Canadian Football League
The Canadian Football League (CFL; ) is a professional sports league in Canada. The CFL is the highest level of competition in Canadian football. Its nine teams, which are located in nine separate cities throughout Canada, are divided into two divisions: the East Division, with four teams, and the West Division with five teams.
Names for association football
In Canada, similar to the US, the term "football" refers to gridiron football (either Canadian football or American football; "le football canadien" or "le football américain" in Standard French). "Soccer" is the name for association football in Canadian English (similarly, in Canadian French, "le soccer"). Likewise, in majority francophone Quebec, the provincial governing body is the "Fédération de Soccer du Québec". This is unusual compared to other francophone countries, where "football" is generally used. For example, in FIFA, an acronym for the world governing body of the sport, the "FA" stands for "football association" (French for "association football"). Some teams based in the two countries have adopted "FC" as a suffix or prefix in their names; in Major League Soccer; these include FC Dallas, Seattle Sounders FC, Toronto FC, Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Los Angeles FC and New York City FC.