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Bangalore rugby football club

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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

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

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

References

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