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The Calcutta Cricket & Football Club (CC&FC) (formally named as Calcutta Cricket Club)[1] is a multisports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.[2] Founded in 1792 as a cricket institution,[3] the football and rugby sections were added when it merged with Calcutta FC (oldest association football club in Asia, founded in 1872) in 1965.[4][5]

Calcutta C&FC

Full name	Calcutta Cricket & Football Club
Short name	CCFC
Founded	1792; 230 years ago (1792) (as Calcutta Cricket Club Clippers) 1872; 150 years ago (1872) (as Calcutta Football Club)[note 1] 1965; 57 years ago (1965) (as Calcutta Cricket & Football Club)[note 2]
Ground	CC&FC Ground, Ballygunge Calcutta FC Ground, Maidan
League	Calcutta First Division
Website	Club website
Home colours

Founded as one of the earliest European clubs in Calcutta,[6] British India, Calcutta FC introduced rugby in the country.[7] They later started playing association football and have enjoyed rivalry with fully indigenous clubs, primarily Mohun Bagan.[8][9] Sports currently practised at the CC&FC include: cricket, football, field hockey, rugby, cycle polo and tennis. The football team currently competes in the Premier Division B of the Calcutta Football League, conducted by the Indian Football Association (IFA).

The club's cricket and football teams participates in their respective divisions as "Calcutta Cricket Club" for cricket and "Calcutta Football Club" for football.[10][11] Their hockey and rugby teams participates under the combined name of "Calcutta Cricket and Football Club",[12][13] with the hockey team also known as CCFC Gremlins.[14]

History

The Club was founded as the "Calcutta Cricket Club Clippers" by British expatriates who had come over with the British East India Company.[15][16][17] Have been in existence since 1792,[4][18] it is the second oldest cricket club in the world after Marylebone Cricket Club.[1][19] On 23 February 1792, Madras Courier reported the schedule of match between Calcutta Cricket Club and a team from Barrackpore, and the news was later highlighted by Irwin Rosenwater on The London Times.[20]

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. In 1889–90, the club came into limelight when Marylebone Cricket Club came to play in Calcutta by responding to the club's invitation, which was the first visit of a foreign team to play cricket in India.[20] It was later merged with the Calcutta Football Club (incorporated in 1872,[21][22] where both footballs — rugby and association were practised)[23][24][25] and the Ballygunge Cricket Club over the years to become the "Calcutta Cricket and Football Club" in 1965.[4]

Run by the British, Calcutta Football Club was once one of the leading football teams[26] and had a great rivalry specially with Mohun Bagan.[27] The team for the first time was defeated by Mohun Bagan in 1923 in the return leg of CFL, but managed to clinch both the league and IFA Shield titles in that season.[28][29] Other rivals of the club were Mohammedan Sporting, Aryan and Dalhousie.[30]

Calcutta FC won the prestigious Calcutta Football League (CFL) eight times,[31] and the IFA Shield nine times[32] before merging to the Calcutta Cricket Club.

Home ground

There was absence of permanent venue for the club. They used grounds in Esplanade, parallel with the river Hooghly, between Fort William and Government House.[4] In 1825, 'Sketch of the Maidan' was done by the club, and in 1841, they were allowed to enclose the ground. The club later used Auckland Circus Gardens.[4][33]

The club later played its home games at the Calcutta FC ground in Kolkata Maidan, now known as Mohun Bagan Ground.[34] It was used as venue of the 1954 edition of Quadrangular Series.[35][36]

Notable members

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

• Football: Chuni Goswami, Subhas Bhowmick, S. Bhattacharjee, Pradip Choudhury, P. Ganguly, Santo Mitra, Shyam Thapa,[37] Kiyan Nassiri.[38]
• Hockey: Keshav Chandra Datt, Gurbux Singh, Dr. Vece Paes, Anand Mandapaka.
• Cricket: Punya B. Datta,[39][40] Ashok Gandotra[41] Devang Gandhi,[42] Sourav Ganguly, Saba Karim, Arun Lal,[43] Pranab Roy,[44] Biswajit Bhowmick.
• Tennis: Chiradip Mukerjea, Enrico Piperno,[45] Leander Paes.

Honours

Football

As Calcutta FC

• Calcutta Football League[46]
  • Champions (8): 1899, 1907, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1925
• IFA Shield[note 3][47]
  • Champions (9): 1896, 1900, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1915, 1922, 1923, 1924[32]
  • Runners-up (8): 1905, 1907, 1910, 1914, 1916, 1919, 1921, 1936
• Trades Cup
  • Champions (1): 2004[48]
• Minto Fort Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1906[49]

Hockey

As Calcutta FC

• Beighton Cup
  • Champions (1): 1924[50]
  • Runners-up (1): 1919

See also

• History of Cricket in India
• Football in Kolkata
• History of Indian football
• List of football clubs in India

Notes

Further reading

• Mitra, Soumen (1 January 2006). In Search of an Identity: The History of Football in Colonial Calcutta. Kolkata: Dasgupta & Co. Private Ltd. ISBN 978-8182110229. Archived from the original on 21 October 2022.
• Kapadia, Novy (2017). Barefoot to Boots: The Many Lives of Indian Football. Penguin Random House. ISBN 978-0-143-42641-7.
• Majumdar, Boria, Bandyopadhyay, Kausik (2006). Goalless: The Story of a Unique Footballing Nation. Penguin India. ISBN 9780670058747.
• Dutta, P. L., Memoir of 'Father of Indian Football' Nagendraprasad Sarbadhikary (Calcutta: N. P. Sarbadhikary Memorial Committee, 1944) (hereafter Memoir)
• Sharma, Nikhil Paramjit; Gupta, Shantanu (4 February 2019). India's Football Dream. SAGE Publications India. ISBN 9789353283063. Archived from the original on 4 October 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
• Bolsmann, Chris; Vahed, Goolam (2 November 2017). "'They Are Fine Specimens of the Illustrious Indian Settler': Sporting Contact between India and South Africa, 1914–1955". Journal of Southern African Studies. 43 (6): 1273–1291. doi:10.1080/03057070.2017.1379689. ISSN 0305-7070. S2CID 148862123. Archived from the original on 3 October 2022. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
• Ghosh, Saurindra Kumar. Krira Samrat Nagendraprasad Sarbadhikary 1869–1940 (Calcutta: N. P. Sarbadhikary Memorial Committee, 1963) (hereafter Krira Samrat).
• Roselli, John. Self Image of Effeteness: Physical Education and Nationalism in Nineteenth Century Bengal. Past & Present (journal). 86 (February 1980). p. 121–48.
• Sinha, Mrinalini. Colonial Masculinity, The Manly Englishman and the Effeminate Bengali in the Late Nineteenth Century (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995).
• Chatterjee, Partha. The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Post-colonial Histories (Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1995).
• Das, Communal Riots in Bengal, p. 170; Amrita Bazar Patrika, 8 July 1946, 4; File‐5/27/46 Poll (I), the IB Daily Summary Information of 8 July 1946.
• Mason, Football on the Maidan, p. 144; Dimeo, Football and Politics in Bengal, p. 62.
• Sen, Dwaipayan (2013). "Wiping the Stain Off the Field of Plassey: Mohun Bagan in 1911". In Bandyopadhyay, Kausik; Mallick, Sabyasachi (eds.). Fringe Nations in World Soccer. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-99810-5.
• Nath, Nirmal (2011). History of Indian Football: Upto 2009–10. Readers Service. ISBN 9788187891963. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022.
• "Triumphs and Disasters: The Story of Indian Football, 1889—2000" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 August 2012. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
• D'Mello, Anthony (1959). Portrait Of Indian Sport. P R Macmillan Limited, London.
• From recreation to competition: Early history of Indian football Archived 9 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine. pp. 124–141. Published online: 6 Aug 2006. www.tandfonline.com. Retrieved 30 June 2021.
• Majumdar, Boria; Bandyopadhyay, Kausik (2006). A Social History Of Indian Football: Striving To Score. Routledge. ISBN 9780415348355. Archived from the original on 29 June 2021.
• Basu, Jaydeep (2003). Stories from Indian Football. UBS Publishers' Distributors. ISBN 9788174764546. Archived from the original on 11 October 2022.
• Sen, Dwaipayan (2013). "Wiping the Stain Off the Field of Plassey: Mohun Bagan in 1911". In Bandyopadhyay, Kausik; Mallick, Sabyasachi (eds.). Fringe Nations in World Soccer. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-99810-5.
• Sen, Ronojoy (2015). "The Empire Strikes Back: The 1911 IFA Shield and Football in Calcutta". Nation at Play: A History of Sport in India. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-16490-0.

References

External links

• Official website
• Calcutta Cricket and Football Club on Facebook
• "IFAWB Clubs: Men's Division (CFL 1st DIVISION)". Indian Football Association. Archived from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2022.

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