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England Touch has made a number of new appointments within the Association’s delivery, management and governance areas. These appointments, which are both paid and voluntary, will help to ensure the successful delivery of the 2024 Touch World Cup - the biggest ever - and reinforce England Touch’s plans to make Touch one of the biggest participation sports in England. Two short- ...

With two months to go until the biggest ever Touch World Cup, the England Touch Association (ETA) has partnered with Championship Rugby club, Nottingham Rugby, to both promote the event within the East Midlands and deliver exciting community projects at Highfields Sports Complex. As the build-up to Touch World Cup (TWC) 2024 continues to accelerate, the ETA’s management has ide ...

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 ...