REPORT ON --National Provincial Touch Championship National Capital District (NCD) won the CHAMPION PROVINCE Cup when it won 4 of the 9 divisional Titles during the August 27-29, 2008 first Provincial Touch Football Championship, here at Port Moresby Rugby League (PRL). more -->

Team NCD Wins 1st National Provincial Championship It was a huge success in terms of provincial teams participation, satisfaction, media coverage, crowd & participants feedback, spectator turn out and behavior and venue. Of the 11 provinces nominated to attend only Southern Highlands failed to turn up. more -->

Bougainville and Madang Fox in final The Autonomous Region of Bougainville will be proud of their open women division for making it into the grand final in the provincial touch football championship held in Port Moresby during the week. more -->

PAU Super 6 touches on social issues THE Super Six touch promotional tournament was successfully competed at the Pacific Adventist University (PAU) oval from Aug 10-17. The tournament ran for three weeks with 22 teams contesting in four divisions under the theme “Keeping You In Touch With God”. more -->

Optimum Control & Berg Eng. Sponsor NIP Team Lihir will represent New Ireland at this weekend’s National Touch Football Championships in Port Moresby.
The Lihir Mine Touch Association is sending a senior men's team, an open men's team and a junior under-19 team. more -->

Return match serves as WHP selection trial Mt HAGEN Touch Association are ready to take on Banz tomorrow in a return match at the Gomis rugby league oval in Mt Hagen.
The boys and girls from the city went to Banz in the North Waghi district last week and this is the return match. more -->

Lihir to represent New Ireland in touch tourney LIHIR will represent New Ireland at next weekend’s National Touch Football Championships in Port Moresby.
The Lihir Mine Touch Association are sending a senior men’s team, an open men’s team and a junior under-19 team. more -->

Touch footy boost from PNG Water Board Touch Football PNG (TPNG) secured their second financial support from PNG Waterboard to help stage the national provincial touch championship in Port Moresby from August 27 to 29.
The sponsorship worth K5000 was presented to the TPNG president Joseph Yore at the Boroko office in Port Moresby yesterday. more -->

PNG Waterboard earn right to touch division THE PNG Waterboard has come to the aid of Touch Football Papua New Guinea (TFPNG) with a K5,000 sponsorship for the Open women’s division of the National Provincial Touch Championship next week in Port Moresby.
The sponsorship itself has won the company the naming rights to the division, which will be known as the PNG Waterboard Open women’s division. more -->

Bishop Brothers Open Women Pool B Minor Premiers After the last round of 2008 Corporate Touch Port Moresby season, Bishop Brothers Bulldogs Touch Football Club is the minor premier in Pool B of the Open Women division.

As a token of appreciation, the sponsor Bishop Brothers Engineering Ltd General Manager Mark Hird congratulated the minor premiers with a new printed uniform at the cost of K1500 for their final playoff matches. Also another K500 cash was given to the club for an outing at Sir Donald Cleland’s swimming pool at Taurama Leisure Centre over the weekend. The arrangements were well coordinated by the Bishop Brothers Touch Football Club Manager Siwi Aipe. more -->

MP praises touch competition A TOUCH football competition in Port Moresby has drawn the admiration of a prominent politician for its open door policy.
The Executive Touch Football Association was launched recently in the national capital to involve not only the executives of both the public and private sectors in a healthy lifestyle but also people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in order to free them of stigma and discrimination. more -->

PDA Investments Donates K5000 A locally owned company, PDA Investments have committed K5,000 to national championships.
Owner Daisy Apore said her company was please to assist the sport of touch football because the sporting code had the largest number of participants compared to the established codes. more -->

Bougainville enter touch titles THE Autonomous Region of Bougainville is the latest province to have nominated to compete in the National Provincial Touch Football Championship to be staged in Port Moresby next month. more -->

Touch battle looms! Touch Football Papua New Guinea executives are in full throttle preparing for the National Provincial championships. Port Moresby will host the event from August 27-29. All the matches will be held at Port Moresby Rugby League grounds. more -->

CTPM ready to play touch CORPORATE Touch Port Moresby (CTPM) is prepared for this weekend’s inaugural NCD provincial touch championship.
CTPM will take on its city-based rivals Central Touch Association and NCD Touch Association at the Murray Barracks sports ovals.
The three associations will face-off in nine divisions and the best players in each division will be selected to represent Port Moresby in the national titles in August. more -->

Champions Prevail in POM 2008 IOO Series Mighty Blues on Mother’s Day, Sunday 11th of May 2008 claimed their third consecutive Industry of Origin title to stamp their mark as the champion industry in Corporate Touch Port Moresby. more -->

Sir John Dawanicura - Secretary General to Ignite Sir John Dawanicura – the Secretary General of Papua New Guinea Sports Federation will Officiate the kick-off of Open Men Game between the Mighty Blues and Great Whites Collars during the 2008 Corporate Touch Port Moresby Industry of Origin Series decider at Sir John Guise Stadium on Sunday, 11 May 2008. Sir Jay is surely set to ignite a fiery show of touch footy actions between the two rivals the Great Whites and Mighty Blues over the blue-ribbon match. more -->

Lihir Gold Mine Joins TFPNG The Lihir Mine Site Touch Association (LMSTA) has affiliated to Touch Football Papua New Guinea. The association is made up of Lihir Gold Mine Ltd employees on the island of gold, Lihir in the New Ireland Province. LMSTA becomes the latest affiliate of TFPNG. more -->

Lae Corporate Starts Proper Season This Wkend Lae Corporate Touch Association will start its 2008 season proper this weekend. It has started its preseason with Super Four. more -->

Mighty Blues Lead IOO after Round II by One Point The Corporate Touch Port Moresby (CTPM) 2008 Series Industry of Origin Round II was exhilarating. Both camps were well prepared and displayed a class footy action for the fans and officials gathered at the Sir John Guise Stadium athletic oval in Port Moresby. more -->

PNG Touch Approach Silver Jubilee Touch Football in PNG celebrates 24 years of existence in April of this year, with 2009 being the silver jubilee year of Touch Football in PNG as reporteded on Touch International Federation website. more -->

Origin round II in Corporate Touch POM Corporate touch Port Moresby (CTPM) will have their second industry of origin round on Sunday at the Sir John Guise Stadium. more -->

Class and experience show out in women’ touch CORPORATE Touch Port Moresby (CTPM) started its round 10 games last Tuesday night with a show of experience and some touch of individual brilliance from the women’s division. more -->

ENB tourney set TOUCH East New Britain (TENB) will be hosting its fifth annual provincial rugby touch tournament on June 6 in Kokopo, East New Britain Province. more -->

Lae Corporate Touch Super Challenge Results Gulf Poi defeatd Wild Cats 2-1 while Royal Remix defeated 3M Warriors 1-0. Check attached results compiled by Dennis and Rick Seeto of Lae Corporate Touch. more -->

Doulos Team Play Touch Footy A SPECTACULAR touch footy showdown was displayed in Port Moresby on Tuesday when the visitors Doulos took on the Corporate Touch Port Moresby’s Dream Team in a friendly match.
It was not just an experience for the players in each team but a milestone for touch in Papua New Guinea. The CTP Dream team won 6-4. more -->

Touch footy in origin series THE Port Moresby Corporate Touch (CTPM) kicked off the first rounds of the 2008 Industry of Origin series on Sunday at the Sir John Guise Stadium. more -->

Original battle lines in place in corporate touch CORPORATE Touch Port Moresby (CTPM) will have its annual industry-of-origin best of three games series kicking off in two weeks time.
And the Great Whites and Blues camps have begun their trial matches to select their respective final squads. more -->

2008 CTPM Industry of Origin Series Begins The first battle of the 2008 Industry of Origin (IOO) series will be held this Sunday starting 9:00m at Sir John Guise stadium. Touch Football PNG President Joe Yore will officially kick-off the 2008 IOO Series. Check attached flyer for further information. more -->

PNG Touch Not Standing Still! The Federation of International Touch (FIT) recognises the overhaul of Touch Football Papua New Guinea (TFPNG) management and change of its identities as posted on FIT website this week as its latest news update. more -->

PNG Touch Not Standing Still! PNG Touch Federation Inc has this year changed its name to Touch Football PNG (TFPNG). more -->

Touch of generosity from newspaper WEEKEND newspaper Sunday Chronicle has jumped on the band wagon with Motor Vehicle Insurance Limited (MVIL) to co-sponsor the MVIL corporate touch team for this season. more -->

Buskens appointed as patron of TFPNG Nambawan Super Ltd managing director Leon Buskens has been appointed the patron of Touch Football Papua New Guinea (TFPNG). TFPNG president Joe Yore officially announced this yesterday at a press conference at Era Rumana Building in Port Moresby. more -->

Central Touch Set for Feb 3 Central Touch Association is set for an early season on 3 February 2007, at Apex Park. The competition will run for one month before season proper starts. more -->

CTMP Elects New Executives During its annual general meeting, Corporate Touch Port Moresby (CTPM) elected its new executives. The election was conducted by the chairman touch footy veteran John Kapigeno at Frangipani Hostel on March 30, 2008. more -->

The 2008 National Provincial Championship (NPTC) The 2008 National Provincial Championship (NPTC) will be held in Port Moresby in August with Team NCD and Lae Touch Association to play host to teams from Morobe, East New Britain, West New Britain, Oro, East Sepik, Madang, Eastern Highlands, Western Highlands, Enga and Manus. more -->

Corporate Touch POM Set to Start with 22 Clubs Twenty-two (22) corporate clubs have shown overwhelming interest to participate in the 2008 Corporate Touch Port Moresby (CTPM) season. A total of 97 teams to play in Open & Women, Senior Mix and Masters divisions. more -->

Corporate Touch Port Moresby starts preseason Pacific Equities and Investment Ltd have re-entered the Corporate Touch Port Moresby Competition this season after a three-year absence. Pictured above is managing director John Ruimb throwing a pass to Buruka Lou-Isaac as the Open Women's team members look on. They are training for their opening match against Bishop Brothers. Mr Ruimb says he wants his staff to be physically fit and have an alert mind which he believes are essential ingredients for workplace productivity. - Nationalpic by Ekar Keapu more -->

PNG TOUCH FEDERATION Inc is now changed PNG TOUCH FEDERATION Inc is now changed its name to TOUCH FOOTBALL PNG, effective as of today, 22 January 2007. more -->

Companies pay up for Corporate Touch Corporate Touch Port Moresby (CTMP)competition for 2008 starts on Monday ad deadline for affiliation for season 2008 is January 31, 2008 more -->

MINI SP GAMES 2009 Selection for players and officials to the Mini SP Games in Cook islands in may of 2009 has began with some selections made during the 15th national touch championships in Port Moresby in September. more -->

LOGO, NAME & CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES The new way forward strategy requires change in Logo, name and constitution to reflect the image, identity and governance touch sport now portrays nationally and internationally. more -->

OTHER NEW CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS The new calendar events programmed for kick off in 2008 & 2009 also includes separate championships for juniors & senior-Masters, Mixed, Women and Open divisions only. more -->

NEW CHAMPIONSHIP FORMAT The new executive has now established a new format national touch championship (NTC) beginning next year 2008, as part of meeting higher expectations of the PNGSF for PNG teams to perform well at the international events like the SP Games and World Touch Cup, as well as the national championships more -->

AFFILIATION REQUIREMENT 2008 ONWARDS All intending affiliates to PNGTF must now comply with the new pre-requisites to affiliation: more -->

NEW AFFILIATION DATE In line with new calendar events penned in for 2008-9 season the Association affiliation fees of K500 will be now due and payable to PNGTF before February 28, 2008 and thereafter. more -->

NEW APPOINTMENTS TO TFPNG The TFPNG executive have appointed certain people to key positions within the Federation and as allowed by the current constitution. more -->

Telikom PNG 15th NTC 2007 : : Staying in touch MORE than 500 players from 10 associations in the country will converge to Port Moresby for 15th National Touch Championship this weekend. more -->

Touch football elects new office bearers PAPUA New Guinea Touch Football Federation has elected its new office bearers for the next two years. more -->

Madang set to stay in touch MADANG will be looking to defend their men’s open title when the 15th national touch championships kicks off today at Murray Barracks in Port Moresby. more -->

New Executives Elected at AGM The September 13 Annual General Meeting saw the election of new office bearers for the PNG Touch Federation Inc for the year 2007 to 2009, during the 2007 National Championship, Port Moresby. more -->

PNG touch Teams doing well in XIII SP Games According to Rick Seeto, the Papua New Guinea coach for touch rugby, his team played
their game very well. As a result of that, his team won their first two matches. This success
is because the players had been turning up to their training consistently, which shows their dedication
to their sport. Their first match was with Niue, in which they got
4 points and Niue got 1. more -->

TEAM PNG MURUK CREATING WAVES IN BRISBANE IN TOUCH The PNG touch teams to the South Pacific Samoa named PNG Muruk are currently in Brisbane for their lead-up matches. And they are making waves so far, winning their first two games last Friday night at Usher Parkast against Kings Ridge indigenous teams. more -->

PNG touch team focus on `debt THE Papua New Guinea men's open touch rugby team is focused on settling a four-year debt against archrivals Fiji in the 13th South Pacific Games in Apia, Samoa.
The team felt they were robbed of a gold medal at the 2003 SP Games held in Suva, Fiji. more -->

Mighty Blues show why they are good The Mighty Blues from the blue-collar industry clubs of Corporate Touch Port Moresby's (CTPM) association retained the annual Industry-of-Origin shield after last Sunday's third game in this year's series. more -->

Superfund in upset win in touch competition NASFUND upstaged the 2006 champions PNG Sustainable Development 6-3 in the Open Menís Division of Corporate Touch Rugby League on Thursday night at Lloyd Robson Oval. more -->

Industry of Origin Glory - The All Wining Team Under 19 Junior Women Helped Mighty Blues Retain Origin and Perpetual Shield. more -->

THE STAGE IS SET FOR INDUSTRY-OF-ORIGIN GAME # ONE Corporate Touch Port Moresby (CTPM) has confirmed the dates & venues for its upcoming Industry-of-Origin challenge. more -->

Madang Concludes 14th NTC The 14th National Touch Championships has just concluded in Madang over the independence weekend with over twenty-two associations taking part in the 2006 touch festival and over 1,000 players participating over the five day event commencing on Friday and concluding with finals on Tuesday. more -->

Madang Touch Plan for 2006 National Championship THE Madang Touch pre-season competition kicked off successfully over the weekend with 16 teams participating in both men and women's divisions. more -->

Lae Corp Retains Title After 13th NTC at Lae In front of a packed crowd of 3,000 reigning champions Lae Corporate makes it three peat as they retained their title in the PNG Touch Federation Championships held over the independence weekend. more -->

Central Bags 12th Coca Cola NTC Title Finals thrill crowds despite a host of controversies host Central Touch Association claimed major tittles in three divisions and finished on top of their rivals at the Coca Cola National Touch Championships during the finals at the Murray Barracks Oval yesterday. more -->

Port Moresby Hosts The 12th Coca Cola NTC About 1000 players and officials knuckled down for the various tittles on offer at the Coca Cola PNGTF National Touch Championships in Port Moresby during the Queen’s birthday weekend. more -->

PNG Touch Federation Falls Victim to Crime PNG Touch Federation has fallen victim to the current crime scare in the country which has triggered warnings against travel to PNG by Australia. more -->

Lady Carol Kidu Opens 12th Coca Cola NTC Minister for Community Development Lady Kidu again stressed yesterday that sport was an important tool for community. more -->

Lae Corp Come from Behind to Win Open Men Title Uncharacteristic errors began to creep into their games while the more composed Corporate side began to take control. From there the momentum began to shift Corporate way. The aggressive Rabaul side were behind on the scoreboard and they were getting frustrated by a watertight defence. more -->

Picturesque Kokopo - 11th Nationals Ideal setting The picturesque town of Kokopo was the ideal setting for the 2003 National Touch Championships. With over 19 associations represented at this year’s championships making it a successful one. more -->

19 Association, 83 Teams participate 11th NCT In the gazelle peninsula the interest in touch has just exploded with the National Touch Championships being hosted by the Raluana Touch Association. Everyone wanted to be part of it with 83 teams taking part in seven divisions from 19 associations. With five associations from East New Brittain alone – Raluana, Rabaul, Tomadir, Vunamamir and YDF. more -->