The
Edmonton Eskimos are a professional
Canadian football team based in
Edmonton,
Alberta, competing in the
West Division of the
Canadian Football League (CFL). The Eskimos play their home games at
Commonwealth Stadium and are the third-youngest franchise in the CFL. The Eskimos were founded in 1949, although there were clubs with the name Edmonton Eskimos as early as 1895. The Eskimos are the most successful CFL franchise of the modern era (1954) having won the league's
Grey Cup championship fourteen times, second overall only to the
Toronto Argonauts who have won sixteen. This includes a
three-peat between 1954 and 1956 and an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982, and most recently in
2015.