Welcome to the 2026 Desai Invitational, the second most prestigious international soccer-related competition taking place this summer.

The team here at the Invitational would like to manage expectations for this year’s tournament.  While in the past scores have been updated live, I am doubtful this year that I’ll have the bandwidth to write a script so fancy.

If you don’t care about what’s under the hood, go ahead and use this google form, select your twelve teams, and check the scoreboard occasionally for updates

For more details about how the tournament works, you can read everything at Scoring and Rules.

I’ll try and get the leaderboards posted during the first weekend of the tournament.  I’ll also post the team names with all twelve of each person’s picks so you can remember later.

As usual, you are welcome to invite others to participate – the only rule is they have to know me (or be immediate family to someone who knows me).  

Best of Luck,

Rishi Desai
Founder, Desai Invitational