Lima Cricket and Football Club
Lima Cricket FC
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| Full name |
Lima Cricket and Football Club |
| Founded |
1859 |
| Ground |
Lima Crìcket and Football Club |
| Chairman |
Roberto García Auza |
| Manager |
Cesar Drago |
| League |
Copa Peru |
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Lima Cricket and Football Club is the oldest sports club in Peru, and one of the oldest in South America. Lima Cricket is possibly the oldest football club in the Americas. Currently, it participates in the district league of San Isidro.
Lima Cricket was originally founded in 1859 by English immigrants as the Lima Cricket Club.[1] From its start, it was a multi-sport club based around the sports of cricket, rugby, and association football; however, there was a central focus to cricket. Overtime, 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 lawn tennis club)[2] and to Lima Cricket and Football Club in 1906[1] (although another source dates this as 1900[2]).
Despite its members played football as early as 1859, the club's first recorded football match was in 1893, a year after the first recorded game of football in the Peruvian capital.[3] Lima Cricket went on to inspire future football clubs in Peru such as Union Cricket.[3]
Honours
National
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- Winners (2): 1912, 1914
- Runner-up (1): 1913
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- Winners (2): 2007, 2008
- Runner-up (2): 2009, 2010, 2011
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