Our History
Twenty-eight seasons, told in the milestones that changed how the city's schools play.
Where it started
Eight schools and a borrowed ground
In 1998, the sports teachers of eight city schools had the same complaint: their students trained all year for a handful of scratch matches, arranged by phone, refereed by whoever was free. So they pooled their fixtures, borrowed a municipal ground, and ran a shared cricket and athletics meet with a joint committee to keep it honest.
That meet became an annual fixture. The committee became an association. And the idea — one shared season, run fairly for everyone — never changed, even as eight schools became sixty-eight and two sports became fifteen.
The milestones below are the moments that mattered most. Ask a coach who was there and they'll tell you the years in between were just as much work.
Milestones
The years that changed the game
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1998
The founding meet
Eight schools organise a shared cricket and athletics meet on borrowed grounds — and agree to make it an annual fixture with a joint committee.
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2004
A full multi-sport season
The calendar grows to seven disciplines with dedicated age-group categories, and the first overall championship trophy is awarded.
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2011
Parity for girls' sport
Every team discipline gains a full girls' division with equal fixtures, venues and finals billing — a first for school sport in the city.
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2016
Indoor partnerships
Long-term venue agreements bring basketball, badminton and table tennis indoors, weather-proofing a third of the calendar.
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2021
The digital fixture board
Fixtures, results and circulars move online, giving every school the same view of the season the office has.
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2025
Fifteen disciplines strong
A new astro-turf ground opens and kho-kho joins as the fifteenth discipline, with over 240 fixtures scheduled in a single season.
The next chapter
Season 2026–27 is open
Every era above started with a school saying yes. Yours could be next.