Lacrosse in England is an amateur sport played mainly by community based clubs and university teams. Field lacrosse exhibitions were staged in England at least as early as August 1867 when a group of First Nations people played a series of games at the Crystal Palace Park Cricket Ground. William George Beers and other Canadians later toured the country playing exhibition matches in 1876. Another tour was arranged in 1883; by then England had 60 clubs playing regular fixtures in Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Middlesex and Yorkshire.
The first national governing body for the men's game, the English Lacrosse Union, was formed in 1892. A Ladies' Lacrosse Association followed in 1912.