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Following extensive work with the BUCS office, the Sport Review Implementation Group and National Competitions Group, England Touch can today confirm that Touch Rugby will be in the BUCS calendar for 2022/23. England Touch will be managing and facilitating Touch Rugby’s inclusion in the calendar, and for the new era comes a new name, the University Touch Championships. Initiall ...

The dust having settled on England’s international exploits over the summer, attention turns again to the climax of the domestic calendar, The Nationals. This weekend the Opens teams from across the country will head to Nottingham’s Riverside Sports Complex for three days which will decide which region will get onto the front foot to be crowned the best in England. Each of the ...

England’s four teams experienced a successful weekend in Vichy, winning three of the four categories and pushing France all the way in the fourth. While the Boys 18 and Mixed 15 teams had a Test series with Ireland and a round-robin competition respectively, the Girls 18 and Mixed 18 teams had league campaigns followed by final day knockouts. These would have been dramatic in t ...

It is the deciding day in Vichy! Here is the schedule for day 3 at the 2022 Junior Touch Championships. CLICK HERE for the day’s full schedule. All times are UK time. Mixed 15 9-2 win v Belgium 8-1 win v Wales 6-1 win v France Boys 18 8:00am Exhibition Match 1 (Field 3) 9:00am Exhibition Match 2 (Field 3) Girls 18 5-0 win v Ireland 6-5 Gold Medal win v Wales (after extra time) ...

The matches come thick and fast for our four teams in Vichy! Here are your results from day 2 at the 2022 Junior Touch Championships. CLICK HERE for the day’s full schedule. All times are UK time. Mixed 15 8-0 win v France 10-2 win v Ireland Boys 18 10-6 win v Ireland 10-5 v Ireland Girls 18 10-3 win v Wales 13-1 win v Ireland 11-1 win v France Mixed 18 4-9 loss v France 11 ...

The Junior Touch Championships starts today in Vichy. Here are the fixtures and live stream links for our four England teams! CLICK HERE and follow the links to stay up-to-date with the results as they happen! Mixed 15 13-2 win v Belgium  14-0 win v Wales 11-3 win v Ireland Boys 18 10-4 win v Ireland 15-1 win v Wales 8-6 win v Ireland Girls 18 12-2 win v Wales 15-0 win v Irel ...

European international Touch continues this week, as four junior England teams head to France’s heartlands for the 2022 Junior Touch Championships, which begin on Friday, August 12th. England is the reigning champion nation from the 2019 JTC, but with three years since that weekend on the outskirts of Paris there has inevitably been significant change in the teams which are tra ...

England retained their place as the number one nation in Europe with a dominant Finals Day at the University of Nottingham. England won six of the eight ranking competitions – Mens Open, Womens Open, Womens 27, Mens 30, Womens 35 and Mens 45 – finishing second in the Mens 40 and Mixed Open, and while the Mixed 30 and Mens 50 did not contribute to the overall standings there wer ...

It is Finals Day at the 2022 European Touch Championships! Here is your England match schedule for the day! Keep up-to-date with all the tournament results as they happen by CLICKING HERE. Mens Open 8:45am v Ireland 1:50pm semi-final v Scotland Womens Open 12:50pm semi-final v Wales 5:00pm Gold medal v Scotland Mixed Open 11:40am semi-final v France 4:00pm Gold medal v Wale ...

The 2022 European Touch Championships took a step closer to their final stages in Nottingham today, as England continued to record strong results across every category. Keep up-to-date with all the tournament results as they happen by CLICKING HERE. Mens Open England opened with an opportunity to lay a marker down against France, who had come out on top when the teams had met i ...