The Calcutta Cricket & Football Club (CC&FC) (formally named as Calcutta Cricket Club) is a multisports club based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Founded in 1792 as a cricket institution, the football and rugby sections were added when it merged with Calcutta FC (oldest association football club in Asia, founded in 1872) in 1965. History Founded as one of the earliest European clubs in Calcutta, British India, Calcutta FC introduced rugby in the country. They later started playing association football and have enjoyed rivalry with fully indigenous clubs, primarily Mohun Bagan. Sports currently practised at the CC&FC include: cricket, football, field hockey, rugby, cycle polo and tennis. The football team currently competes in the Premier Division B of the Calcutta Football League, conducted by the Indian Football Association (IFA). The club's cricket and football teams participates in their respective divisions as "Calcutta Cricket Club" for cricket and "Calcutta Football Club" for football. Their hockey and rugby teams participate under the combined name of "Calcutta Cricket and Football Club". Departments Cricket The Club was founded as the "Calcutta Cricket Club Clippers" by British expatriates who had come over with the British East India Company. Have been in existence since 1792, it is the second oldest cricket club in the world after Marylebone Cricket Club. On 23 February 1792, Madras Courier reported the schedule of match between Calcutta Cricket Club and a team from Barrackpore, and the news was later highlighted by Irwin Rosenwater on The London Times. During its first years of existence, the Calcutta Cricket Club played its home games near river Hooghly but it was not until 1841 when the institution got land to establish its venue. In 1889–90, the club came into limelight when Marylebone Cricket Club came to play in Calcutta by responding to the club's invitation, which was the first visit of a foreign team to play cricket in India. It was later merged with the Calcutta Football Club (incorporated in 1872, where both footballs — rugby and association were practised) and the Ballygunge Cricket Club over the years to become the "Calcutta Cricket and Football Club" in 1965. CCFC is currently under the jurisdiction of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB), and competes in the CAB First Division League, J.C. Mukherjee T-20 Trophy and other regional tournaments. Club's cricket section is currently headquartered in 19/1, Garcha 1st Lane, Ballygunge, Kolkata. Rugby union In the British Raj,