2025 CFL season

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2025 CFL season
DurationJune – October, 2025
112th Grey Cup
DateNovember 16, 2025
Venue Princess Auto Stadium, Winnipeg
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The 2025 CFL season is scheduled to be the 71st season of modern professional Canadian football. Officially, it would be the 67th season of the Canadian Football League. Winnipeg is scheduled to host the 112th Grey Cup on November 16, 2025. [1] [2] If the scheduling format from the previous season is implemented for this season, the regular season would start on or about June 5 and end on October 25. [3]

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CFL news in 2025

Salary cap

According to the new collective bargaining agreement, the 2025 salary cap will be set at or above $5,650,000 (or $125,556 per roster spot). [4] [3] [5] Including non-football related services minimum of $110,000, the total salary expenditure cap will be at or above $5,760,000. [4] This will be the second season that players will receive revenue sharing, which will be set at 26% this season. [3] The minimum player salary will be set at $70,000, which remains unchanged since 2023. [3] [5]

Commissioner change

On October 26, 2024, the league announced Randy Ambrosie's intention to retire following the 2024 CFL season. [6] Ambrosie agreed to remain as commissioner, likely until sometime in 2025, until a successor has been named. [6]

Player movement

Free agency

The 2025 free agency period will officially begin on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. ET. [7] Pending free agents and teams are able to negotiate offers for one week starting Sunday, February 2, 2025, and ending Sunday, February 9, 2025. [8] All formal offers to a player during this time are sent to both the league and the players union and cannot be rescinded. [8] [9]

Broadcasting

The CFL will continue to be broadcast on TSN and RDS across all platforms in Canada as part of their current contract. [10] The broadcast rights are reported to have been extended through 2025. [11] CTV, CBS, and CFL+ will also have broadcast rights. Radio rights belong to team's local stations and SiriusXM. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ "112th Grey Cup in 2025 awarded to Winnipeg". Canadian Football League. March 14, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Bombers announce 112th Grey Cup ticket pricing". Canadian Football League. August 16, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Details of the CFL's new CBA: salary cap increases, ratio changes, and guaranteed contracts". 3DownNation. May 26, 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Collective bargaining agreement" (PDF). cfldb.ca. Retrieved October 27, 2024.
  5. 1 2 "CFL commissioner Ambrosie feels new deal provides benefits for both CFL and players". The Globe and Mail. May 28, 2022.
  6. 1 2 Barnes, Dan (September 6, 2019). "Randy Ambrosie to retire from role as CFL commissioner in 2025". Canadian Football League.
  7. ↑ "Ryan Dinwiddie would 'love' to have 111th Grey Cup MVP Nick Arbuckle back with Toronto Argonauts". 3DownNation. November 28, 2024.
  8. 1 2 "Negotiating window a new feature of 2020 free agency". Canadian Football League. January 27, 2020.
  9. ↑ Dunk, Justin (January 27, 2020). "Details for the CFL's new negotiating window prior to free agency". 3DownNation.
  10. ↑ "CFL and TSN extend rights on long-term deal". TSN. November 21, 2019.
  11. ↑ Barnes, Dan (September 6, 2019). "BARNES: CFL agrees to new six-year TV deal with TSN". Toronto Sun.
  12. ↑ "Where to Watch: 2024 CFL Broadcast Information". CFL.ca. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
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