Take your Touch to a Portuguese beach in 2025

England Touch and Deep Dish have partnered to provide University Touch teams with the opportunity to take their skills to the beach next Easter!

The Deep Dish Tour to Praia da Rocha, Portugal, will be the ultimate sporting experience for 18-30 year-olds, with four nights’ accommodation, training sessions, tournaments, pool party, themes club nights, exclusive partner discounts and more!

Deep Dish’s sports include volleyball, ultimate, handball, roundnet, tennis and surfing, with Touch joining this roster new for 2025.

Teams will be joining more than 4,000 people who travel every year to play their sport on the beautiful Portuguese beaches.

Can you think of a better end-of-season tour to celebrate your achievements in the University Touch Championship? Thought not!

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“We are delighted to partner with Deep Dish Beach to bring Touch to a wider audience,” said Chris Simon, England Touch Association CEO. “This collaboration will not only provide new and exciting opportunities for Touch teams and players, especially within our rapidly growing University student player base, but this partnership also helps us to showcase the sport in a new unique and fun setting, which will undoubtedly attract new participants.”

“We are super excited to announce our brand new partnership between Deep Dish Beach and England Touch Rugby,” Abi Ackroyd, Head of Vacations at Deep Dish Beach says. “We believe in creating amazing opportunities for people to live connected, active, and happy beach lives and we’re so happy to be able to provide a helping hand in growing the sport of Beach Touch Rugby in the UK! We can’t wait to welcome lots of you out onto the sand in Praia da Rocha with your best mates, where we hope you will make epic memories playing Beach Touch Rugby to last you a lifetime!”