough Riders
Sacramento Gold Miners
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Baltimore CFLers (EXPANSION)
Las Vegas Posse (EXPANSION)
Shreveport Pirates (EXPANSION)
1995
13 British Columbia Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Eskimos
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Ottawa Rough Riders
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Shreveport Pirates
Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Baltimore CFLers > Baltimore Stallions
Birmingham Barracudas (EXPANSION)
Memphis Mad Dogs (EXPANSION)
San Antonio Texans (EXPANSION)
Las Vegas Posse (FOLDED)
Sacramento Gold Miners (FOLDED)
1996
9 British Columbia Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Eskimos
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Ottawa Rough Riders
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Montreal Alouettes (EXPANSION)
Baltimore Stallions (FOLDED)
Birmingham Barracudas (FOLDED)
Memphis Mad Dogs (FOLDED)
San Antonio Texans (FOLDED)
Shreveport Pirates (FOLDED)
1997-2001
8 British Columbia Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Eskimos
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Montreal Alouettes
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Ottawa Rough Riders (FOLDED)
2002-2005
9 British Columbia Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Eskimos
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Montreal Alouettes
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Ottawa Renegades (EXPANSION)
2006-2013
8 British Columbia Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Eskimos
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Montreal Alouettes
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Ottawa Renegades (FOLDED)
2014-2019
8 British Columbia Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Edmonton Eskimos
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Montreal Alouettes
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Ottawa RedBlacks (EXPANSION)
2020-2021
8 British Columbia Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Montreal Alouettes
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Edmonton Eskimos > Edmonton Football Team
2021-
8 British Columbia Lions
Calgary Stampeders
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Montreal Alouettes
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Toronto Argonauts
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Edmonton Football Team > Edmonton Elks
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