@CFLAttendance<\/a> on X.<\/p>\nWeek 18 Attendance by Game<\/p>\n
Matchup<\/p>\n
Stadium<\/p>\n
Attendance<\/p>\n
Calgary at Saskatchewan<\/p>\n
Mosaic Stadium<\/p>\n
29,412<\/p>\n
Winnipeg at Montreal<\/p>\n
Percival Molson Stadium<\/p>\n
23,035<\/p>\n
Hamilton at Ottawa<\/p>\n
TD Place<\/p>\n
15,308<\/p>\n
BC at Toronto<\/p>\n
BMO Field<\/p>\n
13,974<\/p>\n
Week 18 average<\/p>\n
20,432<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan drew 29,412 against Calgary, the top gate of the week. All seven Roughriders home games this season have drawn 25,035 or more.<\/p>\n
Montreal drew 23,035 against Winnipeg, its season high. The Alouettes’ eight home gates have risen from 17,138 in Week 4 to 23,035 this week.<\/p>\n
Ottawa drew 15,308 against Hamilton. The Redblacks’ eight home gates this season have run from 13,727 to 17,336.<\/p>\n
Toronto drew 13,974 against BC, the smallest crowd of the week. That is the Argonauts’ second-lowest home gate of the season, behind 12,494 in Week 15.<\/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 6<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
22,889<\/p>\n
Week 7<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
18,756<\/p>\n
Week 8<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
25,827<\/p>\n
Week 9<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
25,157<\/p>\n
Week 10<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
21,970<\/p>\n
Week 11<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
22,941<\/p>\n
Week 12<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
23,553<\/p>\n
Week 13<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
24,819<\/p>\n
Week 14<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
27,019<\/p>\n
Week 15<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
24,937<\/p>\n
Week 16<\/p>\n
3<\/p>\n
18,061<\/p>\n
Week 17<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
23,011<\/p>\n
Week 18<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
20,432<\/p>\n
Week 18 fell from Week 17. Winnipeg played on the road, and the weekly average dropped below 21,000 for the first time since Week 16.<\/p>\n
Season-to-Date<\/p>\n
Total<\/p>\n
Games played<\/p>\n
69<\/p>\n
Total attendance<\/p>\n
1,551,814<\/p>\n
Average per game<\/p>\n
22,490<\/p>\n
Through 18 weeks, the 2026 season has drawn 1,551,814 fans across 69 games. The season average of 22,490 sits below the 2025 regular season mark of about 22,950.<\/p>\n
The gap has widened in two of the last three weeks and now stands at about 460.<\/p>\n
Attendance figures are self-reported by each team and are not independently verified.<\/p>\n
Week 19 Outlook<\/p>\n
Week 19 continues the 2026 schedule. The season average trails the 2025 mark by about 460. Check back for Week 19 figures once games are played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CFL attendance dropped in Week 18 of the 2026 season. The four games on October 2 and 3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[437],"tags":[49,48,521,522,520,82],"class_list":["post-920535","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\/920535","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=920535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}