A cricket academy for young teenage refugees, Zurich Crickets Academy, was founded within the existing ZCCC association in February 2023.

The project's target group is young Afghan refugees, especially unaccompanied 14-18-year-olds. Such young people need meaningful leisure activities. Cricket offers the opportunity to get to know other people, improve their German language skills and have older Afghans as role models. The Academy enables them to enjoy positive experiences with a sport they are already familiar with from their home country. They learn responsibility, reliability, punctuality, and fair play. They also improve their sporting skills and can play regularly in a team.

There are currently over 60 young players who are members of the Academy. They form U17 and U19 teams and, depending on their skill levels, can be integrated into ZCCC teams that play in the Swiss men's leagues.

Zurich Crickets Academy Statutes

The Swiss Olympic Association (Swiss Olympic) adopted a revised Ethics Statute, which is applicable to all member organisations.

Its scope covers all members of Swiss Olympic – the national sports federations (including Cricket Switzerland) and partner organisations – as well as their direct and indirect members as well as other persons in Swiss sport organised under private law.

It replaces all existing regulations on ethical matters, in particular the codes of conduct of Swiss Olympic, those of the members of Swiss Olympic as well as the athletes and coaches.

At its Annual General Meeting in 2022, Cricket Switzerland formally adopted the new Statute, incorporating reference to the Statute in the Cricket Switzerland Constitution.

Zurich Crickets CC, as a member of Cricket Switzerland, would like to alert all of their members to the existence of the Statute and ensure that the provisions are observed.

Following is the website address of Swiss Sport Integrity, which is resposible for investigating potential breaches of the Ethics Statute: https://sportintegrity.ch

General enquiries about ethics relating to cricket in Switzerland, may be directed to:  secretary@cricketswitzerland.ch 

Please click on the links below to read the Charter for Ethics and the Statutes on Ethics in Swiss Sport:

The Nine Principles of the Charter for Ethics in Sport

Statutes on Ethics in Swiss Sport