Watch: Priestnall School make top 8 in debut National Schools appearance

Priestnall School made it through to the quarterfinals at the recent National Schools Lacrosse Championships on their first ever appearance at the prestigious event in Aldershot.

After previously playing friendly matches and competing in Northern schools tournaments, the Stockport school entered the Under 15 competition at this year’s National Schools to test themselves against the rest of the country and play against some the top lacrosse schools in the UK.

They ended up winning five of their seven matches at the Championships, drawing against the eventual champions St Swithun’s in their opening game, before just going out to finalists Claremont Fan Court in overtime in their quarterfinal match.

As first-time entrants, England Lacrosse caught up with the coach, teachers and players at the school to find out how they came to form their lacrosse team, why they decided to enter, and how they found their first nationals experience.

Prague, Czechia set to host Ken Galluccio Cup from 2025-27

Prague, Czechia is set to host the Ken Galluccio Cup for the next two years after the European Lacrosse Federation announced the winners of the latest round of host bids.

From 2025-27, LCC Radotin, based in Prague, will host the annual men’s and women’s field lacrosse competition that gathers domestic champions from several countries, including Germany, Netherlands, and Sweden, to decide which team is Europe’s best.

Over the past two years, Barcelona Lacrosse in Spain has hosted the Ken Galluccio Cup and, despite receiving another bid from Spain and one from Poland, LCC Radotin from Prague, Czechia were chosen to host the competition going forwards.

Running roughly on an annual basis since 2008 and originally named the Champions Cup, the tournament was renamed the Ken Galluccio Cup as a tribute to its creator after his death in 2009 and it is the largest European lacrosse tournament with teams from over 15 countries taking part.

Prague previously hosted the tournament in 2012 with the competition also being held in Hamburg (2008, 2010), Manchester (2011), Ghent (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019), and Barcelona (2022, 2023, 2024).

English teams have traditionally performed well at the Ken Galluccio Cup, winning nine out of the 13 titles in the men’s competition.

In the women’s competition, Blues Lacrosse Club are the reigning champions with Oxton and Centaurs also winning in 2014 and 2019 respectively.

Tickets on sale for 2024 Home Internationals Series

Tickets for the 2024 Home Internationals Series, featuring England, Scotland, Germany, Netherlands, Czechia, and hosts Wales are now on sale.

Taking place at the Cardiff University Playing Fields, Cardiff from 5-7 April, the annual Home Internationals Series will see senior, under-20, and under-18 men’s and women’s teams play against each other in a main competition and a festival with the winners in each tournament being crowned 2024 Home Internationals champions.

Tickets start from just £6 for a single day concessions* ticket with two-day passes and full tournament tickets also available.

If you buy before Friday 29th March, you can grab a full tournament pass for the price of two day tickets!

Last year’s competition, held in Nottingham, saw England dominate, winning every trophy on offer, including the senior men’s and women’s titles.

Ticket Details

Full Weekend Adult | £22.25
Full Weekend Concessions | £16.75
Two-Day Ticket Adult | £22.25
Two-Day Ticket Concessions | £16.75
Day Ticket Adult | £11.25
Day Ticket Concessions | £6.00

*Concessions include under 16s, over 65s, and students with a valid student card.

Nottingham Trent retain top title in BUCS Men's Championship final

Nottingham Trent took the honours and city bragging rights for the second year in a row as they defeated University of Nottingham 8-6 in the BUCS Men’s Championship final.

Trent had to do things the hard way, clawing back an early three-goal deficit to finally go ahead in the final quarter and never relinquishing the lead thanks to a shutout second-half.

UoN looked poised to cause an upset in overturning the reigning champions and 2024 Premier North league winners, but NTU and Brady McFalls composure in front of goal proved decisive as he led the game with five goals to see boys in pink home.

UoN came out of the blocks noticeably quicker, going ahead through Billy Styche off an extra man opportunity, before two goals in under a minute from Tommy Rooney and Ethan Holthaus capped off a roaring start for the green and gold for a 3-0 lead after just six minutes.

Trent took a timeout and regrouped, retaining more ball for the rest of the quarter and slowing the game down to a tempo that suited them and allowed them to begin to dictate, Brady McFalls cutting the deficit by one off Trent’s own EMO.

Trent pulled back another at the start of Q2, and despite Rooney getting his second for UoN, NTU did well again in controlling the majority of possession and taking their opportunities to level at 4-4.

The play then moved pretty freely from end-to-end for the rest of the half, with both teams having chances, Nicky Palermo for NTU and Rooney, bagging his hat-trick for UoN, adding a goal apiece for 5-5.

And when Owen Caputo, the Duke University grad and NCAA Championship runner-up who had been restricted two assists up until that point, bagged a goal just before the buzzer, UoN showed they were in it for the long haul.

After a ferocious first-half, the play began to settle down, and it was the defences taking centre-stage as goalies Cole Hiller for NTU, and Joachim Ruby for UoN, made numerous saves.

A McFalls goal midway through the third period was the only goal of the quarter, and took the game into the final 15 on an absolute knife edge at 6-6.

And the Washington College recruit McFalls was deadly again, isolating his defender one-on-one and taking him on the outside to score from a tight angle to put NTU up for the first time in the match.

A disallowed goal for Trent’s Robbie Guglielmo then caused controversy as his effort to put his side 8-6 ahead was chalked off for failing a stick check and saw his side go a man down for three minutes.

However, Trent saw off the penalty time and McFalls did finally put the game out of danger, sealing the victory and the match MVP award for his five goals, including both final quarter scores.

The win completed the BUCS double for Nottingham Trent, and a third Men’s Championship for Head Coach Sam Patterson.

Box Score: 1:3; 5:6; 6:6; 8:6

Trent Points: Brady McFalls (5G), Nicky Palermo (2G, 1A), Blair Pachereva (1G), Ethan Caldwell (1A)

UoN Points: Tommy Rooney (3G), Owen Caputo (1G, 2A), Sam Griffiths (2A), Billy Styche (1G), Ethan Holthaus (1G)

 MVP: Brady McFalls - Nottingham Trent

In the Men’s Trophy competition, Leeds fought off a rousing Sussex comeback to win 7-6 take the BUCS title.

The Yorkshire side seemed fairly comfortable throughout, looking the dominant side without moving away with the game until a final quarter push from Sussex had the game all-square with five minutes to play.

But Owen Atkinson managed to score to end Sussex’s streak and help Leeds to see the game out and seal the trophy.

Box Score: 3:1; 5:2; 6:4; 7-6

 Leeds Points:  Leo Butterworth (2G, 1A), Owen Atkinson (2G), Tom Wallis (1G, 1A), Marco Shelton (1G), Adam Rogers (1G)

Sussex Points:  Benton Martin (2G), Wyatt Shipley (2G), Michael O’Brien (1G, 1A), Charles Vasilakakos (1G), Thomas Deschenes (1A)

MVP: Adam Rogers - Leeds

LIVE | BUCS Big Wednesday is back to crown our champions

Match Scores & Schedule
FINAL - Women’s Trophy – Durham 2s 10-13 Exeter 2s (3-5; 7-8; 7-12; 10-13)
FINAL - Men’s Trophy – Leeds 7-6 Sussex (3-1; 5-2; 6-4; 7-6)
FINAL – Women’s Championship – University of Nottingham 8-13 Durham (2-2; 4-6; 7-11; 8-13)
FINAL – Men’s Championship – Nottingham Trent 8-6 University of Nottingham (1-3; 5-6; 6-6; 8-6)

BUCS Big Wednesday returns tomorrow at its new home in Loughborough with four games of lacrosse across the men’s and women’s competitions in the battle to be crowned National Championship and Trophy winners for 2024.

Reigning Women’s champions University of Nottingham go into this year’s final looking to make it a three-peat, after triumphs in ’22 and ’23 and also record another unbeaten season under Head Coach Mike Armstrong.

Durham meanwhile, return to the Women’s Championship final after missing out on the showpiece game last year for the first time since 2012, and look to return a title that once had permanent residency in the North East with five wins between 2015-2019.

Durham made Wednesday’s final with a 10-9 overtime win away at last year’s finalists Exeter, and if the league results from this season so far tell us anything it’s to expect a thriller, with UoN beating Durham home and away by just a single goal, 7-6 both times.

Durham will be hoping they can flip those score lines on Wednesday, and with the array of international talent on show across both sides it will be a must-watch finale.

UoN’s unbeaten charges boast two members of the current England Performance squad in Emma Savage and Izzy Brand, and no fewer than seven players in the England U20 World Championship training squad including goalie Sienna Parekh and captain from the squad’s Euros success last summer, Ana Green.

 However, Durham possess their own batch of talent with international honours, Lizzie Rutherford (Performance squad), Karma Kabbani and Eleanor Williams (Development squad), and another four members of the England U20 training squad including Millie Cant and Molly Light from the Euros winning team.

The Women’s Championship final gets underway at 4.30pm

Routes to the Women’s Championship

UoN Women
SF: UoN 16-8 NTU
QF: UoN 19-4 Cambridge

Durham Women
SF: Exeter 9-10 Durham (OT)
QF: Durham 25-2 Bristol

In the Men’s Championship, we have a repeat of last year’s final and a city rivalry that has now firmly established itself as one of the fiercest in English lacrosse.

Nottingham Trent will be looking to defend their title against the University of Nottingham, and having already clinched the BUCS Premier North crown away from UoN, NTU Head Coach Sam Patterson will be striving to make it a double for the men in pink.

Both teams come in with rosters mixed with strong young English talent, sprinkled with American NCAA class to get the pulses racing for a high-level contest.

NTU are co-captained by one of the best young midfield talents in the country in Dan Flisk, and partnered with Luca Schurink in defence are led by two players with international experience to build their team around.

This is then bolstered with overseas additions like Nicky Palermo, Eli Steindl, Brady McFalls, Cole Hiller and more who all come into the side with NCAA experience.

Meanwhile, UoN are headlined by D1 Duke alum, Owen Caputo, while attacker and Merrimack College alum Tommy Rooney set a single game goal and points record for the team in their quarter-final win against Exeter.

The side is then complemented by a duo of promising young goalies in Joachim Ruby and Noah Arnison, with captains Alexander Davidson and Sam Griffiths giving the team a strong core to look to hand NTU their first loss of the season.

In their previous encounters this season, a 9-9 draw in October was followed up a month later by a blowout 18-4 win for NTU, so anything will be possible when the two rivals step out on to the field for the last match at 7.15pm.

Routes to the Men’s Championship

NTU Men
SF: NTU 18-4 Durham
QF: NTU 30-0 Newcastle

UoN Men
SF: UoN 20-3 Oxford
QF: UoN 29-1 Exeter

To get Big Wednesday’s action going, first Durham 2s and Exeter 2s will meet in the Women’s Trophy final.

Exeter Women’s 2s were beaten finalists last year and will be hoping to try to go one better for 2024 but they face formidable opposition in Durham 2s who have won all ten of their league matches this season and beat last year’s Trophy winners UoN 2s in the quarter-finals.

The opening Women’s match up will be followed by the Men’s Trophy final between Leeds and Sussex.

A real north v south clash, with both teams unbeaten in their respective leagues this season and set to be vying for promotion in the play-offs, some silverware would surely be a crowning glory for either of the teams on Wednesday.

Routes to the Women’s Trophy

Durham 2s
R1: Durham 2s 14-5 Leeds
R2: Durham 2s 19-2 Liverpool
R3: Glasgow 4-15 Durham 2s
QF: Durham 2s 9-2 Nottingham 2s
SF: Durham 2s 18-5 Durham 3s

Exeter 2s
R1: Exeter 2s 11-10 Oxford Brookes
R2: Exeter 2s 25-1 King’s College
R3: Exeter 2s 26-0 Southampton
QF: Exeter 2s 25-1 Exeter 3s
SF: Exeter 2s 21-1 Bristol 2s

Routes to the Men’s Trophy

Leeds
R1: Leeds W/O Birmingham
R2: Lancaster 0-11 Leeds
QF: Glasgow 4-10 Leeds
SF: Leeds 7-6 Sheffield Hallam

Sussex
R1: Plymouth 3-12 Sussex
R2: East Anglia 2-14 Sussex
QF: Sussex 19-3 Swansea
SF: Sussex 12-5 Bournemouth

All Lacrosse fixtures are taking place on the Holywell Fitness Centre Rubbercrumb ‘American Football’ pitch at the postcode LE11 3QF 

Tickets are on sale HERE

For more general information around BUCS Big Wednesday visit BUCS website HERE

England discover 2024 Women’s U20 Championship pool play opponents

England will take on hosts Hong Kong, China, Ireland, Jamaica, and Japan in Group D at the 2024 World Lacrosse Women’s U20 Championship after World Lacrosse announced the full schedule earlier today.

They’ll play all four pool stage games over a five day period beginning with Jamaica on 16 August and finishing with a local derby with Ireland on 20 August.

The 64-game schedule for the Championship, set for 15-24 August, features 20 teams split into four groups for pool play, followed by play-offs that will include quarter-finals, semi-finals and medal games.

The teams were snake seeded into pools based on their finishes at the 2019 edition of the tournament and balanced by Continental Federation.

Competition will take place at four venues, highlighted by Mong Kok Stadium, which will host games on the opening day of the tournament, the semi-finals and medal round.

Mong Kok seats 6,000 spectators and serves as a regular venue for Hong Kong Premier League Football matches.

The other three venues – Sham Shui Po, Shek Kip Mei and Kowloon Tsai – are all located within 10 minutes of each other and Mong Kok Stadium.

The event will commence on 15 August with three games preceding the opening ceremony: Israel v China, Korea v Chinese Taipei, and Mexico v Italy. Following the ceremony, hosts Hong Kong, China will take on Jamaica at Mong Kok Stadium.

The three medalists from 2019 will make their debut the next day on 16 August as Australia battle New Zealand, Canada take on Wales, and the United States face Germany.

Pool play will take place over six days, with each team playing four games. The top two teams in each group will advance to the quarter-finals, which begin on Wednesday 21 August before the semi-finals and eventual medal round games on Saturday 24 August.

The format ensures high-stakes match-ups during pool play, as teams vie to finish in the top two to advance to the play-offs. Three out of the four groups contain three teams that finished in the top 10 at the last junior women’s championship in 2019, and 15 out of the 16 teams that qualified for the play-offs at the 2022 Women’s Championship are represented in the field.

The full schedule can be found HERE. Tickets will go on sale to the public in late April/early May.

England Schedule (local times)

16 August | Jamaica v England | 5pm
17 August | Hong Kong, China v England | 5pm
18 August | England v Japan | 8pm
20 August | England v Ireland | 2pm

Pool A

China
Germany
Israel
Puerto Rico
United States

Pool B

Canada
Haudenosaunee
Korea
Chinese Taipei
Wales

Pool C

Australia
Italy
Mexico
New Zealand
Scotland

Pool D

England
Hong Kong, China
Ireland
Jamaica
Japan

England box men's E-Box squad announced

England Lacrosse is excited to announce the 24-player England men’s box squad heading to Prague, Czechia, for the 2024 E-Box tournament.

Taking place from 19-22 April, the 2024 event will mark England’s first competitive fixtures since last year’s E-Box competition where they won two and lost one.

The 24-player squad is made up of some of the best box lacrosse players in the country at the moment with European champions such as Tom Bracegirdle, Taylor Harrison, and Ming Trinh being included.

England already know who their opponents will be after the competition announced matches against Finland, Czech Republic, and a touring Canadian team.

The competition will be the next chance for Head Coach Walt Christianson, alongside his coaching team to assess his England squad in a competitive setting as he continues to prepare for September’s 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships in Utica, NY, USA.

All 24 members of the squad heading to Prague were named in the 32-player England World Championship training squad announced earlier this year.

The wider 32-player World Championship training squad will be whittled down to just 23 players in due course.

2024 E-Box Squad

Oliver ALLSOP
Will ALLSOP
George BASCOM
Tom BRACEGIRDLE
Jacob BRINDLE
Ben BUCHANAN
George DURY
Tom HALLAM
Taylor HARRISON
Elliot LEONARD
Matt MARSH
Luke MILLS-DOIG
Ben PAGE-LAYCOCK
Sam PERRY
Jamie POWELL
Eliot PUGH
Billy RAWLINS
Tom ROCHE
Oliver ROGERSON
Tom ROPER
Matthew TATTON
Ming TRINH
Dan WATSON
Albert WHITEHEAD
Ben STOWE (Reserve)

Fundraiser launched to help fund equipment for Uganda Lacrosse

A fundraiser has been launched to help fund playing equipment for the Uganda Lacrosse Association (ULA).

Set up by lacrosse veteran Tim Holdsworth, who is connected to the ULA through his wife, the fundraiser hopes to raise an initial £1,700 to help buy lacrosse sticks, balls, reversible pinnies, and shipping to Uganda to support a group of 20 lacrosse players.

There are currently no lacrosse equipment companies in Africa and the ULA has historically sourced equipment via donations of used equipment from Europe and North America; Tim hopes this will be the start of a movement which can bring new equipment into Uganda annually.

After being founded in 2011, the ULA has managed to sustain lacrosse in the country for 13 years while receiving no government funding or operating a standard National Governing Body (NGB) model due to the economic difficulties faced by the general population.

 Despite these obvious challenges, the ULA has managed to create a participation base of around 1,000 players with plans in place to introduce the sport to more schools and educational settings.

Full details of the fundraiser can be viewed on the GoFundMe page below.

Behind the scenes at National Schools with Clare Stoot

Most people know the National Schools Lacrosse Championships for the players, the coaches, and, of course, the fantastic weather but what they probably don’t know is the band of dedicated volunteers behind the scenes who allow the competition to run without a hitch year on year.

One of the leaders of this dedicated band is Clare Stoot who has been helping to run National Schools since 2012, with many years of general volunteering at the event before that.

Her role involves checking everything over, reading through every last document involved in the competition, and acting as a mentor to our England Lacrosse Lead for Competitions, Helen Amos, giving her invaluable insight into how National Schools is run.

Having been involved in the sport since she was 11-years-old, Clare’s association with lacrosse spans several decades and many of the people she volunteers with at National Schools she has known and been friends with since her school days.

Spending time with her lacrosse friends is one of the most important aspects of the event for Clare; some of the people she went to school with and played lacrosse with over the years have become close friends and National Schools wouldn’t be the same without them.

Clare sees these friendships and the relationship she has with England Lacrosse staff, and many of the teachers at the schools who attend the Championships as epitomising what lacrosse is all about: it’s a family.

After finishing her playing career, Clare spent time teaching, coaching, and volunteering locally, something she’s continued to do for the past 30 years with additional volunteering opportunities arriving on the national and international scene.

Clare was heavily involved in the organising of the World Lacrosse Women’s World Championship that was held at Surrey Sports Park in 2017 with her hard work and dedication helping England to a first third-placed finish since 2005.

After such an incredible run as a volunteer, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Clare might be ready to wind down and think about hanging up her walking boots for good, but this couldn’t be further from the truth.

As well as continuing to volunteer at all the regular lacrosse events throughout the year, Clare’s next focus is the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, USA, where she’s determined to attend in a voluntary capacity and experience lacrosse at the Olympics for the first time in 80 years.

It’s safe to say National Schools wouldn’t be the same without Clare Stoot and her team of helpers. England Lacrosse really is lucky to have such a dedicated and lovely friend to help us every year at the National Schools Lacrosse Championships!

England Lacrosse launch Coaching & Officiating Survey

England Lacrosse is pleased to launch its 2024 Coaching & Officiating Survey as it seeks feedback from those involved in the game to give it a full picture of the current landscape in England.

Feedback is welcome from any and all coaches and officials involved in lacrosse in England from all age groups and abilities.

The survey responses will allow England Lacrosse to better understand the experiences of coaches and officials within the sport, particularly after the turbulent past few years.

England Lacrosse will then be able to provide support in the right areas and help make a positive difference to coaches and officials within England.

Please note, the survey closes at 5pm on Monday 15 April.

National Schools Lacrosse Championships | Day 4 LIVE

The event schedule and scoring system is powered again by Macoocoo, keeping you right up to date with all the latest events as they happen throughout the Championships and will be the quickest place to find updates on your team.

Download the Macoocoo App to your phone from your App Store and follow your chosen team to keep updated with their progress throughout the competition or visit the web version above.

We've gone digital! For 2024, we’ve taken the National Schools programme online, giving you the opportunity to get a good read wherever you’re following the Championships from and soak up all the useful information to make your Championships experience even better.

Where can I park? Where is my team playing? What can I buy on site? All the information you need at your finger tips through our online event programme, being updated regularly as we move towards the Championships!

Super St Swithun's sink Claremont to score Under 15 Championship title

St Swithun’s proved to be the comeback queens as they came from behind to defeat Claremont Fan Court and take home the Under 15 National Schools Championship.

It definitely didn’t rain on St Swithun’s parade on Monday in Hampshire as they overturned a 0-2 deficit in the final to win 3-2 and be crowned champions.

After finishing top of their pool on the toss of a coin (they finished with an identical record to Priestnall School), they capitalised on that good fortune by sweeping through the knockout stages to set up a final against Claremont.

Comfortable wins against Walthamstow Hall in the Last 16 (3-1) and Moreton Hall in the QF (6-3), took them through to a tense semi final against Caterham which was won by a late Swithun’s goal to break the tie and take them through 3-2.

Claremont Fan Court meanwhile produced an impressive run to the final, finishing their pool in 1st place and unbeaten, then brushing aside Habs Girls 7-1 in the Last 16.

It was then in the quarter final that they were delivered their toughest test of the day to that point, facing the also undefeated Priestnall.

The game finished 3-3 in normal time, before Claremont were able to snatch the golden goal in overtime to advance to the final four.

They then carried that momentum into the semi final, with a strong 4-0 win against Guildford High to set up the Championship game.

Again, it looked like Claremont would ride the wave all the way to the title, taking an early 2-0 lead and looking in command.

However, St Swithun’s rallied; and one goal just before half-time was soon followed by another after the break tieing up the scores.

The momentum proved to be firmly with St Swithun’s and they completed the turnaround soon after, going ahead for the first time and never relinquishing their advantage to become National Schools Under 15A Champions for 2024.

Watch the U15A Championship Final in full here:

Full Monday Winners

Under 15 Championship - St Swithun’s 3-2 Claremont Fan Court
Under 15 Division 1 - St Albans 4-3 Marlborough College
Under 19C Championship - St Catherine’s 4-1 Berkhamsted

2024 National Schools Championships event preview

The anticipation is building as the 2024 National Schools Lacrosse Championships are now just a few days away and thousands of players and supporters are set to descend on Aldershot for four days of top level lacrosse.

Aldershot Garrison Sports Centre is the venue once again for this year’s Championships across Saturday 9 - Tuesday 12 March.

Competitors from the Under 13s experiencing the event for the first time, right through to the U19s competing for the top honours will be putting on a true spectacle of lacrosse as over 200 teams take to the field across the four days.

The National Schools Lacrosse Championships are also now celebrating being 80 years old, with the first tournament taking place at St George’s School, Harpenden in 1944.

Event Information

We've gone digital! For 2024, we’ve taken the National Schools programme online, giving you the opportunity to get a good read before the day and soak up all the useful information to make your Championships experience even better.

Where can I park? Where is my team playing? What can I buy on site? All the information you need at your finger tips through our online event programme, being updated regularly as we move towards the Championships! 

The event schedule and scoring system is powered again by Macoocoo, keeping you right up to date with all the latest events as they happen throughout the Championships and will be the quickest place to find updates on your team.

Download the Macoocoo App to your phone from your App Store and follow your chosen team to keep updated with their progress throughout the competition.

Head to the event schedule page linked below to see the daily schedule for each of the competitions via Macoocoo, or head to the App.

You can still save yourself time on the day buy purchasing your tickets for entry in advance and get priority access at the entrance tent.

The Fly Sixes Lacrosse 2024 | Tickets on sale!

Tickets for The Fly Sixes Lacrosse 2024 are on general sale from today with prices starting from just £5 plus booking fee.

2024 will mark the fourth edition of The Fly which showcases some of the best players in the UK and further afield playing the Olympic Sixes version of lacrosse.

Single day tickets are available for each of the four match days (11 May, 18 May, 1 June, 2 June) with match day 1 taking place at the Manchester Regional Arena and match days 2, 3, and 4 hosted at Rosslyn Park FC once again.

A The Fly 2024 Tournament Pass is available for those wanting to see every single minute of action during this year’s competition with pass holders able to access all four match days for one price, saving themselves up to £7.50*.

Single day concessions tickets and a The Fly 2024 Tournament Pass (concessions) are available for students, 16–18-year-olds, people aged 60+, and Blue Light Card holders; please note, concessions ticket holders may be asked to show proof of eligibility when they arrive at the venue.

Junior tickets are available for just £5 for a single day ticket for those who are aged 15 and under**.

England Lacrosse members are eligible for a 10% discount on all ticket prices and proof of membership will be required at the venue.

Ticket Prices

Adults | £12.50
Concessions | £8
Junior | £5
The Fly 2024 Tournament Pass | £42.50
The Fly 2024 Tournament Pass (concessions) | £28

Please note, a booking fee per ticket is applicable for all tickets purchased.

*Compared to buying four separate full price adult tickets.

**Junior ticket holders must be accompanied by an adult to The Fly 2024.

For more information about The Fly, click HERE.

Schedule announced for 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships

World Lacrosse today announced the schedule for the 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships, set for 20-29 September in Utica, New York, with 133 games set to take place across the historic double world championship.  

The event will feature 28 teams in the men’s competition split into seven pools and 10 teams in the first-ever women’s box championship grouped into two pools.  

Competition will take place at two venues; the Utica University Nexus Center will serve as the main tournament hub, featuring three playing surfaces, and the Adirondack Bank Center will also host a full slate of games, including the opening night and medal matches. The two venues are connected via skyway. 

The event will commence 20 September with eight games at the two venues – Germany will face Ireland in the opening game of the men’s competition, while Canada will take on Finland in the opener of the women’s tournament.  

The United States makes its debut in the women’s box championship against the Netherlands later on opening day, followed by the USA men taking on the Haudenosaunee in a blockbuster matchup, as both teams have medaled in every edition of the men’s box championship. 

Canada – the defending champion in the men’s competition – will make its debut on Saturday, September 21 against England. 

The top four seeded men’s teams make up the A pool: Canada, the Haudenosaunee, the United States and England. The remaining teams were split into pools B-G, which include the remaining top-10 teams from the last men’s box championship in 2019 and 11 first-time participants. 

The top four ranked countries in women’s field lacrosse – the United States, Canada, Australia and England – are all participating in the women’s box championship, as well as No. 8 Haudenosaunee. 

In the men's competition, pool play will take place over a five-day period. The top eight finishers will advance directly to the playoffs, while the teams ranked ninth through 16th will compete in a play-in round to determine the remaining four positions.

Thanks to England men being ranked fourth in the world, and placed in Pool A, their path to the quarter finals is guaranteed, with a likely quarter-final opponent being the highest ranked winning team from Pools B-G.

The first round of playoffs will take place 25 September.  

Meanwhile, the women’s competition will include pool play between the 10 teams. The top three finishers in each of the two pools will advance to the playoffs, while the teams finishing fourth and fifth in each pool will face off in a play-in round for the remaining two spots.  

The quarter-finals, semi-finals and medal rounds for both championships will take place in parallel 26-29 September. The bronze medal doubleheader is slated for Saturday 28 September, with the gold medal doubleheader on Sunday 29 September.  

The full schedule can be found here and is depicted below. Tickets will go on sale to the public in April. 

New social lacrosse sessions starting in Poynton, Cheshire

Referee and Poynton Lacrosse Club junior coach, Rob Wallis, is looking for players as he starts a brand new weekly social lacrosse session at his club.

Taking place on Thursdays starting tonight (Thursday 29 February) and throughout March at Poynton Sports Club, Cheshire, the sessions are aimed at those wanting to play the sport in a less competitive, more social environment where the scores don’t matter and having fun is the top priority.

Being pitched as lacrosse’s answer to five-a-side football, games will see teams of three play against each other with no goalies and smaller goals than in a traditional 10-a-side game.

Only light contact will be allowed in the games to ensure everyone’s safety and comfort with adults being recommended to wear a gum shield and juniors requiring a helmet and gloves to take part.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to attend the sessions that cost £3 a week or £10 for a month with any profits being donated to Ollie’s Army, a charity that raises awareness of Batten disease.

Wallis was introduced to lacrosse when his son took up the sport two years ago and he’s been involved in the game ever since, completing his Fundamentals of Coaching Lacrosse qualification a little while ago and now working towards a Field Lacrosse Coaching qualification.

He helps out with the training of the under-12s at Poynton Lacrosse Club and occasionally the under-10s and is also a qualified referee.

“I'm trying to give a way for people who have never played before to give it a go and have some fun”, Wallis said.

“At the same time, I think that there are a lot of ex-players or parents who would enjoy the game without having to commit to training and matches every week.

“So far, I've been testing it with the juniors at our club who have loved it. Next for me is to broaden it out a bit and see if there's enough interest to run it over the summer or next season.”

Sessions begin tonight (29 February) from 7pm at Poynton Sports Club and run every Thursday up to and including 21 March.

For more information about the sessions, click HERE.