The National Lacrosse Primacy Calendar is a shared national planning and governance tool. It shows agreed primacy alongside relevant activity from Home Nations performance programmes, British Lacrosse, Regional Leagues and national events, helping stakeholders coordinate their plans and identify potential overlaps.

England Lacrosse acts as coordinator and steward of the framework, receiving input from the performance programmes of all Home Nations and British Lacrosse, as well as the regional associations of England Lacrosse. This includes: 

• maintaining the calendar 

• supporting stakeholder engagement 

• convening the Conflict Resolution Panel where required 

• recording decisions and ensuring transparency 

Primacy means a date is protected for a specific area of the game. Other competing activity should not be scheduled in a way that prevents players or shared resources from supporting the activity that holds primacy.

Primacy is intended to prevent scheduling conflicts from being created, rather than asking participants to choose between commitments once a clash already exists.

The calendar was introduced primarily to preserve meaningful space for domestic league activity while accommodating the growing demands of national and British programmes.

Many players participate across club, England Field, England Box and British Lacrosse programmes. The calendar makes clear where scheduling priority lies so that national activity does not unnecessarily reduce player availability or undermine the competitiveness of the domestic game.

Activity with agreed primacy is marked with a star ⭐ .

The activity appears in the Agreed Primacy calendar and is also shown within the relevant stakeholder or programme calendar, allowing users to see both who is delivering the activity and where priority lies.

No. Activity may be included without holding primacy where it is relevant to national planning.

Un-starred activity provides visibility of what is taking place but does not override activity that holds primacy on the same date.

The National Lacrosse Primacy Calendar is not intended to show every lacrosse activity taking place.

It includes agreed primacy, core stakeholder programme activity, domestic league dates, national events and other activity that materially affects planning for others. Club training, local competitions, development activity and non-national events will not normally be included.

If you believe your activity is nationally significant or should be visible because it materially affects other stakeholders, please contact Helen Amos at [email protected].

England Lacrosse acts as custodian of the framework rather than making individual scheduling decisions.

Where the required information has been provided, appropriate engagement has taken place and affected stakeholders have agreed the change, England Lacrosse will update and publish the amendment.

Primacy is agreed separately from the annual date-submission process and normally covers a multi-year period.

The current primacy arrangements run until December 2028. A further stakeholder review will be undertaken to agree the framework for the next planning period. Annual submissions continue within the primacy arrangements in force at the time.

Yes. Primacy does not mean that no other lacrosse activity can take place on that date.

The purpose of the calendar is to make scheduling priority visible in advance, so stakeholders can understand which activity must be protected and plan any other activity around it. Activity may still be scheduled on the same date where it does not prevent players, coaches, officials or other shared resources from supporting the programme or league that holds primacy.

The calendar is therefore intended to support informed planning and coordination, rather than operate as a blanket ban on all other activity.