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The inaugural University Touch Championships moves to Guildford this weekend for Round 1 South. Fifteen teams will be playing at Surrey Sports Park, following the 12 which competed in the North last Saturday, with universities as far afield as Essex and Exeter being represented. Bath and Exeter are sending their usual complements of teams, with Bath looking to replicate the for ...

Nearly 150 young Touch players will have the opportunity to impress the England coaches over the winter having been chosen in the 2022/23 Junior High Performance training squads. The players have been grouped into Mixed 15, Boys 18 and Girls 18 squads, and will be training and competing for a spot in their respective England teams which will compete at the 2023 Afro-Eurasian Ch ...

There are several vacancies in the High Performance Programme and applications are now open!  The England Touch High Performance Programme goes from strength to strength each year, and once again we are moving into a phase of unprecedented growth.  After another hugely successful European Touch Championships, it is full steam ahead as we prepare for the 2023 European Touch Cham ...

The University Touch Championships taps off for 2022/23 this Saturday with Round 1 North in Sheffield. Sheffield Hallam University provides the host venue for the first time, and 12 teams will be heading to South Yorkshire from as far afield as Cambridge, Birmingham, Manchester and Edinburgh. Loughborough 1 set the pace in the North a year ago, but there will be plenty of compe ...

Everyone at England Touch is delighted by the news that Lexie Williams has been shortlisted for UK Coaching’s 2022 Young Coach of the Year Award. The Awards – regarded as the most prestigious within the coaching community – has for the past 25 years been a celebration of the tremendous impact of great coaches and great coaching – from delivering high quality technical coaching ...

The Board of the Federation of International Touch (FIT) has today voted to elect England as the host nation for the 10th Touch World Cup (TWC) in 2024. It’s the first time Touch’s flagship event has been held in England and the first time in the UK since 2011, when it was hosted in Edinburgh, Scotland. The last TWC in 2019 was hosted in Putrajaya, Malaysia. The FIT board met o ...

The England High Performance training squads have been announced for the winter training programme ahead of the 2023 international campaign. Twelve squads have been named, and it is particularly exciting to include a Women’s 40 group for the first time! With 396 players coming from 43 clubs from as far afield as Exeter, Canterbury, Wigan and North Tyneside, this is one of the l ...

England Touch, the Rugby Football League and British Heart Foundation have partnered together to launch a new initiative to get more young people engaged with the Rugby League World Cup and raise funds and awareness for one of the country's most important charities! Playing Touch Rugby and Rugby League are two of the British Heart Foundation’s newest fundraising events. Not onl ...

England Touch has today announced the appointment of Sammie Phillips as the Association’s new General Manager. Phillips steps into this new position from her previous role as National Development Officer, and will have responsibility for a number of key operational areas, including: Continuing to work closely with Regions to grow the sport across the country Leading the group ...

The 2022 Junior Nationals saw the respective titles shared across four different Regions. Growth of Junior Touch was reflected by having competitions in Boys 14, Girls 14, Girls 17, Girls 19 and Boys 17/19 categories, with 18 teams in all heading to the University of Nottingham’s Riverside Sports Complex. The biggest single category was the Boys 14, with the South East and West ...