CFL Grey Cup winners list by team: Who has most championships in Canadian Football League history? | Sporting News Canada

For the first time in over a decade, the Montreal Alouettes are Grey Cup champions. 

The Alouettes defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 28-24 in the 2023 CFL championship game on Sunday. Tyson Philpot’s touchdown in the dying seconds of the game lifted Montreal to its first title since 2010. 

The win is Montreal’s eighth in CFL history, pulling them into a tie with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Calgary Stampeders for the third-most championships in league history. 

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Here is a look at all of the previous Grey Cup winners and what three-peats have happened in CFL history. 

Who has won the most Grey Cups in CFL history?

Out of the active teams, it is the Argos that have earned the most titles in team history. Toronto has won the Grey Cup 18 times, four more than the next-closest franchise, Edmonton. 

All nine of the active clubs have won at least one Grey Cup, with every team owning multiple championships with the exception of Ottawa, which has just one.

Ottawa’s old team, the Rough Riders, ironically have the most Grey Cups out of any of the defunct/amateur teams from the CFL’s history. 

(Data via Canadian Football Hall of Fame) 

Which teams have completed three peats in the CFL?

There have been five separate occurrences of one team winning the Grey Cup three years consecutively. 

The first team to do it was the University of Toronto, which won the first three Grey Cups in CFL history. Queen’s University followed the early 1920s with their three-peat, and then the Toronto Argonauts in the mid-1940s. 

The Edmonton Eskimos, now known as the Elks, are the last team to three-peat and have done so twice in team history. Edmonton won three in a row in the mid-’50s before stringing together five Grey Cup victories from 1978 to 1982.