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{{Short description|Multi-sports club in Peru}}
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| fullname = Lima Cricket & Football Club
| founded = {{start date and age|1859}}<ref name=dates>{{cite web |author1=Eli Schmerler |author2=Carlos Manuel Nieto Tarazona |title=Peru - Foundation Dates of Clubs |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/perufound.html |date=14 March 2013 |website=[[RSSSF]] |access-date=16 March 2015 |archive-date=27 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210527003820/http://www.rsssf.com/tablesp/perufound.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
| ground = [[Lima, Peru]]
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| chairman = Gustavo Zevallos Velarde <ref>[http://www.clublimacricket.com/nosotros/#historia Nosotros] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917010216/http://www.clublimacricket.com/nosotros/#historia |date=2021-09-17 }}, board of directors, 17 Jul 2020</ref>
| league = [[Copa Perú]]
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| website = https://www.clublimacricket.com/
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[[File:Lima cricket 1912.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The 1912 football team, Primera División champion]]
'''Lima Cricket & Football Club''' is a Peruvian professional [[Sport|sports]] club based in the country's capital city of [[Lima]]. Lima Cricket claims to be both the oldest [[cricket]] club in South America, and the oldest [[association football]]-practising club in Peru and [[the Americas]], having been founded in 1859 by the city's British community.<ref name=dates/> The football team currently participates in the local league of [[San Isidro District, Lima]].

The club is the ''de facto'' home of the [[Peru Cricket Association]], and hosts the ''National T20 Cricket League'' during the summer months of January to April. It has also hosted a number of international tournaments, featuring the [[Peru national cricket team]]. The most recent was the ''South American Championship'' in April 2014, with competing teams from Argentina (men & women), Brazil (men & women), Chile and Mexico (men only).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://perucricket.com/international/11th-south-american-championship-lima-2014/|title=11th South American Championship, Lima, 2014 « Cricket Peru|website=perucricket.com|access-date=2016-09-14|archive-date=2019-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190601104530/http://perucricket.com/international/11th-south-american-championship-lima-2014/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Apart from football and [[cricket]], nowadays the club hosts the practise of [[basketball]], [[basque pelota]], [[fencing]], [[field hockey]], [[squash (sport)|squash]], [[table tennis]], [[tennis]], [[swimming (sport)|swimming]], [[volleyball]], and [[water aerobics]] ([[rugby union]] is no longer practised). Other social activities include [[bocce]], [[darts]], [[pilates]], [[snooker]], and [[zumba]].<ref>[https://www.clublimacricket.com/mas-deportes/ Deportes] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717221104/https://www.clublimacricket.com/mas-deportes/ |date=2020-07-17 }} on club website</ref>

== History ==
The club was founded by English immigrants as the "Lima Cricket Club".<ref name="website"/> From its start, the club hosted the practise of several sports such as [[cricket]], [[rugby union]], and [[association football|football]] and [[tennis]].<ref name=histoff>[http://www.clublimacricket.com/nosotros/#historia Historia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917010216/http://www.clublimacricket.com/nosotros/#historia |date=2021-09-17 }} on club website</ref>

Over time, other sports gained popularity within the club, and thus its name several times such as in 1865 to "Lima Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club" (when it merged with a local [[tennis]] club)<ref name="Latin American Popular Culture" /> and to "Lima Cricket and Football Club" in 1906<ref name="website">{{cite web|url=http://www.clublimacricket.com/quienes.htm |title=Lima Cricket & Football Club |access-date=2008-08-12 |work=clublimacricket.com |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926152118/http://www.clublimacricket.com/quienes.htm |archive-date=2008-09-26 }}</ref> (although another source dates this as 1900<ref name="Latin American Popular Culture">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6p5VXUCipAwC&q=Lima+Cricket&pg=PA160 |title=Latim American Popular Culture |access-date=2008-08-30 |author1=William H. Beezley |author2=Linda Curcio-Nagy |author3=Linda Ann Curcio |year=2000 |isbn=9780842027113 |archive-date=2023-10-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017055149/https://books.google.com/books?id=6p5VXUCipAwC&q=Lima+Cricket&pg=PA160 |url-status=live }}</ref>).

Despite its members having played football since its origins, the first recorded football match was on August 7, 1892. Following on this event, the club now officially added a football-departement in 1893. It took on the current name on April 30, 1906.<ref name="Sport in Latin America">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IzRTVU2NS5wC&q=Lima+Cricket+++%26+sailors&pg=PA12|title=Sport in Latin America and the Caribbean|access-date=2008-09-01|author1=Joseph Arbena|author2=David Gerald LaFrance|year=2002|isbn=9780842028219|archive-date=2023-10-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017055147/https://books.google.com/books?id=IzRTVU2NS5wC&q=Lima+Cricket+++&+sailors&pg=PA12|url-status=live}}</ref> Lima Cricket went on to inspire future football clubs in Peru, such as Union Cricket.<ref name="Sport in Latin America" />

As Lima C&FC was part of an elite football clubs composed entirely of high-society families, unlike other raising clubs that accepted members and players from popular sectors of Lima. This was notable since the beginning of the 1920s. As a result, Limas CFC would be relegated from the top ranks at the hands of clubs that recruited their players from a much larger pool.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hSvVe2E9RosC&dq=lima+cricket+football+club+peru&pg=PA3 "The case of soccer in eartly 20th century in Lima"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017055147/https://books.google.com/books?id=hSvVe2E9RosC&dq=lima+cricket+football+club+peru&pg=PA3 |date=2023-10-17 }}, from ''Fútbol'', published by Ilan Stavans Library – Santa Barbara, CA (2011) – {{ISBN|978-0313375156}}</ref>

==Rivalries==
His first rivalry was with the [[Ciclista Lima Association|Ciclista Lima]] who dispute the (Classic of Yesteryear).

==Honours==
=== Senior titles ===
{{small div|
;Keys
* {{legend|gold|outline=#999999|Record}}
* {{sup|(s)}} Shared record
}}

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: %; text-align:center;"
! Type
! width= px| Competition
! Titles
! {{abbr|Runn.|Runner-up}}
! Winning years
! Runner-up years
|-
| National  
! [[Peruvian Primera División|Primera División]]
| '''2'''
|1
| align="left"|[[1912 Liga Peruana de Football|1912]], [[1914 Liga Peruana de Football|1914]] 
| align="left"|[[1913 Liga Peruana de Football|1913]]
|-
| Regional 
! [[Ligas Distritales del Peru#Liga Distrital de San Isidro|Liga Distrital de San Isidro]]
|'''4'''
| 3
| align="left"|2007, 2008, 2012, 2016
| align="left"|2009, 2010, 2011
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[List of football clubs in Peru]]
*[[Peruvian football league system]]
*[[Genoa Cricket and Football Club]]

==Bibliography==
*{{cite book | last = Higgins | first = James | title = Lima: A Cultural and Literary History | year = 2005 | publisher = Signal Books Limited | location = Oxford | isbn = 1-902669-98-3 }}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{oweb}}
* [http://sisbib.unmsm.edu.pe/bibVirtual/tesis/Human/Alvarez_E_T/Cap4.htm La difusión del fútbol en Lima] (Spanish)
* [https://www.rsssf.org/tablesp/peruchamp.html List of Peru football champions] at [[RSSSF]]

{{Copa Perú}}
{{Football in Peru}}
{{Original Peruvian Primera División clubs}}

[[Category:Football clubs in Lima]]
[[Category:Cricket in Peru]]
[[Category:Club cricket teams]]
[[Category:1859 establishments in Peru]]
[[Category:Association football clubs established in 1859]]