Montreal Alouettes

Montreal Alouettes

First Season
1946
Team History
Montreal Alouettes (1946-81, 1986-87, 1996-present) Montreal Concordes (1982-85)
Conference/Division
Canadian Football League (1958-87, 1996-present) East Division (1960-87, 1996-present) IRFU (1946-57)
Venue
Percival Molson Memorial Stadium (1947-67, 1972, 1998-present) Olympic Stadium (1976-86, 1996-97, part-time 1998-2013) Autostade (1968-76) Delorimier Stadium (1946-53)
Key People
Players • Head Coaches • Executives

The Montreal Alouettes are a professional Canadian football team based in Montreal, Quebec. Founded in 1946, the team has folded and been revived twice. The Alouettes compete in the East Division of the Canadian Football League (CFL) and last won their Grey Cup championship in 2010. The original Alouettes team (1946-81) won four Grey Cups and were particularly dominant in the 1970s. After their collapse in 1982, they were immediately reconstituted under new ownership as the Montreal Concordes. After playing for four years as the Concordes, they revived the Alouettes name for the 1986 season. A second folding in 1987 led to a nine-year hiatus of CFL football in the city.

The current Alouettes franchise was established in 1996 by the owners of the Baltimore Stallions. The Stallions were disbanded at the same time as the Alouettes' re-establishment after having been the most successful of the CFL's American expansion franchises, culminating in a Grey Cup championship in 1995. Many players from the Stallions' 1995 roster signed with the Alouettes and formed the core of the team's 1996 roster.

For record-keeping purposes, the CFL considers all clubs that have played in Montreal as one franchise dating to 1946, and considers the Alouettes to have suspended operations in 1987 before returning in 1996. Although the Alouettes' re-establishment in 1996 is often considered a relocation of the Stallions, neither the league nor the Alouettes recognize the Baltimore franchise, or its records, as part of the Alouettes' official team history.

Publications

Programs by season

1940s

Week	Date	Opponent	Venue
Montreal Alouettes
1948
regular season	October 2	vs. Toronto Argonauts	Delorimier Stadium
1949
regular season	September 24	vs. Toronto Argonauts	Delorimier Stadium

1950s

Week	Date	Opponent	Venue
1959
regular season	October 10	at Ottawa Rough Riders	Lansdowne Park

1960s

Week	Date	Opponent	Venue
1962
regular season	September 6	vs. BC Lions	Percival Molson Memorial Stadium
1963
regular season	September 8	vs. Winnipeg Blue Bombers	Percival Molson Memorial Stadium
regular season	September 16	at BC Lions	Empire Stadium
1964
preseason	July 30	vs. Ottawa Rough Riders	Percival Molson Memorial Stadium
regular season	September 11	vs. Edmonton Eskimos	Percival Molson Memorial Stadium
1965
regular season	August 7	at Hamilton Tiger-Cats	Civic Stadium
regular season	August 12	at Ottawa Rough Riders	Lansdowne Park
regular season	September 12	vs. Saskatchewan Roughriders	Percival Molson Memorial Stadium
regular season	September 24	vs. Winnipeg Blue Bombers	Percival Molson Memorial Stadium
1966
regular season	August 3	at Ottawa Rough Riders	Lansdowne Park
1967
regular season	August 11	at Toronto Argonauts	Exhibition Stadium
regular season	October 21	at Edmonton Eskimos	Clarke Stadium
1968
regular season	July 31	vs. Edmonton Eskimos	Autostade
regular season	October 26	at Ottawa Rough Riders	Lansdowne Park

1970s

Week	Date	Opponent	Venue
1970
preseason	August 18	vs. Edmonton Eskimos	Autostade
regular season	October 7	at Calgary Stampeders	McMahon Stadium
Grey Cup	November 28	vs. Calgary Stampeders	Exhibition Stadium
1971
regular season	August 25	at Hamilton Tiger-Cats	Ivor Wynne Stadium
1972
regular season	August 3	at Toronto Argonauts	Exhibition Stadium
regular season	September 24	at Calgary Stampeders	McMahon Stadium
1974
Grey Cup	November 24	vs. Edmonton Eskimos	Empire Stadium
1975
preseason	July 7	at Calgary Stampeders	McMahon Stadium
regular season	July 23	at Hamilton Tiger-Cats	Ivor Wynne Stadium
Grey Cup	November 23	vs. Edmonton Eskimos	McMahon Stadium
1977
regular season	July 26	vs. Calgary Stampeders	Olympic Stadium
Grey Cup	November 27	vs. Edmonton Eskimos	Olympic Stadium
1978
Grey Cup	November 26	vs. Edmonton Eskimos	Exhibition Stadium
1979
Grey Cup	November 25	vs. Edmonton Eskimos	Olympic Stadium

1980s

Week	Date	Opponent	Venue
1981
regular season	September 26	at Edmonton Eskimos	Commonwealth Stadium
1982
regular season	August 15	at Edmonton Eskimos	Commonwealth Stadium
Montreal Concordes
1983
preseason	June 10	vs. Ottawa Rough Riders	Olympic Stadium
regular season	August 7	vs. Winnipeg Blue Bombers	Olympic Stadium
1984
preseason	June 11	vs. Ottawa Rough Riders	Olympic Stadium
1985
regular season	October 19	vs. Ottawa Rough Riders	Olympic Stadium
Montreal Alouettes
1986
regular season	August 21	vs. Hamilton Tiger-Cats	Olympic Stadium
1988-95 Franchise Inactive

1990s

Week	Date	Opponent	Venue
1996
regular season	September 13	at Calgary Stampeders	McMahon Stadium
1997
regular season	September 28	at Calgary Stampeders	McMahon Stadium
1998
regular season	July 31	at Edmonton Eskimos	Commonwealth Stadium

2000s

Week	Date	Opponent	Venue
2000
Grey Cup	November 26	vs. BC Lions	McMahon Stadium
2001
regular season	July 20	at Winnipeg Blue Bombers	Canad Inns Stadium
2002
Grey Cup	November 24	vs. Edmonton Eskimos	Commonwealth Stadium
2003
Grey Cup	November 16	vs. Edmonton Eskimos	Taylor Field
2005
Grey Cup	November 27	vs. Edmonton Eskimos	BC Place
2006
Grey Cup	November 19	vs. BC Lions	Canad Inns Stadium
2008
Grey Cup	November 23	vs. Calgary Stampeders	Olympic Stadium
2009
postseason	November 22	vs. BC Lions	Olympic Stadium
Grey Cup	November 29	vs. Saskatchewan Roughriders	McMahon Stadium

2010s

Week	Date	Opponent	Venue
2010
Grey Cup	November 28	vs. Saskatchewan Roughriders	Commonwealth Stadium

Seasons

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