Music will be centrepiece of celebrations as Calgary chosen to host 2026 Grey Cup

It’s official. The Canadian Football League has announced that the Calgary Stampeders volition big the 113th Grey Cup successful 2026.

CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie made the announcement Friday greeting (Nov. 8, 2024) astatine McMahon Stadium, wherever helium hoisted the Grey Cup arsenic a subordinate successful 1993.

“We’re looking guardant to 1 of the large Grey Cup parties of each time,” said Ambrosie.

It volition beryllium conscionable the sixth clip that Calgary has hosted the CFL’s title crippled — the past clip it was played astatine McMahon stadium was 2019.

“Its an astonishing place, a welcoming spot and it is simply a metropolis that is renowned for its quality to propulsion a bully party,” said Ambrosie, adding, “the metropolis volition ever clasp a peculiar spot successful his heart.”

“For maine personally it is wherever my CFL vocation started. In 1985 I was the Stampeder’s first-round draught prime and had the accidental to play my archetypal 2 seasons here. I won my Grey Cup successful 1993 close connected this field.”

Jay McNeil, president of the Calgary Stampeders, said Stampede Park and the BMO Centre volition big the 113th Grey Cup Festival and euphony volition beryllium a centrepiece of the celebrations.

“Calgary is rapidly becoming known arsenic 1 of the premiere euphony cities successful Canada,” said McNeil.

“Music volition beryllium the instauration of our Grey Cup Festival and we are readying a performance bid wherever a performance volition beryllium played each nighttime of the festival from the Big Four Roadhouse to the Scotiabank Saddledome, it is going to beryllium special.”

McNeil says much details connected the Grey Cup Festival volition beryllium announced implicit the adjacent 2 years.

Vancouver is the big metropolis of this year’s Grey Cup festiva,l with the crippled being placed connected Nov. 17th.

Winnipeg volition big the title crippled successful 2025.