North London have won the first Mahajan Shield. After three days of sport across the 2026 Lohana Sports Festival, it was the North London Mahajan that finished top of the table, with Neil Morjaria collecting the Shield at the closing ceremony on Festival Day.
The festival was played over three venues and three weekends. Pool opened at Harrow on 12 September, golf followed at Stanmore on 19 September, and the main day brought seven sports to Hertfordshire Sports Village in Hatfield on 20 September.
How the Mahajan Shield is won
The Mahajan Shield rewards taking part as much as winning. Every check-in at the desk earned a point, so each of the sixteen Mahajans scored simply by turning up, with further points for semi-finalists, runners-up and champions across every sport. It is a deliberately inclusive way to keep score: the family that brings the most players, and cheers the loudest, climbs the table alongside the one that lifts the most trophies.
North London brought large fields to all three days, and that strength in depth is what carried them clear at the top of the first Mahajan Shield table.
Three days, three venues
Pool came first, forty-four entries at the RCT Centre in Harrow, with Khushal Morjaria taking the Under 50 singles, Dinesh Nathwani the Over 50 singles, and Biral Devani and Paras Patani the open doubles. Golf followed at Stanmore, twenty-eight players off the yellow tees, where Shivaan Popat won the low handicap title and Jiten Kantaria the high handicap. Festival Day then gathered seven sports in Hatfield, from badminton, table tennis and squash to pickleball, tennis, youth cricket and the seven-a-side football, where Leicester Kickers took the Gold Cup, East West the Silver and Tikka Taka the Plate.
Every result, and the full Shield table
Champions and runners-up are published sport by sport, and the complete Mahajan Shield points table for all sixteen Mahajans goes up as each sport is confirmed. There are nearly three hundred photographs from across the three venues, and the day is captured in full on the results page.
Fifteen Mahajans now have a year to do something about that Shield. The festival returns next September, and to hear the dates first you can join the eNewsletter.