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2024 CFL season
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The 2024 CFL season was the 70th season of modern professional Canadian football. Officially, it was the 66th season of the Canadian Football League. Vancouver hosted the 111th Grey Cup on November 17, 2024.[1][2] The regular season started on June 6 and ended on October 26, with 18 games played per team over 21 weeks.[3]
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CFL news in 2024
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Salary cap
According to the new collective bargaining agreement, the 2024 salary cap was at least $5,525,000 (or $124,111 per active roster spot) plus an unlimited non-football-related services (marketing fund) with a minimum spend of $110,000 per club.[4][5] With the unlimited marketing fund, most teams spent $12–14 million on football operations in 2023 with the majority of that on player costs. This was the first league year that players began to receive revenue sharing, which was set at 25% this season (or a cap increase of 2.78% for every dollar increase).[4] The salary cap is announced in late April every year as well as fines/luxury tax from the previous season. On April 19, 2024, the league announced that Hamilton, Winnipeg and BC paid luxury tax for exceeding the cap in 2023, but not by more than $100,000, which would have resulted in the loss of draft selections. As was the case in 2023, the minimum player salary was set at $70,000.[4][5]
Draft changes
Beginning this season, the two teams that had National players play the most snaps from the previous season received additional second-round draft picks in this year's draft.[4]
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 and 2023, but returned to playing at least two games with every opponent resulting in western teams playing 10 divisional and eight interdivisional games and eastern teams playing eight divisional and 10 interdivisional games.[6] This was confirmed with the schedule release on December 14, 2023.[3]
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.[7]
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Player movement
Free agency
The 2024 free agency period began on February 13 at noon EST.[8] Pending free agents and teams were able to negotiate offers for one week starting Sunday, February 4, 2024, and ending Sunday, February 11, 2024.[9] All formal offers to a player during this time were sent to both the league and the players union and could not be rescinded.[9][10]
Trade deadline
The in-season trade deadline was on October 2 at 5 pm EDT.[11]
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Regular season
Standings
Postseason
Playoff bracket
| November 2: Division Semi-Finals | November 9: Division Finals | November 17: 111th Grey Cup BC Place – Vancouver | ||||||||||||
| E1 | Montreal Alouettes | 28 | ||||||||||||
| East | ||||||||||||||
| E2 | Toronto Argonauts | 30 | ||||||||||||
| E2 | Toronto Argonauts | 58 | ||||||||||||
| E3 | Ottawa Redblacks | 38 | ||||||||||||
| E2 | Toronto Argonauts | 41 | ||||||||||||
| W1 | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | 24 | ||||||||||||
| W1 | Winnipeg Blue Bombers | 38 | ||||||||||||
| West | ||||||||||||||
| W2 | Saskatchewan Roughriders | 22 | ||||||||||||
| W2 | Saskatchewan Roughriders | 28 | ||||||||||||
| W3 | BC Lions | 19 | ||||||||||||
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Attendance
Ranked from highest to lowest average home attendance.[12][13]
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Broadcasting
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The CFL continued to be broadcast on TSN and RDS across all platforms in Canada as part of their current contract.[14] The broadcast rights were extended through 2025.[15] In June, Bell Media announced that CTV would broadcast TSN-produced CFL coverage on digital terrestrial television, including a late-season package of exclusive 3 p.m. ET games beginning on September 7, continuing with playoff coverage of the East Division, and concluding with a simulcast of the 111th Grey Cup; returning the CFL to over-the-air television for the first time since 2007.[16]
Broadcast rights for the CFL in the United States remained with CBS Sports Network (CBSSN) following their acquisition of the rights during the 2023 season.[17] CBSSN's package consisted mostly of Saturday and Sunday contests during June and July, a majority of August games, and the Labour Day and Thanksgiving Day Classics.[18]
The league continued the use of its own streaming platform, CFL+, to stream the TSN broadcast to US audiences (when CBSSN is not broadcasting a game) and international audiences (all games) at no cost. The CFL also expanded on its functionality, allowing video on demand replay for up to 48 hours after the game and used CFL+ to broadcast most of the preseason using in-stadium video feeds and local radio play-by-play commentary.[19]
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Award winners
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2024 All-CFL team
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Offence
- QB – Bo Levi Mitchell, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- RB – Brady Oliveira, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- R – Justin McInnis, BC Lions
- R – Justin Hardy, Ottawa Redblacks
- R – Reggie Begelton, Calgary Stampeders
- R – Eugene Lewis, Edmonton Elks
- R – Tim White, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- OT – Stanley Bryant, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- OT – Dejon Allen, Toronto Argonauts
- OG – Logan Ferland, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- OG – Ryan Hunter, Toronto Argonauts
- C – David Beard, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Defence
- DT – Jake Ceresna, Toronto Argonauts
- DT – Micah Johnson, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- DE – Willie Jefferson, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- DE – Lorenzo Mauldin IV, Ottawa Redblacks
- LB – Tyrice Beverette, Montreal Alouettes
- LB – Nick Anderson, Edmonton Elks
- CLB – C.J. Reavis, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- CB – Tyrell Ford, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- CB – Marcus Sayles, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- HB – Rolan Milligan, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- HB – Damon Webb, Ottawa Redblacks
- S – Marc-Antoine Dequoy, Montreal Alouettes
Special teams
- K – Sean Whyte, BC Lions
- P – Jake Julien, Edmonton Elks
- ST – Janarion Grant, Toronto Argonauts
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2024 Western All-CFL team
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Offence
- QB – Trevor Harris, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- RB – Brady Oliveira, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- R – Justin McInnis, BC Lions
- R – Samuel Emilus, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- R – Reggie Begelton, Calgary Stampeders
- R – Eugene Lewis, Edmonton Elks
- R – Nic Demski, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- OT – Stanley Bryant, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- OT – Martez Ivey, Edmonton Elks
- OG – Logan Ferland, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- OG – Liam Dobson, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- C – Mark Korte, Edmonton Elks
Defence
- DT – Mike Rose, Calgary Stampeders
- DT – Micah Johnson, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- DE – Elliott Brown, Edmonton Elks
- DE – Willie Jefferson, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- LB – Jameer Thurman, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- LB – Nick Anderson, Edmonton Elks
- CLB – C.J. Reavis, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- CB – Tyrell Ford, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- CB – Marcus Sayles, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- HB – Rolan Milligan, Saskatchewan Roughriders
- HB – Deatrick Nichols, Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- S – Loucheiz Purifoy, Edmonton Elks
Special teams
- K – Sean Whyte, BC Lions
- P – Jake Julien, Edmonton Elks
- ST – Rolan Milligan, Saskatchewan Roughriders
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2024 Eastern All-CFL team
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Offence
- QB – Bo Levi Mitchell, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- RB – Ka'Deem Carey, Toronto Argonauts
- R – Justin Hardy, Ottawa Redblacks
- R – Tim White, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- R – Shemar Bridges, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- R – Makai Polk, Toronto Argonauts
- R – Steven Dunbar Jr., Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- OT – Dejon Allen, Toronto Argonauts
- OT – Nick Callender, Montreal Alouettes
- OG – Ryan Hunter, Toronto Argonauts
- OG – Drew Desjarlais, Ottawa Redblacks
- C – David Beard, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Defence
- DT – Jake Ceresna, Toronto Argonauts
- DT – Michael Wakefield, Ottawa Redblacks
- DE – Lorenzo Mauldin IV, Ottawa Redblacks
- DE – Isaac Adeyemi-Berglund, Montreal Alouettes
- LB – Tyrice Beverette, Montreal Alouettes
- LB – Darnell Sankey, Montreal Alouettes
- CLB – Adarius Pickett, Ottawa Redblacks
- CB – Jamal Peters, Hamilton Tiger-Cats
- CB – Kabion Ento, Montreal Alouettes
- HB – DaShaun Amos, Toronto Argonauts
- HB – Damon Webb, Ottawa Redblacks
- S – Marc-Antoine Dequoy, Montreal Alouettes
Special teams
- K – Lirim Hajrullahu, Toronto Argonauts
- P – John Haggerty, Toronto Argonauts
- ST – Janarion Grant, Toronto Argonauts
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2024 CFL Awards
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- Tom Pate Memorial Award – Adam Bighill (LB), Winnipeg Blue Bombers
- Jake Gaudaur Veterans' Trophy – Jorgen Hus (LS), Saskatchewan Roughriders
- Commissioner's Award – Amar Doman, BC Lions owner
- Hugh Campbell Distinguished Leadership Award – Stephen Shamie, CFL legal counsel
- Jane Mawby Tribute Award – Carolyn Cody, BC Lions Vice President, Business Operations & Marketing
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References
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