Pro Kabaddi League 2023-2024 Season 10 | |
Start Date: | 2 December 2023 |
End Date: | 1 March 2024 |
Tournament Format: | Double round robin and playoffs |
Host: | India |
Champion: | Puneri Paltan (1st title) |
Runner-Up1: | Haryana Steelers |
Teams: | 12 |
Previous: | 2022 |
Next: | 2024 |
Administrator: | Mashal Sports |
Matches: | 137 |
Stat1 Label: | Most tackle points |
Stat2 Label: | Most successful raid |
Stat3 Label: | Most successful tackle |
Stat2: | ![]() |
Stat1: | ![]() |
Stat3: | ![]() |
Top Scorer: | ![]() |
The 2023–2024 Pro Kabaddi League was the tenth season of the Pro Kabaddi League, a franchise based kabaddi league in India. Jaipur Pink Panthers were the defending champions.
In the final, Puneri Paltan defeated Haryana Steelers to win their maiden title.[1]
The fixtures of the tournament were announced on 19 October 2023.[2] The league returned to its original traveling caravan format returning after the 2019 season.[3] Each team plays against all the other teams twice, and the top 6 teams proceed to the play-offs with the season beginning on 2 December 2023.[4] All the playoff matches were played in Hyderabad and final was played on 1 March 2024.[5]
The same 12 teams from the previous season returned with few changes to the team personnel.[6]
Teams | Head coach[7] | Captain | Kit Manufacturer | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bengal Warriors | ![]() | |||
Bengaluru Bulls | ![]() | ![]() | Vats | |
Dabang Delhi | ![]() | ![]() | Omtex | |
Gujarat Giants | ![]() | ![]() | Shiv-Naresh | |
Haryana Steelers | ![]() | ![]() | Puma | |
Jaipur Pink Panthers | ![]() | ![]() | TYKA Sports | |
Patna Pirates | ![]() | ![]() | Pace | |
Puneri Paltan | ![]() | ![]() | Shiv-Naresh | |
Tamil Thalaivas | ![]() | ![]() | Trak-Only | |
Telugu Titans | ![]() | Pawan Sehrawat | Pace | |
U Mumba | ![]() | Surinder Singh | Nivia Sports | |
UP Yoddha | Jasveer Singh | Pardeep Narwal | Shiv-Naresh |
The player auction happened on 9 and 10 October 2023 in Mumbai.[8] [9] The salary purse available to each franchise was increased from to .[10] [11]
Each team can sign a maximum of three non-Indian players.
Team | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Bengal Warriors | Chai-Ming Chang | ![]() | ||
Bengaluru Bulls | ![]() | Md. Liton Ali | ||
Dabang Delhi | Felix Li | Yuvraj Pandeya | ||
Gujarat Giants | ![]() | ![]() | ||
Haryana Steelers | Ghanshyam Magar | ![]() | ||
Jaipur Pink Panthers | ![]() | |||
Patna Pirates | Zheng-Wei Chen | ![]() | ||
Puneri Paltan | ![]() | ![]() | ||
Tamil Thalaivas | ![]() | ![]() | ||
Telugu Titans | ![]() | ![]() | ||
U Mumba | ![]() | ![]() | ||
UP Yoddhas | ![]() | ![]() |
The league stage was scheduled in 12 cities.[12]
The matches were broadcast by Star Sports in India. It was also streamed live by Disney+ Hotstar.[13]
Player | Team | Matches | Raid Points | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 23 | 276 | ||
2 | 23 | 276 | |||
3 | 21 | 202 | |||
4 | 21 | 197 | |||
5 | ![]() | 21 | 186 | ||
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Player | Team | Matches | Tackle Points | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 24 | 99 | ||
2 | ![]() | 24 | 78 | ||
3 | ![]() | 23 | 74 | ||
4 | ![]() | 23 | 73 | ||
5 | 22 | 70 | |||
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