{"id":344507,"date":"2025-12-14T10:52:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344507\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T10:52:20","slug":"winnipeg-blue-bombers-to-open-2026-cfl-season-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/344507\/","title":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Blue Bombers to Open 2026 CFL Season on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"et_pb_title_meta_container\">December 9, 2025 10:33 AM | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisd.ca\/category\/sports\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214248\" class=\"size-full wp-image-214248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/winnipeg-blue-bombers-helmet.jpg\" alt=\"Winnipeg Blue Bombers - Helmets - Logo\" width=\"800\" height=\"527\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-214248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Winnipeg Blue Bombers helmet can be seen before CFL football action in Regina, Monday, May 20, 2024. (THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Heywood Yu)<\/p>\n<p>The CFL has released its 2026 schedule, with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers kicking off the season June 5 on the road against the Calgary Stampeders.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg\u2019s home opener follows on Thursday, June 11, when the Bombers host the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisd.ca\/tag\/Princess-Auto-Stadium\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Princess Auto Stadium<\/a> \u2014 the first of three Thursday night home games next season.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg\u2019s 2026 home schedule includes five Friday night matchups: July 10 (vs. Toronto*), July 24 (vs. Calgary), August 14 (vs. Ottawa), August 28 (vs. Montreal), and September 25 (vs. Toronto). The club will also host Thursday games on June 25 (vs. Edmonton) and July 30 (vs. BC), along with two Saturday home dates.<\/p>\n<p>Rivalry week returns with the Labour Day Classic set for September 6 in Regina and the Banjo Bowl back in Winnipeg on September 12. The team\u2019s annual Orange Shirt Game, honouring the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, is scheduled for September 25.<\/p>\n<p>View the complete schedule below:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; display: block;\"><a style=\"color: #098642; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View 2026 CFL Schedule - Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/963470500\/2026-CFL-Schedule-Winnipeg-Blue-Bombers#from_embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 2026 CFL Schedule \u2013 Winnipeg Blue Bombers <\/a> by <a style=\"color: #098642; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View ChrisDca&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/20739102\/ChrisDca#from_embed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> ChrisDca <\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Because of FIFA World Cup scheduling, the July 10 game will designate Toronto as the \u201chome\u201d team despite being played in Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 9, 2025 10:33 AM | Sports A Winnipeg Blue Bombers helmet can be seen before CFL football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,527,123198,82,7504],"class_list":["post-344507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cfl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canadian-football-league","tag-canadianfootballleague","tag-cfl","tag-football","tag-princess-auto-stadium","tag-sports","tag-winnipeg-blue-bombers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}