2024 CFL season

2024 CFL season
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Duration	June 6 – October 26, 2024
111th Grey Cup
Venue	BC Place, Vancouver

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Canadian Football League team locations: West, East

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 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, 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 and 2023, 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. Pending free agents and teams are able to negotiate offers for one week starting Sunday, February 4, 2024, and ending Sunday, February 11, 2024. All formal offers to a player during this time are sent to both the league and the players union and cannot be rescinded.

Broadcasting

The CFL will continue to be broadcast on TSN and RDS across all platforms in Canada as part of their current contract. The broadcast rights are reported to have been extended through 2025.