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The 2024 Opens, Seniors and Masters Nationals delivered an outstanding weekend of Touch yet again. For a second successive season England Touch combined the three divisions into a single weekend, providing more people with an opportunity to represent their region in their chosen category. The competition was fiercer than ever, with some extremely close matches, especially in th ...

England’s best players will be at Highfields Sports Complex in Nottingham this May Bank Holiday weekend, going toe-to-toe in the 2024 Touch Nationals. With 40-minute games and a multi-day tournament lasting across the Bank Holiday weekend, the Nationals provides the closest conditions that players and referees will experience on the international stage. Many involved this weeke ...

After the success of the Green Challenge Trophy in the 2023 NTS competitions, we’re bringing England Touch’s unique green competition to the Touch Nationals 2024. Everyone is entered automatically and all you need to do to help your team win is to take some green actions over the tournament weekend. From considering how we travel to the tournament and around Nottingham, to how ...

Touch Football Australia Chief Executive, Jamie O’Connor, says that this summer’s World Cup represents an opportunity to demonstrate the sport’s global growth. O’Connor visited the University of Nottingham’s Highfields Sports Complex during the 2023 Atlantic Youth Touch Cup to see the World Cup’s host venue in person, and believes both that the work being put in by the England ...

Here's your round-up of results from the opening weekend of action in the Mens National Touch Series and Womens National Touch Series in Watford. Division 1 In the Women's competition London Scorpions and Galaxy London have set the early pace, with both clubs winning all their matches in Pools A and B respectively. Scorpions had decent margins against NQ Rebels (6-3), Cambridge ...

"We’re excited for what 2024 will bring,” Richard Lilley of Percy Park Pirates tells James Warrener. He adds that the club, who operate out of North Tyneside "are looking forward to helping as many people in the area who want to play touch, to do so." The Pirates are working hard at to encourage players of all ages, with a lot of newer faces participating at both social and com ...

The pools and Round 1 fixtures have been confirmed for Divisions 1, 2 and 3 of both the Mens National Touch Series and Womens National Touch Series. England Touch takes the National Touch Series to Fullerians RFC on the outskirts of Watford for the first time this Saturday (Divisions 1 and 2) and Sunday (Division 3). Fullerians was one of Hertfordshire Rugby Union’s founding cl ...

The England Touch Association (ETA) would like to confirm that last year we ruled on a complaint regarding the use of unacceptable racial language at a European Federation of Touch (EFT) event in November 2022. This was brought to our attention in the absence of a process with EFT. The ETA completed the process in April 2023, suspending the offending party's ETA membership and ...

With 100 days to go until the 2024 Touch World Cup, the Federation of International Touch has confirmed the pools and format for the 13 categories featuring in Nottingham during July. Some 190 teams from 39 nations have confirmed their entry, making this tenth edition of the Touch World Cup far and away the largest ever. “With the announcement of the pools, excitement and antic ...

Ahead of hosting the largest Touch World Cup in the history of the sport, the England Touch Association’s Annual Report has confirmed the positive direction that Touch is heading in England. From an organisational perspective the England Touch Association (ETA) received formal recognition by Sport England as a National Governing Body for Touch, along with the awarding of Tier 1 ...