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Old 01-10-2018, 11:56 AM   #57
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More information on the league from this article on the CPL commissioner hire: https://www.thespec.com/sports-story...9-SlLA.twitter

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Other locales likely to have teams ready for 2019 are: Winnipeg, owned by the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL; the Ottawa Fury, which will play its second season in the American second tier USL in 2018; Halifax; the lower B.C. mainland and Saskatoon.

But the list of serious candidates also includes Kitchener-Waterloo, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, Quebec City, Moncton, Mississauga and a second GTA franchise in either Vaughan or York Township.

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The CPL will have a salary cap and while some players will make into six figures for the season, the average salary is likely to land somewhere between $40,000 and $60,000 per season.

There will also be an "import limit", restricting each team to an as-yet-unannounced number of non-domestic players.

"Most of our players will be Canadians," Beirne told The Spectator, "It's a league by Canadians for Canadians. And it's also a league of supporters for supporters."
The salary cap number floated has been $1.5 million. If people are looking to understand the level of play, I think NASL level is probably the best comparison out there. As a comparison, the San Francisco Deltas, who won NASL last year, had a salary budget of around $1.2 mil USD.
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