The history of the Chittagong Club Ltd. may be traced from the year 1875 when Mr. W.A. Campbell a well-known Tea Planter of that period started a club in that year. It was placed at the disposal of only the Tea Planters of the district but they had to make their own arrangement both for servant and food during their stay.

During 1870s the Tea Industries started to grow at a rapid pace, the Chittagong Hill Tracts were opened, the Steamer Services were improved, large four-masted sailing vessels began to call at Chittagong Port and more officials were posted in the District.

As a result Camp0bell's provisional club became too small to provide facilities for a large influx of officials. Discussion began to start a club having adequate accommodation and facilities for increased number of European residents and on 23rd August 1878 Campbell's Provisional Club was taken over by the Chittagong Club which opened its doors to all European residents of the District in the building situated on the Hill near the Telegraph Office now known as Forest Bungalow.

To improve the services and acco-mmodation new residential quarters were provided, a Badminton Court was built, a Billiard table (Englishman's favourite pastime) was procured and everything was done to bring the club up-to-date as far as its limited resources allowed. The first Hony secretary was R.D. Murray. But the club really attained some importance when D.R. Lyall CSI the then Commissioner of Chittagong became the Chairman of the Committee. He called the first meeting of the volunteers in the Club premises on 3rd March 1885 to discuss ways and means of starting a Race meet and the first Meet was held in April of that year. In the early 1890s work began on Railway with the result that there was a large influx of Europeans; houses sprang up on all hilltops and general tempo of life at Chittagong increased. The Club became too small for its large number of embers and their guests.

In order to overcome this difficulty a new club house was erected at the present site which was known as Pioneer Hill and was originally the site of a Tea Garden planted in 180. The land belonged to a big landlord of the time Rai Nityananda Rai Bahadur who very kindly gave the land to the club at a nominal rental.

The club at this premises was opened on the 27th March 1901 and in 1908 it was registered as a company and as per Article 1 the membership was restricted to only 100 members but the Committee was authorised to alter this number as and when required. there was no Ballotting Committee and proposal for permanent Membership was decided at an extra-ordinary general meeting where every member could vote for or against a candidate and any two members of the club could Black Ball.