1976 CFL season


The 1976 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 23rd season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 19th Canadian Football League season.

CFL news in 1976

For the first time in Canadian Football League history, more than two million fans attended CFL games, with a total attendance of 2,029,586.
In the CFL All-Star Game, the East team defeated the West, 27-16, in front of 21,762 fans at Clarke Stadium in Edmonton. The game was played before the pre-season on May 29, the first and only time a CFL contest has been held in the month of May to date.

Regular season standings

Final regular season standings

Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, PF = Points For, PA = Points Against, Pts = Points
TeamGPWLTPFPAPts
Saskatchewan Roughriders16115042723822
Winnipeg Blue Bombers16106038431620
Edmonton Eskimos1696131136719
BC Lions1659230833612
Calgary Stampeders1621223164226

The Ottawa Rough Riders are the 1976 Grey Cup champions, defeating the Saskatchewan Roughriders, 23–20, at Toronto's Exhibition Stadium. This was the third championship game between the two Rough Riders with Ottawa winning two out of three games. Ottawa's Tom Clements was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player on Offence and Saskatchewan's Cleveland Vann was named the Grey Cup's Most Valuable Player on Defence. Ottawa's Tony Gabriel was named Grey Cup's Most Valuable Canadian.
This was the only year between 1973 and 1982 that the Edmonton Eskimos did not appear in the Grey Cup game.

Playoff bracket

CFL Leaders

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