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The South West Saxons earned their first ever Nationals Opens titles at Nottingham's Highfields Sports Complex over the May Bank Holiday weekend. While the Seniors and Masters competitions have been shared among the regions over the years, traditionally the Opens division has been dominated by the South East. However while the SE Sharks made both the Mens Open and Mixed Open f ...

Touch is proving itself as a code of rugby being embraced by school teachers by the rapid expansion of the National Schools Touch Championships. Delivered by Try Sports, the England Touch Association’s school delivery partners, on May 9 the National Schools Touch Championships will be staging an event in Reigate including around 70 teams from more than 35 schools, needing 16 p ...

The England Touch Association (ETA) has released its Annual Report for 2024, reporting successes across all areas of the organisation. On the field England achieved its best-ever return from a Touch World Cup, winning 10 medals from the 13 categories the nation entered, with a further five Gold medals and one Silver brought home from the six categories at the Junior European T ...

Vermeer UK & Ireland is once again showing its support for Touch Rugby in this country by finalising an advertising agreement at England Touch Nationals 2025. Vermeer UK & Ireland had a similar agreement with Touch World Cup 2024, the largest international event in the history of the sport that was staged in Nottingham last July. Highfields Sports Complex, which hoste ...

Congratulations to Exeter Hurricanes, the 2024/25 BUCS University Touch Champions! With two Cup titles and a Cup final place, Exeter regained the overall title once again. But it was a close-run thing with Bath Hawks, who reached two Cup finals and won the Round 3 Cup title to finish just two points behind the Hurricanes in the overall standings. 2024/25 was a year of continu ...

The pools have been drawn for the final round of the 2024/25 AICPA&CIMA BUCS University Touch Championships. Exeter 1's two Cup wins from the opening two rounds have put them in the driving seat for the overall title. But Bath 1 have been in both Cup finals, and with Loughborough 1 having made the semi-finals then all it takes is for a result here or there to make all the ...

The England Touch Association is now accepting applications to join its Board of Directors as Chair and Non-Executive Directors. The Chair and Non-Executive Directors (NEDs) provide a creative contribution to the England Touch Association's Board. The Chair and the six NEDs help the organisation set its Vision, Mission and Strategy, and provide a check and challenge of the Exe ...

The pools have been drawn for Round 2 National of the 2025 AICPA&CIMA BUCS University Touch Championship. Oxford 1, Manchester and Cardiff 1 are in the Cup/Plate division for the first time this season, joining the throng of teams who will be trying to stop Exeter 1 winning their second Cup of the 2025 campaign. Bath 1, Nottingham Trent 1 and Loughborough 1 are the other ...

England Touch has today announced the appointment of Kevin Hill as the Association’s new Event Delivery Lead. Kevin is one of the most experienced events managers in European Touch, having helped to deliver three Touch World Cups (Coffs Harbour, Putrajaya x 2), three European Touch Championships (Swansea, Jersey and Nottingham), four European Junior Touch Championships (Nottin ...

The University of Exeter have set the early pace in the national rounds of the 2025 AICPA&CIMA BUCS University Touch Championships. Having set the standard for recent years, Exeter’s first team took their winning run from South Round 2 into the national level by beating Bath’s first team in the Cup final at Nottingham’s Riverside Sports Complex. Historically two of the st ...