The Lohana Sports Festival has put sixteen mahajans on the same field since 2022. In 2026 the festival runs across three days: pool in Harrow on the 12th, golf at Stanmore on the 19th, and Festival Day at Hertfordshire Sports Village on the 20th, with eleven sports and events and the Mahajan Shield.
The festival opened with pool on Saturday 12 September at the RCT Centre, Harrow. The draw and results are already up. See the results
Stanmore Golf Club. Entered players tee off through the morning; everyone else is welcome to walk the course and watch. Venue and travel
Hertfordshire Sports Village, Hatfield. Eleven sports, the Antakshari and the first-ever Mahajan Shield. Free to watch, just turn up. Festival day
Free parking, a cafeteria with chai from the morning, changing rooms with showers and medical support all day. Everyone is welcome, so bring the family. Spectators are free.
New for 2026. Every entry earns your mahajan a point, winners take five, and the mahajan with the most points lifts the Shield at the closing ceremony. Turning up matters as much as winning, which is exactly the point.
The Lohana Sports Festival has run every September since 2022, and 2026 is the fifth. It began as a single day and now covers three: pool in Harrow, golf at Stanmore, and Festival Day in Hatfield.
In 2025 one hundred and four trophies went home across eight sports, with competitors ranging from nine years old to their eighties. Ages nine to eighty eight have competed across the five festivals.
New for 2026 is the Mahajan Shield. Every single entry earns your mahajan one point, winners take five, runners up take three and semi finalists take one. Sixteen mahajans from Manchester to Southend are counting every result, and the Shield is presented at the closing ceremony.
Also new this year is Antakshari, played by teams of five with all ages welcome. It does not count towards the limit of two sports on the main day, so singers and sportspeople can do both.
Five festivals in, and the best one is the one you enter. Pool was played on Saturday 12 September. Entries closed on Sunday 13 September.
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