Calcutta Cricket and Football Club

Calcutta Cricket and Football Club
ক্যালকাটা ক্রিকেট এন্ড ফুটবল ক্লাব
Full nameCalcutta Cricket and Football Club[1]
Nickname(s)Clippers
Short nameCCFC, CC&FC
Founded23 February 1792; 232 years ago (23 February 1792)
(as Calcutta Cricket Club Clippers)[note 1]
1965; 59 years ago (1965)
(as Calcutta Cricket & Football Club)
GroundCC&FC Ballygunge Ground
Calcutta FC Ground
Capacity22,000
15,000
ChairmanSubrata Das
Head coachJamshid Nassiri
LeagueCFL Premier Division
WebsiteClub website
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Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (popularly known by its abbreviation CC&FC, or CCFC) is an Indian professional multi-sports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal. Founded in 1792 as a cricket institution, the football and rugby sections were added when it merged with Calcutta Football Club (oldest football club in Asia, founded in 1872) in 1965.[2][3]

Rugby section of the club made CC&FC the oldest rugby institution founded outside the United Kingdom and Ireland.[4][5] Club's football section competes in the premier division of Calcutta Football League, fifth tier of the Indian football league system.

  1. ^ "Team Profile — Calcutta Cricket and Football Club". besoccer.com. BeSoccer TV. Archived from the original on 26 November 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
  2. ^ Some, Aritra (12 October 2020). "২৩০ বছর পেরিয়ে, কেমন আছে 'ক্যালকাটা ক্রিকেট ক্লাব'?" [India's first Cricket club is situated in Kolkata]. prohor.in (in Bengali). Prohor. Archived from the original on 31 October 2020. Retrieved 10 March 2021.
  3. ^ Hor, Sandip (2010). "Indian Link — The City of Wonders". indianlink.com.au. Archived from the original on 4 April 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2011.
  4. ^ "Georgiadi Club Rugby Sevens 2019 — Who are the CC&FC?". rugbyasia247.com. Rugby Asia 24/7. 30 July 2019. Archived from the original on 15 June 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2023.
  5. ^ Tony Collins (2006). "Schism 1893–1895". Rugby's great split: class, culture and the origins of rugby league football (2nd ed.). Routlage. ISBN 0-415-39616-6. Archived from the original on 3 May 2023.


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