Category: Associations

Premier Touch is a Brisbane touch football organisation operating since the 1980s on 3 nights a week at many venues across the city. It offers the old format 7 a-side competitions for the more social player. The association used to be privately run, but since 2016 it is under the management of Queensland Touch Football. …

1973: The first Queensland touch football competition was the Brisbane Touch Football Association (BTFA). Read the details here: Brisbane Touch Football Association   (merged with BMTA in 1987) 1974: A second competition started in Brisbane – the South Queensland Touch Football Association (SQTFA)  which is now Brisbane Metropolitan Touch Association. (SQTFA then MTFA now BMTA) Redcliffe started…

1987 Beginnings 2017 The Association celebrated its 30th anniversary on Saturday, 20th May 2017 2024 due to the unavailability of fields, the Association folded. (see below) 1987  First matches (23 May) 1988  Representative game v. Ipswich churches team 1989  First summer competition, First men’s competition 1990  Mixed B grade introduced, Association incorporates 1991  Men’s B…

Brisbane Metropolitan Touch Association (BMTA) From 1974 Formally the Metropolitan Touch Football Association (MTFA) 1979 – 1987 Before that the South Queensland Touch Football Association (SQTFA) 1974 – 1978 Brisbane Metropolitan Touch Association is the oldest and largest touch football association in the world, currently averaging local competitions of 350 adult teams and 420 junior…

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