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.
Teams Head coach Captain Kit Manufacturer Bengal Warriors Kasinatha Baskaran Maninder Singh 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
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 players. Team Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 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
Sponsorship
Associate Sponsor Dream11 Patanjali Roff UltraTech Cement
Broadcast Sponsor Star Sports
Digital Streaming Partner Disney+ Hotstar Venues The league stage was scheduled in 12 cities.
Team Location Stadium Capacity Bengal Warriors Kolkata, West Bengal Netaji Indoor Stadium Bengaluru Bulls Bengaluru, Karnataka Kanteerava Indoor Stadium Dabang Delhi KC Delhi Thyagaraj Sports Complex Gujarat Giants Ahmedabad, Gujarat The Arena Haryana Steelers Panchkula, Haryana Tau Devilal Sports Complex Jaipur Pink Panthers Jaipur, Rajasthan Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium Patna Pirates Patna, Bihar Patliputra Sports Complex Puneri Paltan Pune, Maharashtra Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Tamil Thalaivas Chennai, Tamil Nadu Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium Telugu Titans Hyderabad, Telangana Gachibowli Indoor Stadium U Mumba Mumbai, Maharashtra Dome@NSCI SVP Stadium UP Yoddha Noida, Uttar Pradesh Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex
Points table
League Stage Leg 1 – EKA Arena, Ahmedabad
Leg 2 – Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, Bangalore
Leg 3 – Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune
Leg 4 – Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai
Leg 5 – Noida Indoor Stadium, Noida
Leg 6 – Dome@NSCI SVP Stadium, Mumbai
Leg 7 – Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium, Jaipur
Leg 8 – Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
Leg 9 – Patliputra Sports Complex, Patna
Leg 10 – Thyagaraj Sports Complex, New Delhi
Leg 11 – Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Indoor Stadium, Kolkata
Leg 12 – Tau Devilal Sports Complex, Panchkula
Playoffs
Eliminator 1
Eliminator 2
Semi Final 1
Semi Final 2
Final
Broadcasting The matches were broadcast by Star Sports in India. It was also streamed live by Disney+ Hotstar.
Statistics Most raid points # Player Team Matches Raid Points 1 Ashu Malik Dabang Delhi 23 276 2 Arjun Deshwal Jaipur Pink Panthers 23 276 3 Pawan Sehrawat Telugu Titans 21 202 4 Maninder Singh Bengal Warriors 21 197 5 Narendar Tamil Thalaivas 21 186
Most tackle points #Player Team Matches Tackle Points 1 Mohammadreza Chiyaneh Puneri Paltan 24 99 2 Krishan Patna Pirates 24 78 3 Yogesh Dabang Delhi 23 74 4 Rahul Sethpal Haryana Steelers 23 73 5 Ankush Jaipur Pink Panthers 22 70
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