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The Saskatchewan Roughriders are planning to bid to play host to the 2020 Grey Cup game.

Roughriders president and CEO Craig Reynolds made the announcement Monday during an interview on 620 CKRM’s Sports Cage.

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The 2018 Grey Cup game is to be held in Edmonton, followed by the 2019 event in Calgary.

The Riders haven’t played host to the Grey Cup game since 2013. The wildly successful event that capped by the Green and White beating the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 45-23 on Taylor Field.

Grey Cups have previously been held in Regina in 1995 and 2003.

Reynolds disclosed that the Riders have been working on a bid that is to submitted to the CFL in late October or early November. A decision from the league on the host city could made late in 2018 or early next year.

The Riders are to celebrate their 110th anniversary in 2020, a milestone that would tie in nicely with the team staging the first Grey Cup game to be played at new Mosaic Stadium, which opened in 2017.

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