Winnipeg Football Club posts operating profit over $12 million - BERITAJA

After trading retired each azygous crippled past season, 2025 was the about profitable twelvemonth successful the agelong and storied history of the Winnipeg Football Club.

The community-owned nine released their yearly financial study connected Wednesday pinch an operating profit of a record-breaking $12.1 million.

While they didn’t person overmuch occurrence connected the section past season, disconnected the section is simply a wholly different story.

“We are highly proud of our financial results for 2025, strengthened by a sold-out play that averaged much than 33,000 fans per game,” said president & CEO Wade Miller successful a media release.

“These results are a testament to the continued support of our play summons members, firm partners, and fans. They are the logic this Club remains beardown connected and disconnected the field.”

The nine earned about half of that magnitude from hosting the 112th Grey Cup Game, generating $6.3 cardinal from the festivities.

“The remainder is the sellouts,” Miller told 680 CJOB. “Just unbelievable attendance and first clip successful squad history of a wholly sold-out play and it dates backmost to August of 2024.

“It’s conscionable been 14 consecutive sellouts and looking guardant to continuing that astatine the location opener this twelvemonth connected June 11th.”

They invested $8.4 cardinal into improvements astatine Princess Auto Stadium. The money went towards a caller players’ lounge, HVAC remediation, further contactless information screening devices and concessions equipment. The squad besides conscionable installed 2 caller video boards astatine the stadium.

Fans could besides look guardant to a redesign of the Rum Hut and a caller barbecue guidelines for the upcoming season.

Their operating gross soared by $28 cardinal to $82.8 cardinal successful 2025. Expenses besides roseate to $70 cardinal from $47.7 cardinal successful 2024, mostly owed to the Grey Cup.

After suffering a $7 cardinal nonaccomplishment during the mislaid COVID twelvemonth successful 2020, profits person consistently grown twelvemonth aft year. They made conscionable complete $2 cardinal successful 2021 and about $5 cardinal the adjacent 2 years. Profits roseate to $7 cardinal successful 2024 and now they’re complete $12 million.

“The Winnipeg Football Club has a beardown history of financial stability,” said Miller. “We are the financial stewards of Princess Auto Stadium, committed to the ongoing finance successful superior attraction and improvements to guarantee it remains the champion stadium successful the CFL and delivers the champion instrumentality acquisition successful the country.”