The Blue Bombers had a chance at winning their third consecutive CFL title, but the Argonauts had other ideas, playing spoiler and knocking off the top team in the CFL this season with a 24-23 win at the 2022 Grey Cup.

It was the 18th win for the Toronto franchises, as the Argos continue to add to their club’s storied history. No team has won more Grey Cups in the history of the CFL than the Argonauts. 

Winnipeg had earned wins in 2019 and 2021, while the 2020 season was not played due to COVID-19. A victory in 2022 would have placed the Blue Bombers in a unique category, as it would have been only the third time in the CFL that a team successfully won three titles in a row. Instead, the Blue Bombers’ run comes to an end. 

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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.