What is Five Rugby and the Rugby Touch ?
The Five and Touch, are collective sports based on speed, the strategy andagility.
The Five and Touch prefer team play using individual and collective techniques, speed and agility. These are avoidance games, without plating, no mingling and no regrouping.
Sports for all.
For all sexes. It is one of the only collective sports that can be played in mixed teams. There are 30% women in our federation.
For all ages. It takes 5 to 70 years. It is suitable for both leisure and competition.
For all conditions. Tournaments, trainings take place in summer and winter. A simple grass or synthetic field corner with a ball can be enough to start touch or Five and have fun.
Five rugby
Rugby 5 is barely twice as small as touch. The number of players is therefore 5 while it is 6 at touch.
Part of the 5 rugby lasts 20 minutes while the touch part is 40 minutes. The foot game is allowed while it is not at all rugby touch.
Summary of Five Rules by clicking HERE
The Rugby Touch
As explained in its name "TOUCH" which comes from the verb "to touch" which means "touch" in English, the touch does not authorize violent contact and thus the rugbystic placards of the term. This particularity allows the mix of this sport. Often associated with rugby at 5, it is nevertheless much different and is a full sport with its own international federation.
Rugby Touch Is Played per team of 6 players in the field and with a maximum of 14 players including replacements.
The defenders must touch The two-hand ball carrier simultaneously, between the waist and shoulders. Defenders cannot play the ball in the hands of the ball bearer. Defendants can retrieve the balloon on interception or on the ground to counter-attack.
