As previously mentioned the first governing body was the Australian Touch Football Association founded in 1976. This was later replaced by Touch Football Australia where there are currently over 400,000 registered Touch players, 500,000 school children, and up to 100,000 casual players playing the sport
Other nations would slowly follow suit, until the Federation of International Touch came along in 1985. FIT now has established Regional Development Sub Committees in Asia, the Americas, Africa, Europe, the Middle East / South Asia ad Oceania
A simple Google search would bring up some of the many International Touch organisations that now exist, or click on the image on the left to go to the FIT site
Or you could search for some of the bigger clubs that operate either in a national or international forum – the biggest of these would be Galaxy, founded in New Zealand, but now with branches World wide

The inaugural Touch World Cup was held on the Gold Coast, Australia in 1988. Since then, the event has been hosted in Auckland, New Zealand (1991), Waikiki Beach, Hawaii (1995), Sydney, Australia (1999), Kamagaya, Japan (2003), Stellenbosch, South Africa (2007), Edinburgh, Scotland (2011) and Coffs Harbour, Australia (2015). The 2019 Touch World Cup will be held in Malaysia
The last in event in Australia saw teams competing in 9 different categories – Men’s Open, Women’s Open, Mixed Open, Women’s Over 27s, Senior Mixed, Men’s Over 30s, Men’s Over 35s, Mens Over 40s and Mens Over 50s
Of the 52 finals that have been played Australia have featured in every single one, winning an impressive 44 titles. New Zealand are the only other country to have lifted a winning trophy in any category and have also featured in 45 of the finals so it is definitely time for changes at the top!!

Each year USA Touch combine their national trials with an international, high quality competition. As well as club sides from around the States there are also top quality referees and representative teams from Jamaica, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Chile and the Cayman Islands to name a few
Last year the tournament was again held at the ESPN Sports Grounds in the fabulous surroundings of Disney World, Orlando. This venue has been secured to host the tournament for the next few years as well
2015 saw a competitive debut for Jamaican Touch and with our 6 player squad, dedication and commitment to keep going without any subs certainly turned a few heads!

Another FIT run tournament with it’s regional sub committee of the EFT this is now a biannual event that started in 2010
The first tournament was held in Bristol, England. 2012 it was in Treviso, Italy, 2014 in Swansea, Wales and 2016 in Jersey

Australia and New Zealand regularly compete each other for more than just bragging rights in this series
First run in 1976 i took until the 6th series in 1993 for NZ to get their first taste of victory
Although things have been a little more balanced in modern times the Ozzies still have very much the upper hand