About cfldb
cfldb, The Canadian Football League Database, is a central library for all things CFL related. This includes but is not limited to information on the league, clubs, players and coaches. Types of information range from team and player statistics to schedules and financial information. Currently, the site hosts mostly complete schedules, results, attendance, coaching terms and records, owners and standings from 1980 to present.
None of the information on stats.cfldb is official, although efforts have been made to find and correct discrepancies and errors. Please report any errors or omissions you find, providing some reference to an authoritative source if possible.
Compiling and verifying this information is a large amount of work so help is appreciated. If you have information you can provide in any format, it will be gladly accepted. Please contact cfldb with the details. All contributions will be appropriately accredited as specified (you may remain anonymous).
How to Help
cfldb is looking for help in the following areas:
- data and sources of information
- pre-1980 schedules
- corrections to errors on the site
- complete missing information (game times of older schedules, television broadcasters and ratings)
- stadium, coach, owner information (newspaper clippings or other sources)
- contributions of research and long-form articles
- testing the site in various browsers for issues (specifically in IE 7/8/9, Safari, and Opera)
- web design advice on font selection and site layout, etc.
- technological help with front end code — CSS, HTML5, grid layout, mobile design, responsive layout, etc.
All contributions will be accredited appropriately as specified by the contributor. If you are interested please contact us.
Linking Policy
Thank you for linking to cfldb. Please play nice and link respectfully by linking to content pages, not directly to media files like pdfs and videos. Page links will provide a permanent link while media file names and locations may change. Basically, anything on media.cfldb.ca should not be linked to directly. If hot-linking becomes problematic, measures will be taken to block direct links.
Visitors are encouraged to subscribe to calendars published on cfldb, however, be nice and remove the calendar or stop the subscription after the season is over so this site doesn't have to server 1000's of update requests a day from your Blackberry for a 2009 schedule.
cfldb is properly written in all lowercase. In the case when it starts a sentence, it can be printed in all uppercase, like CFLDB, if your style guidelines require capitalization of initial words of sentences. It is never proper to write it with an initial capital — Cfldb is wrong.
Sources
Sources for data provided on the stats.cfldb section of the site are attributable to the following as original sources or verifying sources.
- Canadian Press CFL results and scoring summaries
- The Canadian Football League Facts, Figures & Records, 1985-2011 Editions
- CFL.ca
- Wikipedia
- The Pro Football Archives
- CFLapedia
- Numerous other publications, clippings and documents
Take Down Notices
Please use the contact form or admin email for any take down notices. They will be addressed promptly if proper grounds for removal are provided.
About This Site
cfldb is built on Django, the Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
cfldb uses strict HTML4 and CSS2.1 and attempts to validate, supporting all modern browsers. We have attempted to verify it in the latest Firefox, Safari, Opera, and IE browsers. IE 6 users will have a slightly less than intended experience. We encourage all IE users to maintain their browser version; IE 9 is the latest version of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
Who is Behind the Site
cfldb is run by a small group of CFL enthusiasts and fans like you who provide information, sources, common questions and their answers on CFL topics.