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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.
Team | Games | W | L | W-L% | Last Win |
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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 |
Team | Games | W | L | W-L% |
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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 |
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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 |