Calcutta Cricket and Football Club

{{Short description|Multi-sports club based in India}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2025}} {{Use Indian English|date=August 2016}} {{Infobox football club | clubname = '''Calcutta Cricket and Football Club'''<br/>{{box|'''ক্যালকাটা ক্রিকেট অ্যান্ড ফুটবল ক্লাব'''}} | image = Calcutta Cricket and Football Club.svg | image_size = 160px | fullname = Calcutta Cricket and Football Club<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.besoccer.com/team/calcutta-cricket-and-football-club|title=Team Profile — Calcutta Cricket and Football Club|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126163419/https://www.besoccer.com/team/calcutta-cricket-and-football-club|archive-date=26 November 2023|website=besoccer.com|publisher=BeSoccer TV|access-date=23 January 2023}}</ref> | nickname = Clippers | short name = CCFC, CC&FC | founded = {{Start date and age|df=yes|23 February 1792}}<br />{{small|(as ''Calcutta Cricket Club Clippers'')}}{{#tag:ref|The date refers to the original Calcutta Cricket Club established in 1792, which later merged with Calcutta F.C. (1872–1965) and Ballygunge Cricket Club in 1965, to form the current club.|group=note|name=merge}}<hr />{{Start date and age|df=yes|1965}}<br />{{small|(as ''Calcutta Cricket & Football Club'')}} | ground = CC&FC Ballygunge Ground<hr />Calcutta FC Ground | capacity = 22,000<br />15,000 | chairman = Subrata Das | mgrtitle = Head coach | manager = Jamshid Nassiri | league = CFL Premier Division | season = 2023 | current = | pattern_la1 = _whiteborder | pattern_b1 = _black_lowleft_highright | pattern_ra1 = _whiteborder | pattern_sh1 = | pattern_so1 = _whitetop | leftarm1 = FF0000 | body1 = FF0000 | rightarm1 = FF0000 | shorts1 = 000000 | socks1 = FF0000 | pattern_la2 = _redborder | pattern_b2 = _redcollar | pattern_ra2 = _redborder | pattern_sh2 = | pattern_so2 = FFFFFF | leftarm2 = FFFFFF | body2 = FFFFFF | rightarm2 = FFFFFF | shorts2 = FFFFFF | socks2 = FFFFFF | website = {{official URL}} }}

'''Calcutta Cricket and Football Club''' (popularly known by its abbreviations '''CC&FC''' and '''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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.prohor.in/india-s-first-cricket-club-is-situatied-in-kolkata|title=২৩০ বছর পেরিয়ে, কেমন আছে 'ক্যালকাটা ক্রিকেট ক্লাব'?|trans-title=India's first Cricket club is situated in Kolkata|website=prohor.in|publisher=Prohor|first=Aritra|last=Some|date=12 October 2020|access-date=10 March 2021|language=bn|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031155229/https://www.prohor.in/india-s-first-cricket-club-is-situatied-in-kolkata|archive-date=31 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.indianlink.com.au/travel/the-city-of-wonders/ |year=2010 |first1=Sandip |last1=Hor |website=indianlink.com.au |title=Indian Link — The City of Wonders |access-date=28 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130404061736/http://www.indianlink.com.au/travel/the-city-of-wonders/ |archive-date=4 April 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This is the oldest cricket club outside Great Britain.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mukhopadhyay |first=Atreyo |date=13 May 2019 |title=When Swami Vivekananda claimed seven wickets and other Eden Gardens tales |url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/cricket/2019/May/04/when-swami-vivekananda-claimed-seven-wickets-and-other-eden-gardens-tales-1972482.html |access-date=17 July 2025 |website=The New Indian Express |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250619004448/https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/cricket/2019/May/04/when-swami-vivekananda-claimed-seven-wickets-and-other-eden-gardens-tales-1972482.html |archive-date=19 June 2025 }}</ref>

The rugby section of the club made CC&FC the oldest rugby institution founded outside the United Kingdom and Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rugbyasia247.com/georgiadi-club-rugby-sevens-2019/|title=Georgiadi Club Rugby Sevens 2019 — Who are the CC&FC?|website=rugbyasia247.com|publisher=Rugby Asia 24/7|access-date=5 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615010113/https://www.rugbyasia247.com/georgiadi-club-rugby-sevens-2019/|archive-date=15 June 2021|date=30 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Rugby's great split: class, culture and the origins of rugby league football|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dr6FLNcLsgIC|author=Tony Collins|pages=|chapter=Schism 1893–1895|edition=2nd|publisher=Routlage|year=2006|isbn=0-415-39616-6|archive-date=3 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230503170700/https://books.google.com/books/about/Rugby_s_Great_Split.html?id=dr6FLNcLsgIC}}</ref> Club's football section competes in the premier division of Calcutta Football League, fifth tier of the Indian football league system.

==History and overview== ===Early years (1792–1960s)=== ====Calcutta Cricket Club==== thumb|The Eden Gardens in Calcutta, home of cricket in India. {{Quote box | quote = "The Gentlemen of the Calcutta Cricket Club are getting themselves into Wind, and preparing to take the Field for a very active Campaign..." | source = — ''Hicky's Bengal Gazette'' (December 16, 1780).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bengali.indianexpress.com/sports/was-world-club-cricket-started-in-kolkata-and-what-does-history-say-691040/|title=ক্রিকেটজ্বরে ফুটছে বাংলা, বিশ্ব ক্লাব ক্রিকেটের সূচনা কি কলকাতায়, কী বলছে ইতিহাস?|trans-title=Bengal is boiling with cricket fever, is the start of world club cricket in Kolkata, what does history say?|date=5 November 2023|access-date=7 November 2023|work=The Indian Express|language=bn|location=Kolkata|first1=Chinmay|last1=Bhattacharya|archive-date=7 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107162651/https://bengali.indianexpress.com/sports/was-world-club-cricket-started-in-kolkata-and-what-does-history-say-691040/}}</ref> | align = right | width = 20% | fontsize = 80% | quoted = 1 }} The history of CC&FC dates back to 1792, when the club was established by the name of "Calcutta Cricket Club Clippers".<ref>{{cite web|title=The British hangover of Kolkata's elite clubs|url=https://www.getbengal.com/details/the-british-hangover-of-kolkatas-elite-clubs|date=18 February 2021|access-date=4 November 2023|website=getbengal.com|publisher=Get Bengal Newslocation=Kolkata|first1=Mallika|last1=Bhaumik|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210218125215/https://www.getbengal.com/details/the-british-hangover-of-kolkatas-elite-clubs|archive-date=18 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JBf5MgEACAAJ|title=Seventeen Ninety Two: A History of the Calcutta Cricket & Football Club|first=Sujoy|last=Gupta|location=Kolkata|publisher=Calcutta Cricket & Football Club|date=1 January 2002|pages=180|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815181808/https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Seventeen_Ninety_Two.html?id=JBf5MgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y|archive-date=15 August 2023}}</ref> It was primarily a cricket institution in the East India Company rule in India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://icetoday.net/2018/07/kick-score-scream-the-history-of-football-in-dhaka/|title=Kick, Score, Scream! The History of Football in Dhaka|first=Dhrubo|last=Alam|location=Dhaka|date=16 July 2018|publisher=Ice Today|access-date=6 October 2022|archive-date=1 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191101015051/http://icetoday.net/2018/07/kick-score-scream-the-history-of-football-in-dhaka/}}</ref><ref name="HISTORY">{{Cite web|title=BCCI: Cricket in India — History|url=https://www.bcci.tv/about#:~:text=The%20establishment%20of%20the%20Calcutta,after%20the%20MCC%20(1787).|website=bcci.tv|publisher=Board of Control for Cricket in India|access-date=19 October 2022|archive-date=15 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815080651/https://www.bcci.tv/about}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|first=Somnath|last=Sengupta|url=http://www.thehardtackle.com/2012/legends-of-indian-football-the-pioneers/|title=Legends Of Indian Football: The Pioneers|website=thehardtackle.com|publisher=The Hard Tackle|date=24 April 2012|access-date=20 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026053626/http://www.thehardtackle.com/2012/legends-of-indian-football-the-pioneers/|archive-date=26 October 2017}}</ref> The club was also founded as one of the earliest known gentlemen's clubs (for Europeans only)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/members/asia/full/14|title=Board of Control for Cricket in India — History of cricket in India|website=icc-cricket.com|publisher=International Cricket Council|access-date=17 February 2023|archive-date=4 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004130227/https://www.icc-cricket.com/about/members/asia/full/14}}</ref> in Calcutta, then capital of British India.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://home.123india.com/alokghosh/Heritage/Our%20Sportsmen.htm|title=OUR SPORTSMEN|website=123india.com|access-date=27 September 2007|archive-date=27 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210527/http://home.123india.com/alokghosh/Heritage/Our%20Sportsmen.htm}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Football in Bengali culture and society: a study in the social history of football in Bengal 1911–1980 |url=https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/174532 |website=Shodhganga|publisher=University of Calcutta |page=35 |last=Bandyopadhyay |first=Kausik |year=2008 |hdl=10603/174532 |access-date=7 October 2022 |archive-date=7 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221007174156/https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/handle/10603/174532 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Majumdar |first1=Boria |author-link=Boria Majumdar |title=Eleven Gods and a Billion Indians: The On and Off the Field Story of Cricket in India and Beyond |date=2018 |publisher=Simon & Schuster India |location=Noida |isbn=9789386797186}}</ref> Recent evidence in the form of an article published in the ''Hicky's Bengal Gazette'', suggests the club (described as "Gentlemen of Calcutta Cricket Club") existed in 1780<ref name="WOT">{{cite web|url=http://wotweb.com/wot-article/ccfc-%E2%88%92-225-still-counting/|title=CCFC − 225 AND STILL COUNTING|first=Reshmi|last=Bose|website=wotweb.com|publisher=Window On Travel|location=Kolkata|access-date=26 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610165806/http://wotweb.com/wot-article/ccfc-%E2%88%92-225-still-counting/|archive-date=10 June 2023}}</ref> – that would make it the oldest cricket club in the world.{{#tag:ref|As per the ''Bengal Gazette'', 16 December 1780; Hobbes, John Barley Corn Bahadur, 436–7. The Bengal Gazette entry indicates the world's first cricket club was started in Bengal, the Marylebone Cricket Club of London, being founded in 1787.|group=note|}}<ref>{{cite journal | url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523360600802562 | doi=10.1080/09523360600802562 | title=Cricket in colonial Bengal (1880–1947): A lost history of nationalism | journal=The International Journal of the History of Sport | year=2006 | volume=23 | issue=6 | pages=960–990 | s2cid=216152701 | author=Majumdar, B. | access-date=10 June 2023 | archive-date=1 March 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301103901/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523360600802562 | url-access=subscription }}</ref> In 1792 during their tour in India, Eton cricket team (Old Etonians) appeared in an exhibition match against Calcutta Cricket Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://schoolscricketonline.co.uk/eton/|title=Comprehensive & free coverage of schools cricket — Cricket at Eton — History|access-date=1 November 2023|website=schoolscricketonline.co.uk|archive-date=19 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819045553/https://schoolscricketonline.co.uk/eton/|publisher=Eton College}}</ref> By 1825, CC&FC established themselves as one of the formidable sides in Bengal Presidency, alongside British Army-operated cricket teams in the country.<ref name="Ajanta">{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/worlds-oldest-sports-club-to-go-to-ballot-box-for-the-first-time-in-221-years/articleshow/21470639.cms|title=World's oldest sports club to go to ballot box for the first time in 221 years|work=The Times of India|date=30 July 2013|access-date=26 March 2022|first=Ajanta|last=Chakraborty|agency=TNN|location=Kolkata|archive-date=2 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130802035820/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-07-30/kolkata/40894555_1_221-years-member-managing-committee}}</ref>

====Calcutta Football Club==== [[File:Mohun Bagan Athletic Club, founded 15 August 1889, is an Indian sports club best known for its association football team, one of the oldest football clubs in Asia. 05.jpg|thumb|Main entrance to the tent of CC&FC's football section (in left), beside the tent of Mohun Bagan Athletic Club in Kolkata Maidan area.]] [[File:Chuni Goswami Gate of Mohun Bagan Athletic Club in right, and Gate of the Calcutta Football Club (CFC) of CC&FC, in Kolkata Maidan, West Bengal, India, photo taken on December 31, 2023.jpg|thumb|Main entrance of the Calcutta Football Club in left, beside 'Chuni Goswami Gate' of Mohun Bagan in Kolkata Maidan, in December 2023.]] Incorporated in 1872, Calcutta Football Club predominately introduced rugby in the country.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mahaneebas.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/230/|title=আমাদের ফুটবলের বেলা অবেলা কালবেলা|trans-title=Days and moments of our football|location=Dhaka, Bangladesh|date=7 July 2013|first=Mahabubul|last=Hassan Niru|access-date=3 November 2022|language=bn|website=mahaneebas.wordpress.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140406201501/http://mahaneebas.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/230/|archive-date=6 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/behind-the-lines/2020/may/16/future-hope-rugby-club-kolkata-street-children|title=The rugby club in Kolkata that has given hope to 3,500 street children|work=The Guardian|location=London|date=16 May 2020|access-date=5 October 2023|first1=Jonathan|last1=Drennan|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806015854/https://www.theguardian.com/sport/behind-the-lines/2020/may/16/future-hope-rugby-club-kolkata-street-children|archive-date=6 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Majumdar |first1=Boria |last2=Bandyopadhyay |first2=Kausik |date=1 February 2006 |title=Goalless: The Story of a Unique Footballing Nation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i55oAAAACAAJ |location=New Delhi |publisher=Penguin India |isbn=9780670058747 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220408140616/https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Goalless_the_Story_of_a_Unique_Footballi.html?id=i55oAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y |archive-date=8 April 2022}}</ref><ref>Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Complete Book of Rugby''. Seven Oaks Ltd. 1997. {{ISBN|1-86200-013-1}} ([https://web.archive.org/web/20231006181915/https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Complete_Book_of_Rugby.html?id=hIuhtgAACAAJ archived 6 October 2023]).</ref> Outside the United Kingdom, it is the oldest patron club that went on to form the Rugby Football Union (RFU).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theestablished.com/community/identity/why-the-armenian-community-doesnt-get-enough-credit-for-advancing-rugby-in-india|title=Why the Armenian community doesn't get enough credit for advancing rugby in India|first1=Barry|last1=Rodgers|website=theestablished.com|publisher=The Established|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230131200917/https://www.theestablished.com/community/identity/why-the-armenian-community-doesnt-get-enough-credit-for-advancing-rugby-in-india|date=31 January 2023|access-date=8 August 2024|archive-date=31 January 2023}}</ref> As per the ''Amrita Bazar Patrika'', the club's membership was restricted to people belonging to the upper strata of British middle class.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digital.la84.org/digital/api/collection/p17103coll10/id/8849/download|work=digital.la84.org|title=Football and the Big Fight in Kolkata|format=PDF|first1=Amitabha|last1=Das Sharma|access-date=31 October 2023|archive-date=3 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103082722/https://digital.la84.org/digital/api/collection/p17103coll10/id/8849/download}}</ref> They later contributed in introducing and developing association football; Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari (founding father of football in India) taught the game to his classmates of the prestigious Hare School compound in 1877, after observing British soldiers playing the game in the Calcutta FC ground.<ref>{{Cite web|title=History in Timeline of Indian Football — Calcutta FC the first club to be established in 1872|url=https://www.the-aiff.com/history|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308124507/http://www.the-aiff.com/history|archive-date=8 March 2020|location=New Delhi|access-date=15 February 2021|website=the-aiff.com|publisher=All India Football Federation}}</ref><ref name="Majumdar">{{cite web|url=https://www.chaseyoursport.com/Football/The-Golden-Years-of-Indian-Football/659|title=The Golden Years of Indian Football|website=chaseyoursport.com|publisher=Chase Your Sport|location=Kolkata|first=Rounak|last=Majumdar|date=22 April 2019|access-date=28 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107230046/https://www.chaseyoursport.com/Football/The-Golden-Years-of-Indian-Football/659|archive-date=7 November 2020}}</ref><ref name="Pillai">{{cite web|url=https://lifestyle.livemint.com/news/talking-point/how-football-kicked-off-in-india-111645287939737.html|title=How football kicked off in India. As with the English language, when the British transported the sport to India, they didn't expect the 'natives' to beat them at it|work=Livemint Delhi|date=8 June 2018|access-date=27 January 2022|first=Manu S|last=Pillai|location=Delhi, India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714153151/https://lifestyle.livemint.com/news/talking-point/how-football-kicked-off-in-india-111645287939737.html|archive-date=14 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://thebridge.in/featured/nagendra-prasad-the-father-indian-football-removed-prejudice-indian-sports/|title=Nagendra Prasad — The father of Indian football who removed prejudice from the sport|website=thebridge.in|publisher=The Bridge|date=25 January 2020|access-date=24 October 2022|first=Sarah|last=Waris|location=Kolkata|archive-date=24 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024082132/https://thebridge.in/amp/featured/nagendra-prasad-the-father-indian-football-removed-prejudice-indian-sports/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|first1=Utathya|last1=Nag|title='Golondaaj' Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari: the father of Indian football|url=https://olympics.com/en/featured-news/nagendra-prasad-sarbadhikari-father-of-indian-football|date=1 November 2021|access-date=6 September 2021|publisher=International Olympic Committee|archive-date=6 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210806144939/https://olympics.com/en/featured-news/nagendra-prasad-sarbadhikari-father-of-indian-football}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=নগেন্দ্র প্রসাদ সর্বাধিকারীর জীবনের জানা-অজানা কাহিনী লেন্সবন্দি|url=https://eisamay.com/entertainment/film-review/golondaaj-movie-review-superstar-dev-gives-brilliant-performance-as-father-of-indian-football-nagendra-prasad-sarbadhikari/moviereview/86925875.cms|access-date=21 October 2021|website=eisamay.com|date=11 October 2021 |publisher=এই সময়|language=bn|archive-date=11 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011133317/https://eisamay.com/entertainment/film-review/golondaaj-movie-review-superstar-dev-gives-brilliant-performance-as-father-of-indian-football-nagendra-prasad-sarbadhikari/moviereview/86925875.cms|trans-title=Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari's known-and-unknown life stories captured by lens}}</ref> CC&FC soon emerged as one of the prestigious private members' clubs in Asia; By January 1873, nearly 137 members had enrolled, while European women were granted membership in the first half of the 19th century.<ref name="history" /> The club became one of the founding members of the Indian Football Association (IFA) in 1893, then headed by British administrators. The primary sport Rugby, later suffered because of the departure of British regiments.<ref name="history" /> Bicycle Polo division (now known as Cycle Polo) was formed in 1901–02, and being played since then in CC&FC.<ref name="history" />

===Merger and later years (1960s–present)=== thumb|Shield of CC&FC {{Cquote|''CC&FC were the founding members of the CAB (Cricket Association of Bengal), IFA (Indian Football Association) and BHA (Hockey Bengal formerly known as Bengal Hockey Association). CC&FC has many tournaments where outsiders also take part. We have coaching schemes for youngsters in cricket, football, swimming and rugby.''|source=Deepankar Nandi, president of CC&FC, on club's diversified existence and contributions in Indian sports (at the Sportstar East Sports Conclave 2023, hosted by ''The Hindu''; February 6, 2023).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/sportstar-conclave/sportstar-east-sports-conclave-2023-jaidip-mukerjea-traditional-clubs-sports-promotion-ccfc-south-tolly-calcutta-rowing-club/article66474169.ece|title=Sportstar East Sports Conclave 2023: "Infrastructure, funds lacking, rowing struggles to prosper in Kolkata" — Calcutta Rowing Club secretary|website=The Hindu|publisher=Sportstar – The Hindu|location=Kolkata|archive-date=3 August 2023|date=6 February 2023|access-date=31 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803171405/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/sportstar-conclave/sportstar-east-sports-conclave-2023-jaidip-mukerjea-traditional-clubs-sports-promotion-ccfc-south-tolly-calcutta-rowing-club/article66474169.ece}}</ref>|Cquote}} After acquiring both "Ballygunge Cricket Club" (1864–1950) and "Calcutta Football Club" (1872–77; 1884–1965) in 1965, the institution completed all the absorptions to introduce themselves under the name of "Calcutta Cricket and Football Club" (CC&FC).<ref name="Ajanta" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cityseeker.com/kolkata/403067-calcutta-cricket-football-club-cc-fc|website=cityseeker.com|publisher=City Seeker|title=Calcutta Cricket & Football Club (CC&FC) — "True Sporting Spirit"|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627002002/https://cityseeker.com/kolkata/403067-calcutta-cricket-football-club-cc-fc|archive-date=27 June 2022|access-date=6 November 2023}}</ref> Sports still being practised at the club include: cricket, football, field hockey, rugby, cycle polo, swimming, tennis, and bridge.<ref name="CCFC history" /> The football team competed in both the Premier Division A and B of Calcutta Football League. The club's cricket and football teams usually participated in their respective divisions as "Calcutta Cricket Club" for cricket and "Calcutta Football Club" for football.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ifawb.org/clubs/|title=IFAWB Clubs: Men's Division (Calcutta Football League)|website=ifawb.org|publisher=Indian Football Association|access-date=25 October 2022|archive-date=9 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009123425/https://ifawb.org/clubs/}}</ref><ref name="First Division">{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketassociationofbengal.com/1stdivpoint.php|title=First Division|work=Cricket Association of Bengal|access-date=6 October 2022|archive-date=18 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118235149/https://www.cricketassociationofbengal.com/1stdivpoint.php}}</ref> Their hockey and rugby teams participate under the combined name of "Calcutta Cricket and Football Club".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hockeybengal.org/schedule-1|title=Schedule|work=Hockey Bengal|access-date=18 November 2022|archive-date=24 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024100541/https://www.hockeybengal.org/schedule-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://indiarugby.com/Home/Clubs|title=Clubs|work=Rugby India|access-date=18 November 2022|archive-date=18 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118123857/https://indiarugby.com/Home/Clubs}}</ref>

CC&FC has been hosting various tournaments, including Merchants' Cup (a corporate open tournament) since 1970s for both football and cricket.<ref name="ESPN">{{cite web|url=https://www.espn.in/espn/story/_/id/29360715/sport-interrupted-228-years-kolkata-storied-ccfc-laid-low-lockdown?platform=amp|title=Sport, interrupted: After 228 years, Kolkata's storied CC&FC laid low by lockdown|date=3 July 2020|access-date=26 November 2022|publisher=ESPN|first=Susan|last=Ninan|archive-date=11 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611061030/https://www.espn.in/espn/story/_/id/29360715/sport-interrupted-228-years-kolkata-storied-ccfc-laid-low-lockdown?platform=amp}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Rwitoban|last=Deb|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/airtel-win-big/cid/1061749|title=TT Merchants' Cup — Airtel win big|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|date=26 May 2006|access-date=7 January 2020|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611100444/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/airtel-win-big/cid/1061749|archive-date=11 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Rwitoban|last=Deb|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/the-football-feast-at-cc-amp-fc-kicks-off-to-a-great-start/cid/1420287|title=The football feast at the CC&FC kicks off to a great start|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|date=15 May 2016|access-date=7 January 2020|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611100148/https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/the-football-feast-at-cc-amp-fc-kicks-off-to-a-great-start/cid/1420287|archive-date=11 June 2023}}</ref> Merchants' Cup in hockey hosted by the club until its discontinuation in 2005, while cricket tournaments at the club are being sponsored by the Indian Premier League outfit Kolkata Knight Riders.<ref name="ESPN" /> Other tournaments such as J. Thomas Cup in rugby, and Georgiadi 7s tournament are also hosted at the club ground.<ref name="President's corner" /> In November 2017, the club organized their 225th anniversary celebration, marking the 225 years of cricket in India, with presence of noted international cricketers like Sunil Gavaskar, Saurav Ganguly, MS Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh, VVS Laxman, and Virat Kohli.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cricket/indian/galaxy-of-stars-to-take-part-in-charity-evening-of-ccfc/article19728362.ece|title=Galaxy of stars to take part in charity evening of CC&FC|date=21 September 2017|access-date=26 September 2023|website=The Hindu|publisher=Sportstar|location=Kolkata|agency=Press Trust of India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211207100009/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cricket/indian/galaxy-of-stars-to-take-part-in-charity-evening-of-ccfc/article19728362.ece|archive-date=7 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/cricket-amp-anecdotes/cid/1355708|title=Cricket & anecdotes|date=19 November 2017|access-date=27 September 2023|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927142016/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/cricket-amp-anecdotes/cid/1355708|archive-date=27 September 2023}}</ref> In June 2023, Indian Football Association made an official announcement of merger of the both Premier Division A and B of Calcutta Football League (CFL), ahead of 125th edition, and allowed CC&FC to compete in Group I.<ref name="IFA 2023">{{cite web|url=https://thefangarage.com/articles/19091-calcutta-football-league-cfl-goes-bigger-than-ever-for-its-historic-125th-season|title=Calcutta Football League (CFL) goes bigger than ever for its historic 125th season|website=thefangarage.com|publisher=The Fan Garage|location=Kolkata|date=5 June 2023|access-date=6 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606060715/https://thefangarage.com/articles/19091-calcutta-football-league-cfl-goes-bigger-than-ever-for-its-historic-125th-season|archive-date=6 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=TNN|date=31 May 2023|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/cfl-premier-div-a-b-to-be-merged/articleshow/100636021.cms?from=mdr|location=Kolkata|title=CFL Premier Div 'A' & 'B' to be merged|work=The Times of India|access-date=8 June 2023|archive-date=31 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230531031053/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/cfl-premier-div-a-b-to-be-merged/articleshow/100636021.cms?from=mdr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Sanghamitra|last=Chakraborty|date=5 June 2023|url=https://tv9bangla.com/sports/football/have-a-look-on-2023-calcutta-football-league-premier-division-group-stage-830841.html|title=Calcutta Football League: মোহনবাগান-মহমেডানের গ্রুপে অভিষেকের ক্লাব, ইস্টবেঙ্গলের গ্রুপে ভবানীপুর|trans-title=Calcutta Football League: Debutant club in Mohun Bagan-Mohammedan group, Bhavanipur in East Bengal group|language=bn|work=TV9 Bangla|access-date=5 June 2023|archive-date=5 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605154245/https://tv9bangla.com/sports/football/have-a-look-on-2023-calcutta-football-league-premier-division-group-stage-830841.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Koushik|last=Biswas|date=5 June 2023|url=https://eisamay.com/sports/football/news/mohun-bagan-is-in-comparatively-tough-group-in-calcutta-football-league/articleshow/100770942.cms|title=Calcutta Football League : বাজল কলকাতা ফুটবল লিগের ঘণ্টা, কঠিন গ্রুপে মোহনবাগান|trans-title=Calcutta Football League: Bell of Calcutta Football League rings, Mohun Bagan in tough group|language=bn|work=Ei Samay|access-date=5 June 2023|archive-date=5 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605154719/https://eisamay.com/sports/football/news/mohun-bagan-is-in-comparatively-tough-group-in-calcutta-football-league/articleshow/100770942.cms}}</ref>

==Departments== ===Cricket=== {{Further|History of cricket in India to 1918}} [[File:Ground of Calcutta Cricket Club, 15th Jan&#039;y 1861 - Percy Carpenter.png|thumb|''Ground of the Calcutta Cricket Club, 15 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).]]

CC&FC's oldest sporting department is first-class cricket, which was incepted as the "Calcutta Cricket Club Clippers" by British expatriates who had come over with the British East India Company.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.banglacricket.com/History/timeline.php|title=Timeline of Bangladesh Cricket|website=Bangladesh Cricket|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100611152849/http://www.banglacricket.com/History/timeline.php|archive-date=11 June 2010|access-date=25 March 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Dass|first=Jarmani|title=Maharaja; lives and loves and intrigues of Indian princes: Volume 56 of Orient paperbacks|year=1969|publisher=Allied Publishers|page=342|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zhVuAAAAMAAJ|access-date=15 November 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505092910/https://books.google.com/books?id=zhVuAAAAMAAJ&q=|archive-date=5 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Carey |first1=W. H. |title=1882 – The Good Old Days of Honourable John Company |date=1882 |publisher=Argus Press |location=Simla |url=http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/texts/empire/good/1882good.html |archive-date=23 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923225934/http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/texts/empire/good/1882good.html }}</ref><ref>* {{cite book |last=Altham |first=H. S. |author-link=Harry Altham |title=A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) |year=1962 |publisher=George Allen & Unwin }} * {{cite book |last=Birley |first=Derek |author-link=Derek Birley |title=A Social History of English Cricket |year=1999 |publisher=Aurum }} * {{cite book |last=Bowen |first=Rowland |author-link=Rowland Bowen |title=Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development |year=1970 |publisher=Eyre & Spottiswoode }} * {{cite book |last=Major |first=John |author-link=John Major |title=More Than A Game |year=2007 |publisher=HarperCollins }}</ref> Have been in existence since 1792,<ref name="history">{{cite web|url=https://ccfc1792.com/history.php|title=History of the club|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170528205453/http://www.ccfc1792.com/history.php|archive-date=28 May 2017|access-date=27 January 2015|website=ccfc1792.com|publisher=Calcutta Cricket and Football Club}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152361.html|title=Cricket — Some dates|date=24 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710060251/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/152361.html|archive-date=10 July 2017 }} in Indian cricket history, Wisden 1967 on ESPN Crickinfo.</ref> it is the second oldest cricket club in the world after Marylebone Cricket Club.<ref name="HISTORY" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.buzztribe.news/the-oldest-cricket-clubs-in-the-world/|title=The oldest Cricket Clubs in the world. The pride of sport and the spirit are still alive|date=5 August 2022|access-date=19 October 2022|website=buzztribe.news|publisher=Buzztribe News|first=Nirtika|last=Pandita|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221019123309/https://www.buzztribe.news/the-oldest-cricket-clubs-in-the-world/|archive-date=19 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Altham |first=H. S. |author-link=Harry Altham |title=A History of Cricket, Volume 1 (to 1914) |year=1962 |publisher=George Allen & Unwin |location=London |asin=B0014QE7HQ}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Birley |first=Derek |author-link=Derek Birley |title=A Social History of English Cricket |year=1999 |publisher=Aurum Press Ltd |location=London |isbn=978-18-54107-10-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Bowen |first=Rowland |author-link=Rowland Bowen |title=Cricket: A History of its Growth and Development |year=1970 |publisher=Eyre & Spottiswoode |location=London |isbn=978-04-13278-60-9}}</ref> On 23 February 1792, ''Madras Courier'' reported the schedule of a match between Calcutta Cricket Club and a team from Barrackpore, and the news was later highlighted by Irwin Rosenwater on ''The London Times''.<ref name="Anandabazar">{{cite web|url=http://archives.anandabazar.com/e_kolkata/2013/november/anache_kanache.html|title=আনাচে–কানাচে: ময়দান ও ক্লাব. ক্যালকাটা ক্রিকেট অ্যান্ড ফুটবল ক্লাব (সিসিএফসি)|first1=Joydeep|last1=Banerjee|first2=Rajat|last2=Karmakar|website=archives.anandabazar.com|publisher=Anandabazar Patrika|language=bn|trans-title=Maidan & Club: Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (CCFC)|location=Kolkata|date=21 November 2013|access-date=19 October 2022|archive-date=6 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206190523/http://archives.anandabazar.com/e_kolkata/2013/november/anache_kanache.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wbsportsandyouth.gov.in/chronology|title=Chronology of Important Sports Events — West Bengal|website=wbsportsandyouth.gov.in|publisher=Government of West Bengal (Department of youth services and sports)|year=2017|access-date=25 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013092944/https://wbsportsandyouth.gov.in/chronology|archive-date=13 October 2022|location=Kolkata}}</ref> The club later played in annual fixtures against numerous British regimental teams stationed in both Fort William and Barrackpur Cantonment.<ref name="TheWire" /> According to ''The Bengal Hurkaru and Chronicle'', they also played against other visiting teams, consisting Old Etonians, Old Harrovians and alumni of both the Oxford and Cambridge University.<ref name="TheWire">{{cite web|url=https://m.thewire.in/article/history/a-cricket-match-in-bengals-chinsurah-and-its-fascinating-connection-to-the-1857-revolt|title=A Cricket Match in Bengal's Chinsurah and its Fascinating Connection to the 1857 Revolt|first1=Sarbajit|last1=Mitra|work=The Wire|location=Kolkata|date=22 October 2023|access-date=24 October 2023|archive-date=22 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022083154/https://m.thewire.in/article/history/a-cricket-match-in-bengals-chinsurah-and-its-fascinating-connection-to-the-1857-revolt}}</ref>

During its earliest 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 home match venue.<ref name="Anandabazar" /> On 19 April 1864, CC&FC was granted permission to build a pavilion at eastern end of the Eden Gardens.<ref name="Anandabazar" /> There, a large pavilion of 125 feet by 25 feet was built out of Burma teak, modelled after pavilions of the Lord's Cricket Ground.<ref name="Anandabazar" /> 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.<ref name="Anandabazar" /> In 1889–90 cricket season, another English team named "G. F. Vernon's XI", managed by George Vernon and captained by Martin Hawke, toured to Ceylon and India; played against Calcutta Cricket Club at the Eden Gardens on 23 December,<ref name="CAVCI">{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/8/GF_Vernons_XI_in_Ceylon_and_India_1889-90.html |title=Tour Itinerary: G. F. Vernon's XI, 1889–90 |work=CricketArchive |access-date=14 October 2022 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=31 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221031151858/https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Events/8/GF_Vernons_XI_in_Ceylon_and_India_1889-90.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1890/42/index.html|title=Cricket in India: From the ''Pioneer Mail''|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220907114402/https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1890/42/index.html|archive-date=7 September 2022 }} ''archive.acscricket.com'', issue 232. 27 March 1890. p. 36.</ref> under the "Laws of Cricket" (prevailed in England at the time, including the compulsory follow-on and the recently introduced 5-ball over).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1889/52/index.html|title=Pavilion Gossip|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220904020840/https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1889/52/index.html|archive-date=4 September 2022|work=archive.acscricket.com (issue 202) 21 March 1889|page=42}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33180/Miscellaneous_Matches.html |title=Miscellaneous Matches played by Thomas Tapling |website=CricketArchive |access-date=4 September 2022 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=4 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220904143725/https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33180/Miscellaneous_Matches.html }}</ref><ref name="CAVCI" /> In 1892–93 cricket season, an English team led by Martin Hawke, came to India and played against Calcutta Cricket Club.<ref name="Lord Hawke's Team">{{cite journal |title=Lord Hawke's Team in India |journal=Cricket |date=23 April 1893 |page=55 |url=https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1893/62/index.html |access-date=26 January 2021 |archive-date=21 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621180208/https://archive.acscricket.com/cricket/1893/62/index.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Coldham |first1=James P. |title=F. S. Jackson: A Cricketing Biography |date=1989 |publisher=Crowood Press |location=Ramsbury, Wiltshire |isbn=1-85223-147-5 |pages=66–77}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Mumbai, December 22–24, 1892, Lord Hawke's XI tour of Ceylon and India |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/lord-hawke-s-xi-tour-of-ceylon-and-india-1892-93-286646/parsees-vs-lord-hawke-s-xi-453713/full-scorecard |publisher=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=23 July 2023 |archive-date=23 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723014347/https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/lord-hawke-s-xi-tour-of-ceylon-and-india-1892-93-286646/parsees-vs-lord-hawke-s-xi-453713/full-scorecard }}</ref>

In 1926–27 season during winter, CC&FC played the key role in bringing Marylebone Cricket Club, which was their second tour to India,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wbsportsandyouth.gov.in/cricket|title=Sports of West Bengal — Cricket|website=wbsportsandyouth.gov.in|publisher=Government of West Bengal – Department of youth services and sports|year=2017|access-date=25 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709130840/https://wbsportsandyouth.gov.in/cricket|archive-date=9 July 2022|location=Kolkata}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/155738.html | title = Arthur Gilligan (Obituary) | website = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | year = 1977 | publisher=John Wisden & Co | location = London | access-date = 17 May 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140312174338/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/155738.html | archive-date = 12 March 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| url = https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1976-09-07-14-026&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1976-09-07-14| title = Obituary: Mr Arthur Gilligan| newspaper = The Times| location = London| page = 14| date = 7 September 1976| access-date = 6 June 2012| url-access = subscription| archive-date = 6 October 2023| url-status = live| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20231006144540/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/ }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url = https://cricketarchive.com/cgi-bin/player_oracle_reveals_results2.cgi?playernumber=420&testing=0&opponentmatch=exact&playername=&resulttype=All&matchtype=All&teammatch=exact&startwicket=&homeawaytype=All&opponent=&endwicket=&wicketkeeper=&searchtype=InningsList&howout=All&endscore=&playermatch=contains&branding=cricketarchive&captain=&endseason=&startscore=&team=&startseason=| title = Player Oracle AER Gilligan| publisher=CricketArchive| access-date = 17 May 2012| archive-date = 5 March 2016| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160305232431/http://cricketarchive.com/cgi-bin/player_oracle_reveals_results2.cgi?playernumber=420&testing=0&opponentmatch=exact&playername=&resulttype=All&matchtype=All&teammatch=exact&startwicket=&homeawaytype=All&opponent=&endwicket=&wicketkeeper=&searchtype=InningsList&howout=All&endscore=&playermatch=contains&branding=cricketarchive&captain=&endseason=&startscore=&team=&startseason=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154719.html | title = Arthur Gilligan (Bowler of the Year) | website = Wisden Cricketers' Almanack | year = 1924 | publisher=John Wisden & Co | location = London | access-date = 17 May 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110102060004/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/154719.html | archive-date = 2 January 2011 }}</ref> and MCC was then led by former England captain Arthur Edward Gilligan.<ref>{{cite book |last = Bose |first = Mihir |title = The magic of Indian cricket : cricket and society in India |publisher=Routledge |year = 2006 |location= London |isbn = 978-0-415-35691-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last= Oborne|first= Peter|title= Basil D'Oliveira. Cricket and Conspiracy: The Untold Story|location= London|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|year= 2004|isbn= 978-0-316-72572-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last = Marshall |first = Michael |title = Gentlemen and Players: Conversations with Cricketers |publisher=Grafton Books |year = 1987 |location = London |isbn = 978-0-246-11874-5 |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/gentlemenplayers0000unse }}</ref> On 15 August 1950, then club president T. C. Longfield handed over the ownership of Eden Gardens to then Chief Minister of West Bengal, Bidhan Chandra Roy.<ref name="Anandabazar" /> In December 1962, the club made history, when its members announced and conducted a 5-match series between Calcutta Cricket Club and Merchants' XI, introducing "limited over cricket format" (all were 20 overs).<ref name="Anandabazar" /> It was later merged with the Calcutta Football Club (incorporated in 1872,<ref>{{Cite web|title=History in Timeline of Indian Football|url=https://www.the-aiff.com/history|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308124507/http://www.the-aiff.com/history|archive-date=8 March 2020|access-date=15 February 2021|website=the-aiff.com|publisher=All India Football Federation}}</ref> where both footballs — rugby and association were practised)<ref name="Shah">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/a-121-year-old-burnt-down-football-club-and-the-legacy-the-flames-couldnt-touch/cid/1692972|title=A burnt-down football club and a 121-year-old legacy the flames couldn't touch|first=Manasi|last=Shah|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|location=Kolkata|date=19 June 2022|access-date=15 October 2022|archive-date=26 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221026135252/https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/a-121-year-old-burnt-down-football-club-and-the-legacy-the-flames-couldnt-touch/cid/1692972}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Arjun |last=Wadwha |url=http://www.thesportscampus.com/200805197/introduction-to-football/history-indian-football |title=History of Football in India |website=thesportscampus.com |publisher=TheSportsCampus |date=19 May 2008 |access-date=15 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825015957/http://www.thesportscampus.com/200805197/introduction-to-football/history-indian-football |archive-date=25 August 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Andrew Flint |date=11 November 2015 |title=A Tale of One City: Kolkata |url=https://thesefootballtimes.co/2015/11/11/a-tale-of-one-city-kolkata/ |access-date=16 March 2021 |website=These Football Times |language=en-GB |archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709183002/https://thesefootballtimes.co/2015/11/11/a-tale-of-one-city-kolkata/ }}</ref> and the Ballygunge Cricket Club over the years to become the "Calcutta Cricket and Football Club" in 1965.<ref name="history" /> CC&FC is currently under the jurisdiction of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketassociationofbengal.com/first_division.php|title=The Cricket Association of Bengal: First Division Clubs|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023021313/https://www.cricketassociationofbengal.com/first_division.php|archive-date=23 October 2020|website=cricketassociationofbengal.com|publisher=Cricket Association of Bengal|access-date=2 July 2021|location=Kolkata}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cricketassociationofbengal.com/history.php|title=Early History of Bengal Cricket leading to the formation of the Cricket Association of Bengal in 1928|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171223102855/http://www.cricketassociationofbengal.com/history.php|archive-date=23 December 2017|website=cricketassociationofbengal.com|publisher=The Cricket Association Of Bengal (CAB)|access-date=2 July 2021}}</ref> and competes in the CAB First Division League, J.C. Mukherjee T-20 Trophy, N.C. Chatterjee T-20 Trophy, and other regional tournaments.<ref name="First Division" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/cricket/calcutta-cricket-and-football-club-in-a-spot/cid/1911491|title=Calcutta Cricket and Football Club in a spot|date=21 March 2023|access-date=19 February 2022|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321104831/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/cricket/calcutta-cricket-and-football-club-in-a-spot/cid/1911491|archive-date=21 March 2023}}</ref> Later in the 1970s, wooden pavilion of Calcutta was demolished, while the construction of the new club house (current headquarters of the CAB) began, which was named after Bidhan Chandra Roy.<ref name="Anandabazar" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=অযান্ত্রিক|date=18 June 2014|title=Calcutta Armenians, Calcutta, c. 1660|url=https://puronokolkata.com/2015/07/07/calcutta-armenians-calcutta-c1660/|access-date=21 April 2021|website=puronokolkata.com|publisher=Purono Kolkata|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128061318/https://puronokolkata.com/2015/07/07/calcutta-armenians-calcutta-c1660/|archive-date=28 January 2023}}</ref> Club's cricket section is currently headquartered in 19/1, Garcha 1st Lane, Ballygunge, Kolkata.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.calcuttayellowpages.com/cricket.html|title=CALCUTTA — CRICKET CLUBS — Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB)|archive-date=27 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427103907/https://www.calcuttayellowpages.com/cricket.html|website=calcuttayellowpages.com|publisher=Calcutta Yellow Pages Calcutta|access-date=31 January 2023}}</ref> In 2021–22 season, CC&FC ended their CAB Second Division League achieving runners-up position which resulted the promotion to First Division League.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketassociationofbengal.com/newspage/news1698.php|title=Calcutta Cricket Club in CAB second division final|access-date=6 November 2023|website=cricketassociationofbengal.com|location=Kolkata|publisher=Cricket Association of Bengal|archive-date=18 May 2022|date=14 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518124451/https://www.cricketassociationofbengal.com/newspage/news1698.php}}</ref><ref name="second division">{{cite web|url=https://www.cricketassociationofbengal.com/newspage/news1760.php|title=Shibpur Institute become CAB second division one day champion|access-date=26 November 2024|website=cricketassociationofbengal.com|location=Kolkata|publisher=Cricket Association of Bengal|archive-date=28 November 2023|date=20 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231128163555/https://www.cricketassociationofbengal.com/newspage/news1760.php}}</ref>

===Rugby union=== {{Further|Rugby union in India}} [[File:Calcuttarugby.jpg|thumb|Scene of a rugby match at the CFC ground in Calcutta, {{circa|1875}} (from ''The Illustrated London News'').]] thumb|Trophy of the All India Rugby Cup, at the CC&FC. In the British Raj, Rugby union was introduced and emerged as second most popular winter sport after association football.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DWbgPQAACAAJ|title=The Union Game: A Rugby History|first1=Sean|last1=Smith|date=1999|isbn=978-0-563-55118-8|archive-date=30 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030103131/https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Union_Game.html?id=DWbgPQAACAAJ|pages=287|publisher=BBC Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fTqOAQAAQBAJ|title=Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s – 30s: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives|first1=Sean|last1=Brawley|first2=Nick|last2=Guoth|date=2013|isbn=978-1-317-96632-6|archive-date=30 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030103707/https://books.google.com/books/about/Australia_s_Asian_Sporting_Context_1920s.html?id=fTqOAQAAQBAJ|pages=168|publisher=Routledge}}</ref> For the first time in the country, a scratch match or two played in Calcutta and Madras during the visit of MS Galatea in 1871.<ref>* {{cite book|first=Robert|last=Crego|title=Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XCl1c2yy5ooC|year=2003|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31610-4}} * {{cite book|first1=Rodney D.|last1=Fort|first2=John|last2=Fizel|title=International Sports Economics Comparisons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mQHaZaDTzAC&pg=PA295|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-98032-0}} * {{cite book|first1=John|last1=Nauright|first2=Charles|last2=Parrish|title=Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IkLYDgTnMxEC&pg=PA384|year=2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-300-2}}</ref> At the ground of CC&FC, first recorded match was played, on Christmas Day.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bath|first=Richard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hIuhtgAACAAJ|title=The Complete Book of Rugby|publisher=Seven Oaks Limited|year=1997|isbn=1-86200-013-1|page=68|archive-date=5 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005101312/https://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_Complete_Book_of_Rugby.html?id=hIuhtgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.keithprowse.co.uk/news-and-blog/2019/03/11/the-story-of-the-calcutta-cup/ |title=The Story of the Calcutta Cup |date=11 March 2019 |website=keithprowse.co.uk |publisher=Keith Prowse |access-date=25 November 2022 |archive-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125185508/https://www.keithprowse.co.uk/news-and-blog/2019/03/11/the-story-of-the-calcutta-cup/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sportzcraazy.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-indian-rugby-team/|title=All You Need To Know About Indian Rugby Team|access-date=10 March 2024|work=sportzcraazy.com|date=December 2018 |archive-date=10 March 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310171913/https://www.sportzcraazy.com/all-you-need-to-know-about-indian-rugby-team/}}</ref> The incident paved the way for growth of the British sport in India, and foundation of "Calcutta Rugby Football Club" in January the following year by expats, former students of Rugby School and soldiers of the Royal East Kent Regiment – which was stationed in the 1870s.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Milne |first1=Alex |last2=Crump |first2=James |date=8 February 2020 |title=Why is England vs Scotland called the Calcutta Cup? Six Nations 2020 clash explained |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/england-vs-scotland-called-calcutta-21442904?_ga=2.203828563.2120174567.1669398916-215708948.1668575448 |work=Daily Mirror |access-date=25 November 2022 |archive-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125185518/https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/england-vs-scotland-called-calcutta-21442904?_ga=2.203828563.2120174567.1669398916-215708948.1668575448 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scottishrugby.org/fanzone/the-history-of-the-calcutta-cup |title=The History of the Calcutta Cup |website=scottishrugby.org |publisher=Scottish Rugby Union (SRU) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203115038/http://www.scottishrugby.org/fanzone/the-history-of-the-calcutta-cup |archive-date=3 February 2021 }}</ref><ref name="His" /> In 1874, Calcutta Football Club joined the Rugby Football Union (RFU).<ref name="His">{{cite web |url=https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Calcutta-Cup/ |title=The Calcutta Cup |last=Johnson |first=Ben |website=historic-uk.com |access-date=25 November 2022 |archive-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125185508/https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Calcutta-Cup/ }}</ref><ref name="Eng">{{cite web |url=https://www.englandrugby.com/news/article/six-nations-history-of-the-calcutta-cup |title=History of the Calcutta Cup |date=3 February 2020 |publisher=Rugby Football Union |access-date=25 November 2022 |archive-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125185514/https://www.englandrugby.com/news/article/six-nations-history-of-the-calcutta-cup }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Staff Reporter|title=Rahul's rugby dreams|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160925/jsp/sports/story_110148.jsp#.V-pFNCh96hc|access-date=27 September 2016|agency=ABP|work=The Telegraph|date=25 September 2016|archive-date=30 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160930015943/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160925/jsp/sports/story_110148.jsp#.V-pFNCh96hc}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.zimbio.com/Calcutta+India/articles/46/Rugby+India+thriving+international+help |title=Rugby in India thriving with international help |website=zimbio.com |access-date=28 January 2009 |archive-date=21 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221135059/http://www.zimbio.com/Calcutta+India/articles/46/Rugby+India+thriving+international+help }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Collins|first=Tony|year=2009|url=https://www.routledge.com/A-Social-History-of-English-Rugby-Union/Collins/p/book/9780415476607|title=A Social History of English Rugby Union|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-47660-7|archive-date=27 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230127093244/https://www.routledge.com/A-Social-History-of-English-Rugby-Union/Collins/p/book/9780415476607}}</ref> After departure of British troops, and recreational facilities became disbanded, club's rugby section was discontinued in 1878.<ref name="History UK">{{cite web|url=https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Calcutta-Cup/|title=The birth of Calcutta Cup|website=history-uk.com|publisher=The History United Kingdom|location=London|access-date=26 August 2022|date=1 May 2016|first=Ben|last=Johnson|archive-date=24 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224201801/https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Calcutta-Cup/}}</ref> Members decided to keep the memory of the club alive by having the remaining 270 silver rupee coins in their bank vault melted down and made into a trophy (the Calcutta Cup) by W.E. Jellicoe Silversmith & Watchmaker from the Esplanade Row, which was then presented to the Rugby Football Union (described as "the best means of doing some lasting good for the cause of Rugby Football").<ref>{{cite web|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/lede/test-metal|first1=Atul|last1=Dev|title=Test of Metal: The Indian origins of a famous rugby trophy|work=The Caravan|date=1 July 2014|access-date=26 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716130643/https://caravanmagazine.in/lede/test-metal|archive-date=16 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/2/27/what-is-the-calcutta-cup-and-why-is-it-played-in-the-uk|title=What is rugby's 'Calcutta Cup' and why is it played in the UK?|archive-date=27 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227164946/https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2024/2/27/what-is-the-calcutta-cup-and-why-is-it-played-in-the-uk|date=27 February 2024|access-date=20 September 2024|publisher=Al Jazeera|first1=Alasdair|last1=Soussi}}</ref> The sport came back at the CC&FC in 1884. In 1890, an inter-club tournament was incepted by the CC&FC, named Calcutta Rugby Union Challenge Cup (known simply as Calcutta Cup),<ref name="CCFC history">{{cite web|url=http://www.ccfc1792.com/heritage.asp|title=Calcutta Cricket and Football Club history|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928174641/http://www.ccfc1792.com/heritage.asp|archive-date=28 September 2007|website=ccfc1792.com|access-date=27 November 2020}}</ref> and its second division trophy was clinched by the club. Later in 2007, they emerged as runners-up in that tournament.<ref name="SCRUM">{{Cite web |url=http://www.scrum.com/39_46645.php |title=FUTURE HOPE HARLEQUINS RETAIN CALCUTTA CUP |first=Nick |last=Hyde |date=6 August 2007 |archive-date=23 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023175710/http://www.scrum.com/39_46645.php |website=scrum.com |access-date=21 January 2015 }}</ref>

{{Cquote|''I regret to say the Calcutta Football Club has ceased to exist, it being now found quite impossible to get sufficient men together to play even a scratch game…This being the case I proposed at a Meeting of the few remaining Members of the Club held on Tuesday last the 18th inst. as the best means of doing some lasting good for the cause of Rugby Football & as a slight memento of the Calcutta Club, that the Funds remaining to the credit of the Club should be devoted to the purchase of a Challenge Cup & presented to the Rugby Union.''|source=G. A. James Rothney (captain, honorary secretary and treasurer of the Calcutta FC), highlighting this in his letter to the Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Rugby Football Union, H. I. Graham Esq (dated 20 December 1877), on club's disfunction in 1877.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://worldrugbymuseum.com/from-the-vaults/twickenham-stadium/in-1877-the-rfu-were-sent-a-letter|title=FROM THE VAULTS — IN 1877 THE RFU WERE SENT A LETTER...|date=6 March 2017|access-date=27 November 2020|website=worldrugbymuseum.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204151822/https://worldrugbymuseum.com/from-the-vaults/twickenham-stadium/in-1877-the-rfu-were-sent-a-letter|archive-date=4 February 2023}}</ref>|Cquote}} thumb|250px|83rd All India and South Asia Rugby Tournament hosted at the CC&FC ground in 2016 As one of the most successful Indian rugby teams, CC&FC is a regular participant of the prestigious All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120707122904/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-08/others/30129640_1_rugby-tourney-bombay-gymkhana-top-teams|title=Ten teams for All India rugby tourney|date=8 September 2011|access-date=6 August 2024|agency=Press Trust of India|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-08/others/30129640_1_rugby-tourney-bombay-gymkhana-top-teams|archive-date=7 July 2012|work=The Times of India}}</ref><ref name="IndiaBlooms">{{cite web|url=https://www.indiablooms.com/sports-details/SN/10857/kolkata-s-cc-fc-to-host-top-rugby-championships-from-sept-21.html|title=Kolkata's CC&FC to host top Rugby Championships from Sept 21|website=indiablooms.com|publisher=India Blooms News Service|date=19 September 2019|access-date=26 November 2020|first=Manik|last=Banerjee|location=Kolkata|archive-date=5 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505060845/https://www.indiablooms.com/sports-details/SN/10857/kolkata-s-cc-fc-to-host-top-rugby-championships-from-sept-21.html}}</ref> The championship has been hosted by the club on multiple occasions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rugbyasia247.com/all-india-south-asia-rugby-tournament-teams/|title=All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament: Teams|website=rugbyasia247.com|publisher=Rugby Asia 24/7|access-date=5 May 2023|date=19 September 2019|archive-date=21 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121043749/https://www.rugbyasia247.com/all-india-south-asia-rugby-tournament-teams/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/the-big-guns-boomed-at-ccfc-on-thursday-knocking-out-their-challengers-to-set-up-a-repeat-of-last-years-final-at-the-all-india-south-asia-rugby-championship-army-red-who-have-won-the-title-six-consecutive-times-crushed-jungle-crows-40-8-while-13-time-champion-bombay-gymkhana-humiliated-sergeants-institute-another-local-outfit-40-3-in-one-sided-semifinals-the-final-of-the-88-year-old-tournament-on-saturday-afternoon-presents-a-mouth-watering-clash-between-the-new-force-in-indian-rugby-and-the-dispossessed-kings-/articleshow/16387170.cms|title=The big guns boomed at CC&FC on Thursday, knocking out their challengers to set up a repeat of last year's final at the All India & South Asia Rugby Championship.|work=The Times of India|date=13 September 2012|first=Arup|last=Chatterjee|access-date=25 November 2015|location=Kolkata|agency=TNN|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505053311/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/the-big-guns-boomed-at-ccfc-on-thursday-knocking-out-their-challengers-to-set-up-a-repeat-of-last-years-final-at-the-all-india-south-asia-rugby-championship-army-red-who-have-won-the-title-six-consecutive-times-crushed-jungle-crows-40-8-while-13-time-champion-bombay-gymkhana-humiliated-sergeants-institute-another-local-outfit-40-3-in-one-sided-semifinals-the-final-of-the-88-year-old-tournament-on-saturday-afternoon-presents-a-mouth-watering-clash-between-the-new-force-in-indian-rugby-and-the-dispossessed-kings-/articleshow/16387170.cms|archive-date=5 May 2023}}</ref> Women's rugby team of CC&FC also participate in that tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.scrumqueens.com/news/india-gets-its-first-taste-fifteens|title=India gets its first taste of fifteens|website=scrumqueens.com|publisher=Scrum Queen|date=2 September 2016|access-date=5 October 2023|archive-date=9 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809085656/https://www.scrumqueens.com/news/india-gets-its-first-taste-fifteens}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Odisha Women's Team Wins 1st All India Rugby 15s Tournament|url=http://incredibleorissa.com/odisha-women-team-wins-all-india-rugby-15s-tournament/|website=Incredible Orissa|date=24 September 2016 |access-date=13 October 2016|archive-date=13 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013093005/http://incredibleorissa.com/odisha-women-team-wins-all-india-rugby-15s-tournament/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Deb|first1=Rwitoban|title=Rugby — Men, women and a sport called rugby|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1161022/jsp/t2/story_114790.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161027060140/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1161022/jsp/t2/story_114790.jsp#.WBGZk9QrJnI|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 October 2016|access-date=27 October 2016|agency=ABP|issue=The Telegraph T2|date=16 October 2016}}</ref> The club also hosts Georgiadi Club Rugby Sevens tournament, in which CC&FC's men's and women's teams (known officially as CCFC Reds) compete.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rugbyasia247.com/georgiadi-club-rugby-sevens-2019/|title=Georgiadi Club Rugby Sevens 2019|website=rugbyasia247.com|publisher=Rugby Asia 24/7|access-date=5 May 2023|date=30 July 2019|archive-date=4 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204030333/https://www.rugbyasia247.com/georgiadi-club-rugby-sevens-2019/}}</ref><ref name="RD">{{cite web|url=https://rangandatta.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/the-calcutta-version-of-calcutta-cup/|title=The Calcutta version of Calcutta Cup|first=Rangan|last=Dutta|date=29 July 2014 |access-date=5 May 2023|archive-date=16 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016202025/https://rangandatta.wordpress.com/2014/07/30/the-calcutta-version-of-calcutta-cup/}}</ref> The club later became affiliated to the Indian Rugby Football Union (IRFU), which was incorporated in 1995.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indiarugby.com/Home/Clubs|title=India Rugby Football Union — Member Clubs|website=indiarugby.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803043156/https://indiarugby.com/Home/Clubs|archive-date=3 August 2021|access-date=8 August 2024}}</ref> In June 2013, CC&FC's affiliate club Hong Kong FC's rugby team "HKFC Vandals" toured to Kolkata and played against CCFC Reds.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hkfc.com/media/w5gag0ef/06_13_mag_web.pdf|website=hkfc.com|publisher=Hong Kong Football Club|title=Oh Calcutta!!! — vandals 2013 tour|date=2 June 2013|access-date=26 September 2016|archive-date=10 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610141837/https://www.hkfc.com/media/w5gag0ef/06_13_mag_web.pdf|pages=14–16}}</ref> At the 87th edition of All India & South Asia Rugby Championship in Mumbai, CC&FC won the plate final, defeating Magicians Foundation 28–5.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.punjabnewsexpress.com/news/news/bombay-gym-rally-to-down-army-in-final-of-all-india-south-asia-rugby-championship-186811|title=Bombay Gym rally to down Army in final of All India & South Asia Rugby Championship|date=17 October 2022|access-date=5 November 2023|website=punjabnewsexpress.com|publisher=Punjab News Express|location=Mumbai|agency=Indo-Asian News Service|archive-date=23 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023062455/https://www.punjabnewsexpress.com/news/news/bombay-gym-rally-to-down-army-in-final-of-all-india-south-asia-rugby-championship-186811}}</ref> The club also hosted 'Asia Rugby Division 3 – South Region Championship', with backing from Bengal Olympic Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uniindia.com/news/other-games/sports-rugby-india/2867783.html|title=Team India dominates Bangladesh 82–0 to qualify for Asia Rugby Division 3 Playoffs|date=16 September 2021|access-date=25 November 2022|website=uniindia.com|publisher=United News of India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105164336/http://www.uniindia.com/news/other-games/sports-rugby-india/2867783.html|archive-date=5 November 2023}}</ref>

===Association football=== thumb|270px|CCFC main building in Ballygunge Run by the British officials since its inception in 1872,<ref>{{cite web|year=2000|first=Hans|last=Schöggl|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/indiafound.html|title=India — List of Foundation Dates|publisher=RSSSF|access-date=17 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023194819/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesi/indiafound.html|archive-date=23 October 2021}}</ref> "Calcutta Football Club" became the first of the three European football clubs, others being Calcutta Rangers and Dalhousie AC.<ref>{{Cite web|title=When Swami Vivekananda claimed seven wickets and other Eden Gardens tales|url=https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/cricket/2019/may/04/when-swami-vivekananda-claimed-seven-wickets-and-other-eden-gardens-tales-1972482.html|access-date=17 November 2021|work=The New Indian Express|agency=Express News Service|date=4 May 2019|location=Kolkata|first1=Atreyo|last1=Mukhopadhyay|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416020605/https://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/cricket/2019/may/04/when-swami-vivekananda-claimed-seven-wickets-and-other-eden-gardens-tales-1972482.html|archive-date=16 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |url=http://www.jhsr.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/01-07-JHSRVOL-2NO-2A.-SHIL.pdf |title=Football Culture in Princely State of Cooch Behar |access-date=16 April 2023 |archive-date=16 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416171622/http://www.jhsr.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/01-07-JHSRVOL-2NO-2A.-SHIL.pdf |first=Amrita |last=Kumar Shil |journal=JHSR Journal of Historical Study and Search |date=15 May 2022 |issn=2583-0198 |volume=2 }}</ref> They soon emerged as one of the leading football teams in the Bengal Presidency.<ref>{{cite web|title=FOOTBALL IN BENGAL|url=http://ifawb.com/archives.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306042849/http://www.ifawb.com/archives.php|archive-date=6 March 2016|access-date=14 January 2021|website=ifawb.com|publisher=The Indian Football Association (West Bengal)}}</ref> It was then consisting of European players, and enjoyed fierce rivalry predominantly with indigenous outfit Mohun Bagan.<ref name="Pillai" /> Calcutta Football Club stayed away from Trades Cup, the country's first open football tournament because members felt that their "enjoyment of the sport would be impaired if they join the competitive fray", it was instrumental in instituting the Indian Football Association (IFA) in Calcutta very much on London lines.<ref name="history" /> 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.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mohun Bagan Ratna — Late Balaidas Chatterjee to receive the award posthumously|url=http://www.mohunbaganac.com/interview-detail/mohun-bagan-ratna-late-balaidas-chatterjee-to-receive-the-award-posthumousl|website=mohunbaganac.com|publisher=Mohun Bagan Athletic Club|date=26 July 2013|access-date=28 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035503/http://www.mohunbaganac.com/interview-detail/mohun-bagan-ratna-late-balaidas-chatterjee-to-receive-the-award-posthumousl|archive-date=4 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://mohunbagangorbo.com/mohun-bagan-ac/legends-corner/indian-players/umapati-kumar/|title=Mohun Bagan Athletic Club: Umapati Kumar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428162211/http://mohunbagangorbo.com/mohun-bagan-ac/legends-corner/indian-players/umapati-kumar/|archive-date=28 April 2016|access-date=26 January 2015|website=mohunbagangorbo.com|location=Kolkata}}</ref>

thumb|170px|Jamshid Nassiri, managed CC&FC in the 2022–23 CFL Premier Division. Calcutta FC was the most successful team in prestigious Calcutta Football League in pre-independence era,<ref>{{Cite web|title=India — List of Calcutta/Kolkata League Champions|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/indiacalchamp.html|publisher=RSSSF|first1=Atsushi|last1=Fujioka|first2=Arunava|last2=Chaudhuri|year=1996|access-date=26 February 2021|archive-date=2 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802035706/http://rsssf.com/tablesi/indiacalchamp.html}}</ref> oldest league in Asia, in pre-independence era (in which, native teams were barred from participating for the first fifteen seasons), clinching eight titles.<ref name="list">{{cite web|first=Arunava|last=Chaudhuri|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/data/cfl.html|title=List of champions of the Calcutta Football League 1898–2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924034341/http://www.indianfootball.de/data/cfl.html|archive-date=24 September 2015|website=indianfootball.de|access-date=10 March 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://ifawb.org/cfl-winners/|title=The Calcutta Football League (CFL) — Winners of each season|year=2021|access-date=31 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210128054127/https://ifawb.org/cfl-winners/|archive-date=28 January 2021|website=ifawb.org|publisher=Indian Football Association|location=Kolkata|url-status=dead}}</ref> The team is also nine-time winners of IFA Shield.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=List of Winners/Runners-Up of the IFA-Shield|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/data/ifashield.html|access-date=10 March 2021|website=indianfootball.de|archive-date=30 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130083403/http://www.indianfootball.de/data/ifashield.html|year=1999|first=Arunava|last=Chaudhuri|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2004, the club emerged victorious in historic Trades Cup, defeating Eastern Railway 2–1 in final.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Arunava|last=Chaudhuri|url=http://www.indianfootball.de/seasons/2004traderscup.html|title="Khadims" Traders Cup 2004|website=indianfootball.de|year=2004|access-date=27 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170718222559/http://www.indianfootball.de/seasons/2004traderscup.html|archive-date=18 July 2017}}</ref> In 2022, they roped in noted Indian-Iranian footballer Jamshid Nassiri as head coach.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://insidesports.in/archives/4162|title=উত্তম, রিকির হ্যাটট্রিক, সিএফসির ৮ গোল, জিতল কালীঘাট, পাঠচক্র|date=14 August 2022|access-date=26 November 2022|location=Kolkata|website=insidesports.in|publisher=ইনসাইড স্পোর্টস|language=bn|trans-title=Hat-trick done by Uttam and Ricky, CCFC scored 8 goals, wins for both Kalighat and Pathachakra|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128072846/https://insidesports.in/archives/4162|archive-date=28 January 2023}}</ref>

===Field hockey=== Club's field hockey team is known as ''CCFC Gremlins'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hockeybengal.org/post/fixtures-of-1st-division-group-b-2022|title=Calcutta Hockey League Competition — Fixtures of 1st Division Group B 2022|website=hockeybengal.org|publisher=The Hockey Bengal|date=23 March 2022|access-date=31 January 2023|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221118125355/https://www.hockeybengal.org/post/fixtures-of-1st-division-group-b-2022|archive-date=18 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://9476a252-c6e6-45a1-9e56-d69f3bf4f39e.usrfiles.com/ugd/9476a2_788612ea4f5b4a18b7dbc55f5d86439e.pdf|title=Calcutta Hockey League Competition — Fixtures of 1st Division Group A 2022|website=hockeybengal.org|publisher=The Hockey Bengal|date=13 February 2022|access-date=31 January 2023|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024100550/https://9476a252-c6e6-45a1-9e56-d69f3bf4f39e.usrfiles.com/ugd/9476a2_788612ea4f5b4a18b7dbc55f5d86439e.pdf|archive-date=24 October 2022}}</ref> and is affiliated with the Bengal Hockey Association (often shortened to 'Hockey Bengal').<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/essays/one-west-bengal-was-the-excellency-center-of-hockey-and-petrochemical-in-all-india/cid/1403525|title=আমরা হকিতেও ছিলাম, পেট্রোরসায়ন শিল্পেও ছিলাম — সবই এখন অতীত|trans-title=We were in hockey, we were in the petrochemical industry — all in the past|website=anandabazar.com|publisher=Anandabazar Patrika|first=Mohit|last=Roy|date=31 January 2023|access-date=1 February 2023|location=Kolkata|language=bn|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201045709/https://www.anandabazar.com/amp/editorial/essays/one-west-bengal-was-the-excellency-center-of-hockey-and-petrochemical-in-all-india/cid/1403525|archive-date=1 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://wbsportsandyouth.gov.in/hockey|title=WB Sports & Youth Dept — Hockey in West Bengal|access-date=26 January 2024|archive-date=15 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180415220739/https://wbsportsandyouth.gov.in/hockey|website=wbsportsandyouth.gov.in|publisher=West Bengal Department of Youth Services And Sports|location=Kolkata}}</ref> The team was once primarily consisting of European and Anglo-Indian players.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/how-the-anglo-indian-community-created-two-no-1-hockey-teams/articleshow/53690148.cms |title=How the Anglo-Indian community created two No 1 hockey teams |website=The Times of India |publisher=The Times of India (Sunday Times)|agency=Times News Network |last=Alikhan |first=Anvar |date=14 August 2016 |access-date=8 November 2022 |archive-date=8 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221108234015/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/how-the-anglo-indian-community-created-two-no-1-hockey-teams/articleshow/53690148.cms }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=A most remarkable community: Anglo-Indian contributions to sport in India|publisher=Routledge|last=Mills|first=Megan S.|journal=Contemporary South Asia |doi=10.1080/09584930120083828|volume=10|year=2001|issue=2 |pages=223–236 |s2cid=145742265 |doi-access=free}} (Published online: "Routledge Contemporary South Asia"; 1 July 2010).</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041204/asp/calcutta/story_4080762.asp | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121208172753/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041204/asp/calcutta/story_4080762.asp | url-status = dead | archive-date = 8 December 2012 | title = All hail hockey on history high | access-date =13 April 2007 | last = O'Brien | first = Barry | work =Eye on Calcutta | publisher =The Telegraph (India) | location=Calcutta, India | date=4 December 2004 }}</ref> CC&FC is regular participant of both the Calcutta Hockey League, and Beighton Cup (one of world's oldest hockey tournaments).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hockeybengal.org/beighton-cup|title=Beighton Cup|website=hockeybengal.com|publisher=Hockey Bengal|access-date=5 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105145704/https://www.hockeybengal.org/beighton-cup|archive-date=5 November 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://hockeypassion.in/hockey-perspectives/prestigious-beighton-cup-revived-after-three-years-will-be-held-from-december-11-18/ |title=Prestigious Beighton Cup Revived After Three Years, 124th Edition Will Be Held From December 11–18 |date=24 September 2022 |publisher=Hockey Passion |access-date=5 November 2022 |archive-date=5 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105145707/https://hockeypassion.in/hockey-perspectives/prestigious-beighton-cup-revived-after-three-years-will-be-held-from-december-11-18/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bharatiyahockey.org/patjansen/beighton.htm |title=Beighton Cup |publisher=Bharatiya Hockey |access-date=5 November 2022 |archive-date=12 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210612122617/http://www.bharatiyahockey.org/patjansen/beighton.htm }}</ref> They won 1924 edition of Beighton Cup, with a runner-up finish in 1919.<ref name="Hockey Bengal" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Teams with Most Wins in Prestigious Beighton Cup|url=https://hockeypassion.in/hockey-perspectives/teams-with-most-wins-in-prestigious-beighton-cup/|date=2 November 2022|access-date=3 November 2022|website=hockeypassion.in|publisher=Hockey Passion|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221102200248/https://hockeypassion.in/hockey-perspectives/teams-with-most-wins-in-prestigious-beighton-cup/|archive-date=2 November 2022}}</ref> In 2022–23, CC&FC hosted inaugural edition of CCFC Hockey Premier League.<ref name="CCFC 2023" />

===Tennis=== Tennis as a racket sport in India, introduced by the Britishers and is an important sport, still being practiced within CCFC since 1920s.<ref name="CCFC—Tennis">{{cite web|url=http://ccfc1792.com/tennis.php|title=HISTORY OF BALLYGUNGE CRICKET CLUB / CCFC — TENNIS SECTION|archive-date=4 April 2016|date=30 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404045719/http://ccfc1792.com/tennis.php|website=ccfc1792.com|publisher=Calcutta Cricket and Football Club|location=Kolkata}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T1lLAAAAYAAJ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407175819/https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Encyclopedia_of_Tennis.html?id=T1lLAAAAYAAJ |archive-date=7 April 2022 |title=The encyclopedia of tennis | author=Robertson, Max | author-link=India | year=1974 | publisher=Allen and Unwin | location=London | pages=392 | isbn=0-04-796042-6}}</ref> The club is an affiliated member of the Bengal Tennis Association (BTA).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bengaltennis.online/affiliated-members/|title=Bengal Tennis Association — AFFILIATED MEMBERS|access-date=12 April 2024|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412102801/https://bengaltennis.online/affiliated-members/|website=bengaltennis.online|publisher=Bengal Tennis Association|archive-date=12 April 2024}}</ref> One of the earliest tennis grass courts were installed within club grounds in Ballygunge under the supervision of R. W. Plummer.<ref name="CCFC—Tennis" /> The club clinched Ballygunge Cricket Club Open Lawn Tennis Championship title in 1929.<ref name="CCFC—Tennis" /> Editions of prestigious Bengal Lawn Tennis Championships (incorporated in 1887), alongside Indian Satellite Tennis Championships and Hometrust Senior Nationals, were organized by the CC&FC.<ref name="CCFC—Tennis" /> In 2022–23 season, inaugural edition of Calcutta Tennis Premier League (CTPL) was hosted in the club.<ref name="CCFC 2023" />

===Cycle polo=== thumb|Cycle polo being played at the CC&FC ground in 2018 Cycle polo, a specific version of polo being played using bicycles, has been one of the major sports being practiced at the CC&FC for decades.<ref name="polo 1">{{cite web|last1=Dey|first1=Sreyoshi|title=The wheels of a royal sport were a turnin' at CC&fc|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1120612/jsp/entertainment/story_15597503.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120617151227/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120612/jsp/entertainment/story_15597503.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 June 2012|access-date=16 March 2018|agency=ABP|work=The Telegraph|location=Kolkata|date=12 June 2012}}</ref><ref name="polo 2">{{cite news|last1=Sarkar|first1=Brinda|title=A power-packed cycle polo tourney at CC&FC|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170601/jsp/t2/story_154432.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406163956/https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170601/jsp/t2/story_154432.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 April 2018|access-date=6 April 2018|agency=ABP|issue=The Telegraph|date=1 June 2017|location=Kolkata}}</ref> The club is also affiliated with both Cycle Polo Federation of India (CPFI) and Cycle Polo Association of Bengal, the national and regional governing bodies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cycle Polo Federation of India — official website|url=http://www.cyclepolo.com/achivements%20of%20cycle%20polo1.html|access-date=6 April 2018|archive-date=6 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180406163817/http://www.cyclepolo.com/achivements%20of%20cycle%20polo1.html|work=cyclepolo.com}}</ref><ref name="polo 2" /> The first Merchant's Cup tournament for cycle polo was organized and hosted by the club in 1973.<ref name="polo 1" /> They also hosted numerous cycle polo tournaments, including – All India Cycle Polo Invitation Cup, Legend's Tournament, Marsh Mug, Swaroop Bhanjdeo Memorial Tournament, Apji Vaiji Singh Memorial Trophy, and CC&FC Cup.<ref name="polo 1" /><ref name="CCFC 2023" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/cycle-polo-and-how-it-took-the-sport-beyond-royal-families/cid/2015726|title=Cycle polo and how it took the sport beyond royal families|work=The Telegraph India|location=Kolkata|date=25 April 2024|access-date=23 January 2024|first1=Rangan|last1=Dutta|archive-date=5 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605003717/https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/cycle-polo-and-how-it-took-the-sport-beyond-royal-families/cid/2015726}}</ref> The club is also a regular participant in editions of Laxmibilas Cup in Kolkata.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/ccfc-win-big/cid/1227131|title=CCFC Win Big in Polo|location=Kolkata|date=31 May 2000|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|access-date=26 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928100533/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/ccfc-win-big/cid/1227131|archive-date=28 September 2023}}</ref>

===Other sports=== Other individual and team sports being played at the CC&FC are: golf, bridge, volleyball, table tennis, swimming, badminton, squash, and darts.<ref name="CCFC—Others">{{cite web|url=http://ccfc1792.com/others.php|title=CCFC 1792 — Others — Bridge|archive-date=4 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404053227/http://ccfc1792.com/others.php|website=ccfc1792.com|publisher=Calcutta Cricket and Football Club|location=Kolkata}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.millenniumpost.in/ccfc-celebrates-225years-of-its-existence-with-glory-and-pride-162972|title=CCFC celebrates 225 years of its existence with glory and pride|first1=Shayani|last1=Mukherjee|date=26 September 2016|access-date=26 January 2023|website=millenniumpost.in|publisher=The Millennium Post India|location=Kolkata|archive-date=9 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009132249/https://www.millenniumpost.in/ccfc-celebrates-225years-of-its-existence-with-glory-and-pride-162972}}</ref> Their volleyball team takes part in Elliot Shield State Volleyball Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/sai-win-big-elliot-shield-state-volleyball-golf-meet/cid/1045616|title=SAI win big Elliot Shield State volleyball Golf meet|location=Kolkata|date=16 April 2004|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|access-date=26 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928102329/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/sai-win-big-elliot-shield-state-volleyball-golf-meet/cid/1045616|archive-date=28 September 2023}}</ref> The club also won 4th edition of Monsoon League Bridge Tournament hosted by Tollygunge Club.<ref name="CCFC—Others" /> CC&FC also hosts Inter-club Darts Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/in-the-city-28-07-2003/cid/1038665|title=IN THE CITY 28-07-2003 — Darts Meet|date=28 July 2003|access-date=26 January 2023|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|location=Kolkata|archive-date=27 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927060314/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/in-the-city-28-07-2003/cid/1038665}}</ref>

==Crest, colours and rivalries== The crest of CC&FC has numerous versions, while the present version is containing a shield, with having four stripes, in club colours black, red, and white, with initials of "CCFC" and foundation year 1792.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pinterest.com/pin/310748443046802890|title=Calcutta Cricket and Football Club Logo|website=Pinterest.com|publisher=Heráldica Desportiva|access-date=14 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114104605/https://www.pinterest.com/pin/310748443046802890/|archive-date=14 November 2023}}</ref> Red and white as club colours, were introduced in 1877, during the tenure of G. A. J. Rothney as CC&FC's honorary secretary and treasurer, who played the crucial role in funding within the club.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indiarugby.com/Home/NationalTeam|title=India Rugby Football Union — National Team and CFC|website=indiarugby.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803044754/https://indiarugby.com/Home/NationalTeam|archive-date=3 August 2021|access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref>

When tournaments began and organized by the Indian Football Association in the late 19th century, CC&FC shared rivalries with two all-European teams Dalhousie AC and Calcutta Rangers, along with fully indigenous side Mohun Bagan AC.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Mukherjee |first1=Anita |title=MOHUN BAGAN VILLA – GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN |url=https://breathingroots.co.in/2020/10/10/mohun-bagan-villa-gone-but-not-forgotten/ |website=Breathing Roots |date=10 July 2021 |access-date=5 May 2022 |archive-date=3 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003050014/https://breathingroots.co.in/2020/10/10/mohun-bagan-villa-gone-but-not-forgotten/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Sengupta |first1=Somnath |title=History Of Mohun Bagan (Part 1): The Success That Changed Indian Football |url=http://www.thehardtackle.com/2010/history-of-mohun-bagan-chapter-1-the-origin-and-the-success-that-changed-indian-football/ |website=The Hard Tackle |date=2 May 2010 |access-date=5 May 2022 |archive-date=25 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025110131/http://www.thehardtackle.com/2010/history-of-mohun-bagan-chapter-1-the-origin-and-the-success-that-changed-indian-football/ }}</ref><ref name="Shah" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://puronokolkata.com/2015/03/08/dalhousie-institute-hare-street-calcutta-1865/|title=Dalhousie Institute, Hare Street, Calcutta, 1865|location=Kolkata|date=8 March 2015|author=Ajantrik|access-date=3 November 2022|website=puronokolkata.com|publisher=Purono Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124175949/https://puronokolkata.com/2015/03/08/dalhousie-institute-hare-street-calcutta-1865/|archive-date=24 January 2022}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite news|url=http://www.goaldentimes.org/eastern-railway-ran-full-steam-1958/ |title=WHEN EASTERN RAILWAY RAN ON FULL STEAM (1958) |work=Goalden Times |last1=Chakraborty |first1=Debojyoti |date=29 August 2017 |access-date=25 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111162448/http://www.goaldentimes.org/eastern-railway-ran-full-steam-1958/ |archive-date=11 November 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bongodorshon.com/home/story_detail/story-of-legendary-football-coach-dukkhiram|first=Chandak|last=Guha|website=bongodorshon.com|publisher=Bongodorshon Information Desk|language=bn|trans-title=The Englishmen too feared Bengal's legendary first football coach|title=ইংরেজরাও ভয় পেত বাংলার প্রথম কিংবদন্তি ফুটবল কোচকে|location=Kolkata|date=5 September 2019|access-date=24 October 2022|archive-date=8 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908122903/https://www.bongodorshon.com/home/story_detail/story-of-legendary-football-coach-dukkhiram}}</ref> In later years, other rivals of the club were Mohammedan Sporting, Aryans, and British regimental outfits.<ref name="Majumdar" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mohunbaganclub.com/history/history-1889-1909/ |title=History of Mohun Bagan – Presented by MohunBaganClub.com {{*}} The Beginning: 1889–1909 |website=mohunbaganclub.com |access-date=12 May 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150505103851/http://www.mohunbaganclub.com/history/history-1889-1909/ |archive-date=5 May 2015 |location=Kolkata }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://inscript.me/how-east-bengal-mohun-bagan-became-rival-history-of-west-bengal-club-football-by-ayan-bhattacharya-robibarer-royak|title=বাংলা ভাগের ক্ষত কিভাবে বিষিয়ে দিল মোহনবাগান আর ইস্টবেঙ্গলকে?|trans-title=How did the wound of the partition of Bengal poisoned both Mohun Bagan and East Bengal?|first1=Ayan|last1=Bhattacharya|archive-date=7 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107163804/https://inscript.me/how-east-bengal-mohun-bagan-became-rival-history-of-west-bengal-club-football-by-ayan-bhattacharya-robibarer-royak|website=inscript.me|publisher=ইনস্ক্রিপ্ট বাংলা নিউজ|location=Kolkata|language=bn|date=10 September 2023|access-date=7 November 2023}}</ref> From 1870s and 80s onwards, club's rugby team predominantly competed against two contemporary sides Bombay Gymkhana and Madras Cricket Club,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/sports/other-sports/cricket-is-big-but-lankans-love-their-rugby-2683379|title=Cricket is big, but Lankans love their rugby|date=13 September 2023|access-date=5 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021040421/https://www.deccanherald.com/sports/other-sports/cricket-is-big-but-lankans-love-their-rugby-2683379|archive-date=21 October 2023|first1=Roshan|last1=Thyagarajan|work=Deccan Herald}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.therugbyjournal.com/rugby-blog/india|title=India — Rugby|first1=Paul|last1=Walsh|website=The Rugby Journal|date=16 September 2021|access-date=31 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231110013408/https://www.therugbyjournal.com/rugby-blog/india|archive-date=10 November 2023|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/once-upon-a-time-bombay-gymkhana-was-first-club-to-bring-multiple-sports-together-2988064/|title=Once Upon A Time: Bombay Gymkhana was first club to bring multiple sports together|date=21 August 2016|first=Arita|last=Sarkar|newspaper=The Indian Express|access-date=3 September 2018|archive-date=4 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180904104050/https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/once-upon-a-time-bombay-gymkhana-was-first-club-to-bring-multiple-sports-together-2988064/}}</ref> while currently sharing rivalries with Jungle Crows and Army Red.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.therugbyjournal.com/rugby-blog/india|title=Rugby — India: Calcutta Cricket & Football Club|date=16 September 2021|access-date=5 November 2023|work=The Rugby Journal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211001094703/https://www.therugbyjournal.com/rugby-blog/india|archive-date=1 October 2021|first1=Paul|last1=Walsh}}</ref><ref name="JC">{{Cite news|url=http://www.junglecrows.com:80/rugby_headlines.html|title=Crows Headlines — Calcutta Cup Winners 2008: CCFC 20–45 Jungle Crows|date=April 2008|work=junglecrows.com|access-date=30 September 2022|archive-date=19 February 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219010048/http://www.junglecrows.com:80/rugby_headlines.html}}</ref>

==Home ground== Due to the absence of permanent venue in earlier days, the club used grounds in Esplanade, parallel with grounds on the bank of river Hooghly, between Fort William and Government House.<ref name="history" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.digitens.org/en/print/pdf/node/414|work=digitens.org|title=''The Digital Encyclopedia of British Sociability in the Long Eighteenth Century'' — Sporting clubs — Cricket (PDF)|last1=TADIÉ|first1=Alexis|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102183855/https://www.digitens.org/en/print/pdf/node/414|archive-date=2 November 2023|date=11 February 2023|access-date=3 November 2023|issn=2803-2845|format=PDF}}</ref> In 1825, 'Sketch of the Maidan' was done by the club, and in 1841, they were allowed to enclose the ground. The club used eastern end of the Eden Gardens (then known as 'Auckland Circus Gardens') from 1860s until shifting their base to Ballygunge in 1950s.<ref name="Ajanta" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/travel/content/story/494282.html|title=The uncommon green. In the heart of Kolkata, the Maidan is a great level playing field|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|date=27 December 2010|first=Shamik|last=Bag|location=Kolkata|archive-date=22 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422073055/http://www.espncricinfo.com/travel/content/story/494282.html|access-date=23 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/on-renaming-eden-gardens/cid/1444191|title=On renaming Eden Gardens|work=The Telegraph|location=Kolkata|date=9 January 2016|first1=Raju|last1=Mukherji|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231010221910/https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/on-renaming-eden-gardens/cid/1444191|archive-date=10 October 2023|access-date=3 November 2023}}</ref> CC&FC later established its earlier known headquarter at the Eden Gardens, and built a pavilion there in 1871.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://specials.rediff.com/cricket/2001/feb/03eden1.htm|title=Tests at the Eden Gardens, Calcutta|date=10 September 2004|access-date=4 November 2023|publisher=Rediff.com|first1=Mohandas|last1=Menon|archive-date=17 October 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017163852/http://specials.rediff.com/cricket/2001/feb/03eden1.htm}}</ref>

thumb|Cricket being played by Europeans, an undated photograph of Calcutta Cricket Club ground. Club's football section uses Calcutta FC Ground (commonly known as Mohun Bagan Ground) in Kolkata Maidan.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://meghbangla.com/2020/07/mohunbagan/|title=মোহনবাগান এবং ভারতীয় ফুটবলের শুরুর কথা|trans-title=Mohun Bagan and the beginning of Indian football|website=meghbangla.com|publisher=Megh Bangla Internet Magazine|date=29 July 2020|access-date=24 October 2022|first=Goutamranjan|last=Basu|language=bn|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220405175744/https://meghbangla.com/2020/07/mohunbagan/|archive-date=5 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/mad-about-football/articleshow/102933485.cms|title=Mad about football|access-date=22 February 2024|date=22 August 2023|agency=TNN|work=The Times of India|location=Kolkata|first1=Nilesh|last1=Bhattacharya|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230823180930/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/mad-about-football/articleshow/102933485.cms|archive-date=23 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mohunbaganac.com/news-detail/newly-installed-floodlights-inaugurated-at-the-mohun-bagan-ground-5019|url-status=dead|title=Newly installed floodlights inaugurated at the Mohun Bagan ground|website=mohunbaganac.com|first1=Narayan|last1=Dasgupta|access-date=12 May 2016|archive-date=10 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310142242/http://www.mohunbaganac.com/news-detail/newly-installed-floodlights-inaugurated-at-the-mohun-bagan-ground-5019}}</ref> It was also used as venue of the 1954 edition of Asian Quadrangular Football Tournament.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/brindies-quad.html#54|title=Asian Quadrangular Tournament (Colombo Cup) 1952–1955: 1954 (Calcutta, India)|first=Neil|last=Morrison|publisher=RSSSF|year=1999|access-date=17 August 2022|archive-date=20 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220820110914/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/brindies-quad.html#54}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://footballnewsindia.in/2015/08/04/calcutta-football-league-officers-choice-blue-title-sponsor/|title=CALCUTTA FOOTBALL LEAGUE – OFFICER'S CHOICE BLUE TO BE THE TITLE SPONSOR|website=Football News India|date=4 August 2015|access-date=7 October 2022|archive-date=10 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010165728/http://footballnewsindia.in/2015/08/04/calcutta-football-league-officers-choice-blue-title-sponsor/}}</ref> The ground hosted exhibition matches of India and numerous visiting European teams, including a match between India and Allsvenskan club AIK in December 1954.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aikstats.se/matches.php?id=3453|title=Friday 10 December 1954, Indisk kombination — AIK 0–1 (0–0) Calcutta FC Ground, Calcutta|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221133559/https://www.aikstats.se/matches.php?id=3453|archive-date=21 February 2024|language=sv|access-date=21 February 2024|website=aikstats.se|publisher=AIK Fotboll Klub}}</ref> The present CC&FC ground for cricket is situated in Ballygunge, which serves as one of the venues for prestigious Ranji Trophy matches.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://morungexpress.com/ranji-trophy-mizoram-lead-nagaland-75-runs-day-2|title=Ranji Trophy: Mizoram lead Nagaland by 75 runs on day 2|location=Dimapur|date=28 January 2020|website=morungexpress.com|publisher=Morung Express|access-date=28 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200129182638/http://morungexpress.com/ranji-trophy-mizoram-lead-nagaland-75-runs-day-2|archive-date=29 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://easternmirrornagaland.com/ranji-trophy-mizoram-trailing-nagaland-by-235-runs/|title=Ranji Trophy: Mizoram Trailing Nagaland By 235 Runs|location=Dimapur|date=27 January 2020|website=easternmirrornagaland.com|publisher=Eastern Mirror News Nagaland|access-date=28 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928110727/https://easternmirrornagaland.com/ranji-trophy-mizoram-trailing-nagaland-by-235-runs/|archive-date=28 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thesangaiexpress.com/Encyc/2022/2/18/KOLKATA-Feb-17-Manipur-trailed-by-24-runs-to-Arunachal-Pradesh-at-the-end-of-Day-1-at-the-ongoing.amp.html|title=Ranji Trophy 2021–22: Manipur trail by 24 runs on Day 1|location=Kolkata|date=17 February 2020|website=thesangaiexpress.com|publisher=The Sangai Express|access-date=28 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928111134/https://www.thesangaiexpress.com/Encyc/2022/2/18/KOLKATA-Feb-17-Manipur-trailed-by-24-runs-to-Arunachal-Pradesh-at-the-end-of-Day-1-at-the-ongoing.amp.html|archive-date=28 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/ranji-trophy-in-quest-of-all-rounders-8320395/|title=Ranji Trophy: In quest of all-rounders|first=Pratyush|last=Raj|location=Kolkata|date=13 December 2022|work=The Indian Express|access-date=26 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418053830/https://indianexpress.com/article/sports/cricket/ranji-trophy-in-quest-of-all-rounders-8320395/|archive-date=18 April 2023}}</ref>

==Notable players and members== thumb|Front view of the CC&FC building in Ballygunge

===Noted players=== '''Rugby''' * {{flagicon|GBR}} {{flagicon|SCO}} Benjamin Burns – represented England in the first international match against Scotland in 1871.<ref name="Noted players">{{Cite web |title=THE CALCUTTA CUP: the legacy of a club that died |url=http://srustaging.realise.com/sites/default/files/editor/docs/the-calcutta-cup.pdf |website=srustaging.realise.com |publisher=Edinburgh Academical Football Club |date=20 February 2011 |access-date=25 March 2015 |location=London |archive-date=22 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922070100/http://srustaging.realise.com/sites/default/files/editor/docs/the-calcutta-cup.pdf }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.espnscrum.com/england/rugby/match/18901.html |title=Scotland v England at Edinburgh, March 27, 1871 |publisher=ESPNscrum |access-date=20 February 2011 |archive-date=21 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021185553/http://www.espnscrum.com/england/rugby/match/18901.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0007/index.shtml |title=The first international rugby match |publisher=BBC |access-date=22 February 2011 |archive-date=29 June 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629132006/http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0007/index.shtml }}</ref> * {{flagicon|GBR}} {{flagicon|SCO}} Stephen Finney – represented England from 1872 to 1873.<ref name="Noted players" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espnscrum.com/australia-tour-2010/rugby/player/280.html |title=Stephen Finney Profile |website=espnscrum.com |publisher=ESPN Scrum |access-date=15 March 2011 |archive-date=22 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022063407/http://www.espnscrum.com/australia-tour-2010/rugby/player/280.html }}</ref> * {{flagicon|GBR}} {{flagicon|ENG}} G. A. James Rothney – served as captain of CC&FC rugby team, and both honorary secretary and treasurer of the club.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.world.rugby/news/574207/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-calcutta-cup|title=Rugby history — Everything you need to know about the Calcutta Cup|date=6 July 2020|access-date=27 November 2022|website=world.rugby|publisher=World Rugby|location=London|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630135446/https://www.world.rugby/news/574207/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-calcutta-cup|archive-date=30 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.englandrugby.com/news/article/six-nations-history-of-the-calcutta-cup|title=HISTORY OF THE CALCUTTA CUP — Ahead of England's Guinness Six Nations fixture against Scotland, look back at the origins of the Calcutta Cup|date=3 February 2020|access-date=27 November 2022|publisher=Rugby Football Union|location=London|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20230628180623/https://www.englandrugby.com/news/article/six-nations-history-of-the-calcutta-cup|archive-date=28 June 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> * {{flagicon|IRL}} G. St. Lager Fagan – represented Ireland internationally, in late-nineteenth century.<ref name="Noted players" /> * {{flagicon|SCO}} D. McKinnon – represented Scotland internationally.<ref name="Noted players" /> * {{flagicon|SCO}} G. C. Mclagan – represented Scotland internationally.<ref name="Noted players" />

'''Cricket''' * {{flagicon|GBR}} Reginald Lagden – English cricketer, captained CC&FC in the 1930s.<ref>Naha, Souvik (2023). ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20231031155248/https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Cricket_Media_and_Public_Culture_in_Mode.html?id=47GBzgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta]'' (illustrated edition). Cambridge University Press. {{isbn|978-1-108-49458-8}}. [https://web.archive.org/web/20231031154625/https://ebin.pub/cricket-public-culture-and-the-making-of-postcolonial-calcutta-newnbsped-1108494587-9781108494588.html 34. CRICKET, PUBLIC CULTURE AND THE MAKING OF POSTCOLONIAL CALCUTTA]. Retrieved 31 October 2023 (archived 31 October 2023).</ref> * {{flagicon|GBR}} John Lindsay Guise – English first-class cricketer, also played for Middlesex, Oxford University and Europeans.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dhole |first1=Pradip |title=John Lindsay Guise: The man who opened batting at Eden Gardens against MCC in 1926–27 |url=https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/john-lindsay-guise-the-man-who-opened-batting-at-eden-gardens-against-mcc-in-1926-27-744160 |website=cricketcountry.com |date=10 September 2018 |access-date=1 April 2019 |archive-date=1 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401094223/https://www.cricketcountry.com/articles/john-lindsay-guise-the-man-who-opened-batting-at-eden-gardens-against-mcc-in-1926-27-744160 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/13531.html |title=John Guise at ESPNcricinfo |access-date=14 March 2017 |archive-date=15 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315002744/http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/13531.html }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228716.html |title=''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack'' 1992 edition – John Guise's obituary |date=6 December 2005 |access-date=14 March 2017 |archive-date=15 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170315002509/http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/228716.html }}</ref>

'''Football''' * {{flagicon|GBR}} H. G. Pooler – regular member of the football team of CC&FC in early 1900s, a noted IFA referee, who officiated the historic final of the 1911 IFA Shield.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Basu |first1=Jaydeep |title=A victory for India? Why Mohun Bagan's historic 1911 IFA Shield win was purely about football |url=https://scroll.in/field/968849/why-mohun-bagans-historic-1911-ifa-shield-win-should-be-judged-purely-from-a-football-perspective#:~:text=Manchester%20Guardian%20reported%20there%20were,%2C%20however%2C%20viewed%20it%20differently. |location=Kolkata |website=Scroll.in |date=29 July 2020 |access-date=5 May 2022 |archive-date=5 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220505210600/https://scroll.in/field/968849/why-mohun-bagans-historic-1911-ifa-shield-win-should-be-judged-purely-from-a-football-perspective#:~:text=Manchester%20Guardian%20reported%20there%20were,%2C%20however%2C%20viewed%20it%20differently. }}</ref> * {{flagicon|IND}} Kiyan Nassiri – youngest footballer to score hat-trick in the Indian Super League,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://xtratimebangla.in/know-about-kiyan-nassiris-old-times-from-ccfc-and-keventer-cup/|title=ডার্বির হিরো কিয়ানের পায়েখড়ি হওয়া সিসিএফসির প্রতিটা ঘাস আজ যেন গর্বিত|trans-title=Today, every grass of CC&FC where the hero of the derby Kiyan first played, is proud|date=30 January 2022|access-date=31 October 2023|website=xtratimebangla.in|publisher=এক্সট্রা টাইম ওয়েব ডেস্ক|language=bn|location=Kolkata|archive-date=31 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031102705/https://xtratimebangla.in/know-about-kiyan-nassiris-old-times-from-ccfc-and-keventer-cup/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://eisamay.com/sports/football/news/atk-mohun-bagan-footballer-kiyan-nassiri-mother-dreams-the-hattrick-of-his-son-even-today-in-kolkata-derby-match-against-sc-east-bengal/articleshow/89249105.cms|title=ছেলের হ্যাটট্রিক এখনও স্বপ্ন মনে হচ্ছে কিয়ানের মায়ের|trans-title=His son's hat-trick is still a dream of Kiyan's mother|language=bn|date=31 January 2022|first=Partha|last=Dutta|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131162518/https://eisamay.com/sports/football/news/atk-mohun-bagan-footballer-kiyan-nassiri-mother-dreams-the-hattrick-of-his-son-even-today-in-kolkata-derby-match-against-sc-east-bengal/articleshow/89249105.cms|archive-date=31 January 2022|website=eisamay.com|publisher=Ei Samay|access-date=21 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2 March 2020|title=Hero I-League: I want to enjoy my game, says former Iranian striker Jamshid's son Kiyan Nassiri|website=mykhel.com|publisher=My Khel|url=https://www.mykhel.com/football/hero-i-league-i-want-to-enjoy-my-game-says-former-iranian-striker-jamshid-son-kiyan-nassiri-139121.html|access-date=11 February 2021|language=en|archive-date=16 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230116081936/https://www.mykhel.com/football/hero-i-league-i-want-to-enjoy-my-game-says-former-iranian-striker-jamshid-son-kiyan-nassiri-139121.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://bangla.asianetnews.com/football/isl-derby-hat-tric-star-kiyan-nassiri-son-of-east-bengal-striker-jamshid-nassiri-image-gone-viral-spb-r6icin|title=Kiyan Nassiri:ছোট্ট কিয়ানকে কীভাবে গড়ে তুলেছেন জামশিদ, দেখুন ভাইরাল ছবি|trans-title=Kiyan Nassiri: How Jamshid Raised Little Kiyan, See Viral Pics|website=bangla.asianetnews.com|date=30 January 2022|access-date=31 January 2022|language=bn|archive-date=31 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220131102655/https://bangla.asianetnews.com/football/isl-derby-hat-tric-star-kiyan-nassiri-son-of-east-bengal-striker-jamshid-nassiri-image-gone-viral-spb-r6icin}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/isl/2021-2022/news/isl-live-atkmb-vs-sceb-atk-mohun-bagan-vs-sc-east-bengal-live-isl-score/article38344728.ece|title=ISL 2021–22 Highlights ATK Mohun Bagan vs SC East Bengal: Hat-trick hero Kiyan guides ATKMB to 3–1 win against SC East Bengal|website=The Hindu|publisher=Sportstar|date=29 January 2022|access-date=29 January 2022|archive-date=29 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129160847/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/isl/2021-2022/news/isl-live-atkmb-vs-sceb-atk-mohun-bagan-vs-sc-east-bengal-live-isl-score/article38344728.ece}}</ref> and Mohun Bagan Best Forward Awardee in 2022.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/former-india-player-shyam-thapa-to-be-conferred-with-mohun-bagan-ratna/articleshow/92730814.cms#_ga=2.65641000.709007170.1657375300-amp-jjRv2CPdera5-SKQSehKr2P9DtYCe77OfpHVHhGYKxDcqQTzU_if2oPdXHw49Y1p|title=Former India player Shyam Thapa to be conferred with Mohun Bagan Ratna|date=7 July 2022|access-date=9 July 2022|work=The Times of India|location=Kolkata, West Bengal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709140914/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/football/top-stories/former-india-player-shyam-thapa-to-be-conferred-with-mohun-bagan-ratna/articleshow/92730814.cms?from=mdr|archive-date=9 July 2022|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Amitabha|last=Das Sharma|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/shyam-thapa-awarded-mohun-bagan-ratna-indian-football/article65699929.ece/|title=Shyam Thapa conferred the Mohun Bagan Ratna|website=The Hindu|publisher=Sportstar|date=29 July 2022|access-date=12 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221013154828/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/shyam-thapa-awarded-mohun-bagan-ratna-indian-football/article65699929.ece|archive-date=13 October 2022}}</ref> * {{flagicon|BAN}} Rafikul Islam – played for CC&FC and represented Bangladesh at senior international level.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flashscore.com/player/islam-rafiqul/6RCfxx9S/|title=Player profile – Career statistics: Rafikul Islam (Bangladesh)|website=flashscore.com|archive-date=13 January 2024|access-date=26 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240113152015/https://www.flashscore.com/player/islam-rafiqul/6RCfxx9S/}}</ref>

'''Darts''' * {{flagicon|IND}} Jackie Khanna – national darts champion (women's).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ccfc1792.com/pdf/PRESIDENT'S-ADDRESS-27-07-2022.pdf|title=Calcutta Cricket & Football Club – 19/1, Gurusaday Road, Kolkata. President's Address – 19th AGM 2022|work=ccfc1792.com|access-date=31 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005020642/https://www.ccfc1792.com/pdf/PRESIDENT'S-ADDRESS-27-07-2022.pdf|archive-date=5 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="President's corner" />

===Noted members=== {{Quote box | width = 30% | align = right | quote = "I have the most cherished memories of the Club from way back in 1978 when I became a young member... I would really want to map this Club on a Worldwide basis as some great Cricket establishments are not aware of CC&FC's grand and redoubtable legacy, by sheer weight of its long-established heritage and tradition the CC&FC's existence for more than two and a quarter centuries speaks for itself..." | source = — '''Arun Lal''' (former Indian international cricketer), on his CC&FC and his career.<ref name="WOT" /> }} A large number of notable athletes are associated with the club, including: thumb|170px|Lal at the CC&FC in September 2017, wearing the jersey of club's "celebrating 225 years". * '''Football''': Chuni Goswami,<ref>{{cite web|location=Kolkata|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/in-the-city-05-03-2014/cid/206986|title=IN THE CITY 05-03-2014 — Felicitation|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|date=5 March 2014|access-date=16 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005102235/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/in-the-city-05-03-2014/cid/206986|archive-date=5 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Chuni Goswami: A legend in every sense of the word |url=https://www.theweek.in/news/sports/chuni-goswami-legend-every-sense-indian-football.html |work=The Week |access-date=22 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126011337/https://www.theweek.in/news/sports/chuni-goswami-legend-every-sense-indian-football.html |archive-date=26 November 2018 }}</ref> Subhas Bhowmick, S. Bhattacharjee, Pradip Choudhury, P. Ganguly, Santo Mitra, Shyam Thapa,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehardtackle.com/2012/legends-of-indian-football-shyam-thapa/#:~:text=Born%20in%201948%20in%20Gulmi,club%20brought%20two%20young%20players.|title=Legends Of Indian Football : Shyam Thapa|website=thehardtackle.com|publisher=The Hard Tackle|date=30 January 2012|access-date=2 July 2022|first=Somnath|last=Sengupta|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014163822/http://www.thehardtackle.com/2012/legends-of-indian-football-shyam-thapa/|archive-date=14 October 2020}}</ref> Kiyan Nassiri.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kiyan ready to shoulder Nassiri burden|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/kiyan-ready-to-shoulder-nassiri-burden/articleshow/75261099.cms|date=21 April 2020|access-date=11 February 2021|work=The Times of India|first=Marcus|last=Mergulhao|location=Panaji, Goa|language=en|archive-date=14 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814100509/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/kiyan-ready-to-shoulder-nassiri-burden/articleshow/75261099.cms}}</ref> * '''Hockey''': Keshav Chandra Datt, Gurbux Singh,<ref name="WOT" /> Dr. Vece Paes,<ref name="WOT" /> Anand Mandapaka. * '''Cricket''': Punya B. Datta,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12051.html|title=Punya Datta|access-date=26 September 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408073101/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/12051.html|archive-date=8 April 2016|work=ESPN Crickinfo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28107.html |title=Dilip Doshi profile |access-date=13 July 2017 |archive-date=24 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170724071635/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28107.html }}</ref> Ashok Gandotra,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28772.html |title=Ashok Gandotra profile |access-date=13 July 2017 |archive-date=14 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814181907/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28772.html }}</ref> Devang Gandhi,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28770.html |title=Devang Gandhi profile |access-date=13 July 2017 |archive-date=30 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730191819/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28770.html }}</ref> Sourav Ganguly, Dilip Doshi,<ref name="WOT" /> Saba Karim, Arun Lal,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/26295.html |title=Arun Lal profile |access-date=13 July 2017 |archive-date=20 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170720093016/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/26295.html }}</ref> Pranab Roy,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/33187.html |title=Pranab Roy profile |access-date=13 July 2017 |archive-date=23 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623213053/http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/33187.html }}</ref> Biswajit Bhowmick, Jhulan Goswami.<ref name="President's corner">{{cite web|url=https://www.ccfc1792.com/president_corner|title=PRESIDENT'S CORNER — Mr. Deepankar Nandi|website=ccfc1792.com|archive-date=6 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230206103916/https://www.ccfc1792.com/president_corner|access-date=3 March 2023|date=10 October 2022|location=Kolkata}}</ref> * '''Tennis''': Chiradip Mukerjea, Enrico Piperno,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.enricotenniscentre.com/about.php |title=Enrico Piperno profile |access-date=10 March 2021 |archive-date=14 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514200446/http://www.enricotenniscentre.com/about.php }}</ref> Leander Paes.

==Presidential history== ===Notable presidents=== * {{flagicon|GBR}} Reginald Bousfield Lagden ({{post-nominals|sep=,|OBE|MC}}) – British cricketer, hockey player, and sports administrator, also served as president of the Cricket Association of Bengal, and was awarded the Military Cross.<ref name="Presidents">{{cite web|url=https://www.ccfc1792.com/past-president|title=Calcutta Cricket and Football Club — Past Presidents|website=ccfc1792.com|access-date=26 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326155807/https://www.ccfc1792.com/past-president|archive-date=26 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Mukherji|first=Raju|date=2015|title=Eden Gardens Legend & Romance |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dqPDBgAAQBAJ|location= |publisher=Brandnext|page=106|isbn=|archive-date=11 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611065408/https://books.google.com/books?id=dqPDBgAAQBAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Ali|last=Zaman|url=http://www.koi-hai.com/default.aspx?id=490678|title=Down memory lane: the Lagden Gate|work=Koi-Hai.com|access-date=11 September 2015|archive-date=22 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171222051850/http://www.koi-hai.com/default.aspx?id=490678}}</ref> * {{flagicon|GBR}} Alexander Lindsay "Alec" Hosie – English first class cricketer, who represented teams including Marylebone Cricket Club, Oxford University, Hampshire County Cricket Club and Bengal.<ref name="Presidents" /> * {{flagicon|GBR}} Thomas Cuthbert Longfield – English first-class cricketer, captained Bengal to their first Ranji Trophy win in 1938–39.<ref>{{cite web|last=Dutta|first=RP|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/half-century-hurrah-at-home-ted-dexter-and-wife-return-to-roots-for-50-year-marriage-celebrations/cid/1255642|title=Half-century hurrah at home – Ted Dexter and wife return to roots for 50-year marriage celebrations|work=The Telegraph|date=30 December 2008|access-date=25 October 2018|location=Kolkata|archive-date=27 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827184604/https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/half-century-hurrah-at-home-ted-dexter-and-wife-return-to-roots-for-50-year-marriage-celebrations/cid/1255642}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Mukherji|first=R|date=2015|title=Eden Gardens Legend & Romance|pages=106–107|publisher=Kolkata Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dqPDBgAAQBAJ&dq=thomas%20longfield%20calcutta%20cricket&pg=PA27|access-date=25 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609042808/https://books.google.com/books?id=dqPDBgAAQBAJ&dq=thomas%20longfield%20calcutta%20cricket&pg=PA27#v=onepage&q=thomas%20longfield%20calcutta%20cricket&f=false|archive-date=9 June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Chakrabaty|first=S|url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/kolkata-s-favourite-soninlaw-returns/1040049/|title=Kolkata's favourite son-in-law returns|work=The Indian Express|date=4 December 2012|access-date=25 October 2018|archive-date=27 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827022348/http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/kolkata-s-favourite-soninlaw-returns/1040049/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Mitra|first=A|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-death-in-london-the-distinct-flavour-of-calcutta-s-fading-colonial-phase/cid/386198?ref=search-page|title=A death in London – The distinct flavour of Calcutta's fading colonial phase|work=The Telegraph|date=20 June 2011|access-date=25 October 2018|archive-date=25 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181025190239/https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-death-in-london-the-distinct-flavour-of-calcutta-s-fading-colonial-phase/cid/386198?ref=search-page}}</ref> * {{flagicon|GBR}} H. J. Moorhouse – played the key role in bringing worldwide attention for CC&FC, sent letter to ''The Times'' highlighting club's existence within a news on ''Madras Courier'' dated 23 February 1792, which marked the club as oldest sporting club outside the UK (turning down the claims of Oporto Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club of Portugal in 1955).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clubsinindia.in/calcutta-cricket-football-club/|title=Calcutta Cricket & Football club|website=clubsinindia.in|publisher=Clubs of India|location=Kolkata|date=1 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127063718/https://www.clubsinindia.in/calcutta-cricket-football-club/|archive-date=27 January 2024}}</ref> * {{flagicon|British India}} Pearson Surita – Anglo-Indian corporate executive and cricket commentator of the All India Radio (AIR)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chaturvedi|first=Ravi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=epi-DwAAQBAJ|title=Cricket Commentary & Commentators|date=16 November 2019|publisher=Notion Press|isbn=978-1-64429-727-8|language=en|archive-date=9 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609042931/https://books.google.com/books?id=epi-DwAAQBAJ}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Chatterjee|first=Utpal|date=10 October 1995|title=Pearson's zest for life defied cliches|work=The Times of India|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/595342477|id={{ProQuest|595342477}}|url-access=subscription|access-date=26 October 2021|archive-date=27 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027165237/https://www.proquest.com/docview/595342477}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ghose|first=Bhaskar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JZdHQjeNLHgC|title=The Service of the State: The IAS Reconsidered|date=1 January 2011|publisher=Penguin UK|isbn=978-81-8475-575-6|language=en|archive-date=9 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609043024/https://books.google.com/books?id=JZdHQjeNLHgC}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=India's most legendary of figures|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketer/content/story/141740.html|access-date=26 October 2021|date=August 1994|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|language=en|archive-date=9 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609043106/https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketer/content/story/141740.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=19 October 2011|title=The magicians called radio commentators|first1=E. R.|last1=Ramachandran|location=Kolkata|url=https://www.news18.com/blogs/india/e-r-ramachandran/the-magicians-called-radio-commentators-14040-746158.html|access-date=26 October 2021|website=News18.com|archive-date=26 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026075911/https://www.news18.com/blogs/india/e-r-ramachandran/the-magicians-called-radio-commentators-14040-746158.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Bhagat|first=Rasheeda|title=Nostalgia for cricket in an era gone by|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/nostalgia-for-cricket-in-an-era-gone-by/article28447598.ece|access-date=26 October 2021|website=Business Line|date=15 July 2019 |language=en|archive-date=26 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026075911/https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/nostalgia-for-cricket-in-an-era-gone-by/article28447598.ece}}</ref> * {{flagicon|IND}} Keshav Dutt – Indian hockey player, won gold medals at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, presided both the CC&FC and Saturday Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/amp/sports/keshav-datt-giant-on-the-field-with-simple-ideology/cid/1821670|title=Datt, giant on the field with simple ideology|first1=Gurbux|last1=Singh|date=8 July 2021|work=The Telegraph|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103160327/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/keshav-datt-giant-on-the-field-with-simple-ideology/cid/1821670|archive-date=3 November 2023|access-date=26 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sahni |first=Jaspreet |date=24 May 2021 |title=India's Olympic Firsts: Maiden medal as an 'independent' nation, a hockey gold in 1948. Tokyo Olympics News |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/tokyo-olympics/indias-olympic-firsts-maiden-medal-as-an-independent-nation-a-hockey-gold-in-1948/articleshow/82902287.cms |access-date=9 July 2021 |website=The Times of India |language=en |archive-date=11 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711212919/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/tokyo-olympics/indias-olympic-firsts-maiden-medal-as-an-independent-nation-a-hockey-gold-in-1948/articleshow/82902287.cms }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Sarangi|first=Y. B.|date=7 July 2021|title=Olympic gold-winning hockey legend Keshav Datt dies|language=en-IN|work=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/sport/hockey/hockey-legend-keshav-datt-dead/article35185012.ece|access-date=9 July 2021|issn=0971-751X|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709185448/https://www.thehindu.com/sport/hockey/hockey-legend-keshav-datt-dead/article35185012.ece}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Keshav Dutt: A legend, a crowd-puller and a winner. Kolkata News – Times of India|language=en|work=The Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/keshav-dutt-a-legend-a-crowd-puller-and-a-winner/articleshow/84216383.cms|access-date=9 July 2021|archive-date=3 November 2023|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103154742/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/keshav-dutt-a-legend-a-crowd-puller-and-a-winner/articleshow/84216383.cms}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=7 July 2021|title=Keshav Datt: A life and career shaped by Partition|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/sports/hockey/keshav-datt-a-life-and-career-shaped-by-partition-101625672240214.html|access-date=9 July 2021|website=Hindustan Times|language=en|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709064833/https://www.hindustantimes.com/sports/hockey/keshav-datt-a-life-and-career-shaped-by-partition-101625672240214.html}}</ref> * {{flagicon|IND}} Dr. Vece Paes – Indian hockey midfielder, who won bronze medal at the 1972 Munich Olympics.<ref name="Presidents" /><ref name="Ajanta" /> * {{flagicon|IND}} Arun Lal – Indian international cricketer and sports commentator.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-vs-sri-lanka-2017/how-bcci-could-hit-225-years-of-indian-cricket-history-for-a-six/story-bpxcFky9mI1qNsDpoYzEUK_amp.html|title=How BCCI could hit 225 years of Indian cricket history for a six|date=16 November 2017|access-date=1 November 2023|work=Hindustan Times|location=Kolkata|first1=Dhiman|last1=Sarkar|archive-date=6 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171206113627/http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-vs-sri-lanka-2017/how-bcci-could-hit-225-years-of-indian-cricket-history-for-a-six/story-bpxcFky9mI1qNsDpoYzEUK.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Saionee|last=Chakraborty|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/arun-the-prez/cid/1425070|title=Arun the prez. Arun Lal! Meet the new president of CC&FC|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|date=24 February 2017|access-date=7 January 2020|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611074003/https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/arun-the-prez/cid/1425070|archive-date=11 June 2023}}</ref> * {{flagicon|IND}} Utpal Ganguly – Indian sports administrator, member of the CAB, who served as secretary of the Indian Football Association.<ref name="Presidents" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/oc-took-me-to-meeting-says-dutta/cid/1063449|title=OC took me to meeting, says Dutta|date=22 July 2006|access-date=7 March 2023|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|location=Kolkata|archive-date=11 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611081540/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/oc-took-me-to-meeting-says-dutta/cid/1063449}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/in-the-city-27-05-2009/cid/630542|title=SPORTS MEET IN THE CITY 27-05-2009|access-date=7 March 2023|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|location=Kolkata|archive-date=11 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611082012/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/in-the-city-27-05-2009/cid/630542}}</ref> * {{flagicon|IND}} S. M. "Dada" Osman – former captain of the CC&FC rugby team.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/nim77mA2gkWstbPEtymcIP/Kolkata-United.html|title=Rugby has a long history in the City of Joy, and every monsoon it brings Kolkata's diverse communities closer|date=5 August 2012|access-date=9 August 2024|website=Live Mint|first1=Nikhilesh|last1=Bhattacharya|archive-date=27 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527094626/https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/nim77mA2gkWstbPEtymcIP/Kolkata-United.html}}</ref> * {{flagicon|IND}} Dinyar Mucadum – Indian businessman, member of the CAB, who served as CEO of The Bengal Club.<ref name="Presidents" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/glimpses-of-black-white-ginger-ale-non-alcoholic-carbonated-beverage-presents-the-telegraph-bengal-club-31st-nite/cid/1907933|title=Glimpses of Black & White Ginger Ale Non-Alcoholic Carbonated Beverage presents The Telegraph Bengal Club 31st Nite|first1=Sramana|last1=Ray|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|location=Kolkata|date=5 January 2023|access-date=29 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101153937/https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/glimpses-of-black-white-ginger-ale-non-alcoholic-carbonated-beverage-presents-the-telegraph-bengal-club-31st-nite/cid/1907933|archive-date=1 November 2023}}</ref> * {{flagicon|IND}} Dr. Pranab Dasgupta – Indian doctor, member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, who served as president of The Bengal Club and East Bengal.<ref name="Presidents" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://mani-group.com/blog/a-date-with-dr-pranab-dasgupta/|title=A DATE WITH DR PRANAB DASGUPTA|location=Kolkata|website=mani-group.com|publisher=MANI – change for good|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130111504/https://mani-group.com/blog/a-date-with-dr-pranab-dasgupta/|archive-date=30 January 2023}}</ref>

==Honours== ===Football=== * '''Calcutta Football League'''/'''CFL Premier Division'''<ref name="auto" /><ref name="Olympics">{{cite news|url=https://olympics.com/en/news/calcutta-football-league-history-winners-list |title=Calcutta Football League: East Bengal kings of Asia's oldest league competition — full winners list |publisher=International Olympic Committee |last1=Nag |first1=Utathya |date=19 April 2023 |access-date=25 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505071647/https://olympics.com/en/news/calcutta-football-league-history-winners-list |archive-date=5 May 2023 }}</ref> ** Champions (8): 1899, 1907, 1916, 1918, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1925 * '''IFA Shield'''{{#tag:ref|Fourth oldest football tournament, organized by the IFA (W.B.), and played between the local clubs of West Bengal and other invited ones.|group=note|name=Honours}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sengupta |first1=Somnath |title=The Glorious History of IFA Shield |url=http://www.thehardtackle.com/2011/the-glorious-history-of-ifa-shield/ |website=thehardtackle.com |publisher=The Hard Tackle |date=8 March 2011 |access-date=1 July 2021 |archive-date=9 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709181925/http://www.thehardtackle.com/2011/the-glorious-history-of-ifa-shield/ }}</ref><ref name="Shield">{{cite web|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/india-ifahist.html|title=India – List of IFA Shield Finals|access-date=23 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929112913/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/india-ifahist.html|archive-date=29 September 2022|publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation|first1=Arunava|last1=Chaudhuri}}</ref> ** Champions (9): 1896, 1900, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1915, 1922, 1923, 1924 ** Runners-up (8): 1905, 1907, 1910, 1914, 1916, 1919, 1921, 1936 * '''Trades Cup''' ** Champions (1): 2004<ref>{{cite web|first=Hans|last=Schöggl|url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/india-tradescup.html|title=India — List of Trades Cup Winners|publisher=RSSSF|year=2014|access-date=24 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927050302/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesi/india-tradescup.html|archive-date=27 September 2022}}</ref> * '''Minto Fort Cup''' ** Runners-up (1): 1906<ref>{{cite web |title=Creation of History – 1910 to 1919 |url=http://www.mohunbaganclub.com/history/632-2/ |website=Mohun Bagan Athletic Club |access-date=5 May 2022 |archive-date=5 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220505210601/http://www.mohunbaganclub.com/history/632-2/ }}</ref> * '''CFL First Division League''' ** Champions (1): 2022–23<ref name="CCFC 2023" /> ** Runners-up (2): 2020–21,<ref name="President's corner" /> 2021–22<ref>{{cite web|title=IFA CFL 1st DIVISION :: CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 2022|url=https://www.kolkatafootball.com/ifa_cfl_lower_division_2022/cfl_divn1_result.html|website=kolkatafootball.com|date=4 November 2022|access-date=13 November 2022|archive-date=12 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112194141/https://www.kolkatafootball.com/ifa_cfl_lower_division_2022/cfl_divn1_result.html}}</ref> * '''Phuket Soccer 7s Championship''' ** Plate final (1): 2023<ref name="CCFC 2023" />

===Field hockey=== * '''Beighton Cup''' ** Champions (1): 1924<ref name="Hockey Bengal">{{cite web|title=BEIGHTON CUP WINNERS AND RUNNERS-UP (1895—2019)|url=https://www.hockeybengal.org/winners-and-runner-up-details|location=Kolkata|website=hockeybengal.org|publisher=Hockey Bengal|access-date=5 July 2022|archive-date=23 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423035958/https://www.hockeybengal.org/winners-and-runner-up-details}}</ref> ** Runners-up (1): 1919<ref name="Hockey Bengal" /> * '''Calcutta Hockey League''' ** Champions (3): 2005, 2013, 2014<ref>* {{cite web|url=https://www.hockeybengal.org/calcutta-hockey-league-history |title=BIRTH AND EVOLUTION OF CALCUTTA HOCKEY LEAGUE COMPETITION (1905) |year=2022 |access-date=24 October 2022|website=hockeybengal.org|publisher=Hockey Bengal |location=Kolkata |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221018155544/https://www.hockeybengal.org/calcutta-hockey-league-history |archive-date=18 October 2022 }} * {{cite web |url=https://www.hockeybengal.org/about |title=About Us — Hockey Bengal |access-date=24 October 2022 |website=hockeybengal.org |publisher=Hockey Bengal |archive-date=24 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024100545/https://www.hockeybengal.org/about }}</ref> ** Third place (1): 2020–21<ref name="CCFC 2020-21">{{cite web|url=https://www.ccfc1792.com/pdf/CCFC-Annual-Report-2021.pdf|title=Calcutta Cricket & Football Club – 19/1, Gurusaday Road, Kolkata. 18th Annual Reports 2020–21|work=ccfc1792.com|access-date=31 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221005023334/https://www.ccfc1792.com/pdf/CCFC-Annual-Report-2021.pdf|archive-date=5 October 2022}}</ref>

===Rugby=== thumb|180px|The "Other Calcutta Cup" trophy at CC&FC building, won by the club in 2005. * '''All India & South Asia Rugby Championship'''<ref name="President's corner" /> ** Runners-up (1): 1932{{#tag:ref|In the final of All India Rugby Football Tournament on 22 October 1932, held in Madras, CCFC lost to Ceylonese Rugby & Football Club.|group=note|name=Rugby}}<ref>{{cite news|url=http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/singfreepressb19321022-1.2.117.1.aspx|title=Thrilling All-India final — Ceylon too good for Calcutta|newspaper=The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser|date=27 October 1932|access-date=15 January 2015|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402120929/http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/singfreepressb19321022-1.2.117.1.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.pressreader.com/sri-lanka/daily-mirror-sri-lanka/20200619/281827171018220|title=WHEN RUGBY FOOTBALL IN CEYLON REACHED ITS PEAK; ALL-CEYLON 15 — WESTERN AUSTRALIA 3|via=PressReader|publisher=The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka|first=Neil|last=Wijeratna|date=19 June 2020|access-date=26 September 2022|archive-date=20 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520101801/https://www.pressreader.com/sri-lanka/daily-mirror-sri-lanka/20200619/281827171018220}}</ref> ** Plate winners (1): 2022<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay?newsID=1010730|title=Bombay Gym rally to down Army in final of All India & South Asia Rugby Championship|date=17 October 2022|access-date=26 January 2023|website=daijiworld.com|location=Kolkata|archive-date=1 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801141130/https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay?newsID=1010730}}</ref> * '''Calcutta Rugby Union Challenge Cup'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/photos/india-news/photos-in-kolkata-india-s-rugby-hub-and-the-roots-of-the-calcutta-cup/photo-qwAp8lvxaryrg4SAK1Y83H.html|title=Photos: In Kolkata, India's rugby hub and the roots of the Calcutta Cup|work=Hindustan Times|date=3 August 2019|access-date=5 November 2020|first=Amit|last=Datta|agency=Agence France-Presse|location=Kolkata|archive-date=21 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821210919/https://www.hindustantimes.com/photos/india-news/photos-in-kolkata-india-s-rugby-hub-and-the-roots-of-the-calcutta-cup/photo-qwAp8lvxaryrg4SAK1Y83H.html}}</ref> ** Champions (3): 2005, 2014,<ref name="RD" /> 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ccfc1792.com/rugby.php|title=Congratulations to our home team for their victory in the Calcutta Cup 2015|date=16 May 2015|archive-date=4 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404052757/http://ccfc1792.com/rugby.php|website=ccfc1792.com|publisher=Calcutta Cricket and Football Club|location=Kolkata}}</ref> ** Runners-up (4): 2007,<ref name="SCRUM" /> 2008,<ref name="JC" /> 2023,<ref name="CCFC 2023" /> 2024<ref name="CCFC 2023-24" /> * '''The Centenary Cup''' ** Runners-up (1): 2015<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/rugby-tales/cid/1404648|title=RUGBY TALES — Jungle Crows win Centenary Cup|website=The Telegraph India|date=23 September 2015|access-date=31 July 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240731180130/https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/rugby-tales/cid/1404648|archive-date=31 July 2024|location=Kolkata}}</ref> * '''BRU Women's Inter-district 7s Rugby Championship''' ** Plate trophy (1): 2024<ref name="CCFC 2023-24" /> ** Bronze medal (1): 2021–22<ref name="annual reports" />

===Cricket=== * '''CAB Second Division League''' ** Runners-up (1): 2021–22<ref name="annual reports" /><ref name="second division" /> * '''CC&FC Merchant's Cup''' ** Runners-up (1): 2021–22<ref name="annual reports" /> * '''Bangkok International Sixes Tournament''' ** Runners-up (1): 2023<ref name="CCFC 2023">{{cite web|url=https://www.ccfc1792.com/pdf/CCFC-Annual-Report-2023.pdf|title=Calcutta Cricket & Football Club – 19/1, Gurusaday Road, Kolkata. 20th Annual Reports 2022–23|work=ccfc1792.com|access-date=31 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015061908/https://www.ccfc1792.com/pdf/CCFC-Annual-Report-2023.pdf|archive-date=15 October 2023}}</ref> * '''Calcutta Inter-club T10 League''' ** Champions (1): 2023–24<ref name="CCFC 2023-24">{{cite web|url=https://ccfc1792.com/pdf/CCFC-Annual-Report-2024.pdf|title=Calcutta Cricket & Football Club – 19/1, Gurusaday Road, Kolkata. 21th Annual Reports 2023–24|work=ccfc1792.com|access-date=6 November 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241002100623/https://ccfc1792.com/pdf/CCFC-Annual-Report-2024.pdf|archive-date=2 October 2024}}</ref>

===Tennis=== * '''Ballygunge Open Lawn Tennis Championship''' ** Champions (1): 1929<ref name="CCFC—Tennis" /> * '''ITC Inter-club Championship''' ** Champions (1): 2021–22<ref name="annual reports" /> * '''Bengal Tennis Association League''' ** Runners-up (1): 2021–22<ref name="annual reports">{{cite web|url=https://www.ccfc1792.com/pdf/CCFC-Annual-Report-2022.pdf|title=Calcutta Cricket & Football Club – 19/1, Gurusaday Road, Kolkata. 19th Annual Reports 2021–22|work=ccfc1792.com|access-date=31 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604170605/https://www.ccfc1792.com/pdf/CCFC-Annual-Report-2022.pdf|archive-date=4 June 2023}}</ref> * '''Calcutta Gymkhana Tennis Championship''' ** Silver medal (1): 2022–23<ref name="CCFC 2023" /> * '''Saturday Club Sports Carnival – Tennis''' ** Runners-up (2): 2023,<ref name="CCFC 2023" /> 2024<ref name="CCFC 2023-24" />

===Bridge=== * '''Monsoon League Inter-Club Bridge Tournament''' ** Champions (2): 2021,<ref name="President's corner" /> 2022<ref name="CCFC 2023" />

===Darts=== * '''Inter-Club Darts Tournament''' ** Champions (1): 2021<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/lifestyle/snapshots-from-ccfcs-sports-and-social-calendar/cid/1842654|title=Snapshots from CC&FC's sports and social calendar|date=10 December 2021|access-date=30 October 2023|work=The Telegraph|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202195620/https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/lifestyle/snapshots-from-ccfcs-sports-and-social-calendar/cid/1842654|archive-date=2 December 2022}}</ref> * '''RCGC Darts Championship''' ** Champions (1): 2022<ref name="annual reports" /> ** Runners-up (1): 2021<ref name="CCFC 2020-21" /> * '''The Royal Darts Carnival''' ** Champions (3): 2022, 2023, 2024<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/calcutta-cricket-and-football-club-ccfc-completes-hat-trick-at-royal-darts-carnival-at-royal-calcutta-golf-club-photogallery/cid/2006873|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|title=CCFC completes a hat-trick of wins at the Royal Darts Carnival 2024|first1=Debrup|last1=Chaudhuri|date=14 March 2024|access-date=26 March 2024|archive-date=13 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240413165330/https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/calcutta-cricket-and-football-club-ccfc-completes-hat-trick-at-royal-darts-carnival-at-royal-calcutta-golf-club-photogallery/cid/2006873|location=Kolkata}}</ref>

===Golf=== * '''Chaki Memorial Golf Tournament''' ** Runners-up (2): 2023,<ref name="CCFC 2023" /> 2024<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/tollygunge-club-beats-ccfc-in-a-friendly-chaki-memorial-golf-tournament/cid/2027681|title=Tollygunge Club beats CCFC in a friendly tournament|date=16 June 2024|access-date=23 July 2024|work=The Telegraph|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240723082104/https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/tollygunge-club-beats-ccfc-in-a-friendly-chaki-memorial-golf-tournament/cid/2027681|archive-date=23 July 2024}}</ref>

==Records and statistics== ===Overall records=== * Most successful team in the Calcutta Football League in pre-independence era, with eight titles between 1899 and 1925 (first non-army team to win the title too).<ref name="Olympics" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goal.com/en-in/lists/east-bengal-mohun-bagan-teams-cfl-title/nlyq9l22kiix1ul8zmplkrjf3#cs61550dffb19308f1|title=East Bengal, Mohun Bagan and teams who have won the Calcutta Football League title most number of times|website=Goal (website)|date=6 April 2021|access-date=4 November 2023|first1=Samrat|last1=Chakraborty|archive-date=23 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210923104316/https://www.goal.com/en-in/lists/east-bengal-mohun-bagan-teams-cfl-title/nlyq9l22kiix1ul8zmplkrjf3#cs61550dffb19308f1}}</ref> * Most successful team in the IFA Shield in pre-independence era, with nine titles between 1896 and 1924 (first non-army team to win the title too).<ref name="Shield" /> * Oldest tennis tournament in India, hosted at the CC&FC: Bengal Lawn Tennis Championships in 1887 (inaugural edition)<ref name="history" /><ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=https://aitatennis.com/history/ |website=aitatennis |publisher=All India Tennis Association |access-date=11 January 2023 |location=New Delhi, India |archive-date=28 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128000642/https://aitatennis.com/history/ }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Majumdar |first1=Boria |last2=Mangan |first2=J. A. |title=Sport in South Asian Society: Past and Present |date=13 September 2013 |publisher=Routledge |location=Oxford |isbn=978-1-317-99894-5 |page=117 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sWfdAAAAQBAJ&dq=history+of+the+Bengal+Championships+tennis&pg=PA117 |language=en |access-date=29 January 2023 |archive-date=3 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103142845/https://books.google.com/books?id=sWfdAAAAQBAJ&dq=history+of+the+Bengal+Championships+tennis&pg=PA117#v=onepage&q=history%20of%20the%20Bengal%20Championships%20tennis&f=false }}</ref>

===Tennis captains of CC&FC=== Source:<ref name="CCFC—Tennis" /> {| class="wikitable sortable" !Name!!Nationality!!Years |- |Debu Ghose||{{IND}}||1974–1980 |- |Prakash Dayal||{{IND}}||1980–1984 |- |Bikram Das||{{IND}}||1984–1989 |- |Sumanta Bannerjee||{{IND}}||1989–1990 |- |Prodosh Kumar Sen||{{IND}}||1990–1991 |- |Rajat Dutta||{{IND}}||1991–1994 |- |Azam Monem||{{IND}}||1994–1997 |- |S. R. Dutt||{{IND}}||1997–1998 |- |Jaggi Minotra||{{IND}}||1998–1999 |- |Bikram Das||{{IND}}||1999–2000 |- |Ranjan Mukherjee||{{IND}}||2000 |- |Pradeep Guhathakurta||{{IND}}||2000–2003 |- |Nandan Kumar Chaudhuri||{{IND}}||2003–2004 |- |Babul Mitter||{{IND}}||2004–2005 |- |Rajat Dutta||{{IND}}||2005–2006 |- |Naresh Ojha||{{IND}}||2006–2008 |- |Chittapriyo Bose||{{IND}}||2008–2009 |- |Vivek Bhasin||{{IND}}||2009–2011 |- |Sunny Uthup||{{IND}}||2011–2012 |- |Shantanu Tewary||{{IND}}||2012–2014 |- ||Daniel Ghaznavi||{{IND}}||2014–2015 |- |Rajeev Ghosh||{{IND}}||2015–2016 |}

===Notable matches of CC&FC cricket team=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: left" |- |'''Dates''' |'''Against''' |'''Venue''' |'''Result''' |'''Source''' |- |- | 23–25 December 1889 | {{flagicon|BRI}} G. F. Vernon's XI | Eden Gardens, Calcutta | Vernon's XI won by 9 wickets | {{#tag:ref|At the time, "first-class" was a term in common usage but it was not yet an official standard. It was formally defined in the May 1894 meeting at Lord's of Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the county clubs which were then competing in the County Championship. The ruling was effective from the beginning of the 1895 season|group=note|name=First-Class}}<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/134/134867.html |title=Calcutta Cricket Club v G. F. Vernon's XI |work=CricketArchive |access-date=4 September 2022 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=4 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220904031119/https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/134/134867.html }}</ref> |- | 5–6 January 1892 | {{flagicon|BRI}} Lord Hawke's XI | CCC Ground, Calcutta | Lord Hawke's XI won by an innings and 83 runs |<ref name="Lord Hawke's Team" /> |}

==Affiliations and services== CC&FC has reciprocal arrangements with over 25 private members clubs around the world, enabling members to use facilities, including notable clubs such as Kowloon Cricket Club and Hong Kong FC of Hong Kong, Penang Sports Club of Malaysia, Royal Bangkok Sports Club of Thailand, Singapore Cricket Club of Singapore, Wanderers Club of South Africa, St James's Club of England, Singhalese Sports Club of Sri Lanka, and Dhaka Club of Bangladesh.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ccfc1792.com/|title=CCFC — RECIPROCAL CLUB: Indian — Overseas|access-date=8 June 2023|website=ccfc1792.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604200929/https://www.ccfc1792.com/|archive-date=4 June 2023}}</ref> In June 2022, the club organized an elite camp for Indian women's footballers, for selection to international football clubs, in which noted teams including ŽNK Dinamo Zagreb, Marbella, Melbourne Victory and Western Sydney Wanderers collaborated.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/camp-organised-for-selection-of-women-footballers-to-intl-clubs-481134|title=Camp organised for selection of women footballers to int'l clubs|work=The Millennium Post|date=6 June 2022|access-date=5 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220606185020/http://www.millenniumpost.in/kolkata/camp-organised-for-selection-of-women-footballers-to-intl-clubs-481134|location=Kolkata|archive-date=6 June 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/after-kol-camp-2-girls-picked-up-for-croatian-football-club-trials/articleshow/92864655.cms|title=After Kolkata camp, 2 girls picked up for Croatian football club trials|date=15 July 2022|access-date=5 November 2023|location=Kolkata|first1=Dipawali|last1=Mitra|work=The Times of India|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220721211316/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/after-kol-camp-2-girls-picked-up-for-croatian-football-club-trials/articleshow/92864655.cms|archive-date=21 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/indian-football/indian-footballers-jyoti-and-soumya-selected-for-trials-at-znk-dinamo-zagreb/article65635351.ece|title=Indian footballers Jyoti and Soumya selected for trials at ZNK Dinamo Zagreb|newspaper=The Hindu| department = Sportstar |date=13 July 2022| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713150534/https://sportstar.thehindu.com/football/indian-football/indian-footballers-jyoti-and-soumya-selected-for-trials-at-znk-dinamo-zagreb/article65635351.ece|archive-date=13 July 2022}}</ref> CC&FC has a reciprocal tie-up with a prestigious indigenous association, the Tollygunge Club, and both the teams share a tradition of facing each other once a year in golf and cricket meets.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/horse-sense/cid/1256633|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|title=Horse sense — An Eye On Calcutta|first1=Kiran Uttam|last1=Ghosh|date=16 December 2003|access-date=28 August 2022|archive-date=13 April 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240413163720/https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/horse-sense/cid/1256633|location=Kolkata}}</ref>

The club is headquartered in 19/1 Gurusaday Dutt Road, Beckbagan, Ballygunge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://int.soccerway.com/teams/india/calcutta-fc/62349/|title=India — Calcutta Cricket and Football Club — Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos.|publisher=Soccerway|access-date=9 July 2023|archive-date=9 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230709140043/https://us.soccerway.com/teams/india/calcutta-fc/62349/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/people/deepankar-nandi-on-leading-ccfc-from-the-front/cid/1837791|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|title=Deepankar Nandi on leading CC&FC from the front|first=Saionee|last=Chakraborty|date=8 November 2021|access-date=28 August 2022|archive-date=10 June 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230610143637/https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/people/deepankar-nandi-on-leading-ccfc-from-the-front/cid/1837791|location=Kolkata}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.whatsuplife.in/kolkata/blog/old-famous-british-colonial-clubs-kolkata|first1=Sanjana|last1=Arora|title=Top Colonial Clubs in Kolkata — The nostalgic continuity of the British era|date=10 November 2016|access-date=4 November 2023|website=whatsuplife.in|location=Kolkata|archive-date=4 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104075610/https://www.whatsuplife.in/kolkata/blog/old-famous-british-colonial-clubs-kolkata}}</ref> As a prestigious gentlemen's club in the city, alongside sporting activities, CC&FC offers numerous recreational facilities to its members, including gymnasium, multi-cuisine dishes.<ref name="WOW">{{cite web|url=http://wotweb.com/wot-article/12-clubs-to-be-a-part-of-in-kolkata/|title=12 CLUBS TO BE A PART OF IN KOLKATA|first=Rita|last=Bhimani|date=11 August 2017|access-date=26 January 2023|website=wotweb.com|publisher=Window On Travel|location=Kolkata|archive-date=13 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313032329/http://wotweb.com/wot-article/12-clubs-to-be-a-part-of-in-kolkata/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://calgaryherald.com/life/food/calcutta-cricket-club-offers-enticing-modern-take-on-bengali-dishes|title=Calcutta Cricket Club offers enticing modern take on Bengali dishes|first=John|last=Gilchrist|date=11 August 2017|access-date=26 January 2023|work=Calgary Herald|location=Calgary|archive-date=11 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170811235421/https://calgaryherald.com/life/food/calcutta-cricket-club-offers-enticing-modern-take-on-bengali-dishes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tofler.in/calcutta-cricket-and-football-club/company/U92412WB2003GAP096325|title=OVERVIEW — CALCUTTA CRICKET & FOOTBALL CLUB: Recreational, Cultural and Sporting {{as written|Acti|vites [sic]}}|website=tofler.in|access-date=30 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231029180752/https://www.tofler.in/calcutta-cricket-and-football-club/company/U92412WB2003GAP096325|archive-date=29 October 2023}}</ref> In collaboration with leading daily newspaper ''The Telegraph'' (official sponsor of club's Merchant's Cup tournament),<ref>{{cite web|title=Display of teamwork and competitive spirit in Merchants Cup Corporate Football Tournament|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/display-of-teamwork-and-competitive-spirit-in-merchants-cup-corporate-football-tournament/cid/1945196|first1=Rajdeep|last1=Kumar Roy|work=The Telegraph|date=15 June 2023|access-date=5 November 2023|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105124700/https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/display-of-teamwork-and-competitive-spirit-in-merchants-cup-corporate-football-tournament/cid/1945196|archive-date=5 November 2023}}</ref> CC&FC hosts numerous bonfire parties, European-themed mega carnivals, musical fests and cultural events every single year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/places/bonfire-great-music-and-on-point-decor-made-the-telegraph-ccfc-x-mas-eve-one-rocking-affair/cid/1845106|title=Full on party mode with The Telegraph CC&FC Xmas Eve|first1=Urvashi|last1=Bhattacharya|work=The Telegraph|date=28 December 2021|access-date=5 November 2023|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810165150/https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/places/bonfire-great-music-and-on-point-decor-made-the-telegraph-ccfc-x-mas-eve-one-rocking-affair/cid/1845106|archive-date=10 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Glimpses from the Pre-Independence Musical Evening At CC&FC|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/glimpses-from-the-pre-independence-musical-evening-at-ccfc/cid/1965316|work=The Telegraph|date=11 September 2023|access-date=5 November 2023|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105124910/https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/glimpses-from-the-pre-independence-musical-evening-at-ccfc/cid/1965316|archive-date=5 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=CC&FC's festive calendar turns out to be a great mind blowing event at Oktoberfest|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/ccfcs-festive-calendar-turns-out-to-be-a-great-mind-blowing-event-at-oktoberfest/cid/1976794|work=The Telegraph|first1=Ashmita|last1=Ghosh|date=1 November 2023|access-date=5 November 2023|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105125203/https://www.telegraphindia.com/my-kolkata/events/ccfcs-festive-calendar-turns-out-to-be-a-great-mind-blowing-event-at-oktoberfest/cid/1976794|archive-date=5 November 2023}}</ref> The club complex is consisting of centenary hall, public library, swimming pool, glassed balcony-bar, and several sporting grounds.<ref name="WOW" /> There is also a mini museum of club memorabilia within CC&FC, having jerseys and signed photographs of Stanley Matthews, George Best, Franz Beckenbauer, Gavin Hastings, along with artifacts of colonial antiquities.<ref>{{cite web |first1=Stephen |last1=Brenkley |title=Meet Charlie — from the Bengal branch of the Van der Guchts |location=London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/meet-charlie-from-the-bengal-branch-of-the-van-der-guchts-9194168.html |website=The Independent |publisher=The Independent UK |date=20 January 2002 |access-date=12 July 2023 |archive-date=7 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707091257/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/cricket/meet-charlie-from-the-bengal-branch-of-the-van-der-guchts-9194168.html }}</ref><ref name="WOW" /> The club also entered into partnership with Tata Group-run Indian Cancer Society, in supporting underprivileged children fighting to beat cancer.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.insidesport.in/tata-steel-samsung-partner-ccfc-for-charity-0310272017/|title=Tata Steel, Samsung partner CC&FC for charity|first1=Ashish|last1=Khanna|date=27 October 2017|access-date=31 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031163530/https://www.insidesport.in/tata-steel-samsung-partner-ccfc-for-charity-0310272017/|archive-date=31 October 2023|location=Kolkata|website=insidesport.com|publisher=Inside Sport India}}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal bar|India|Association football|Cricket|Tennis|Hockey|Sports|History}} * {{Annotated link|Sport in India}} * {{Annotated link|History of cricket in India to 1918}} * {{Annotated link|List of current first-class cricket teams}} * {{Annotated link|Football in Kolkata}} * {{Annotated link|History of Indian football}} * {{Annotated link|List of football clubs in India}} * {{Annotated link|List of football clubs in West Bengal}} * {{Annotated link|Wisden Cricketers' Almanack}}

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===Further reading=== * {{Cite web |title=The Introduction of Football in Colonial Calcutta- Part 1 |url=https://www.footballcounter.com/2015/the-introduction-of-football-in-colonial-calcutta/ |date=25 March 2015 |first=Ankan |last=Banerjee |access-date=25 March 2015 |website=footballcounter.com |publisher=Football Counter |location=Kolkata |archive-date=23 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123195412/http://www.footballcounter.com/2015/the-introduction-of-football-in-colonial-calcutta/ }} * {{cite web|title=Football — the passion play in Kolkata|url=http://ibnlive.in.com/news/football--the-passion-play-in-kolkata/211371-55.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111155154/http://ibnlive.in.com/news/football--the-passion-play-in-kolkata/211371-55.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 January 2012|website=ibnlive.in|publisher=IBN Live|date=13 December 2011|access-date=11 August 2014}} * {{cite web|url=https://ifawb.org/footballs-passage/|title=The passage of football in India|website=ifawb.org|publisher=Indian Football Association|location=Kolkata|access-date=11 May 2023|archive-date=29 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129163914/https://ifawb.org/footballs-passage/}} * {{cite web|title=How rugby is still thriving in Kolkata, birthplace of the historic Calcutta Cup|url=https://scroll.in/field/936947/how-rugby-is-still-thriving-in-kolkata-birthplace-of-the-historic-calcutta-cup|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230505070253/https://scroll.in/field/936947/how-rugby-is-still-thriving-in-kolkata-birthplace-of-the-historic-calcutta-cup|archive-date=5 May 2023|website=scroll.in|publisher=SCROLL|date=11 September 2019|agency=Agence France-Presse|access-date=26 December 2022}} * {{cite web|first=G. C.|last=Das|url=http://www.kolkatafootball.com/kolkatafootball_indian_legend_footballers_profile.html|title=Indian Legendary Football Players' Profiles|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080914072626/http://www.kolkatafootball.com/kolkatafootball_indian_legend_footballers_profile.html|date=14 September 2008|archive-date=14 September 2008|access-date=25 January 2011|website=www.kolkatafootball.com|publisher=Kolkata Football}} * {{cite web |title=From Apartheid to world dominance |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1157_cricket_history/page4.shtml |publisher=BBC |access-date=11 December 2021 |archive-date=29 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129044654/https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1157_cricket_history/page4.shtml }} * {{cite web |title=History of Mohun Bagan :: Diamond Jubilee :: 1940—1949|url=https://www.mohunbaganclub.com/history/history-1940-1949/ |website=mohunbaganclub.com |publisher=Mohun Bagan Athletic Club |year=2014 |location=Kolkata |access-date=17 November 2022 |archive-date=7 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221107060844/https://www.mohunbaganclub.com/history/history-1940-1949/ }} * {{cite web|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/calcutta-fc-win/cid/1230824|title=CALCUTTA FC WIN|work=The Telegraph|date=13 July 2001|access-date=26 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230608141520/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/calcutta-fc-win/cid/1230824|location=Kolkata|archive-date=8 June 2023}} * {{cite web|first=Saionee|last=Chakraborty|url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/where-arun-lal-grew-up/cid/1423642|title=WHERE ARUN LAL GREW UP|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India|date=27 July 2016|access-date=27 January 2022|location=Kolkata|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611074309/https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/where-arun-lal-grew-up/cid/1423642|archive-date=11 June 2023}} * {{cite news|title=Twelve teams to compete in All India and South Asia Rugby Championships|url=http://www.sify.com/news/twelve-teams-to-compete-in-all-india-and-south-asia-rugby-championship-news-others-qjqtEdefjjeff.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013002124/http://www.sify.com/news/twelve-teams-to-compete-in-all-india-and-south-asia-rugby-championship-news-others-qjqtEdefjjeff.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 October 2016|access-date=13 October 2016|agency=Indo-Asian News Service|issue=Sify News|date=16 September 2016}} * {{cite web|title=Odisha Women's Team Wins 1st All India Rugby 15s Tournament|url=http://incredibleorissa.com/odisha-women-team-wins-all-india-rugby-15s-tournament/|website=Incredible Orissa|date=24 September 2016 |access-date=13 October 2016|archive-date=13 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013093005/http://incredibleorissa.com/odisha-women-team-wins-all-india-rugby-15s-tournament/}} * {{cite web|title=Rahul's rugby dreams|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160925/jsp/sports/story_110148.jsp#.V_Ne0yF97IU|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927210841/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160925/jsp/sports/story_110148.jsp#.V_Ne0yF97IU|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 September 2016|access-date=4 October 2016|website=The Telegraph (India)|publisher=The Telegraph India (ABP)|location=Kolkata|date=25 September 2016}} * {{cite web |last=Choudhury |first=Chandrahas |date=11 June 2014 |title=Blame India's World Cup Drought on the Shoes |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-06-11/blame-india-s-world-cup-drought-on-the-shoes |website=bloomberg.com |publisher=Bloomberg View |access-date=22 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406182813/https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-06-11/blame-india-s-world-cup-drought-on-the-shoes |archive-date=6 April 2017 }} * {{cite web|url=http://home.123india.com/alokghosh/Heritage/Our%20Sportsmen.htm|title=OUR SPORTSMEN|website=123india.com|access-date=27 September 2007|archive-date=27 September 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927210527/http://home.123india.com/alokghosh/Heritage/Our%20Sportsmen.htm}} * {{cite web|url=https://thefangarage.com/articles/19376-highlights-mohammedan-sporting-off-to-seven-star-start-in-cfl-2023|title=HIGHLIGHTS: Mohammedan Sporting off to seven star start in CFL 2023|location=Kolkata|website=thefangarage.com|publisher=The Fan Garage|date=12 July 2023|access-date=19 July 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719050948/https://thefangarage.com/articles/19376-highlights-mohammedan-sporting-off-to-seven-star-start-in-cfl-2023|archive-date=19 July 2023}} * {{cite web|url=https://bangla.hindustantimes.com/sports/football/cfl-2023-takes-the-field-today-with-two-majors-in-front-of-mohun-bagan-tollygange-mohammedans-opponents-are-cfc-31689146871602.html|title=সি এফ এল ২০২৩-এ আজ মাঠে নামছে দুই প্রধান! 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