Bangalore rugby football club

Bangalore Rugby Football Club

Full name	Bangalore Rugby Football Club
Founded	1996
Location	Bangalore, 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

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.

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