It played its first game on 21 June 1897 against a picked XI of WG Grace.
The club's first team plays in the West of England Premier League which is an accredited ECB Premier League, the highest level for recreational club cricket in England and Wales.
Cheltenham have won the ECB National Club Cricket Championship twice, in 1970 and 1978,[1] and been the premier league champions on one occasion, in 2004.
The club have also won the Gloucestershire County Knock-out Cup on two occasions.
[2] During the 1920s and 1930s, Cheltenham's Victoria Ground was a regular venue for first-class matches involving Gloucestershire, but since that time it has only hosted a single first-class fixture, when Gloucestershire played the Indian tourists in 1986.