The Canadian Football League has teams in all seven current NHL markets , in addition to Hamilton , Ontario , and Regina , Saskatchewan . At least eight of these nine markets have hosted CFL teams every year since the league 's officially listed inception in 1958 , and no other Canadian market has ever had a CFL team of its own . In 2015 , the CFL commenced Northern Kickoff , originally slated to be one preseason game and later expanded to a regular season game as well , both of which were played in Fort McMurray , an oil sands boomtown with a metro area population of less than 70,000 , the smallest market to host major professional football in the modern era . Fort McMurray is in relatively close proximity to Edmonton , which was expected to boost attendance , but fewer than 5,000 fans attended the regular season game , and no games have been held in the city since ( the city was devastated by a wildfire shortly thereafter ) . Regular season games have been played in Moncton in 2010 , 2011 , 2013 and 2019 to gauge expansion to the Maritime provinces in the Touchdown Atlantic ; the expansion team , the Atlantic Schooners , has been proposed twice , once unsuccessfully in the 1980s , and another in the late 2010s that is still being considered . Hamilton , in addition to hosting the 2013 Touchdown Atlantic , played the rest of their 2013 season in Guelph during the construction of Tim Hortons Field
devastated by a wildfire
2016 Fort McMurray wildfire
Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada