On Saturday 24th October, more than 1,000 players and spectators came out for Manchester MGames 2026, even with a yellow weather warning over the city. 766 players in 156 teams and pairs competed across eight sports: football, frisbee, netball, volleyball, basketball, badminton, pickleball and table tennis.
Getting to the day took some work. Less than four weeks before, Trinity cancelled its five-a-side pitches, so football moved to Denmark Road. Then the forecast showed a 95% chance of rain, so two days out we moved netball and table tennis indoors to Sugden and reshuffled most of the schedule. Every sport still went ahead.
This was also the first MGames with its own website. All 310 matches were scored live between 8:30am and 7:18pm, and the site got almost 18,000 page views on the day with zero downtime. It was the highest-rated part of the event in your feedback. Huge credit to Adam, who built it himself.
Thank you to our 94 volunteers, our committee and sports coordinators, and our sponsors Singapore Global Network, MABECS and UKEC. We’ve also noted your requests for more frisbee space, earlier fixtures and a livelier closing ceremony.
See you at MGames 2027!
