@CFLAttendance<\/a> on X.<\/p>\nWeek 5 Attendance by Game<\/p>\n
Matchup<\/p>\n
Stadium<\/p>\n
Attendance<\/p>\n
Winnipeg at Hamilton<\/p>\n
Tim Hortons Field<\/p>\n
20,189<\/p>\n
Toronto at Calgary<\/p>\n
McMahon Stadium<\/p>\n
19,100<\/p>\n
Edmonton at BC<\/p>\n
Apple Bowl Stadium (Kelowna)<\/p>\n
19,083<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan at Ottawa<\/p>\n
TD Place<\/p>\n
15,154<\/p>\n
Week 5 average<\/p>\n
18,382<\/p>\n
Hamilton drew 20,189 against Winnipeg, the top gate of the week.<\/p>\n
Calgary drew 19,100 against Toronto.<\/p>\n
BC hosted Edmonton at Apple Bowl Stadium in Kelowna and drew 19,083. This was a regional home game away from BC Place.<\/p>\n
Ottawa drew 15,154 against Saskatchewan, the smallest crowd of the week.<\/p>\n
Week-by-Week Comparison<\/p>\n
Games<\/p>\n
Average<\/p>\n
Week 1<\/p>\n
3<\/p>\n
17,119<\/p>\n
Week 2<\/p>\n
3<\/p>\n
27,872<\/p>\n
Week 3<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
17,568<\/p>\n
Week 4<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
23,406<\/p>\n
Week 5<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
18,382<\/p>\n
Week 5 dropped from Week 4. Weeks 2 and 4 both had a Winnipeg home date and averaged above 23,000. Week 5 did not, and the average returned to the 18,000 range.<\/p>\n
Season-to-Date<\/p>\n
Total<\/p>\n
Games played<\/p>\n
18<\/p>\n
Total attendance<\/p>\n
372,396<\/p>\n
Average per game<\/p>\n
20,689<\/p>\n
Through five weeks, the 2026 season is averaging 20,689 fans per game. The 2025 regular season averaged about 22,950.<\/p>\n
Attendance figures are self-reported by each team and are not independently verified.<\/p>\n
Week 6 Outlook<\/p>\n
Week 6 continues the 2026 schedule. The season pattern holds: a Winnipeg or Saskatchewan home date lifts the weekly average, while weeks without them sit near 18,000. Check back for Week 6 figures once games are played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CFL attendance fell in Week 5 of the 2026 season. The four games drew 73,526 fans, an average…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-784432","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\/784432","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=784432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}