Bangalore RFC

Bangalore Rugby Football Club

Full name	Bangalore Rugby Football Club
Founded	1996
Location	Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Ground(s)	RBANMS College grounds
Coach(es)	Subash Janarthanam Tarun Appanna Steven Burton
Captain(s)	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.

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.

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

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