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Canadian sports team stats & history
Championship records, franchise history, arena facts and sourced dynasties for every major Canadian pro-sports team across the NHL, CFL, NBA, MLB and MLS — stats and history only, no odds or operator picks.
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NHL
Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto · founded 1917
Toronto's 13 Stanley Cups are the second-most in NHL history, but every one of them came before 1968 — the franchise carries the league's longest active title drought alongside sustained, high-payroll roster construction around Auston Matthews.
Montreal Canadiens
Montreal · founded 1909
With 24 Stanley Cups, Montreal is the most decorated franchise in NHL history, built on two separate multi-Cup dynasties — but 1993 is also the last time ANY Canadian team has won the Cup, a fact that frames every Canadian franchise's modern-era drought.
Vancouver Canucks
Vancouver · founded 1970
The Canucks have never won a Stanley Cup despite three Final appearances (1982, 1994, 2011) — a near-miss history that, combined with being the only Pacific-zone Canadian team, makes travel scheduling a genuine structural factor in Vancouver's season.
Calgary Flames
Calgary · founded 1972
Calgary's lone Stanley Cup (1989) is a genuine historical footnote — won on the road in Montreal — and the franchise, which began as the Atlanta Flames in 1972, is mid-rebuild after trading away core veterans in 2025-26.
Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton · founded 1972
Edmonton's five Cups from the Gretzky-Messier era remain a benchmark dynasty, and the current Connor McDavid-led roster has reached three straight Conference/Cup Finals (2022-2024) without closing one out — a genuine, sourced near-miss pattern rather than a rebuild.
Winnipeg Jets
Winnipeg · founded 2011
The modern Winnipeg Jets (est. 2011) have no Stanley Cup and their best result is a 2018 Conference Final run, but a 2024-25 Presidents' Trophy season shows real regular-season strength — all played in the NHL's smallest permanent arena.
Ottawa Senators
Ottawa · founded 1992
Today's Ottawa Senators (est. 1992) have zero Stanley Cups and one Final appearance (2007) — a separate, folded 1883-1934 Ottawa franchise won four Cups but is not the same legal entity. A new downtown arena is planned for the early 2030s.
CFL
BC Lions
Vancouver · founded 1954
BC's six Grey Cups span five decades of competitive eras, and the Lions play their home games under the CFL's only fully retractable roof — a structural weather advantage no other franchise on this page has.
Calgary Stampeders
Calgary · founded 1945
Calgary's eight Grey Cups include a perfect 12-0 inaugural-era season and the Wally Buono dynasty of the 1990s and 2000s — the most sustained coaching era of any CFL franchise on this page.
Edmonton Elks
Edmonton · founded 1949
Edmonton's 14 Grey Cups are the most in CFL history, anchored by a five-peat from 1978 to 1982 under Warren Moon — the record total includes the franchise's years as the Edmonton Eskimos before its 2021 rename to the Elks.
Saskatchewan Roughriders
Regina · founded 1910
Saskatchewan is the CFL's most recent Grey Cup winner (2025, a one-year-old title as of this page), won in a stadium purpose-built to blunt brutal prairie playoff-weather conditions.
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Winnipeg · founded 1930
Winnipeg's 12 Grey Cups span the Bud Grant dynasty of the 1950s-60s and a modern back-to-back title run (2019, 2021) under Mike O'Shea that ended a long championship gap.
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
Hamilton · founded 1950
Hamilton's eight Grey Cups are concentrated in a 1950-1972 'Steel Town dynasty' era of ten Final appearances and seven wins — none since 1999, the longest active drought of any CFL team on this page.
Toronto Argonauts
Toronto · founded 1873
Toronto's 19 Grey Cups are the most of any CFL franchise, spanning eras from Lew Hayman's 1930s-40s dynasty to a 2024 title — but the defending champions then missed the 2025 playoffs entirely at 5-13, a sourced, sudden reversal.
Ottawa Redblacks
Ottawa · founded 2014
Ottawa's only Grey Cup (2016) came in the Redblacks' first few seasons as a 2014 expansion franchise and ended a 40-year gap since Ottawa's previous CFL title.
Montreal Alouettes
Montreal · founded 1946
Montreal's eight Grey Cups span a 1970s Final-appearance run and the Anthony Calvillo dynasty of the 2000s-10s, and the Alouettes were the losing side of the most recent Grey Cup (2025, to Saskatchewan).
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Toronto FC
Toronto · founded 2006
Toronto FC's 2017 treble (MLS Cup, Supporters' Shield, Canadian Championship in one season) is a feat no other MLS club has matched, though it remains the franchise's only MLS Cup as the first Canadian team admitted to the league.
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Vancouver · founded 2009
Vancouver has never won an MLS Cup, but 2025 was a breakthrough season — its first-ever MLS Cup final appearance, alongside a CONCACAF Champions Cup final run — both losses, both firsts for the club.
CF Montréal
Montreal · founded 1993
CF Montréal has never won an MLS Cup — its pre-MLS second-tier titles and Canadian Championships are real honours but a different competition — since entering MLS in 2012 as the league's third Canadian club, and rebranding from Montreal Impact in 2021.