Indian Premier League (IPL 2026)

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has not yet announced the schedule for the Tata Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. The 19th edition of the prestigious tournament is expected to begin on March 15, 2026, with the final on May 31, 2026. The season is expected to feature approximately 84 matches.

IPL 2026 Teams

1. Kolkata Knight Riders
2. Royal Challengers Bangalore
3. Rajasthan Royals
4. Chennai Super Kings
5. Punjab Kings
6. Sunrisers Hyderabad
7. Delhi Capitals
8. Gujarat Titans
9. Mumbai Indians
10. Lucknow Super Giants

IPL 2026 Auction

The Indian Premier League organisers announced on Saturday that the IPL 2026 auction will be held in Abu Dhabi on December 16. This will be the third consecutive year that the IPL auction is being held outside India. The mega auction will be held in Dubai in 2024 and in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 2025.

? Abu Dhabi

?️ Mark your calendars folks, #TATAIPLAuction 2026 is coming your way ?

Which player will attract the highest bid? ?✍️#TATAIPL pic.twitter.com/BhKnunTzvu

— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) November 16, 2025

The date and venue of the upcoming auction were revealed on Saturday after the player retention window for IPL 2026 closed. In total, ten cricket teams retained 173 players, including 49 overseas cricketers. With a maximum squad size of 25 players, all franchises will compete to fill a maximum of 77 available spots during the upcoming auction.

Previous IPL Winners

Year	Winner
2025	Royal Challengers Bangalore
2024	Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
2023	Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
2022	Gujarat Titans (GT)
2021	Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
2020	Mumbai Indians (MI)
2019	Mumbai Indians (MI)
2018	Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
2017	Mumbai Indians (MI)
2016	Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
2015	Mumbai Indians (MI)

Team purse and RTM ahead of IPL 2026 auction

Teams	Remaining Amount (INR)	Retained	Released
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)	25.50 crore	15	8
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)	22.95 crore	19	8
Punjab Kings (PBKS)	11.50 Crores	21	5
Gujarat Titans (GT)	12.9 Crores	20	6
Delhi Capitals (DC)	21.80 Crores	17	7
Rajasthan Royals (RR)	16.05 Crores	16	9
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)	64.3 Crores	12	10
Chennai Super Kings (CSK)	43.4 crores	16	12
Mumbai Indians (MI)	2.75 crores	20	9
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)	16.4 crores	17	8

IPL 2026: Most expensive releases ahead of the mini-auction

Player Name	Role	Team	IPL 2025 Salary
Venkatesh Iyer	All-rounder	Kolkata Knight Riders	23.75 crore
Mathisha Pathirana	Bowler	Chennai Super Kings	13 crore
Andre Russell	All-rounder	Kolkata Knight Riders	12 crore
Ravi Bishnoi	Spinner	Lucknow Super Giants	11 crore
Jake Fraser-McGurk	Batsman	Delhi Capitals	9 crore

Full list of released players for IPL 2026

Chennai Super Kings: Rahul Tripathi, Vansh Bedi, C Andre Siddarth, Rachin Ravindra, Devon Conway, Sam Curran (traded to RR), Ravindra Jadeja (traded to RR), Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Shaik Rasheed, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, and Matheesha Pathirana.

Delhi Capitals: Faf du Plessis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Donovan Ferreira (traded to RR), Sediqullah Atal, Manvanth Kumar, Mohit Sharma, and Darshan Nalkande.

Gujarat Titans: Sherfane Rutherford (traded to MI), Mahipal Lomror, Karim Janat, Dasun Shanaka, Gerald Coetzee, and Kulwant Khejroliya.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Andre Russell, Luvnith Sisodia, Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock, Spencer Johnson, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Moeen Ali, Chetan Sakariya, Anrich Nortje, and Mayank Markande (traded to MI).

Lucknow Super Giants: Aryan Juyal, David Miller, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Will O’ Rourke, Shardul Thakur (traded to MI), Akash Deep, Ravi Bishnoi, and Shamar Joseph.

Mumbai Indians: Satyanarayana Raju, Reece Topley, KL Shrijith, Karn Sharma, Arjun Tendulkar (traded to LSG), Bevon Jacobs, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Lizaad Williams, and Vignesh Puthur.

Punjab Kings: Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardie, Praveen Dubey, Kyle Jamieson and Kuldeep Sen.

Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (traded to CSK), Nitish Rana (traded to DC), Wanindu Hasaranga, Kumar Kartikeya, Ashok Sharma, Kunal Singh Rathore, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Akash Madhwal and Maheesh Theekshana.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Swastik Chikara, Mayank Agarwal, Liam Livingstone, Manoj Bhandage, Lungi Ngidi, Blessing Muzarabani and Mohit Rathee.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Mohammed Shami (traded to LSG), Adam Zampa, Rahul Chahar, Simarjeet Singh, Wiaan Mulder, Abhinav Manohar, Atharva Taide, and Sachin Baby.

IPL 2026: Retained players from all teams

Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Ayush Mhatre, M.S. Dhoni, Dewald Brevis, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dube, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapneet Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Choudhary, Nathan Ellis. Traded in: Sanju Samson (from RR).

Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (c), KL Rahul, Abishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Karun Nair, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay, Ajay Mandal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T. Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera. Traded in: Nitish Rana.

Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Glenn Phillips, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane, Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Varun Chakravarthy, Ramandeep Singh, Ankul Roy, Umran Malik, Rovman Powell, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora.

Lucknow Super Giants: Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Rishabh Pant (c), Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh. Traded in: Mohammed Shami (from SRH), Arjun Tendulkar (from MI).

Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Raj Bawa, Raghu Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Ryan Rickleton, Robin Minz, Mitchell Santner, Corbin Bosch, Naman Dhir, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Allah Ghafanzar, Ashwani Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Will Jacks. Traded in: Sherfane Rutherford (from GT), Mayank Markande (from KKR), Shardul Thakur (from LSG).

Punjab Kings: Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer, Shashank Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Harpreet Brar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Musheer Khan, Pyala Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Suryansh Shedge, Mitchell Owen, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod.

Rajasthan Royals: Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Lhuan-Dre Pretorius, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Jofra Archer, Sandeep Sharma, Tushar Deshpande, Kwena Maphaka, Nandre Burger. Traded in: Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Donovan Ferreira.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rajat Patidar (c), Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Jacob Bethell, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Salam, Abhinandan Singh, and Suyash Sharma.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (c), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R. Smaran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari.

Team with Most IPL Titles

• Mumbai Indians (MI): 5 titles (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2020)
• Chennai Super Kings (CSK): 5 titles (2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, 2023)

Most Runs in IPL History

• Virat Kohli (RCB): 8661 runs
• Rohit Sharma: 7046 runs
• Shikhar Dhawan: 6769 runs

Most Wickets in IPL History

• Yuzvendra Chahal: 221wickets
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar: 198 wickets
• Sunil Narine (KKR): 192 wickets

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Mark your calendars for March 15, 2026, and get ready for two months of nonstop cricketing excitement. Whether you're supporting Rohit Sharma's Mumbai Indians or Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL 2026 is set to deliver unforgettable moments. Stay tuned for the full schedule, live updates, and more!