TORONTO \u2014 The Canadian Football League (CFL) off-season shifts into high gear on February 1 at noon with the beginning of the Free Agency Communication Window before the frenzy of Free Agency opens on February 10.<\/p>\n
Prospects will showcase their skills at CFL Combine in Edmonton presented by Anytime Fitness from March 27-29 in anticipation of the CFL Draft on April 28. Training camps conclude on May 30, before the upcoming campaign commences on June 4 with the Montreal Alouettes visiting the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.<\/p>\n
RELATED The 2026 season will be broadcast in Canada by Bell Media across TSN, CTV and RDS. Select games in the U.S. will air exclusively on CBS Sports Network, while the remaining slate will be available live and on-demand for a 48-hour window through the league\u2019s free online streaming platform, CFL+. Viewers outside of North America will be able to tune into the whole season on CFL+.<\/p>\n 2026 OFF-SEASON KEY DATES<\/p>\n February 1 at noon ET to February 8 at noon ET \u2013 Free Agency Communication Window Preseason Week 1<\/p>\n Monday, May 18 | SSK at CGY | 3:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n Preseason Week 2<\/p>\n Friday, May 22 | OTT at MTL | 7:00 p.m. ET Preseason Week 3<\/p>\n Friday, May 29 | HAM at TOR | 7:00 p.m. ET Regular season Week 1<\/p>\n Thursday, June 4 | MTL at HAM | 7:30 p.m. ET
\u00bb Free Agency Communication Window opens February 1<\/a>
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\u00bb Combine Rosters: CFL Combine presented by Anytime Fitness<\/a> | CFL Invitational Combine<\/a>
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\nFebruary 10 at noon ET \u2013 Free Agency opens
\nFebruary 22 \u2013 CFL Kicking Showcase in San Diego, Calif.
\nMarch 6 \u2013 CFL Invitational Combine, followed by the CFL Free Agent Camp, in Waterloo, Ont.
\nMarch 25 \u2013 GM\/Head Coach Media Day at CFL Combine
\nMarch 27-29 \u2013 CFL Combine presented by Anytime Fitness in Edmonton
\nApril 28 \u2013 CFL Draft at 7:00 p.m. ET
\nApril 29 \u2013 CFL Global Draft at 1:00 p.m. ET
\nMay 6 \u2013 Rookie Camps open
\nMay 9 at 11:59 p.m. (local) \u2013 Rosters reduced to 85 players, excluding non-counters.
\nMay 10 \u2013 Training camps open
\nMay 12 at 11:59 p.m. (local) \u2013 Rosters reduced to 75 players, excluding non-counters<\/p>\n
\nSaturday, May 23 | TOR at HAM | 4:00 p.m. ET
\nSaturday, May 23 | EDM at BC | 5:00 p.m. ET
\nSaturday, May 23 | WPG at SSK | 7:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n
\nFriday, May 29 | MTL at OTT | 7:00 p.m. ET
\nFriday, May 29 | BC at WPG | 8:30 p.m. ET
\nFriday, May 29 | CGY at EDM | 9:00 p.m ET
\nMay 30 \u2013 End of training camp<\/p>\n
\nFriday, June 5 | WPG at CGY | 9:00 p.m. ET
\nSaturday, June 6 | EDM at OTT | 7:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The Canadian Football League (CFL) off-season shifts into high gear on February 1 at noon with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-479716","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\/479716","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=479716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}