{"id":430237,"date":"2026-01-24T12:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430237\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T12:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T12:40:12","slug":"canadian-football-league-salary-cap-to-grow-to-over-6-2-million-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/430237\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Football League salary cap to grow to over $6.2 million in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769258412_206_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJan 23, 2026 | 5:59 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 The Canadian Football League\u2019s salary cap will rise to over $6.2 million in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The CFL and its players\u2019 union made the announcement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue for the league reached $10 million more than the baseline established in 2024 when the CFL\u2019s collective bargaining agreement\u2019s revenue growth sharing model was triggered for the first time since its implementation in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>As a result, the CFL Players\u2019 Association has allocated the majority of its share towards increasing the cap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Canadian Press Jan 23, 2026 | 5:59 PM TORONTO \u2014 The Canadian Football League\u2019s salary cap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-430237","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\/430237","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=430237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}