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 |
Administrator: | Mashal Sports |
Matches: | 137 |
Stat1 Label: | Most tackle points |
Stat2 Label: | Most successful raid |
Stat3 Label: | Most successful tackle |
Stat2: | Ashu Malik (Dabang Delhi) (228) |
Stat1: | Mohammadreza Chiyaneh (99) (Puneri Paltan) |
Stat3: | Mohammadreza Chiyaneh (97) (Puneri Paltan) |
Top Scorer: | Ashu Malik (276) (Dabang Delhi) |
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 | |
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Bengal Warriors | Kasinatha Baskaran | |||
Bengaluru Bulls | Randhir Singh Sehrawat | Saurabh Nandal | Vats | |
Dabang Delhi | Rambir Singh Khokha | Naveen Kumar | Omtex | |
Gujarat Giants | Ram Mehar Singh | Fazel Atrachali | Shiv-Naresh | |
Haryana Steelers | Manpreet Singh | Jaideep Dahiya | Puma | |
Jaipur Pink Panthers | Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan | Sunil Kumar | TYKA Sports | |
Patna Pirates | Narender Kumar Redhu | Neeraj Kumar | Pace | |
Puneri Paltan | BC Ramesh | Aslam Inamdar | Shiv-Naresh | |
Tamil Thalaivas | Ashan Kumar | Sagar Rathee | Trak-Only | |
Telugu Titans | Srinivasreddy Lingampally | Pawan Sehrawat | Pace | |
U Mumba | Gholamreza | 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 | |
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Bengal Warriors | Chai-Ming Chang | Aslam Thambi | ||
Bengaluru Bulls | Piotr Pamulak | Md. Liton Ali | ||
Dabang Delhi | Felix Li | Yuvraj Pandeya | ||
Gujarat Giants | Fazel Atrachali | Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh | ||
Haryana Steelers | Ghanshyam Magar | Hasan Balbool | ||
Jaipur Pink Panthers | Amir Hossein Mohammadmaleki | |||
Patna Pirates | Zheng-Wei Chen | Daniel Odhiambo | ||
Puneri Paltan | Mohammadreza Chiyaneh | Vahid Reza Eimehr | ||
Tamil Thalaivas | Amirhossein Bastami | Mohammadreza Kaboudrahangi | ||
Telugu Titans | Milad Jabbari | Hamid Nader | ||
U Mumba | Amirmohammad Zafardanesh | Alireza Mirzaeian | ||
UP Yoddhas | Helvic Simuyu Wanjala | Samuel Wanjala Wafula |
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 | Ashu Malik | 23 | 276 | ||
2 | 23 | 276 | |||
3 | 21 | 202 | |||
4 | 21 | 197 | |||
5 | Narendar | 21 | 186 | ||
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Player | Team | Matches | Tackle Points | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Mohammadreza Chiyaneh | 24 | 99 | ||
2 | Krishan | 24 | 78 | ||
3 | Yogesh | 23 | 74 | ||
4 | Rahul Sethpal | 23 | 73 | ||
5 | 22 | 70 | |||
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