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