The awarding of the Centennial Cup exemplifies the pan-Canadian sport development objective of the Canada Games. It is presented to the provincial or territorial team that shows the greatest improvement from one Summer Games to the next or from one Winter Games to the next. The Centennial Cup has been won by 10 different provinces and territories since added to the Games in 1971. 

The point differences for each province in each sport are combined to give an overall measure of change, and the province with the greatest positive change is awarded the Centennial Cup. If a province did not compete in the sport during the preceding Games, that sport is not counted for the province in the current Games. If a sport is new to the Games' program, it does not count in the current Games. If a sport has been dropped from the Games' program, it does not count in the current Games. 

If there is an overall tie in centennial cup points between two or more teams once the sum of all centennial points has been calculated across all sports, the tie will be broken using the flag point table. Between the tied teams, the team with the most flag points will be awarded the higher finishing position for the Centennial Cup.

The table below is a running calculation of Centennial Cup points!

Only those sports that are finished, meaning that all events have been completed and scored in that sport, will be calculated in the table below as flag points. Once 2022 flag points are awarded by sport for each province or territory for the 2022 Games, the 2017 flag points for that sport will appear in the 2017 flag points column. The difference between the 2017 and 2022 flag points is a measure of the team's improvement from the 2017 Canada Summer Games to the 2022 Canada Summer Games, and will appear as Centennial Cup Points.

The table below indicates which sports, by gender, will be awarded flag points for the 2022 Canada Games (since Tennis has a competition in which both genders compete together simultaneously, the flag points for that sport are doubled). An "X" in the table indicates that flag points have been awarded for that sport as all events in that sport have been completed. Please click on a sport to view detailed flag point results from the 2022 Games.