The 1994 Canadian Football League season is considered to be the 41st season in modern-day Canadian football, although it is officially the 37th Canadian Football League season.

The CFL admitted three more United States-based teams with the Las Vegas Posse, the Shreveport Pirates and the Baltimore Stallions – making it 12 teams in total, six in each division. The Baltimore team was to be called the Baltimore Colts, but the Colts name was revoked due to a successful trademark infringement lawsuit filed by the Indianapolis Colts, and they played the entire season as the "Baltimore CFLers". The new teams started play in 1994, with Las Vegas joining the Sacramento Gold Miners in the West Division, and Baltimore and Shreveport joining the East Division.

The expansion required the League to alter its season structure. For the first of only two seasons since 1980 (the other being the following year's season), CFL teams were not scheduled to travel to every other stadium in the League over the course of the season. Instead, CFL teams played each team in their own division twice, two teams in the other division twice and each of the remaining four teams in the other division once. The identity of the two inter-Divisional opponents to be played twice was determined by the previous season's regular season standing, with teams finishing first and third playing first and third from the other division twice, second and fourth place teams playing second and fourth from the other division twice and "fifth" and "sixth" place teams playing "fifth" and "sixth" from the other division twice. Since Sacramento finished fifth in 1993, and since the other three U.S. expansion teams were deemed "fifth" and "sixth" place for the purposes of determining the 1994 schedule, this format ensured that the U.S. teams all played one another twice for the 1994 season.

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