Touch Football (Touch Rugby) History

The history of Touch Football (Touch Rugby) as it developed from the 1960s

Category: Structure

  • Uki Touch Football Club (NSW)

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    Uki Touch Football Club UKI TOUCH FOOTBALL CLUB | Facebook A strong regional touch association located in Northern NSW.

  • Chalkees (Brisbane)

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    A Foundation club of Brisbane Metropolitan Touch Football 1974 In mid 1974, Wayne Brandon and Peter Ridgewell established the Chalkees touch team. The team was the eighth team in the inaugural South Queensland Touch Football Association (SQTFA) established in March 1974. The team was pulled together from former University of Queensland Health & Physical Education…

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  • Brisbane Touch Football Association

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    From 1974 Rep teams are know as the Cobras Was Brisbane City Touch Association (BCTA) till 2012 Brisbane Touch Football (BTF) is the official regional body of touch football in Brisbane and a member of Queensland Touch Football (QTF). (BTF is not to be confused with BMTA) From 1974 to 1984, the region was called…

  • Dairy Cows and Maids (Brisbane)

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    Dairy Cows were a foundation team in the South Queensland Touch Football competition which was started in Brisbane in 1974. The club was started by Leigh Barker and Daryl Houlihan after the Brisbane Touch Football Association rejected their application to play due to the age rules of the BTFA. 1974 to 1993 Their story: In…

  • Premier and City Touch

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    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. …

  • Brisbane (Queensland)

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    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…

  • Eagles Touch Club (Brisbane)

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    The Brisbane based Eagles Touch Football Club was one of the most influential touch clubs in Brisbane, Queensland and Australia. In the 1980s, Brisbane touch consisted of some large multi-team clubs including both men’s and women’s teams, of which the Eagles were one. The club won many local, state, and national titles over the years.…

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    Brisbane (work in progress ….)

  • Brisbane Churches Touch Association

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    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…