Nakuru Athletic Club is a

sports club A sports club or sporting club, sometimes an athletics club or sports society or sports association, is a group of people formed for the purpose of playing sports. Sports clubs range from organisations whose members play together, unpaid, and ...

located in

Nakuru Nakuru is a city in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya, Rift Valley region of Kenya. It is the capital of Nakuru County, and was formerly the capital of Rift Valley Province. As of 2019, Nakuru had an urban and rural population of 570,674 inhabitant ...

capital of

Rift Valley Province Rift Valley Province ( sw, Mkoa wa Bonde la Ufa) of Kenya, bordering Uganda, was one of Kenya's eight provinces, before the Kenyan general election, 2013. Rift Valley Province was the largest and one of the most economically important provinces i ...

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. The club also has a cricket team playing in the Rift Valley cricket league. The club ground has hosted many High-profile cricket games including a game featuring Rift Valley Cricket Association XI v

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of England. The Nakuru Athletic Club is also home ground for

Nakuru RFC Nakuru Rugby Football Club also known as 'Wanyore' is a Kenyan rugby club based in Nakuru. It has played for several years in the Kenya Cup and Eric Shirley Shield leagues run by the Kenya Rugby Football Union. Nakuru RFC operates and trains at t ...

, a local

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team. Nakuru Athletic club has also a field hockey team playing in the National League. Nakuru's football team,

Nakuru AllStars The Nakuru AllStars are a Kenyan association football club based in Nakuru. They currently compete in the Nakuru County League the Kenyan Fifth division after their relegation from the National Super League in 2018 and ceding their position in the ...

, who play in the Nationwide Division, has their training sessions at Nakuru Athletic Ground. FG Soccer Academy - Nakuru's premier soccer academy, a non for profit soccer school that combines football, character development and education also uses Nakuru Athletic Ground as their training complex 500px, FG academy players form the under 13 side training at the Nakuru Athletic Club Under the colonial rule, indigenous Kenyan were barred from Nakuru Athletic Club. Thus they were using the “African Sports Stadium,” now known as

Afraha Stadium The Afraha Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Nakuru, Kenya. It used mostly for association football, football matches and is the home stadium of Nakuru AllStars of the Kenyan Premier League and Ulinzi Stars of the Kenyan Premier League. T ...

References

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