Calcutta Cricket and Football Club
Multi-sports club based in West Bengal, India / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Calcutta Cricket and Football Club (popularly known by its abbreviation CC&FC, or 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.[2][3]
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Full name | Calcutta Cricket and Football Club[1] | ||
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Nickname(s) | Clippers | ||
Short name | CCFC, CC&FC | ||
Founded |
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Ground | CC&FC Ground, Ballygunge Calcutta FC Ground, Maidan | ||
Capacity | 22,000 15,000 | ||
Chairman | Subrata Das | ||
Head coach | Jamshid Nassiri | ||
League | Calcutta Premier Division | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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Rugby section of the club made CC&FC the oldest rugby institution founded outside the United Kingdom and Ireland.[4][5] Club's football section competes in the premier division of Calcutta Football League, fifth tier of the Indian football league system.