Edmonton Elks
| Edmonton Elks | |||||||||||
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| Founded | 1949 | ||||||||||
| Stadium | Play Alberta Field at Commonwealth Stadium | ||||||||||
| Headquartered | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | ||||||||||
| Colours | Green, gold, white | ||||||||||
| Mascot | Nanook and Punter | ||||||||||
| Website | goelks.com | ||||||||||
| Personnel | |||||||||||
| Owner | Estate of Larry Thompson | ||||||||||
| General manager | Ed Hervey | ||||||||||
| Head coach | Mark Kilam | ||||||||||
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| Canadian Football League West Division | |||||||||||
| Championships | |||||||||||
| Grey Cup wins: 14 (1954, 1955, 1956, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1993, 2003, 2005, 2015) | |||||||||||
The Edmonton Elks are a professional Canadian football team based in Edmonton. The club competes in the Canadian Football League (CFL) as a member of the league's West Division and plays their home games at Commonwealth Stadium. The Elks were founded in 1949 as the Edmonton Eskimos and have won the Grey Cup championship fourteen times (including a three-peat between 1954 and 1956 and an unmatched five consecutive wins between 1978 and 1982), most recently in 2015 and the most of any CFL club based in Western Canada. The team has a rivalry with the Calgary Stampeders known as the Battle of Alberta. The team retired the Eskimos name in 2020 due to the Native American mascot controversy.