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The England Touch Association’s 2017 tournament programme taps off this coming Saturday and the fixtures have been announced for the Men’s and Women’s Touch Cup to be held at East London RFC.Nine teams will go straight into a knockout competitions, with seedings based on 2016 results.London Scorpions and Oxford Touch (Men’s) and Nottingham Hoods and Oxford Touch (Women’s) will ...

The third Touch Northern Cup may have been held on April 1st, but the participating teams were definitely no fools!!The tournament surpassed the previous Touch Northern Cups in quality of the Touch played and number of teams entering, who ranged from first time entrants to the Harlem Globetrotter style of the eventual winners.Eleven teams headed to the north east from as far af ...

England Touch Masters are looking to grow their numbers at both regional and national levels.Touch is one of the fastest growing sports and with more and more people playing at club level the pool of talent is expanding with each passing year.But the ETA needs players in the Women's 27s, Women's 30s, Women's 35s, Men's 35s and Men's 45s categories to select for the internationa ...

Congratulations to the England-based Touch referees selected for the following Premiership Permit, Championship Permit and Senior Touch Championships this summer. .EFT PREMIERSHIP PERMITLayo AromireJordi BitllochGregg CropperNatalie DavisMelissa DayMike Green
Kevin HillGenevieve MitchellNicolas Van de RijtBronwyn WakeAlice Watchorn.EFT CHAMPIONSHIP PERMIT 
Layo AromireLaura Bal ...

The University of Bath Hawks made the most of home advantage to take home the Universities Touch Series champions for 2017.The Hawks beat Exeter 5-2 in a high-tempo and exciting final to exact revenge for their semi-final defeat in Round 3 and take the silverware.Captain Dom Tripp was full of praise for his team.“The squad have worked really hard for this and I thought they wer ...

By Gary LambertOn Mother’s Day weekend it was my privilege to enjoy a full weekend of womens Touch; spectating, coaching, learning and enjoying.The weekend kicked off with the annual Spring Chick Tournament at Chippenham Rugby Club, the biggest single women’s Touch event in the Northern Hemisphere. Teams had travelled from across the UK and from both France and Germany to play, ...

The England Touch Association is taking its national tournaments to new host venues throughout the 2017 season, including a first return to London for several years.The Belief National Touch Series and SPORTTAPE Challenge Touch Series will both tap off at the Riverside Sports Complex in Nottingham on Saturday, May 6th.This is one of three new venues for England Touch’s top two ...

Professor Mark James joins the England Touch Association’s board as a Non-Executive Director with immediate effect Mark is Professor of Sports Law and Director of Research at Manchester Law School His expertise will help the England Touch Association achieve its growth ambitions as one of the country’s top participation sports and align it with the latest Sport England stra ...

Orton Ospreys took home the first trophy on offer in the Midlands in 2017 last weekend.The team from Peterborough beat off stiff competition from across the region at a development tournament in Wixams, near Bedford.Sides from as far afield as Norfolk, Northampton, Essex and Whitley Bay headed to Wixams to take part, and organiser Adrian Twigg said that it was a cracking way to ...

England Touch has announced the launch of the England Universities project, providing a platform for University Touch Series (UTS) players to represent their country and play at the highest level of the sport.There is a fantastic opportunity to enter two University teams into the 2017 European Federation of Touch Championship Permit (EFTCP 2017) in Pays de Fontenay-le-Comte, Fr ...