England men's box lacrosse team photo at 2024 E-Box Invitational

The England men’s box lacrosse team has discovered its opponents for the upcoming 2025 E-Box Invitational event taking place from 2-5 May in Prague, Czechia.

In their first competitive fixtures since finishing fourth at the 2024 World Lacrosse Box Championships in Utica, USA, England will take on Czechia B/U20, Germany, and Japan in the annual exhibition of box lacrosse.

Czechia and Germany both boast impressive box lacrosse programmes highlighted by their respective third and second placed finishes at the 2022 Euros in Hanover, Germany.

Over the past 20 years, Japan have had an exponential rise within the world of lacrosse and have finished in their highest ever placings at the recent 2023 World Lacrosse Men’s Championship (field, 5th) and 2022 World Games (sixes, 3rd).

Their box lacrosse programme is still in its fledgling stage but an impressive eighth place finish at last year’s World Championships shows they have ambitions to break the top six in this format of the game too.

Founded in 2015, the annual E-Box Invitational aims to provide international box lacrosse teams with the opportunity to play full, competitive games against various opponents from across the continent outside of major international tournaments.

There are no winners, no points, and no trophies with the goal being the games themselves as well as gaining experience and making new friends.

England has entered a team into the E-Box competition at three of the past four editions (2019, 2023, 2024).

In 2022, a women’s event, entitled ShE-Box, was introduced with five teams from across Europe taking part and in 2023 the first ever English team, SBL Ravens, entered; 2024 saw England’s first ever women’s national side enter where they won four of their five games.

Previous editions of the event have been live streamed and can be re-watched HERE.

2025 E-Box Invitational England Men’s Schedule (all times UK)