Bangalore rugby football club
# 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 & the National Rugby Championship - Div 1.

## 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 India 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

2022-23 National Rugby Championship - Division 1

Note: Flags indicate national union as has been defined under WR eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-WR 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 |
