The 2025 CFL Playoff Schedule has been set following the completion of the regular-season on Saturday.
Following the 81-game regular-season, six teams advanced to the 111th Grey Cup Playoffs for the right to win the Canadian Football League championship.
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers (10-8) will travel to take on the Montreal Alouettes (10-8) at Molson Stadium in Montreal, Quebec, in the Eastern Semi-Final on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2025. The game will be streamed live in the United States via CFL+ at 2:00pm ET.
In the Western Semi-Final, the BC Lions (11-7) will host the Calgary Stampeders (11-7) at BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, also on Saturday, Nov. 1. The game will also be streamed live via CFL+ and will kickoff at 5:30pm ET.
The Hamilton Tiger-Cats finished atop the Eastern Division and the entire league with an 11-7 record. The Saskatchewan Roughriders finished first in the Western Division standings again this season with a record of 12-6. Both teams receive a Semi-Final round bye and will host division finals.
Hamilton will host the Eastern Final on Saturday, Nov. 8 at 3:00pm ET, while the Western Final featuring Saskatchewan will follow at 6:30pm ET. Both games will be streamed via CFL+.
Teams missing out on the CFL Playoffs this season the include the Edmonton Elks, Toronto Argonauts, and Ottawa Redblacks.
The 112th Grey Cup is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025 at Princess Auto Stadium in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The game is set for 6:00pm ET and it will be televised in the United States by CBS Sports Network.
All Canadian Football League games are televised in Canada by TSN (English) and RDS (French).
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If the playoff teams were seeded without regards to conference affiliation, here’s what would the seeds be:
1. Saskatchewan
2. BC (3-1 against Calgary and Hamilton)
3. Calgary (2-2 against BC and Hamilton)
4. Hamilton (1-3 against BC and Calgary)
5. Winnipeg (2-0 against Montreal)
6. Montreal (0-2 against Winnipeg)
The quarterfinals would be Montreal at Calgary and Winnipeg at Hamilton. The higher-seeded of the quarterfinal winners would travel to BC for the semifinals, while the lower seeded of the quarterfinal winners would go to Saskatchewan.
There is talk up north of going to this format. They should try it for sure…..why not!
11-7 Saskatchewan trumped Hamilton’s 12-6? I’ll assume if correct they swept a regular season series?
Those two teams each won their respective divisions and are hosting finals.
Saskatchewan finished 12-6
Hamilton 11-7
Cmon
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Not sure what you are looking at–
Saskatchewan had the league’s best record at 12-6, followed by Hamilton, BC, Calgary, all at 11-7. Montreal was 10-8, as was Winnipeg.
Because of division format, Montreal hosts the Eastern Semifinal. Winnipeg, because they had a better record than third place finisher East finisher Toronto, gets to crossover as East #3. They’ll play at Montreal in the East Semifinal. The winner of that game travels to Hamilton for the East Final.
Out west, Calgary travels to BC for the West Semifinal; winner goes to Regina for the West Final.
There are some that think eliminating divisions and going to a “TABLE” would be better and I tend to agree. Yes, we might not always get the West-East showdown in the Grey Cup, but do we really care in a 9-team outfit?
We have had Winnipeg (they were in the East in the years Ottawa was without CFL) and they made it to at least 2 Grey Cups from the East. I know they lost to Calgary in 2001 because I was at that game and they lost to Saskatchewan in 2008.
If Edmonton played Calgary of Hamilton faced Toronto in the Grey Cup, I think the excitement would be there—but that could be a few years away.
The East/West split and rivalry is critical for expanding interest in the CFL. Eliminating it would be the end of the league. We need the split. We also need a team in the Maritmes.
You don’t NEED it and I’ve been hearing Maritimes expansion since the 80s—where is the stadium, and more importantly, where are the people that can get one built?
When Winnipeg represented the East in the GC, the league survived.