The much-awaited Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) 2025 is set to get rolling. The auction will take place on May 31 and June 1.
The franchises are now engaged in building their teams ahead of the 12th season. Teams have already signed some New Young Players (NYP) and retained a few from last season.
The Pro Kabaddi League has now announced the ‘Elite Retained Players’, ‘Retained Young Players’, and ‘New Young Players’ for Season 12.
While most franchises have retained their key players for season 12 of Pro Kabaddi League, they will also be looking to build stronger units in the upcoming player auction.
A total of 83 players were retained across three categories at Pro Kabaddi League 12: 25 in the Elite Retained Players (ERP) category, 23 in the Retained Young Players (RYP) category, and 35 in the New Young Players (NYP) category.
Top players retained by their respective teams include Sunil Kumar and Amirmohammad Zafardanesh (U Mumba), Jaideep Dahiya (Haryana Steelers), Surender Gill (UP Yoddhas), and the Puneri Paltan duo of Aslam Inamdar and Mohit Goyat.
More than 500 players, including notable Indian players like Pawan Sehrawat, Arjun Deshwal, Ashu Malik and Pro Kabaddi League Season 11’s top raider Devank Dalal, are set to go under the hammer.
Iranian powerhouses Fazel Atrachali and Mohammadreza Shadloui alongside PKL veterans Maninder Singh, and Pardeep Narwal, are also in the PKL 12 auction list.
Notably, star raider Naveen Kumar will go under the hammer for the first time. The Season 8 winner has scored 1102 Raid Points for Dabang Delhi K.C. across six seasons. He will be the first player in the history of the league to have 1000+ points with a single team before entering a PKL auction.
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Pro Kabaddi League 2025 Auction: Player’s Categories
For the auction, both domestic and overseas players will be divided into four categories: A, B, C, and D. Within each category, players will be further classified as ‘All-Rounders’, ‘Defenders’, and ‘Raiders’.
Each franchise will have a total salary purse of INR 5 Crore available for its squad. The base prices for each category are:
- Category A: INR 30 Lakh
- Category B: INR 20 Lakh
- Category C: INR 13 Lakh
- Category D: INR 9 Lakh
Pro Kabaddi League 2025: Teams and list of retained players
Bengal Warriorz
- Vishwas S – Elite Retained Player
- Yash Malik – Existing New Young Player
- Manjeet – Existing New Young Player
- Deep Kumar – Existing New Young Player
- Sushil Kambrekar – Existing New Young Player
Bengaluru Bulls
- Chandranaik M – Existing New Young Player
- Lucky Kumar – Existing New Young Player
- Manjeet – Existing New Young Player
- Pankaj – Existing New Young Player
Dabang Delhi KC
- Sandeep – Existing New Young Player
- Mohit – Existing New Young Player
Gujarat Giants
- Himanshu Singh – Elite Retained Player
- Himanshu – Elite Retained Player
- Parteek Dahiya – Retained Young Player
- Rakesh – Retained Young Player
Haryana Steelers
- Rahul Sethpal – Elite Retained Player
- Vinay – Elite Retained Player
- Shivam Anil Patare – Retained Young Player
- Jaideep – Retained Young Player
- Jaya Soorya NS – Retained Young Player
- Vishal S Tate – Retained Young Player
- Sahil – Existing New Young Player
- Manikandan N – Existing New Young Player
- Vikas Ramadas Jadhav – Existing New Young Player
Jaipur Pink Panthers
- Reza Mirbagheri – Elite Retained Player
- Abhishek KS – Retained Young Player
- Ronak Singh – Existing New Young Player
- Nitin Kumar – Existing New Young Player
- Sombir – Existing New Young Player
- Ritik Sharma – Existing New Young Player
Patna Pirates
- Hamid Mirzaei Nader – Elite Retained Player
- Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj – Elite Retained Player
- Sudhakar M – Retained Young Player
- Ayan – Existing New Young Player
- Navdeep – Existing New Young Player
- Deepak – Existing New Young Player
- Sahil Patil – Existing New Young Player
Puneri Paltan
- Abinesh Nadarajan – Elite Retained Player
- Gaurav Khatri – Elite Retained Player
- Pankaj Mohite – Elite Retained Player
- Aslam Mustafa Inamdar – Retained Young Player
- Mohit Goyat – Retained Young Player
- Dadaso Shivaji Pujari – Retained Young Player
- Aditya Tushar Shinde – Retained Young Player
Tamil Thalaivas
- Moein Shafaghi – Elite Retained Player
- Himanshu – Elite Retained Player
- Sagar – Elite Retained Player
- Nitesh Kumar – Retained Young Player
- Narender – Retained Young Player
- Ronak – Retained Young Player
- Vishal Chahal – Retained Young Player
- Aashish – Retained Young Player
- Anuj Kaluram Gawade – Existing New Young Player
- Dhiraj Ravindra Bailmare – Existing New Young Player
Telugu Titans
- Shankar Bhimraj Gadai – Elite Retained Player
- Ajit Pandurang Pawar – Elite Retained Player
- Ankit – Retained Young Player
- Praful Sudam Zaware – Retained Young Player
- Sagar – Existing New Young Player
- Chetan Sahu – Existing New Young Player
- Nitin – Existing New Young Player
- Rohit – Existing New Young Player
U Mumba
- Sunil Kumar – Elite Retained Player
- Rohit – Elite Retained Player
- Amir Mohammad Zafardanesh – Elite Retained Player
- Satish Kannan – Elite Retained Player
- Mukilan Shanmugam – Retained Young Player
- Ajit Chouhan – Existing New Young Player
- Deepak Kundu – Existing New Young Player
- Lokesh Ghosliya – Existing New Young Player
- Sunny – Existing New Young Player
UP Yoddhas
- Sumit – Elite Retained Player
- Bhavani Rajput – Elite Retained Player
- Sahul Kumar – Elite Retained Player
- Surender Gill – Elite Retained Player
- Ashu Singh – Elite Retained Player
- Hitesh – Retained Young Player
- Gagana Gowda HR – Retained Young Player
- Shivam Chaudhary – Retained Young Player
- Jayesh Vikas Mahajan – Existing New Young Player
- Gangaram – Existing New Young Player
- Sachin – Existing New Young Player
- Keshav Kumar – Existing New Young Player
