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.

Bangalore Rugby Football Club
Full nameBangalore Rugby Football Club
Founded1996
LocationBangalore, Karnataka, India
Ground(s)Dravid-Padukone Center for Excellence Turf Park
Coach(es)Pulkit Bhat
Captain(s)Roshan Lobo
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


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