Bangalore RFC

Bangalore Rugby Football Club
Full nameBangalore Rugby Football Club
Founded1996
LocationBangalore, Karnataka, India
GroundRBANMS College grounds
Coach(es) Subash Janarthanam
Tarun Appanna
Steven Burton
Captain 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 expats living in the city. They also have an expatriate team called the "Bangalore Refugees". They started a girls team in 2009, in addition to boys u-19 and u-16 teams. B.R.F.C has provided several players to the India national team over the years: Subramani P.E, Vinay Rai, Puneeth Krishnamurthy, Tarun Appanna, Thaman Thimaiah, Roshan Lobo, Salik Zaffar, Deepam Kohli and Nishant Nerayath. B.R.F.C in 2005 reached the finals of the All India & South Asia Rugby Tournament and lost the finals to British Asian Rugby Association.

Squad (2023)

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

See also

References

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