Bangalore rugby football club

Bangalore Rugby Football Club (B.R.F.C) is a rugby union club based in Bangalore.[1] They currently participate in the All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament & the National Rugby Championship - Div 1.

Bangalore Rugby Football Club
Full nameBangalore Rugby Football Club
Founded1996
LocationBangalore, Karnataka, India
Ground(s)RBANMS College grounds
Coach(es)IndiaSubash Janarthanam
IndiaTarun Appanna
Scotland Steven Burton
Captain(s)IndiaAkhil Anand
League(s)All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament
National Rugby Championship

History

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B.R.F.C was founded in 1996, by some ex-pats living in the city then. Today it is a club consisting mainly of Indians. They also have an expatriate team associated to them called the "Bangalore Refugees" and started a girls team in 2009, they also have boys u-19 and u-16 teams.

B.R.F.C has provided several players to the India national team over the years, Internationals include: Subramani P.E, Vinay Rai, Puneeth Krishnamurthy, Tarun Appanna, Thaman Thimaiah, Roshan Lobo. And Salik Zaffar, Deepam Kohli and Nishant Nerayath at the U-19 level.

B.R.F.C has participated in various national level tournaments over the years, but their best year has been 2005 when they reached the finals of the All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament and lost the finals to British Asian Rugby Association. Thus making them the number 1 team in the country for that year.

Squad

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2022-23 National Rugby Championship - Division 1
Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality.

Player Position Union
Vishnu Reji Hooker   India
Vinod Kumar Prop   India
Prashant Pandey Prop   India
Yunus Pasha Prop   India
Ravi Anand Prop   India
Subash Janarthanam Hooker   India
Aakar Gupta Lock   India
Nayan Kumar Lock   India
Harsha Vemuri Back row   India
Akhil Anand Back row   India
Hemanth Kumar Back row   India
Praveen S Back row   India
Deepam Kohli Back row   India
Player Position Union
Ranjith M Scrum-half   India
Karthik Chawan Scrum-half   India
Rakesh Fly-half   India
Roshan Lobo Centre   India
Jhon Isack Centre   India
Shashi Kumar Centre   India
Kushal Centre   India
Sunil P Wing   India
Prakash SB Wing   India
Arjun S Wing   India
Tarun Appanna Fullback   India
Vijay Kumar Fullback   India

References

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  1. ^ "Clubs". Rugby India. Retrieved 18 November 2022.