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England’s four teams begin their Junior Touch Championships campaigns on Friday morning with hopes of medals in all categories. England Touch is sending teams in all available categories – Mixed 15, Mixed 18, Boys 18 and Girls 18 – and despite the anticipation of some strong competition the coaches are all looking to bring medals home from Paris. Wales and Scotland are the othe ...

England Touch has today announced Ben Powell as the Association’s new High Performance Director. Powell has been one of the leading figures in both English and European Touch for a number of years. For since 2015 he has been European Federation of Touch President, a period which has seen the sport enjoy unprecedented growth across the continent, and a role from which he recentl ...

A number of vacancies are open for Head Coaches and Assistant Coaches within the England High Performance team. Head Coach roles are open for the following teams: Men's 30sMixed 30sMen’s 40s (player-coach acting in this role until suitable non-playing coach appointed)Men’s 50s (player-coach acting in this role until suitable non-playing coach appointed) Assistant Coach roles ar ...

Hot Custard brought the heat to Maidenhead with a dominant weekend in the inaugural European Federation of Touch Club Championships. The London-based team were the only outfit to go through the entire weekend undefeated as the European clubs showed just how competitive the sport is throughout the continent. In all there were 18 clubs representing 11 nations, and after an openin ...

Multiple Touch tournaments will be streamed on the BBC Sport website and app in 2019, following a new agreement with England Touch. The first of these will be this weekend’s European Club Championships, which sees 18 clubs from 11 countries head to Maidenhead RFC in Berkshire for a weekend of international competition. This will be followed on the August bank holiday by The Nat ...

The 2019 SPORTTAPE Men’s and Women’s NTS were both up for grabs going into the final matches of the Series for both genders. A late drop-out on the morning of the tournament meant that the Women’s competition was reduced to five teams, who then played each other on a round-robin basis, and as with Oxford two weeks ago the competition was very tight, with CSSC London Eagles, Cam ...

St Albans Gold became the first team to break Manchester Chargers’ run of Cup titles in the Steeden Development National Touch Series, but Chargers’ second place finish in Cheltenham nevertheless saw them extend their lead at the top of the table. Manchester, Norwich Rebels, St Albans, Yorkshire Thorns and CSSC all went through the group stages with a perfect record, with Brist ...

Nottingham Men and Chester Women finished the Emerging Men’s and Women’s National Touch Series in winning fashion, their Cup titles in Cheltenham securing the overall titles in the process. The Men’s competition was very competitive, with G:Force the only team to make it through the pool stages with a 100 percent winning record. For their part Nottingham made their way through ...

CSSC London and London Scorpions were the dominant teams in the opening weekend of SPORTTAPE Elite Men's and Women's National Touch Series action in Oxford. What the tournament may have lacked in numbers it more than made up for in quality, with plenty of England internationals on show across both the Men's and Women's tournaments. CSSC Women and London Scorpions Men mastered b ...

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