Bangalore RFC

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Bangalore Rugby Football Club
Full nameBangalore Rugby Football Club
Founded1996
Location Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Ground(s)RBANMS College grounds
Coach(es) Flag of India.svg Subash Janarthanam
Flag of India.svg Tarun Appanna
Flag of Scotland.svg Steven Burton
Captain(s) Flag of India.svg Akhil Anand
League(s) All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament
National Rugby Championship

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.

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History

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

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.

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

References

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