The 2024 Toronto Argonauts season was the 66th season for the team in the
Canadian Football League
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and their 151st year of existence. The
Argonauts
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qualified for the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year with a win on October 11 over the
Winnipeg Blue Bombers
The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are a professional Canadian football team based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Blue Bombers compete in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member club of the league's West Division (CFL), West division. They play thei ...
. The team won their 19th
Grey Cup
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championship after defeating the Blue Bombers in the
111th Grey Cup
The 111th Grey Cup was played to decide the Canadian Football League (CFL) championship for the 2024 CFL season, 2024 season. The game was played on November 17, 2024, at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Toronto Argonauts defea ...
game.
The
2024 CFL season
The 2024 CFL season was the 70th List of Canadian Football League seasons, season of modern professional Canadian football. Officially, it was the 66th season of the Canadian Football League. Vancouver hosted the 111th Grey Cup on November 17, ...
was the fourth season for
head coach
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Ryan Dinwiddie
Ryan Lee Dinwiddie (born November 27, 1980) is an American professional football coach and former player who is the head coach of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played as a quarterback in the CFL for the Winnipeg ...
and the fifth season for
Michael Clemons as
general manager
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.
On July 11, 2024, team owners,
Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
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(MLSE), parted ways with team president,
Bill Manning, and stated that Clemons would report directly to MLSE President,
Keith Pelley.
The Toronto Argonauts drew an average home attendance of 15,129 in 2024.
Offseason
CFL Global Draft
The
2024 CFL Global Draft took place on April 30, 2024.
The Argonauts had two picks in the draft, selecting seventh in each round.
CFL National Draft
The
2024 CFL Draft
The 2024 CFL national draft was a selection of national players by Canadian Football League teams that took place on April 30, 2024 at 8:00 pm ET. 74 players were chosen from among eligible players from Canadian Universities across the c ...
took place on April 30, 2024.
[ The Argonauts had nine selections in the eight-round draft.] Through a series of trades with Hamilton
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* Alexander Hamilton (1755/1757–1804), first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
* ''Hamilton'' (musical), a 2015 Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda
** ''Hamilton'' (al ...
and Edmonton
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, the Argonauts improved their first-round pick by two spots, and had three selections in the third round and two each in the fifth and sixth rounds.[
]
Preseason
The Argonauts' home preseason game was played at Alumni Stadium
Alumni Stadium is a college football stadium on the lower campus of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. It is about west of downtown Boston, just inside the Boston city limits near the border with Newton, Massachusetts, Newton. It i ...
in Guelph
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, Ontario
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.
Schedule
: Games played with white uniforms.
Regular season
Standings
Schedule
The Argonauts are scheduled to play nine regular season home games in Toronto for the first time since 2018
Events January
* January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency.
* January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...
. The team was the designated host for Touchdown Atlantic
Touchdown Atlantic ( French: ''Touché Atlantique'') is a series of neutral site Canadian Football League games played in the Maritime provinces of Canada.
In 2003, the league had struck a committee to examine the feasibility of adding a tent ...
games in 2019
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Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
, 2022
The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
, and 2023
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, while the 2020 CFL season
The 2020 CFL season would have been the 67th season of modern-day Canadian football. Officially, it would have been the 63rd season of the Canadian Football League.
It was originally scheduled to begin on June 11; on April 7, the start of the ...
was cancelled and the 2021 CFL season
The 2021 CFL season was the 67th season of modern-day Canadian football. Officially, it was the 63rd season of the Canadian Football League. The regular season began on August 5 and ended November 20. Each team played 14 regular season games o ...
had every team hosting seven home games.
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: Games played with colour uniforms.
: Games played with white uniforms.
]
Post-season
Schedule
: Games played with colour uniforms.
: Games played with white uniforms.
Team
Roster
Coaching staff
References
External links
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