Bangalore rugby football club
Bangalore Rugby Football Club (B.R.F.C) is a rugby union club based in Bangalore. They currently participate in the All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament.
Full name | Bangalore Rugby Football Club |
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Founded | 1996 |
Location | Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
Ground(s) | Dravid-Padukone Center for Excellence Turf Park |
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League(s) | All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament |
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 Indian 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
2018 All India & South Asia Rugby tournament
Rakesh Kumar AP Nandish Anna Pramod Malikarjuna Mohammad Waquar Ali Alexander Abraham Akhil Anand Devang Gaur Vishnu Reji Subash Janarthanam Kishan Kumar Puneeth Krishnamurthy Colin Masacarenhas Varun Vibhakar David Jumani Aakar Gupta Varun Patankar Tarun Appanna Ranjith M Arjun S Roshan Lobo Loïc Antoine Dominique Faris Ali Yoshitha Rajapaksa Sathya Ranatunga Imesh Aponsu Sumit Singh