Festival 26
A summer youth festival bringing together hundreds of young people from 24 nations for sporting and cultural exchanges.
A once-in-a-lifetime experience during the FIFA World Cup 26™.
"Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does".
- Nelson Mandela
Over 9 exceptional days, youth from around the world will gather in Boston to engage in a football for good tournament, cultural exchanges, leadership development workshops, and experience the quarter-final match of the FIFA World Cup 26 in Boston.
9 Exceptional Days
"Football is a universal language. It brings people together irrespective of their nationalities, cultures or beliefs”.
- George Weah
Festival 26 Impact
Promote cultural exchanges by giving young participants the means to share their ideas and experiences, to build links beyond borders.
Continue the legacy of Festival 26 with lasting international relationships and collaborations, including between Boston Scores and Sport in the City through the development of international youth exchanges.
Sponsors align their brands with philanthropic impact and global reach while providing employee engagement opportunities.
Share and highlight the richness of Boston’s heritage while highlighting Boston’s positioning as a central point for sports and cultural initiatives among participants and the media.
Festival 26: A collaboration of Boston SCORES & Sport dans la Ville
About Boston Scores: Boston Scores is leading affiliate of The SCORES Network, a World Cup USA 94 Legacy Program and one of the largest afterschool programs in Boston, providing free soccer, poetry and service learning programs to nearly 2,000 students in grades K-12 each year. Through our holistic program model, Boston Scores supports youth in developing essential life skills that help to build strong individuals and strong communities. For more information, please visit www.bostonscores.org
About Sport dans la Ville: Sport dans la Ville is France’s leading non-profit serving underserved youth through sports and job readiness training. Founded in 1998, Sport dans la Ville today operates in 80 urban neighborhoods. Through sports activities, Sport dans la Ville imparts the values of self-confidence, teamwork, dedication, leadership, entrepreneurship and hard work leading young people on the path towards a brighter future. More than 12,000 young people aged from 6 to 25 are currently involved in the programs. For more information, please visit www.sportdanslaville.com/en
“You must know that there is nothing higher, or stronger, or sounder, or more useful in life than some good memory, especially a memory from childhood […].
People talk to you a great deal about your education, but […] if one has only one good memory left in one’s heart, even that may sometimes be the means of saving us.”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Festival Sponsors
