Calcutta Cricket and Football Club

The Calcutta Cricket & Football Club (CC&FC) is a multisports club based in Kolkata, India.[1] It was founded in 1792 as a cricket institution,[2] adding the football and rugby sections when it merged with Calcutta F.C. in 1965.[3][4]

Calcutta C&FC
Full nameCalcutta Cricket & Football Club
Short nameCCFC
Founded1792 (1792), (as Calcutta Cricket Club Clippers)
1965 (1965), (as Calcutta Cricket & Football Club)[note 1]
GroundCC&FC Ground, Ballygunge
LeagueCalcutta Premier Division B
WebsiteClub website

Sports currently practised at CC&FC include cricket, field hockey, football, rugby, cycle polo and tennis. The football squad currently competes in the Premier Division B of the Calcutta Football League.

History
Ground of the Calcutta Cricket Club, 15th Jan'y. 1861 H.M. 68th L.I. from Rangoon, versus the Calcutta Cricket Club, a lithograph after a watercolour by Percy Carpenter, depicting a visit by the 68th (Durham) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry).

The Club was founded as the "Calcutta Cricket Club Clippers" by British expatriates who had come over with the British East India Company.[5] It is known to have been in existence by 1792.[3][6]

During its first years of existence, the Calcutta Cricket Club played its home games near river Hooghly but it was not until 1841 when the institution got land to establish its venue. Later it was merged with the Calcutta Football Club (where both footballs, rugby and association were practised)[3] and the Ballygunge Cricket Club over the years to become the "Calcutta Cricket and Football Club" in 1965.[3]

CCFC main building

Run by the British, Calcutta Football Club was once one of the leading football teams and had a great rivalry specially with Mohun Bagan. Other rivals were Mohammedan Sporting, Aryan and Dalhousie.

The squad had won the Calcutta Football League (CFL) 8 times[7] and the IFA Shield 9 times[8] before merging to the Calcutta C.C.

Famous members
Main entrance to the CCFC club tent (in left), beside the club tent of Mohun Bagan Athletic Club in Kolkata Maidan area.

A large number of notable athletes are associated with the club, including:

Honours

As Calcutta FC (1872–1965)
Champions (8): 1899, 1907, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1925[7]
Champions (9): 1896, 1900, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1915, 1922, 1923, 1924[8]

See also

Notes
  1. The date refers to the original Calcutta Cricket Club established in 1792, before merging to the Calcutta F.C. (1872–1965) in 1965 to form the current club

References
  1. Sengupta, Somnath (24 April 2012). "Legends Of Indian Football : The Pioneers". thehardtackle.com. The Hard Tackle. Archived from the original on 26 October 2017. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  2. Some, Aritra (12 October 2020). "২৩০ বছর পেরিয়ে, কেমন আছে 'ক্যালকাটা ক্রিকেট ক্লাব'? [India's first Cricket club is situated in Kolkata]". www.prohor.in (in Bengali). Prohor. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. History of the club Archived 28 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine on CC&FC website
  4. Majumdar, Boria, Bandyopadhyay, Kausik (1 February 2006). Goalless: The Story of a Unique Footballing Nation. New Delhi: Penguin India. ISBN 9780670058747. Archived from the original on 8 April 2022.
  5. Timeline of Bangladesh Cricket on Bangladesh Cricket site (Archive, 11 Jun 2010)
  6. Some dates Archived 10 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine in Indian cricket history, Wisden 1967 on ESPN Crickinfo
  7. List of champions of the Calcutta Football League 1898–2007 Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine www.indianfootball.de. Retrieved 10 March 2021
  8. "List of Winners/Runners-Up of the IFA-Shield". indianfootball.de. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  9. Punya Datta Archived 8 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine on ESPN Crickinfo
  10. "Dilip Doshi profile". Archived from the original on 24 July 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  11. "Ashok Gandotra profile". Archived from the original on 14 August 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  12. "Devang Gandhi profile". Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  13. "Arun Lal profile". Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  14. "Pranab Roy profile". Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  15. "Enrico Piperno profile". Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  16. Sengupta, Somnath (8 March 2011). "The Glorious History Of IFA Shield". thehardtackle.com. The Hard Tackle. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 1 July 2021.


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