{"id":604082,"date":"2026-04-14T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604082\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T19:48:10","slug":"charlottetown-to-keep-its-football-field-dimensions-intact-despite-coming-cfl-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/604082\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlottetown to keep its football field dimensions intact despite coming CFL changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last year\u2019s decision by the Canadian Football League to reduce its field size and move goalposts further into the end zones left municipalities wondering how that might affect their amateur programs.<\/p>\n<p>It was especially concerning for those which had installed artificial turf fields. Charlottetown\u2019s The Guardian reports Prince Edward Island\u2019s capital city plans to keep its fields intact and is supported by Football P.E.I.<\/p>\n<p>The coming CFL changes won\u2019t impact amateur football in Canada, although non-professional leagues may one day opt to follow the CFL\u2019s lead. Montreal\u2019s McGill University and the University of Calgary are the only two amateur facilities obligated to comply with the CFL since they share their playing surfaces with professional teams.<\/p>\n<p>The cost for municipalities to upgrade their fields to the coming CFL standards would cost millions, it is speculated.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full report from The Guardian, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.saltwire.com\/prince-edward-island\/charlottetown-right-to-keep-amateur-size-for-new-turf-despite-cfl-regulation-changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year\u2019s decision by the Canadian Football League to reduce its field size and move goalposts further into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-604082","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\/604082","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=604082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}