Message from the CMS Managing Director
PROF. GEETA GANDHI KINGDON
Managing Director – City Montessori School
Chief Convenor – Concord 2026
Sport has the power to transcend boundaries, nurture qualities like discipline, resilience, and perseverance in the youth, and bring people together. It gives me immense pleasure to welcome all participants to CONCORD 2026 – the 5ᵗʰ International Football Tournament, hosted by City Montessori School Station Road Campus in Lucknow. This inter-school football tournament is a celebration of the unifying power of sport and an opportunity for young footballers from diverse backgrounds to learn from one another, forge lasting friendships, and grow through healthy competition. I extend my warmest wishes to every participating team, coach, and organiser. May this tournament inspire our young players to pursue excellence with humility, compete with integrity, and carry forward the message of unity and peace beyond the playing field.
CONCORD 2026 — 5ᵗʰ International Football Tournament
Rooted in the CMS philosophy of ‘Jai Jagat’ (Victory to the World) and the timeless ideal of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ (the World Is One Family), CONCORD 2026 brings the universal language of football into the service of a larger purpose: fostering understanding, celebrating diversity, and building bridges between young people across nations.
Hosted by City Montessori School Station Road Campus, Lucknow, the 5ᵗʰ edition of this global event is more than just a meeting of teams on the field. It is a coming together of cultures, aspirations, and young minds united by their love for the game. Here, every match offers a lesson, every challenge an opportunity to grow, and every handshake the possibility of a lasting friendship
Why Participate in Concord 2026?
A Global Stage for Sporting Excellence
Challenge your abilities, test your skills against talented young footballers, and discover the discipline and dedication that excellence demands.
The Strength of One Team
Experience how trust, communication, and collective purpose transform individual talents into a shared achievement.
Values Forged Through Challenge
Learn to meet pressure with composure, setbacks with resilience, and success with humility.
Friendships Without Frontiers
Connect with peers from diverse backgrounds and discover how respect, fair play, and a shared passion for sports can transcend cultural and national boundaries.
At its heart, CONCORD 2026 celebrates a powerful truth: sport is not merely about who wins the match, but about what we learn, whom we inspire, and how we grow together. As young footballers take the field, they carry with them the promise of a world where competition inspires excellence, differences invite understanding, and shared experiences unite humanity.
Compete. Discover. Grow. Connect.
Our Inspiration
“Sports, in general, have had an important and estimable function in life and will inevitably in the future be regarded as the indispensable factor for intellectual and moral growth.”
Dr Jagdish Gandhi
Founder, City Montessori School
(10th November 1934 to 22nd January 2024)
CONCORD 2026 honours the vision of Dr Jagdish Gandhi, whose lifelong commitment to ‘Jai Jagat’ and ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ continues to inspire generations of CMSians.
Through the universal language of football, CONCORD carries forward his dream of a world where young people from different nations meet as equals, rise above boundaries, and build friendships built on mutual respect and understanding. Every match played in the spirit of fair play, every hand extended in friendship, and every culture celebrated on the field brings us a step closer to the world he envisioned — a world united not by uniformity, but by our shared humanity.
Message from the Convenor
MS JUNU THAKUR BISHT
Convener – CONCORD International Football Tournament 2026
Principal – CMS Station Road Campus
It gives me immense pleasure to welcome you to the CONCORD International Football Tournament 2026, to be held from 2ⁿᵈ to 6ᵗʰ November 2026 at City Montessori School Station Road Campus, Lucknow. Football is not just a game of skill and competition, but also a celebration of teamwork, trust, resilience, and discipline. Every successful pass reflects confidence in a teammate, every goal is the result of collective effort, and every match teaches the values of discipline, perseverance, respect, and unity. Through this tournament, we aspire to nurture these qualities in every young footballer while creating friendships that transcend borders.
Host Campus
City Montessori School Station Road Campus
11, Dr Jagdish Gandhi Marg, (previously Station Road),
Near Husainganj Roundabout
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226001, India
Contact: +91 77048 03578 | +91 90268 71137
Email: stationroad@cmseducation.org
Event Venue
World Unity Convention Center (WUCC)
CMS Kanpur Road Campus, LDA Colony, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226012.
Contact: +91 77048 03578 | +91 90268 71137
Email: concord@cmseducation.org