The 2024 CFL season is scheduled to be the 70th
season of modern professional
Canadian football. Officially, it would be the 66th season of the
Canadian Football League.
Vancouver is scheduled to host the
111th Grey Cup
The 111th Grey Cup will be played to decide the Canadian Football League (CFL) championship for the 2024 season. The game is scheduled to be played on November 17, 2024, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia. It will be the 17th t ...
on November 17, 2024.
The regular season is scheduled to start on June 6, 2024 and end on October 26, 2024, with playoff games on November 2 and November 9, 2024.
CFL news in 2024
Salary cap
According to the new collective bargaining agreement, the 2024
salary cap will at least $5,585,000 (or $124,111 per active roster spot).
This will be the first season that players will begin to receive revenue sharing, which will be set at 25% this season (or cap increase of 2.78% for every dollar increase).
[ The salary cap is officially announced in late April every year as well as fines from previous year. As was the case in ]2023
Events
Predicted and scheduled events
* January 1
** In the United States, books, films, and other works published in 1927 will enter the public domain, assuming there are no changes made to copyright law.
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, the minimum player salary will be set at $70,000.[
]
Draft changes
Beginning this season, the two teams that had National players play the most snaps from the previous season will each receive additional second-round draft picks in this year's draft.[
]
Scheduling
During his commissioner's state of the league address on November 14, 2023, Randy Ambrosie confirmed that the 2024 schedule would return to a more balanced format instead of focusing on interdivisional match ups. In an 18-game schedule, western teams played 12 divisional and six interdivisional games and eastern teams played 10 divisional and eight interdivisional games in 2022
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and 2023
Events
Predicted and scheduled events
* January 1
** In the United States, books, films, and other works published in 1927 will enter the public domain, assuming there are no changes made to copyright law.
** Croatia will adopt the eu ...
, but would return to playing at least two games with every opponent resulting western teams playing 10 divisional and eight interdivisional games and eastern teams playing eight divisional and 10 interdivisional games. This was confirmed with the schedule release on December 14, 2023.[
]
Touchdown Pacific
On November 29, 2023, the league announced that the BC Lions would be the host team for a neutral site game to be played at Royal Athletic Park in Victoria on August 31, 2024, against the Ottawa Redblacks.
Player movement
Free agency
The 2024 free agency period will officially begin on Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 12:00 p.m. ET.
Broadcasting
The CFL will continue to be broadcast on TSN
TSN may refer to:
Science and technology
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and RDS across all platforms in Canada as part of their current contract.
Regular season
Standings
References
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