CFL Expansion 1869-present
| Number | Year | Team |
| 1869 | Hamilton Football Club | |
| 1872 | Montreal Football Club | |
| 1 | 1873 | Toronto Argonauts (as Toronto Argonaut Football Club) |
| 1876 | Ottawa Football Club | |
| 1879 | Winnipeg Football Club | |
| 1907 | IRFU formed (Interprovincial Rugby Football Union – Hamilton Tigers, Toronto Argonauts, Ottawa Rough Riders and Montreal FC) | |
| 1907 | Calgary City RFC | |
| 1907 | Edmonton City RFC | |
| 1909 | Grey Cup first played for | |
| 2 | 1910 | Saskatchewan Roughriders (as Regina Rugby Club) |
| 3 | 1930 | Winnipeg Blue Bombers (as Winnipegs RFC) |
| 1936 | WIFU formed (Western Interprovincial Football Union) | |
| 4 | 1938 | Edmonton Eskimoes |
| 5 | 1945 | Calgary Stampeders |
| 6 | 1946 | Montreal Alouettes |
| 7 | 1950 | Hamilton Tiger-Cats (merger of Hamilton Tigers & Hamilton Wildcats) |
| 8 | 1954 | British Columbia Lions |
| 1956 | Canadian Football Council is formed | |
| 1958 | CFC resigns from Canadian Rugby Union, and renames itself the Canadian Football League | |
| 9 | 1982 | Montreal Alouettes renamed Concordes. Atlantic Schooners formed. |
| 1986 | Montreal Concordes change name back to Alouettes | |
| 1987 | Montreal Alouettes fold | |
| 1993 | Sacramento Gold Miners | |
| 1994 | Las Vegas Posse, Baltimore FC and Shreveport Pirates | |
| 1995 | Birmingham Barracudas and Memphis Mad Dogs. Las Vegas Posse folds | |
| 1996 | Four of 5 US teams fold. The lone survivor, Baltimore Stallions moved to Montreal and renamed Alouettes. | |
| 1997 | Ottawa Rough Riders fold. | |
| 2002 | Ottawa Renegades | |
| 2006 | Ottawa Renegades fold | |
| 10 | 2014 | Ottawa REDBLACKS |
Note: Atlantic Schooners were founded in 1982, but had trouble building a stadium, and have been promoting Canadian Football in the Maritime Provinces since then in the form of hosting Preseason & Regular Season CFL games. Halifax City Council voted in 2019 in favour of building a stadium.
Bibliography
[1] Maher, Todd & Gill, Bob (2013) Canadian Pro Football Encyclopedia Historical Highlights pg. 1-2. Maher Sports Media, 2013.
Websites
[2] Canadian Football League (2019) Welcome to the new online home of the Atlantic Schooners [Internet] Available from: https://www.cfl.ca/2019/03/22/welcome-new-online-home-atlantic-schooners/ [Accessed 6 March 2020]
Images
[3] Kids Encyclopedia facts | Kiddle (2019) Canadian Football League League facts for Kids [Internet] Available from: https://kids.kiddle.co/images/a/a3/CFL_Logo_1960%27s.png [Accessed 9 June 2019]
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Robert Burns.
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Researched, compiled and written by Enda Mulcahy for the
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Last Updated: 6 March 2020
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