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| Year || Team || Town/City || State/{{shy}}County/{{shy}}Province || Country || League || Notes |
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1842[{{Cite web |url=http://bcla.centraldesktop.com/spirit2/doc/1942279/w-HistoryOfLacrosse |title=IMeet Central – Organize, Share, Collaborate}}] | Montreal Olympic Athletic Club | Montreal | Quebec | Canada | – | defunct |
1852[{{Cite web |url=http://www.ottawalacrosseclub.com/about |title=Ottawa Lacrosse Club >> About |access-date=May 5, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091203151053/http://www.ottawalacrosseclub.com/about/ |archive-date=December 3, 2009 |url-status=dead}}] or 1862 | Ottawa Lacrosse Club | Ottawa | Ontario | Canada | Canadian Lacrosse Association | defunct, reformed in 1980s |
1856[{{cite web |url=http://www.e-lacrosse.com/laxhist5.htm |title=Lacrosse |accessdate=June 10, 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20000408035857/http://www.e-lacrosse.com/laxhist5.htm |archivedate=April 8, 2000}}] | Montreal Lacrosse Club | Montreal | Quebec | Canada | Canadian Lacrosse Association | defunct, new club formed in 2006 |
| 1867 | Upper Canada College | Toronto | Ontario | Canada | Canadian Lacrosse Association | oldest high school lacrosse program in North America |
| 1868 | Mohawk Lacrosse Club | Troy | New York | United States | {{nowrap|United States}} National Amateur {{nowrap|Lacrosse Association}} | oldest lacrosse team in the United States[{{cite web |url=http://www.mohawklacrosseclub.org |title=Mohawk Lacrosse Home Page |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713021020/http://www.mohawklacrosseclub.org/ |archive-date=July 13, 2010 |url-status=dead}}] |
1871 | Prince Rupert Lacrosse Club | Winnipeg | Manitoba | Canada | – | defunct |
1876[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article7436731 |title=The Argus. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=April 12, 1876 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Melbourne Lacrosse Club | Melbourne | Victoria | Australia | Victorian Lacrosse Association | defunct |
1876[{{Cite web |url=http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/stockportlacrosseclub/?primary=theclub&secondary=history |title=Stockport Lacrosse Club}}] | Stockport Lacrosse Club | Stockport | Cheshire | England | North of England Men's Lacrosse Association | oldest lacrosse club in the United Kingdom |
1877 | New York University | New York City | New York | United States | National College Lacrosse League | oldest collegiate lacrosse team |
| 1877 | Manhattan University | New York City | New York | United States | NCAA Division I | |
1877[{{Cite web |title=THE HISTORY OF LACROSSE AT HARVARD. {{!}} News {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1883/2/22/the-history-of-lacrosse-at-harvard/ |access-date=May 6, 2024 |website=www.thecrimson.com}}]
| Harvard University
| Cambridge
| Massachusetts
| United States
| NCAA Division I
| known as Harvard Lacrosse Association at founding |
1877[{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT18770731.2.13.2 |title=Waikato Times. |newspaper=Waikato Times |location=Hamilton |date=July 31, 1877 |accessdate=April 8, 2017 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of New Zealand}}] | Frontier Lacrosse Club | Alexandra | Waikato | New Zealand | – | defunct |
| 1878 | Baltimore Athletic Club | Baltimore | Maryland | United States | United States National Amateur Lacrosse Association | |
1879[{{cite web |url=http://www.cheadle-lax.co.uk/index_files/Page380.htm |title=About Us |accessdate=May 8, 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912065811/http://www.cheadle-lax.co.uk/index_files/Page380.htm |archivedate=September 12, 2011}}] | Cheadle Lacrosse Club | Cheadle | Cheshire | England | North of England Men's Lacrosse Association | |
| 1879 | Heaton Mersey {{nowrap|Lacrosse Club}} | Heaton Moor | Cheshire | England | North of England Men's Lacrosse Association | |
1882[{{cite web |url=http://culacrosse.org/mens |title=Men's Home | Cambridge University Lacrosse Club |accessdate=May 10, 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712235543/http://culacrosse.org/mens |archivedate=July 12, 2010}}] | Cambridge University Lacrosse Club | Cambridge | Cambridgeshire | England | South of England Men's Lacrosse Association | Oldest college lacrosse team in the United Kingdom |
1882[{{cite web |url=http://www.londonlax.com |title=Hampstead Lacrosse Club |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100514181414/http://londonlax.com/ |archive-date=May 14, 2010 |url-status=dead}}] | Hampstead Lacrosse Club | London | | England | South of England Men's Lacrosse Association | oldest in the South of England[{{cite web |url=http://www.centurionlacrosse.org.uk/archives/1937/lacrosse-74-hampstead-history.html |title=Hampstead Lacrosse Club History – December 1937 |publisher=Centurion Lacrosse Club |date=December 4, 1937 |access-date=August 20, 2019}}] |
| 1882 | Phillips Academy Andover | Andover | Massachusetts | United States | – | One of the three oldest high school lacrosse programs in the United States |
| 1882 | Phillips Exeter Academy | Exeter | New Hampshire | United States | – | One of the three oldest high school lacrosse programs in the United States |
| 1882 | Lawrenceville School | Lawrenceville | New Jersey | United States | – | One of the three oldest high school lacrosse programs in the United States |
| 1882 | Louisville Lacrosse Club | Louisville | Kentucky | United States | – | defunct |
| 1882 | New York Lacrosse Club | New York City | New York | United States | – | defunct, also referred to as New York Amateur Lacrosse Club, and New York City |
| 1882 | Princeton University | Princeton | New Jersey | United States | NCAA Division I | |
| 1882 | Yale University | New Haven | Connecticut | United States | NCAA Division I | |
| 1882 | Druids | Baltimore | Maryland | United States | – | defunct, final game in 1902 |
1883[{{Cite web |url=http://www.bramptonlacrosse.ca/page/show/284644-history-of-brampton-lacrosse-and-the-minors |title=Brampton Lacrosse}}] | Brampton Excelsiors | Brampton | Ontario | Canada | Canadian Lacrosse Association | Longest-running amateur community-owned sports franchise in Canada |
| 1883 | Johns Hopkins | Baltimore | Maryland | United States | College lacrosse#NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse|NCAA Division I | |
1883[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33759542 |title=The Advertiser. |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=April 7, 1883 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Adelaide Lacrosse Club | Adelaide | South Australia | Australia | South Australian Lacrosse Association | defunct |
1883 | Edmonton Lacrosse Club | Edmonton | Alberta | Canada | – | defunct |
1883[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8514676 |title=UNIVERSITY LACROSSE CLUB. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=April 26, 1883 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=10 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Melbourne University Lacrosse Club | Melbourne | Victoria | Australia | Lacrosse Victoria | oldest extant lacrosse club in Australia |
| 1883 | Oldham & Werneth Lacrosse Club | Oldham | Lancashire | England | North of England Men's Lacrosse Association | |
1883[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13539581 |title=LACROSSE. |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=July 20, 1883 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Sydney Lacrosse Club | Sydney | New South Wales | Australia | New South Wales Lacrosse Association | defunct |
1884 | Calgary Lacrosse Club | Calgary | Alberta | Canada | – | defunct |
1884[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9027710 |title=Advertising. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=March 18, 1884 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | New Town Lacrosse Club | Hobart | Tasmania | Australia | – | defunct |
1885[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44947244 |title=LACROSSE. |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=July 18, 1885 |accessdate=December 29, 2010 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Noarlunga Lacrosse Club | Noarlunga | South Australia | Australia | South Australian Lacrosse Association | defunct |
| 1885 | Lehigh University | Bethlehem | Pennsylvania | United States | College lacrosse#NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse|NCAA Division I | |
1885[{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ST18850530.2.10 |title=Southland Times. |newspaper=The Southland Times |location=Invercargill |date=May 30, 1885 |accessdate=April 8, 2017 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of New Zealand}}] | Southland Lacrosse Club | Invercargill | Southland | New Zealand | – | defunct |
1886[{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW18860723.2.17 |title=Otago Witness. |newspaper=Otago Witness |location=Dunedin |date=July 23, 1886 |accessdate=April 8, 2017 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of New Zealand}}] | Dunedin Lacrosse Club | Dunedin | Otago | New Zealand | – | defunct |
1887[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19924620 |title=Brisbane Lacrosse Club. |newspaper=The Queenslander |location=Brisbane |date=May 7, 1887 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=735 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Brisbane Lacrosse Club | Brisbane | Queensland | Australia | Queensland Lacrosse Union | defunct |
1887[{{Cite web |title=2014 Rutgers Men's Lacrosse Media Guide |url=https://issuu.com/ruathletics/docs/mlaxguide2014_final2_ |access-date=July 14, 2020 |website=Issuu |date=February 7, 2014 |language=en}}] | Rutgers University | New Brunswick | New Jersey | United States | NCAA Division I | |
1887[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37175059 |title=LACROSSE. |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=June 15, 1887 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Knightsbridge Lacrosse Club | Adelaide | South Australia | Australia | South Australian Lacrosse Association | defunct |
1887[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37169886 |title=LACROSSE. |newspaper=The South Australian Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=March 23, 1887 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | North Adelaide Lacrosse Club | Adelaide | South Australia | Australia | Lacrosse South Australia | |
1888[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47268577 |title=LACROSSE. |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=April 17, 1888 |accessdate=December 29, 2010 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Jamestown Lacrosse Club | Jamestown | South Australia | Australia | South Australian Lacrosse Association | defunct |
| 1888 | New Westminster Salmonbellies | New Westminster | British Columbia | Canada | Western Lacrosse Association | |
1888[{{cite web |url=http://www.rochdalelacrosse.co.uk |title=Rochdale Lacrosse |website=www.rochdalelacrosse.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001125815/http://www.rochdalelacrosse.co.uk/ |archive-date=October 1, 2008}}] | Rochdale Lacrosse Club | Rochdale | Lancashire | England | North of England Men's Lacrosse Association | |
1888[{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP18880430.2.59 |title=The Press. |newspaper=The Press |location=Christchurch |date=April 30, 1888 |accessdate=April 8, 2017 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of New Zealand}}] | Canterbury Lacrosse Club | Christchurch | Canterbury | New Zealand | – | defunct |
1888[{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZTIM18881123.2.20 |title=New Zealand Times. |newspaper=New Zealand Times |location=Wellington |date=November 23, 1888 |accessdate=April 8, 2017 |page=4 |publisher=National Library of New Zealand}}] | Wellington Lacrosse Club | Wellington | Wellington | New Zealand | – | defunct |
1888[{{Cite web |url=https://www.brooklynlacrosse.org/lacrosse-history-ccny |title=Lacrosse History CCNY |website=Brooklyn Lacrosse |language=en-US |access-date=November 3, 2019}}] | City College of New York | New York City | New York | United States | National College Lacrosse League |
1889[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47065446 |title=LACROSSE. |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=April 5, 1889 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=7 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Adelaide University Lacrosse Club | Adelaide | South Australia | Australia | Lacrosse South Australia | |
1889[{{Cite web |url=http://www.poyntonlacrosse.co.uk/poynton-lacrosse-history.php |title=Poynton and Offerton Lacrosse Club History}}] | Poynton Lacrosse Club | Poynton | Cheshire | England | North of England Men's Lacrosse Association | name changed from Offerton Lacrosse Club in 1972 |
1891[{{cite web |url=http://www.nyac.org/default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=236075&ssid=89487&vnf=1 |title=The New York Athletic Club – Lacrosse Club |website=www.nyac.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109203451/http://www.nyac.org/default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=236075&ssid=89487&vnf=1 |archive-date=November 9, 2007}}] | New York Athletic Club | New York City | New York | United States | American Lacrosse League | oldest active lacrosse team in the United States[{{cite web |url=http://www.nyac.org/default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=244544&ssid=100236&vnf=1 |title=The New York Athletic Club – Men's Lacrosse |website=www.nyac.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110103162420/http://www.nyac.org/default.aspx?p=DynamicModule&pageid=244544&ssid=100236&vnf=1 |archive-date=January 3, 2011}}] |
1891[{{cite web |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/140172811?searchTerm=%22Caulfield%20Lacrosse%22%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20&searchLimits=sortby=dateAsc |title=Lacrosse |newspaper=Australasian |date=May 9, 1891}}] | Caulfield Lacrosse Club | Melbourne | Victoria | Australia | Lacrosse Victoria | 1891–1896
Re-formed 1909[{{Cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196901724 |title=LACROSSE |date=April 17, 1909 |work=Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862–1918) |access-date=August 30, 2018 |pages=20}}] |
1893[{{cite web |url=http://www.cheadlehulmelacrosse.com/ |title=Home |website=cheadlehulmelacrosse.com}}] | Cheadle Hulme Lacrosse Club | Cheadle Hulme | Cheshire | England | North of England Men's Lacrosse Association | |
1894 | Crescent Athletic Club | Brooklyn | New York | United States | United States National Amateur Lacrosse Association | defunct, reformed in 2006 |
1895[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9309917 |title=THE MERCURY. |newspaper=The Mercury |location=Hobart, Tas. |date=April 17, 1895 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Hobart Lacrosse Club | Hobart | Tasmania | Australia | – | defunct |
1895[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25753130 |title=LACROSSE. |newspaper=The Advertiser |location=Adelaide |date=March 15, 1895 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=6 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Holdfast Bay Lacrosse Club | Adelaide | South Australia | Australia | South Australian Lacrosse Association | defunct |
| 1896 | Ashton Lacrosse Club | Ashton-under-Lyne | Lancashire | England | North of England Men's Lacrosse Association | |
1896[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article84462519 |title=LACROSSE. |newspaper=The Daily News |location=Perth |date=August 1, 1896 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=5 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Phoenix Lacrosse Club | Fremantle | Western Australia | Australia | Western Australian Lacrosse Association | founded as Fremantle Lacrosse Club, name changed in 1991 after relocating |
1896[{{cite web |title=Lacrosse |url=https://mcc.org.au/club-sport/club-sport/lacrosse |website=Melbourne Cricket Club}}] | Melbourne Cricket Club Lacrosse Section | Melbourne | Victoria | Australia | Lacrosse Victoria | |
1896[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3096693 |title=LACROSSE. |newspaper=The West Australian |location=Perth, WA |date=July 25, 1896 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Perth Lacrosse Club | Perth | Western Australia | Australia | Western Australian Lacrosse Association | defunct |
1897[{{cite web |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276239808 |last=Snyders |first=Hendrik |date=2010 |title="Old friends at the game in Africa" – The origins and early development of lacrosse in South Africa |via=ResearchGate}}] | Durban Lacrosse Club | Durban | KwaZulu-Natal | South Africa | Natal Lacrosse Association | defunct |
1898[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article69676699 |title=WILLIAMSTOWN LACROSSE CLUB. |newspaper=Williamstown Chronicle |location=Vic. |date=August 27, 1898 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Williamstown Lacrosse Club | Melbourne | Victoria | Australia | Lacrosse Victoria | |
| 1899 | Brooklands Hulmeians Lacrosse Club | Sale | Cheshire | England | North of England Men's Lacrosse Association | founded as Old Hulmeians LC and continues nominally as Lancashire club |
1899[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33172226 |title=LACROSSE. |newspaper=Western Mail |location=Perth |date=April 21, 1899 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=41 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | East Fremantle Lacrosse Club | Fremantle | Western Australia | Australia | Lacrosse Western Australia | |
1899[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54417834 |title=LACROSSE. |newspaper=South Australian Register |location=Adelaide |date=March 25, 1899 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | East Torrens Payneham Lacrosse Club | Adelaide | South Australia | Australia | Lacrosse South Australia | founded as East Torrens Lacrosse Club |
1899[{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87783753 |title=Lacrosse. |newspaper=The Chronicle |location=Adelaide |date=March 18, 1899 |accessdate=October 4, 2012 |page=32 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}] | Sturt Lacrosse Club | Adelaide | South Australia | Australia | Lacrosse South Australia | |
1899 | Woodville Lacrosse Club | Adelaide | South Australia | Australia | Lacrosse South Australia | known as Port Adelaide Lacrosse Club between 1903 and 1966 |