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CFL Grey Cup winners list by team: Who has most championships in Canadian Football League history? | Sporting News Canada

Once again, the Toronto Argonauts are Grey Cup champions. 

The Argonauts defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 41-24 on Sunday. Nick Arbuckle and Toronto’s defense were the heroes in the win. Arbuckle threw two touchdowns and the Argonauts picked off Blue Bombers starter Zach Collaros four times.

The win is Toronto’s 19th in the Grey Cup, most of any active team.

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Here is a look at all of the previous Grey Cup winners and what three-peats have happened in CFL history. 

Who has won the most Grey Cups in CFL history?

Out of the active teams, it is the Argos that have earned the most titles in team history. Toronto has won the Grey Cup 19 times, four more than the next-closest franchise, Edmonton. 

All nine of the active clubs have won at least one Grey Cup, with every team owning multiple championships with the exception of Ottawa, which has just one.

Ottawa’s old team, the Rough Riders, ironically have the most Grey Cups out of any of the defunct/amateur teams from the CFL’s history. 

Active CFL teams
Team Games W L W-L% Last Win
Toronto Argonauts 25 19 6 .760 2024
Edmonton Elks/Eskimos 23 14 9 .609 2015
Winnipeg Blue Bombers 29 12 17 .414 2021
Hamilton Tiger-Cats 22 8 14 .364 1999
Calgary Stampeders 17 8 9 .471 2018
Montreal Alouettes 19 8 11 .421 2023
BC Lions 10 6 4 .600 2011
Saskatchewan Roughriders 19 4 15 .211 2013
Ottawa Redblacks 3 1 2 .333 2016

 

Defunct/amateur CFL teams
Team Games W L W-L%
Ottawa Rough Riders 15 9 6 .600
Hamilton Tigers 8 5 3 .625
University of Toronto Varsity Blues 6 4 2 .667
Toronto Balmy Beach 4 2 2 .500
Queen’s University 3 3 0 1.000
Sarnia Imperials 3 2 1 .667
Baltimore Stallions 2 1 1 .500
Hamilton Flying Wildcats 2 1 1 .500
Edmonton Rugby Football Club 2 1 1 .500
Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 2 0 2 .000
Winnipeg RACF Bombers 2 0 2 .000
Hamilton Alerts 1 1 0 1.000
Montreal AA Winged Wheelers 1 1 0 1.000
St. Hyacinthe-Donnacona Navy 1 1 0 1.000
Toronto RCAF Hurricanes 1 1 0 1.000
Toronto Rowing Association 1 0 1 .000
Winnipeg Tammany Tigers 1 0 1 .000

(Data via Canadian Football Hall of Fame

Which teams have completed three peats in the CFL?

There have been five separate occurrences of one team winning the Grey Cup three years consecutively. 

The first team to do it was the University of Toronto, which won the first three Grey Cups in CFL history. Queen’s University followed the early 1920s with their three-peat, and then the Toronto Argonauts in the mid-1940s. 

The Edmonton Eskimos, now known as the Elks, are the last team to three-peat and have done so twice in team history. Edmonton won three in a row in the mid-’50s before stringing together five Grey Cup victories from 1978 to 1982. 

Team Years Won Consecutively
University of Toronto Varsity Blues 1909, 1910, 1911
Queen’s University 1922, 1923, 1924
Toronto Argonauts 1945, 1946, 1947
Edmonton Eskimos 1954, 1955, 1956
Edmonton Eskimos 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982
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