{"id":431692,"date":"2026-01-25T05:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431692\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T05:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T05:25:12","slug":"canadian-football-league-salary-cap-to-grow-to-over-6-2-million-in-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431692\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Football League salary cap to grow to over $6.2 million in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Canadian Press – Jan 23, 2026 \/ 3:59 pm | Story: 595872<\/p>\n

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Photo: The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

TORONTO \u2014 The Canadian Football League’s salary cap will rise to over $6.2 million in 2026.<\/p>\n

The CFL and its players’ union made the announcement on Friday.<\/p>\n

Revenue for the league reached $10 million more than the baseline established in 2024 when the CFL’s collective bargaining agreement\u2019s revenue growth sharing model was triggered for the first time since its implementation in 2022. <\/p>\n

As a result, the CFL Players\u2019 Association has allocated the majority of its share towards increasing the cap.<\/p>\n

In accordance with the 2022 CBA, gains in excess of the baseline from the previous season trigger a revenue growth share with the CFLPA. <\/p>\n

League revenue has grown by $31 million over the 2022 baseline figure that was negotiated when the current CBA first came into effect.<\/p>\n

In addition to increasing salary cap, the CFLPA has allocated an additional $50,000 per club towards pre-season compensation for veteran players.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 23, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadian Press – Jan 23, 2026 \/ 3:59 pm | Story: 595872 Photo: The Canadian Press TORONTO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-431692","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-football-league","11":"tag-canadianfootballleague","12":"tag-cfl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431692","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=431692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}