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| Full name | Lima Cricket & Football Club | |
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| Founded | 1859[1] | |
| Ground | Lima, Peru | |
| Chairman | Gustavo Zevallos Velarde [2] | |
| League | Copa Perú | |
| Website | https://www.clublimacricket.com/ | |
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Lima Cricket & Football Club is a Peruvian professional 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 association football-practising club in Peru and the Americas, having been founded in 1859 by the city's British community.[1] The 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, fencing, field hockey, squash, table tennis, tennis, swimming, volleyball, and water aerobics (rugby union is no longer practised). Other social activities include bocce, darts, pilates, snooker, and zumba.[4]
- ^ a b Eli Schmerler; Carlos Manuel Nieto Tarazona (14 March 2013). "Peru - Foundation Dates of Clubs". RSSSF. Archived from the original on 27 May 2021. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
- ^ Nosotros Archived 2021-09-17 at the Wayback Machine, board of directors, 17 Jul 2020
- ^ "11th South American Championship, Lima, 2014 « Cricket Peru". perucricket.com. Archived from the original on 2019-06-01. Retrieved 2016-09-14.
- ^ Deportes Archived 2020-07-17 at the Wayback Machine on club website