Salary Cap Increase (~200k)

[Jesse]

TORONTO — In 2025, the Canadian Football League's (CFL) Defined League Revenue reached $10M more than the baseline established in 2024 when the Collective Bargaining Agreement's (CBA) revenue growth sharing model was triggered for the first time since its implementation in 2022. The CFL Players' Association (CFLPA) has allocated the majority of its share towards increasing the Salary Expenditure Cap to $6,280,514 for the upcoming season.

https://www.cfl.ca/2026/01/23/2025-season-yields-10m-in-league-wide-revenue-growth/

[Pete]

May mean teams more able to re- sign decent players reducing free agents, and increasing the pricetag on those remaining.. be interesting to see whose available

[Throw Long Bannatyne]

TORONTO — In 2025, the Canadian Football League's (CFL) Defined League Revenue reached $10M more than the baseline established in 2024 when the Collective Bargaining Agreement's (CBA) revenue growth sharing model was triggered for the first time since its implementation in 2022. The CFL Players' Association (CFLPA) has allocated the majority of its share towards increasing the Salary Expenditure Cap to $6,280,514 for the upcoming season.

https://www.cfl.ca/2026/01/23/2025-season-yields-10m-in-league-wide-revenue-growth/

So many mixed messages to digest from the head-office, is the CFL failing or thriving?  Where is the extra revenue coming from, gambling?  Can't be increased attendance as the majority of stadiums are maybe 60% full.

[Sir Blue and Gold]

Extra revenue would almost exclusively come from sponsorships at the team and league level and are almost assuredly coming overwhelmingly from a couple of clubs only. CFL franchises are feast or famine. At one point not too long ago the Bombers were trending pretty close on sponsorship revenues to what the CFL was leveraging nationally. That's um, a remarkable achievement or really bad depending on your perspective. Things look good on paper from this report, and success is obviously occuring on some levels, but there's also some giant red buttons flashing on the control panel also.

[Blue In BC]

May mean teams more able to re- sign decent players reducing free agents, and increasing the pricetag on those remaining.. be interesting to see whose available

IDK about that. Teams have already re-signed many of their top potential free agents. Those that are un-signed may get more than they might have otherwise but we're already down the road to a large degree?

Potential free agent list is down to about 160.