2022 CFL season

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2022 CFL season
Regular season
DurationJune 9, 2022 – October 29, 2022
Playoffs
Start dateNovember 6, 2022
109th Grey Cup
DateNovember 20, 2022
SiteMosaic Stadium, Regina
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The 2022 CFL season is scheduled to be the 68th season of modern-day Canadian football. Officially, it will be the 64th season of the Canadian Football League. The regular season is scheduled to begin on June 9, 2022, and end on October 29, 2022, with 18 games being played per team over 21 weeks.[1] Regina is scheduled to host the 109th Grey Cup on November 20, 2022.[2][3]

CFL news in 2022[]

Collective Bargaining Agreement[]

The three-year agreement that was ratified between the CFL and CFL Player's Association will expire just prior to this season, on the first day of scheduled training camp in 2022 (likely in May, 2022).[4][5] Topics should include compensation, player safety, and revenue generation following two seasons heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.[6] The 2021 salary cap for an 18-game season was set at $5,350,000 with minimum salaries set at $65,000 for National and American Players and $54,000 for Global Players.[4][7]

Schedule[]

The league released the season's full schedule on December 16, 2021, just four days after the 108th Grey Cup, which returned to an 18-game schedule following a pandemic-shortened 2021 CFL season.[8] The regular season is scheduled to begin on June 9, 2022, with the Calgary Stampeders hosting the Montreal Alouettes.[1] The Grey Cup rematch game between the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats does not occur until week 3, which is the first time since 2018 that this game was not featured in week 1 of the regular season.[1] Similar to the planned 2020 CFL season and the schedule from 2021, this year will again feature more intra-divisional games, with BC, Calgary, and Edmonton playing 12 such games, Saskatchewan and Winnipeg playing 11 divisional games, and the East Division teams playing 10 divisional games.[1] This was done to reduce cross-country travel.[8]

The schedule will feature all intra-divisional matchups in the last two weeks of the regular season.[8] This year also features more home-and-home matchups, with every team having at least two and Saskatchewan, Toronto, and Ottawa having five of these matchups.[1] The Toronto Argonauts are scheduled to play a neutral site game on July 16, 2022, against the Saskatchewan Roughriders at Raymond Field, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.[9] This will be the first CFL match held in Atlantic Canada since the 2019 season. All previous iterations of the Touchdown Atlantic series were held in Moncton, New Brunswick.[10]

Player movement[]

Free agency[]

The 2022 free agency period officially began on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, at 12:00 p.m. ET.[11] Pending free agents and teams are able to negotiate offers for one week starting Sunday, January 30, 2022, and ending Sunday, February 6, 2022.[12] All formal offers to a player during this time would be sent to both the league and the players union and cannot be rescinded.[12][13]

Broadcasting[]

The CFL will continue to be broadcast on TSN and RDS across all platforms in Canada as part of their current contract.[14] The broadcast rights are reported to have been extended through 2025.[15]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "2022 CFL Schedule". Canadian Football League. Retrieved December 16, 2021.
  2. ^ "Saskatchewan Grey Cup Moved To 2022". Canadian Football League. May 5, 2020. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
  3. ^ "Roughriders Unveil Refreshed 2022 Grey Cup Festival Logo". Saskatchewan Roughriders. December 10, 2021.
  4. ^ a b "New five-year CBA ratified by CFL and CFLPA". Canadian Football League. May 22, 2019.
  5. ^ Dunk, Justin (January 7, 2020). "The comprehensive CFL collective bargaining agreement". 3DownNation. p. 119 – via Canadian Football League. Collective Bargaining Agreement
  6. ^ "CFL, CFL Players' Association brace for yet another round of collective bargaining". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. October 28, 2021.
  7. ^ Dunk, Justin (January 7, 2020). "The comprehensive CFL collective bargaining agreement". 3DownNation. p. 96 – via Canadian Football League. Collective Bargaining Agreement
  8. ^ a b c "Circle Your Calendars: CFL releases 2022 schedule". Canadian Football League. December 16, 2021.
  9. ^ "2022 CFL schedule released". Toronto Argonauts. December 16, 2021.
  10. ^ Staff, TSN ca (2022-03-24). "CFL touches down with Atlantic Canada game in July - TSN.ca". TSN. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
  11. ^ "Official 2021 free agent tracker". Canadian Football League. December 17, 2021.
  12. ^ a b "Negotiating window a new feature of 2020 free agency". Canadian Football League. January 27, 2020.
  13. ^ "Details for the CFL's new negotiating window prior to free agency". 3DownNation. January 27, 2020.
  14. ^ "CFL and TSN extend rights on long-term deal". TSN. November 21, 2019.
  15. ^ "BARNES: CFL agrees to new six-year TV deal with TSN". Toronto Sun. September 6, 2019.
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