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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 ...