Bangalore Rugby Football Club (B.R.F.C) is a
rugby union
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club based in
Bangalore
Bangalore (), List of renamed places in India, officially Bengaluru (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan area, metropolitan population of a ...
.
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
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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
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,
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
References
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Rugby union in India
Indian rugby union teams