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England Touch has today released the 2023 domestic Touch calendar, with a new format for club competitions and a new date for The Nationals which puts it at the heart of the domestic game. The calendar has been put together in collaboration and consultation with Regional Leads and clubs, along with the England Touch Events team, as the Association seeks to balance the needs of ...

The first BUCS University Touch Championship Events did not disappoint with Loughborough and Cardiff taking home the silverware. Twelve teams took part in Round 1 North at Sheffield Hallam University Sports Park, with Nottingham Trent 2s joining the competition for the first time. Loughborough 1 and Durham 1 remained undefeated in the pool stages with Nottingham Trent 1 and Cam ...

The Federation of International Touch (FIT) has today announced that the inaugural Atlantic Youth Touch Cup will be bringing some of the world’s best Youth Touch teams to the University of Nottingham in England in July 2023. In July 2022, FIT announced that the postponement of the Youth Touch World Cup had provided the sport’s peak body with the opportunity to make internationa ...

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 ...