Munich Cricket Club

Munich Cricket Club

Heart of Munich Cricket, in the heart of Munich.

With very few locations to play the second most popular sport in the world, we have had the continued privilege of playing at the most prestigious location in Munich to share the excitement with the rapidly growing following of adults and children.

Since 1982, this opportunity enables MCC to represent Munich across the Bavarian Bundesliga on Saturdays and Sundays.

Munich Cricket Club

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Cricket at the Englischer Garten – Sportanlage Hirschanger, Munich

Munich’s home of cricket The Sportanlage Hirschanger (Himmelreichstraße 5) sits at the southern edge of Munich’s Englischer Garten and has been the home of organised cricket in the city since 1982. For over 40 years,...

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Since its inception in 1982, Munich Cricket Club has been a proud standard bearer for the game and its traditions. Winning has its place, but the Chairman also likes to ensure refreshments are plentiful. Opposing...

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Who are we?

Established in 1982, the Munich Cricket Club (MCC) is one of Germany’s oldest and most established cricket clubs. For over four decades, we have been a proud standard-bearer for the game and its traditions in the heart of Munich.

What started as a small group of enthusiasts has grown into a vibrant, international community. Whether we are competing in the Bayerischer Cricket Verband (BCV) leagues, touring international teams or hosting social matches under the Bavarian sun, the MCC remains dedicated to the “Spirit of Cricket.”

Winning, With a Side of Refreshment

At MCC, we believe that cricket is as much about the social bond as it is about the scoreboard. While we play to win—fielding competitive teams in both T20 and 40-over formats—we never lose sight of the fun. “Winning has its place, but our Chairman also ensures that refreshments are always plentiful and the atmosphere is always welcoming.”

From our legendary post-match “conditioning” sessions at the Chinese Tower beer garden to our annual international tours (recent stops include London, Malta, and Rome), we are a club that enjoys each other’s company as much as a well-timed cover drive.

Why Join Us?

  • Inclusive Community: We welcome players of all nationalities, backgrounds, and skill levels—from seasoned veterans to those picking up a bat for the first time.
  • Premier Facilities: Our home ground, the Hirschanger, is located in the beautiful English Garden (Himmelreichstr. 5), offering one of the most scenic places to play cricket in Europe.
  • Year-Round Cricket: We don’t stop when the temperature drops. Our winter season features regular indoor training sessions to keep our skills sharp for the summer.
  • Social Calendar: Beyond the boundary, we host regular social events, club dinners, and family-friendly gatherings.

Want to learn more?

Keep an eye on our fixtures and feel free to drop by the ground and say “G’day”. Head over to the Club House or simply relax on the grass and enjoy Munich’s premier cricket team….or you can snoop our instagram first.

Otherwise, drop an email to munichcricketclubev@gmail.com.

For those that want to know more about cricket, please have a read here.

When do we play?

Find our next home game here.

Cricket at the Englischer Garten – Sportanlage Hirschanger, Munich

Munich’s home of cricket

The Sportanlage Hirschanger (Himmelreichstraße 5) sits at the southern edge of Munich’s Englischer Garten and has been the home of organised cricket in the city since 1982. For over 40 years, Munich Cricket Club (MCC) has played, trained, and developed the sport at this ground — making it one of the longest-established cricket venues in German history, and the only league-standard cricket facility in the heart of Munich.


A Ground With History

MCC was founded in 1982 and has called the Hirschanger home from the very beginning. Over four decades, this ground in the Englischer Garten has hosted:

  • Bavarian Bundesliga (BCV) fixtures — competitive Saturday league cricket, season after season
  • Visiting international touring teams from across Europe and beyond
  • Youth development cricket — structured coaching and development matches for young players
  • Women’s cricket — a growing and active programme bringing new players into the sport
  • Training sessions throughout the season, coordinated with league requirements

The Hirschanger is not a recreational facility used occasionally for pick-up sport. It is an active, scheduled league cricket venue with fixture obligations that run from spring through autumn every year.


Cricket in Munich — A Fragile Resource

Cricket is a minority sport in Germany. Hardball cricket — the format played in organised leagues — requires specific ground conditions: a prepared wicket area, sufficient outfield run-off space, and a surface safe for a hard ball travelling at speed. Very few locations in Munich can offer this.

The Hirschanger is one of a tiny number of venues in the city where league cricket can be played safely and in accordance with Bavarian Cricket Association (BCV) standards. For Munich’s cricketing community — many of whom have roots in cricket nations such as India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, the UK, the West Indies, and Australia — this ground represents irreplaceable access to their sport.

As cricket has had to work within extremely limited space for over 40 years, The Hirschanger remains the cornerstone of the game in this city.


What Happens at the Hirschanger Today

MCC currently runs an active, multi-strand programme at the Hirschanger in the Englischer Garten:

Senior League Cricket
We compete in the Bavarian Bundesliga (BCV), playing Saturday fixtures against other established Bavarian clubs. This is structured, league-regulated sport with fixture schedules set at the start of each season.

Youth Cricket
We are actively building youth development programmes at the Hirschanger, giving children with a connection to cricket-playing nations their first structured access to the game in Munich.

Women’s Cricket
Our women’s programme is growing. The Hirschanger is one of the only realistic venues in Munich where women’s hardball cricket development can take place.

Training
Regular training sessions are held throughout the season, coordinated around our league fixtures and development obligations.


Built From Nothing: Cricket’s Place in Munich

Cricket is not a sport that arrived in Munich with a budget and a facility. It was built from scratch, by volunteers, over decades — and the Hirschanger is the physical expression of that effort.

Munich Cricket Club was founded in 1982 — six years before the German Cricket Federation (DCB) itself existed. MCC is one of the clubs that helped lay the foundations of organised cricket in Germany, at a time when the sport had no national structure, no infrastructure, and no institutional support. What exists today in Bavarian cricket was built by people who turned up, marked out a pitch, and played.

Over more than 40 years, that volunteer effort has produced something real: league cricket, youth development, women’s cricket, and an international touring culture — all centred on the Hirschanger in the Englischer Garten. In that same period, requests for a permanent, purpose-built cricket facility in Munich have repeatedly gone unrealised. The sport has received no equivalent of the infrastructure investment that other, more mainstream sports take for granted. The Hirschanger is not one option among many. It is the result of four decades of making do, and it cannot simply be replaced.

Football in Munich has extensive dedicated infrastructure — dozens of pitches, clubhouses, changing facilities, and institutional support at every level. Cricket has the Hirschanger. If cricket is displaced from this ground, it does not “balance sport in Munich.” It risks dismantling a minority sport community that was built entirely through volunteer effort, serves real community needs — particularly for people with roots in cricket-playing nations — and is only now, for the first time, beginning to offer structured access to young people and women.

That is not balance. That is erasure of something that took 40 years to build.


Getting to the Hirschanger

Address: Sportanlage Hirschanger, Himmelreichstraße 5, 80538 München
The ground sits at the south-eastern corner of the Englischer Garten, five minutes’ walk from the Chinese Tower beer garden.

Public transport:

  • Tram 17 (direction Effnerplatz) — stop: Paradiesstraße, directly opposite the ground
  • U-Bahn: Lehel (U4/U5) — 10 minutes walk north

By car: Paid street parking is available on Lerchenfeldstraße, Seeaustraße, and Himmelreichstraße. Parking is free on Sundays and public holidays.


Come and Watch

Cricket at the Hirschanger is free to watch and open to all. If you’ve never seen the game before, a Saturday afternoon at the Englischer Garten is a perfect introduction — with the Chinese Tower beer garden nearby for half-time refreshments.

Check our fixtures page for the next home game, or follow us on Instagram for match day updates.

New to cricket? Visit our What is Cricket? page for a friendly introduction to the game.





Cricket im Englischen Garten – Sportanlage Hirschanger (Deutsch)

Die Sportanlage Hirschanger (Himmelreichstraße 5) liegt am südlichen Rand des Englischen Gartens und ist seit 1982 das Zuhause des organisierten Cricket in München. Der Munich Cricket Club (MCC) nutzt dieses Gelände seit über 40 Jahren für Liga-Cricket, Training und Nachwuchsarbeit — und macht den Hirschanger im Englischen Garten damit zu einer der am längsten etablierten Cricket-Spielstätten in der deutschen Sportgeschichte.


Eine Spielstätte mit Geschichte

Cricket ist eine Minderheitssportart in Deutschland. Hardball-Cricket — das Format, das im organisierten Ligabetrieb gespielt wird — stellt spezifische Anforderungen an den Untergrund, die nur wenige Standorte in München erfüllen können. Der Hirschanger ist einer der ganz wenigen Plätze in der Stadt, an denen Liga-Cricket sicher und entsprechend den Anforderungen des Bayerischen Cricket Verbands (BCV) gespielt werden kann.

Für die Münchner Cricket-Gemeinschaft — viele davon mit Migrationshintergrund aus Cricket-Nationen wie Indien, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, England, der Karibik oder Australien — ist der Hirschanger kein beliebiger Rasenplatz. Er ist der einzige realistische Zugang zu ihrer Sportart in dieser Stadt.

Während Fußball in München von Dutzenden dedizierter Plätze und einer breiten kommunalen Infrastruktur profitiert, hat sich Cricket über 40 Jahre hinweg mit äußerst begrenzten räumlichen Ressourcen behelfen müssen. Wiederholt gestellte Anfragen nach einer festen Cricket-Anlage in München wurden bisher nicht realisiert.


Was am Hirschanger heute stattfindet

Der MCC betreibt am Hirschanger im Englischen Garten ein aktives, mehrgleisiges Programm:

  • Bayerische Bundesliga (BCV): Samstags-Ligabetrieb gegen andere bayerische Clubs — mit festem Spielplan und Ligaverpflichtungen
  • Jugend-Cricket: Strukturierte Entwicklungsangebote für Kinder und Jugendliche
  • Damen-Cricket: Ein wachsendes Programm, das Frauen und Mädchen erstmals strukturierten Zugang zu Hardball-Cricket in München bietet
  • Training: Regelmäßige Trainingseinheiten während der gesamten Saison

Der Hirschanger ist kein gelegentlich genutztes Freizeitgelände — er ist eine aktive Ligaspielfläche mit festen Verpflichtungen von Frühjahr bis Herbst.


Von Null aufgebaut: Cricket in München

Cricket in München entstand nicht durch institutionelle Unterstützung oder öffentliche Förderung. Es wurde von Ehrenamtlichen aufgebaut — über Jahrzehnte, von Grund auf. Der Munich Cricket Club wurde 1982 gegründet — sechs Jahre, bevor der Deutsche Cricket Bund (DCB) überhaupt existierte. Der MCC gehört zu den Vereinen, die den modernen Cricket-Sport in Deutschland mitbegründet haben, zu einer Zeit, in der es weder Verband, noch Infrastruktur, noch institutionelle Strukturen gab.

In mehr als 40 Jahren haben diese ehrenamtlichen Bemühungen etwas Reales hervorgebracht: Ligabetrieb, Jugendarbeit, Damen-Cricket und internationale Begegnungen — alles am Hirschanger im Englischen Garten. In diesem selben Zeitraum wurden Anträge auf eine dauerhafte Cricket-Anlage in München wiederholt nicht realisiert. Die Sportanlage Hirschanger ist nicht eine Option unter vielen. Sie ist das Ergebnis von vier Jahrzehnten Improvisation — und nicht einfach ersetzbar.

Wenn Cricket vom Hirschanger verdrängt wird, wird Sport in München dadurch nicht „ausgewogener”. Es riskiert, eine Minderheitssportgemeinschaft zu zerstören, die ausschließlich durch ehrenamtliches Engagement aufgebaut wurde, echte Gemeinschaftsbedürfnisse erfüllt — insbesondere für Menschen mit Wurzeln in Cricket-Nationen — und die erst jetzt beginnt, strukturierten Zugang für Jugendliche und Frauen anzubieten.


📍 Adresse: Sportanlage Hirschanger, Himmelreichstraße 5, 80538 München
🚋 Tram: Linie 17, Haltestelle Paradiesstraße (direkt gegenüber)
🚇 U-Bahn: Lehel (U4/U5), 10 Minuten Fußweg

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Since its inception in 1982, Munich Cricket Club has been a proud standard bearer for the game and its traditions. Winning has its place, but the Chairman also likes to ensure refreshments are plentiful. Opposing batsmen will take a shine to his gentle hand grenades. 

Please direct all membership, touring or general enquiries to munichcricketclubev@gmail.com

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