The Canadian Football League and BC Lions announced on Friday that our pre-season opener against the Edmonton Elks at the City of Langford\u2019s Starlight Stadium has been moved to 2:00 pm PST. The matchup takes place on Saturday, May 23.<\/p>\n
Originally scheduled for 4:00 pm PST, the earlier kickoff is designed to give fans more flexibility for travel time back home.<\/p>\n
2026 marks the second consecutive year the Lions will begin pre-season at Starlight Stadium. Last year\u2019s contest saw the Lions battle the Calgary Stampeders, with the visiting Stamps prevailing 26-16.<\/p>\n
Single-game tickets for Lions in Langford go on sale on Tuesday, March 31. Fans can secure seats earlier by becoming a BC Lions season ticket holder. More info on Lions season ticket packages are available here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Football League and BC Lions announced on Friday that our pre-season opener against the Edmonton Elks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-430156","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-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430156","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=430156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}