Lima Cricket & Football Club is a Peruvian professional

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club based in the country's capital city of

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. Lima Cricket claims to be both the oldest

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club in South America, and the oldest

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-practising club in Peru and

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, having been founded in 1859 by the city's British community. The football team currently participates in the local league of

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. The club is the ''de facto'' home of the

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, 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

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. 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). Apart from football and

, nowadays the club hosts the practise of

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, and

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(

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is no longer practised). Other social activities include

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, and

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History

The club was founded by English immigrants as the "Lima Cricket Club". From its start, the club hosted the practise of several sports such as

, and

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and

.Historia
on club website 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

club) and to "Lima Cricket and Football Club" in 1906 (although another source dates this as 1900). 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. Lima Cricket went on to inspire future football clubs in Peru, such as Union Cricket. 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."The case of soccer in eartly 20th century in Lima"
, from ''Fútbol'', published by Ilan Stavans Library – Santa Barbara, CA (2011) –

Rivalries

His first rivalry was with the

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who dispute the (Classic of Yesteryear).

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La difusión del fútbol en Lima
(Spanish)

at

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History

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