The British Men’s Lacrosse team are set to play their first match at The World Games 2022 on Friday as World Lacrosse Sixes makes its debut on the global stage.

Britain will play Australia in the opening competition match, with the squad containing nine players with World Championship experience for England, and 11 of the team having previously played at The Fly, the UK’s premier Sixes competition.

Ryan Hunns and Zac Guy were both members of this year’s winners at The Fly 2022, Rise Men, while Will Baxter, Alex Russell and Mike Pomfret all won it back in 2021, again with Rise.

16 men’s and women’s teams taking the field at the 11th edition of The World Games starting Friday at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

The event – which was postponed from 2021 due to the pandemic – will feature approximately 3,600 athletes from more than 100 nations competing in 34 sports across the multi-sport event which promotes sports with olympic recognition but not part of the full Olympic Games programme.

The men’s and women’s tournaments will feature seven of the same teams – Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Haudenosaunee, Israel, Japan and the United States – with Germany joining the men’s competition and the Czech Republic featuring in the women’s event.

Both tournaments will utilise the World Lacrosse Sixes format, a shorter, faster-paced version of the sport that was launched in 2020.

The men’s and the women’s tournaments will each include 18 games with teams initially split into two groups for round-robin preliminary play.

At the end of the preliminary round, the top two teams from each group advance to the semifinals with medal games to follow on the fifth and final day of competition for each gender.

The men’s preliminary round will commence Friday 8 July with semifinals on 11 July and medal games on the evening of Tuesday 12 July.

The women’s preliminary round will begin 12 July with semifinals set for Friday 15 July, and medal games on the evening of 16 July.

World Lacrosse has also partnered with International Sports Broadcasting and the Olympic Channel to provide comprehensive global live coverage of the preliminary rounds.

Games will air here on the Olympic Channel.

The semifinals and medal games will be distributed by The World Games via their 24/7 channel at Olympics.com as well as select international broadcast partners.

GB Men Fixtures

Friday 8 July - GB v Australia - 10.30am CST/4.30pm UK
Saturday 9 July - GB v USA - 3.30pm CST/9.30pm UK
Sunday 10 July - GB v Germany - 10.30am CST/4.30pm UK

GB Men Squad

1 Hal Dwobeng
2 Will Baxter
3 Ben Page-Laycock
4 Tom Bracegirdle
5 Alex Russell
6 Luke Mills
7 Ryan Hunns
8 Ryan Sweetman
9 Lyndon Bunio
10 Mike Pomfret
11 Zac Guy
12 Tommy Kirkland