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England came home with six Gold, one Silver and two Bronze medals from the nine competitions at the 2025 Federation of International Touch Atlantic Youth Touch Cup in Limerick. Thanks to YouTube you can re-live all the big finals! Boys 15 Final England 12-7 Wales Girls 15 Test Match England 5-2 Wales The Mixed 15s' Bronze medal win over Belgium was not on a live streamed fiel ...

Eleven Youth teams have headed west this weekend for the 2025 Atlantic Youth Touch Cup at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Action starts on Friday, August 1, with the medal matches on Sunday, August 3. Teams have headed to Limerick from as far afield as South Africa, Cayman Islands and China, with Ukraine entering their first ever Federation of International Touch event! In ...

Firstly I’d like to say hello to all of our members and workforce. I’ve taken some time to get my feet under the table, meet as many different people involved in Touch in various guises (thank you to Invicta and Warwick Touch for making me so welcome!) and attended a wide variety of Touch events from Nationals to National Touch Series and charity tournaments to Schools finals. ...

England Touch is taking its largest ever playing group to an international Youth event this summer, with 11 teams heading to the University of Limerick for the 2025 Atlantic Youth Touch Cup. In all 173 players have been chosen, representing 45 clubs and 79 schools from across the country. CLICK HERE to see the full team lists In total, the 2025 Atlantic Youth Touch Cup will fea ...

Whether you are representing your club in the National Touch Series, playing in a local league or friendly match, or just having a social runaround, please look after yourself in the extreme heat this coming weekend (July 12-13). The England Touch medical team has produced some guidance on areas such as: Identifying symptoms of heat-related illness Risk factors Hydration and n ...

The Federation of International Touch and event hosts, Ireland Touch Association, have announced that the pools and fixtures for the second Atlantic Youth Touch Cup have now been released. The international Touch community will welcome FIT newcomers, Ukraine, to its first international tournament and Portugal, who will be participating in its first FIT youth event. In total, ...

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 fi ...

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 pi ...

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 To ...