Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club was a Cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 and association football club from Uruguay

Uruguay

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. It was abbreviated as CURCC, but unofficially known as Peñarol because of the neighbourhood of Montevideo

Montevideo

Montevideo is the largest city, the capital, and the chief port of Uruguay. The settlement was established in 1726 by Bruno Mauricio de Zabala, as a strategic move amidst a Spanish-Portuguese dispute over the platine region, and as a counter to the Portuguese colony at Colonia del Sacramento...

, the Uruguayan capital, where it was established on September 28, 1891. CURCC was the result of the decision of the British

United Kingdom

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 railway company in Uruguay to have a sports club. Because of this fact, the colours of the club were inspired by those of the railway signs.

The club had important achievements in the 1890s and the first decade of the twentieth century, being one of the founders of the Uruguayan League and the AUF.

In 1913 conflicts between the Central Uruguay Railway administrators and the football section directives, led to the breakaway of some members, who established Club Atlético Peñarol

C.A. Peñarol

Club Atlético Peñarol also known as Carboneros, Aurinegros and familiarly as Manya, is an Uruguayan sports club based in the Peñarol barrio, Montevideo, best known for its professional football team. The team plays their home matches in Estadio Centenario, the largest stadium in the country, but...

 in 1913, taking the unofficial name of the CURCC, Peñarol, as its official name. Its name, coming from the Montevideo neighbourhood and using the Spanish language

Spanish language

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, established it as a Uruguayan football club.

International tournaments

Official River Plate Tournaments

• Copa de Honor (Cousenier): 1909, 1911