Lima Cricket and Football Club

Lima CFC
Full name Lima Cricket and Football Club
Founded 1859[1][2]
Ground Lima, Peru
Chairman Richard Rehwaldt
Manager Cesar Drago
League Copa Perú
Website Club home page
The 1912 football team, Primera División champion.

Lima Cricket & Football Club is a Peruvian sports club based in the country's capital city of Lima. Lima Cricket claims to be both the oldest cricket club in South America, and the oldest football-practising club in Peru and the Americas, having been founded in 1859 by the city's British community.[1][2] The association football team currently participates in the local league of San Isidro District, Lima.

The club is the de facto home of the Peru Cricket Association, and hosts the National T20 Cricket League during the summer months of January to April. It has also hosted a number of international tournaments, featuring the Peru national cricket team. The most recent was the South American Championship in April, 2014, with competing teams from Argentina (men & women), Brazil (men & women), Chile and Mexico (men only).[3]

Apart from football and cricket, nowadays the club hosts the practise of basketball, basque pelota, bowls, fencing, field hockey, table tennis, darts, snooker, squash, tennis, swimming and volleyball. Rugby union is no longer practised.[4]

History

Lima Cricket & Football Club was originally founded by English immigrants as the Lima Cricket Club.[5] From its start, it was a multi-sport club based around the sports of cricket, rugby union, and football; however, there was a central focus on cricket.

Over time, other sports gained popularity within the club, and thus its name several times such as in 1865 to Lima Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club (when it merged with a local lawn tennis club)[6] and to Lima Cricket and Football Club in 1906[5] (although another source dates this as 1900[6]).

Despite its members having played football since its origins, the club's first recorded football match was in 1893, a year after the first recorded game of football in the Peruvian capital.[7] Lima Cricket went on to inspire future football clubs in Peru, such as Union Cricket.[7]

Rivalries

His first rivalry was with the Ciclista Lima who dispute the (Classic of Yesteryear).

Honours

National

Winners (2): 1912, 1914
Runner-up (1): 1913

Regional

Winners (3): 2007, 2008, 2012
Runner-up (2): 2009, 2010, 2011

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Higgins 2005, p. 130.
  2. 1 2 Eli Schmerler; Carlos Manuel Nieto Tarazona (14 March 2013). "Peru - Foundation Dates of Clubs". RSSSF. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  3. ↑ "11th South American Championship, Lima, 2014 « Cricket Peru". perucricket.com. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
  4. ↑ "Deportes" at club website
  5. 1 2 "Lima Cricket & Football Club". clublimacricket.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 2008-08-12.
  6. 1 2 Joseph Arbena; David Gerald LaFrance (2002). Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean. Retrieved 2008-09-01.

Bibliography

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