The Lausanne Football and Cricket Club was a

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. The club was founded in 1860 by

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students, who had studied at

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s in the area of

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. During the year of the foundation this club could be the first soccer club in Continental Europe. The worldwide first soccer club

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is only three years older, however it is likely that

played

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before football at the club (as it was more well established). It is unknown in which "football form" the Lausanne Football and Cricket Club have played, because at that time the "association football" rules still did not exist. The club was also a founder member of the

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and participated at the first Swiss championship 1897/98 as well as the second championship 1898/99.

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