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PKL
The Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) is an Indian professional Kabaddi league for men. It premiered in 2014 and airs on Star Sports. It is the most popular kabaddi league in the world and the third most watched sports league in India after the Indian Premier League and Indian Super League. Haryana Steelers are the current champions. Since its inception there have been eight different champions, Patna Pirates have won the competition a record three consecutive times. They are the only team to defend their title. Jaipur Pink Panthers has won it twice while U Mumba, Bengaluru Bulls, Bengal Warriors, Dabang Delhi, Puneri Paltan and Haryana Steelers have one title each. Haryana Steelers are the current champions after winning the 2024 season for the first time, defeating Patna Pirates in the final. History The league's inception was influenced by the popularity of the kabaddi tournament at the 2006 Asian Games. The Pro Kabaddi League uses a franchise-based model and its first season w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pardeep Narwal
Pardeep Narwal (born 16 February 1997) is an Indian former international kabaddi player, who played as a raider. Widely regarded as the greatest raider in kabaddi history, he led the Patna Pirates to three straight titles in Pro Kabaddi League and holds a multitude of the league's raiding records. Early life Narwal was born in Rindhana village of Haryana's Sonipat district, where he started playing kabaddi. He started learning Kabaddi when he was only 6 years old. He got picked for his school's Kabaddi team when he was just 11 years old. Later, at 12, he joined the Haryana Kabaddi Academy. Kabaddi career Narwal made his debut in VIVO Pro Kabaddi with the Bengaluru Bulls against Patna Pirates in Season 2 and featured six times that campaign, scoring a total of nine raid points. Narwal moved to the Patna Pirates in Season 3 and blossomed into one of the best raiders in the league. He scored his first career Super 10 in the Pirates' 29–25 victory over Puneri Paltan in Kolk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kabaddi
Kabaddi (, ) is a contact team sport played between two teams of seven players. It is one of the traditional games of South Asia. In this game, a raider enters the opposing half of the court to touch defenders and attempt to return within 30 seconds without being tackled. Points are awarded for successful tags, while defenders earn a point for stopping the raider. Tagged or tackled players are temporarily out but can re-enter when their team scores. Raids alternate between teams throughout the game. It is popular in South Asia and nearby Asian countries. Although accounts of kabaddi appear in the history of India, the game was popularised as a competitive sport in the 20th century. It is the national sport of Bangladesh. It is the third most popular and viewed sport in India after cricket and football. It is the state game of the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Uttar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haryana Steelers
Haryana Steelers is a professional kabaddi team based in Haryana that plays in the Pro Kabaddi League. The team is led by Jaideep Dahiya and coached by Manpreet Singh. It is owned by JSW Sports, of the JSW Group. The home matches are played at Tau Devi Lal Athletic Stadium. The Steelers had a good start to life in the PKL as they reached the playoffs in their debut 2017 season. In Season 10, Haryana Steelers reached the final for the first time in their history but fell short by just a few points. They went on to clinch their maiden Pro Kabaddi League title in Season 11, marking a historic achievement for the franchise. Ownership Haryana Steelers is owned by JSW Sports which also owns Hockey India League team Soorma Hockey Club, Indian Premier League team Delhi Capitals, Indian Super League team Bengaluru FC, SA20 team Pretoria Capitals, and ILT20 team Dubai Capitals. Squad Identity The brand-new logo, which is a dynamically posed Bhima wielding his heavy Gada (ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
U Mumba
U Mumba is a professional kabaddi team based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, that plays in the Pro Kabaddi League. The franchise is currently led by Sunil Kumar, and coached by Anil Chaprana and Gholamreza Mazandarani. The team is owned by Unilazer Ventures Pvt. Ltd with co-founders Ronnie Screwvala and Supratik Sen. U Mumba play their home matches at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium. In the inaugural season of the PKL, U Mumba were one of the most dominant teams in the league but lost the ultimate match of the competition, thus ending as runner's up to the Jaipur Pink Panthers. In 2015, they were out to make up for their mistakes and successfully won the tournament after defeating Bengaluru Bulls in the Final. Later next season in 2016(January), U Mumba lived up to the tag of the best team in PKL history and made their third successive PKL final before eventually ending as runner's up, as they were defeated by the Patna Pirates by a narrow margin despite a lion hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengal Warriors
Bengal Warriorz (BEN) is a professional kabaddi team based in Kolkata, West Bengal that plays in the Pro Kabaddi League. In 2019, they won the trophy for the first time by defeating Dabang Delhi. The team is currently led by Devank Dalal and coached by Naveen Kumar Bazzad and Praveen Malik. The team play their home matches at the Netaji Indoor Stadium. Franchise history Bengal Warriorz are owned by Future Group, promoted by Kishore Biyani. The team had poor campaign in the first two seasons. The team's performance, however improved from the third season as they qualified for the playoffs in 2016. But again after a disappointing season in the 2016 Pro Kabaddi League season (June), they totally revamped their squad. After that, the team has consistently qualified for the playoffs in 2017, 2018 and in 2019 respectively. In 2019, they qualified to the PKL final for the first time in their history by beating U Mumba in The Arena. In the final, against Dabang Delhi Dabang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fazel Atrachali
Fazel Atrachali (, born 29 March 1992) is an Iranian kabaddi player who currently plays for Bengal Warriorz in the Pro Kabaddi League and the Iran National kabaddi team. Atrachali is one of the most successful foreign players in the history of the Pro Kabaddi League and is currently the only foreign player to rank among the top 10 tackle points scorer in league history. In the 4th edition of the VIVO Pro Kabaddi league, he won the award of the Best Defender of the Season award. He is the highest-paid foreign player in the Pro Kabbadi League. He has 500 tackle points in Pro Kabaddi League. He is the top tackle point scorer and the most successful captain in PKL history. Atrachali, Manjeet Chhillar, and Mohammadreza Chiyaneh are the only defenders in PKL history who have won the Defender of the Tournament award twice. Early life Atrachali started playing kabaddi from the young age of 11 in his hometown Gorgan in Iran. He has represented his country in the 2010 and 2014 Asian gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patna Pirates
Patna Pirates (PTP) is a professional kabaddi team based in Patna, Bihar, that plays in the Pro Kabaddi League. The team is led by Ankit Jaglan and coached by Anup Kumar (kabaddi). Their home ground is the Patliputra Sports Complex. The Pirates are the most successful team in PKL history with a record of winning 3 out of 8 titles and winning all of them in successive. They are also one time runners up in season 8 of pkl which started after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Pirates won their first title by defeating defending champions U Mumba in 2016 (January), after reaching the semi-finals in the previous two seasons (2014 and 2015). In the following 2016 (June) season, Patna Pirates defeated the Jaipur Pink Panthers, thus becoming the first team in PKL history to successfully defend their title and later completed a hat-trick of titles by defeating Gujarat Fortune Giants in the final of the 2017 tournament. The 2018-19 season was a contrasting season for the usually successful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 Pro Kabaddi League
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. Background The fixtures of the tournament were announced on 19 October 2023. The league returned to its original traveling caravan format returning after the 2019 season. 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. All the playoff matches were played in Hyderabad and final was played on 1 March 2024. Participating teams The same 12 teams from the previous season returned with few changes to the team personnel. Personnel The player auction happened on 9 and 10 October 2023 in Mumbai. The salary purse available to each franchise was increased from to . Foreign players Each team can sign a maximum of three non-Indian pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Pro Kabaddi League
The 2024 Pro Kabaddi League was the eleventh season of the Pro Kabaddi League, a franchise-based Kabaddi league in India. The league matches of this season started on October 18. Puneri Paltan were the defending champions, who won their maiden PKL title, beating Haryana Steelers in the previous edition. Haryana Steelers became the champions for the maiden time after finishing as runners-up in the last season. They defeated three-time champions Patna Pirates to clinch the title. Thus, the Steelers became the first-ever team to be founded in 2017 and win the title. The final took place at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Wrestling Hall in Pune in front of a capacity crowd of 4,400. On 28 December 2024, one day before the 2024 Pro Kabaddi League Final, the Pro Kabaddi League hosted the Pro Kabaddi League: Melbourne Raid at the John Cain Arena in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The event featured two Kabaddi All Star Exhibition matches. Participating teams The sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengaluru Bulls
Bengaluru Bulls (BGB) is a professional kabaddi team based in Bengaluru that plays in the Pro Kabaddi League. The team were champions in Season 6 and are led by Pardeep Narwal and coached by BC Ramesh. The team is owned by Ashwin Mallaya Ullal from Mangalore. Bulls play their home matches at the Kanteerava Indoor Stadium. Bulls are one of the most successful teams in PKL history after winning the trophy for the first time by defeating the Gujarat FortuneGiants in the 2018–19 season. The team was also the runner-up to U Mumba in 2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ... and reached the semifinals in the inaugural 2014 season. Current squad Seasons Season I Bulls secured fourth place in the first season. Season II Bengaluru Bulls finished second in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021–22 Pro Kabaddi League
The 2021–22 Vivo Pro Kabaddi League was the eighth season of Pro Kabaddi League. The season began on 22 December 2021. The usual travelling caravan format was changed to a single venue hosting all the matches of the season due to spread of COVID-19 pandemic in India. Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, Bangalore was initially announced as the venue, but was later changed to the Sheraton Grand Hotel and Convention Center located in Whitefield, Bangalore. Each team played against all the other teams twice, and the top 6 teams proceed to the play-offs. The player auctions for the season 8 were conducted from August 29 to 31, 2021 in Mumbai. Dabang Delhi defeated Patna Pirates in the final match to win their maiden title Teams Personnel and sponsorships :''Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.'' Foreign players Each team can sign maximum 3 foreign players in the squad. Sponsorship ;Title Sponsor * Vivo ;Associate Sponsors * Tata Motors * Dream11 * MFine * A23 * BYJU'S * Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 Pro Kabaddi League (January)
2016 Pro Kabaddi League season was the third season of Pro Kabaddi League, a professional kabaddi league played in India since 2014. Pro Kabaddi, which saw success in its second season, was all set to make its much awaited return for a third season from 30 January 2016, just five months after completion of the second season. Hyderabad hosted the opening leg of Season 3, with the first match being played between Telugu Titans and U Mumba at the Titan's home turf, Gachibowli Indoor Stadium.The winner is Patna Pirates. Star Sports Pro Kabaddi, organized by Mashal Sports and Star India, in association with the International Kabaddi Federation, Asian Kabaddi Federation and the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India is now going to be a bi-annual league with two seasons every year, promising much more action for the audiences and also encouraging them to take up to playing Kabaddi. The third season of the league will feature 60 games played on specially developed mats, in state of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
