Town Club is now an Institution.Its genesis is not lost in the antiquity of history. It is Bengal's oldest Indian Athletic Club being started in 1883. It is one of the Historic Heritages of the State and of the Nation. SPORTS HISTORY :
Town Club was started with the object of playing CRICKET only.Therefore the age of cricket in this district can be counted back from the year 1883,but this cricke
t saw a fissure when MR.WHEELER,Professor of Hooghly College, introduced football at chinsurah and it was accepted by Town Club. The club then suffered from some lean years, but with efforts of Rev.McCullah,in 1898 and subsequently by Mr. District Magistrate, the Club recieved meritorious recognition by the executive authorities here.The Club was then accorded a status of the premier athletic club of bengal outside Kolkata, at that time. The club played many football encounters with Army teams from Barrackpore and Calcutta with a satisfactory standard of play. TOWN CLUB created history in 1905, to be the FIRST native Club to qualify and play the I.F.A. SHIELD and reached the semi-finals, but unfortunately it went down to Dalhousie who won the I.F.A. SHIELD that year.Town Club's performance was higher than Dalhousie's but for ill-luck it suffered defeat. Town Club's success in Football provided it with an ambition to enter the I.F.A.Shield for 7 times from 1905 and lastly in 1917. The Club introduced Rugby Football at chinsurah but was not successful in the then sports cirle. In 1912, the Club introduced Hockey amongst its members and hockey was taken up by D.S.A. BERNARD, Commissioner of Burdwn Division and PRESIDENT of the Club Died. The Club introduced a beautiful and a big Silver Cup in his memory as a challenge cup in football in 1916. Under the presidentship of Mr. Mcpherson, I.C.S. District Judge, the club made remarkable improvement in its activities. Town Club played the Local Football League too well from 1923 onwards. Town Clubs performace in Cricket recieved high praise from Calcutta dailies including the 'STATESMAN' and the 'ENGLISHMAN'. Late B.D.CHATTERJEE and Late BIREN GHOSH of TOWN CLUB, were selected for several years to play for 'INDIAN XI' with 'EUROPEAN XI' in the annual match in calcutta. The club has also glorious records in Hockey in the past and still maintains them. It produced some players of national standard.
== Present Governing Body of TOWN CLUB, Chinsurah : ==
President : Mr Abhijit Biswas
Vice President : Mr. Ranjit Talukdar
Working President: Arun Kumar Ganguly
Hony. Secretaries : Mr. Indranil Chakravarti and Mr. Pinaki Mallick. Treasurer : Mr. Cricket Secretary : Mr. Pronoy Biswas
Football Secretary : Mr. Amitava Ghosh
Indoor Secretary : Mr. Pradip Das
Members of the Executive Committee :
Mr. Dharmendra Singh
Mr. Prasun Biswas
Mr. Suman Ghosh
Mr. Avra Banerjee
Mr. Arnab Shome
