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The Canadian Football League (CFL) (Ligue canadienne de football (LCF) in French), is a professional sports league located in Canada that plays Canadian football. Its eight teams, located in eight cities, are divided into two divisions (East and West), with each division containing four teams. During the league's nineteen-week regular season, which runs from the Canada Day weekend to early November, each team plays eighteen games, and rests during one bye week. In November, following the regular season, six of the eight teams compete in the league's three-week playoffs, which culminate in the Grey Cup championship (first contested in 1909), the country's largest annual sports and television event.[1] The CFL, officially founded in 1958, yet tracing its origins to the 1860s, is the highest level of play in Canadian football, the most popular football league in Canada, and most popular sports league in Canada after the NHL.[2]