North London lift the first Mahajan Shield

Three days, three venues, sixteen mahajans. Pool at Harrow on 12 September, golf at Stanmore on the 19th, and Festival Day at Hertfordshire Sports Village on Sunday the 20th. Thank you to every single person who played, watched, drove, cooked, marshalled and cheered.

The whole community outside Hertfordshire Sports Village at the close of Festival Day 2026

The Shield goes to North London

Collected by Neil Morjaria just before the community photographs at the close of the day. Every check-in at the desk earned a point, so turning up counted for as much as winning. The real Shield was not ready in time, so a shield from another competition stood in while it is made.

16mahajans

3days of sport

9sports played

1stMahajan Shield

The photographs

Nearly three hundred pictures from the day

Shot between matches by players, parents and committee members. There are as many pictures of the chai queue and the touchline as of the finals. Find yourself, and everyone else.

See all the photographs

Sing it before next September

Ek Maidan (Go Raghu Go)

One field, one family. The festival song, with the roll call, the chai queue and the loudest uncles in the lounge. Listen to it and read the words in full.

Play the festival song

Results

Going up sport by sport

Pool and golf are published in full. Festival Day results are being confirmed and added as each sport comes in, along with the Mahajan Shield table for all sixteen mahajans.

See the results

Two minutes

Raghu the lion pointing to the feedback form

Tell us what to fix for 2027

Eleven questions on what worked and what did not, with space to explain your scores. Every answer is read by the committee before the 2027 planning meeting.

Give your feedbackCloses Sunday 4 October

With thanks

The businesses and families behind 2026

Entry fees do not cover a festival this size. These sponsors close the gap, and they are the reason a whole family can still come for the price of a takeaway.