The 2025 season was the 18th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchise Royal Challengers Bengaluru. They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2025 IPL. Ahead of the season, Rajat Patidar was announced as the captain. The team was coached by Andy Flower.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru finished in second place in the league stage, and advanced to Qualifier 1 in the playoffs. They also became the first IPL team to win all away games in a season. The team defeated Punjab Kings in Qualifier 1 to qualify for Bengaluru's fourth final. In the final, they defeated Punjab Kings again to win their maiden title after 18 years. Virat Kohli scored the most runs (657) while Josh Hazlewood took the most wickets (22) for Bengaluru in the 2025 season.
Pre-season
The 2025 Indian Premier League was the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Royal Challengers Bengaluru were one of the four active franchises to not have won the IPL title prior to 2025. The team finished in fourth place in the previous season. The tournament featured ten teams competing in 74 matches from 22 March to 3 June 2025. Bengaluru played all their home matches at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, except for the last one, which was moved to Ekana Cricket Stadium due to the weather conditions in Bengaluru.
Player retention Franchises were allowed to retain a maximum of six players from their squad, including a maximum of five recent international players. Franchises were required to submit their retention lists before 31 October 2024. Bengaluru retained three players, including captain Rajat Patidar and former captain Virat Kohli.
+ Retained players No. Player Salary 1 Virat Kohli 2 Rajat Patidar 3 Yash Dayal
+ Released players Batters Wicket-keepers All-rounders Fast bowlers Spin bowlers Suyash Prabhudessai Saurav Chauhan Dinesh Karthik Anuj Rawat Glenn Maxwell Mahipal Lomror Cameron Green Will Jacks Swapnil Singh Manoj Bhandage Mayank Dagar Reece Topley Akash Deep Mohammed Siraj Alzarri Joseph Lockie Ferguson Vijaykumar Vyshak Rajan Kumar Karn Sharma Himanshu Sharma
Auction The season's auction took place on 24 and 25 November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The auction purse for each franchise was set at , with the franchises being deducted an amount from the purse for each retained player. Bengaluru had a purse remaining of . Franchises that did not retain six players, were allowed Right-to-Match (RTM) cards at the auction for each player not retained. Bengaluru had three cards available. Bengaluru bought nineteen players in the auction, including twelve capped players and eight overseas players. Bengaluru used their RTM card to buy back Swapnil Singh for .
Squad Players with international caps as of start of 2025 IPL are listed in bold. Ages are as of . Withdrawn players are indicated by a dagger symbol () and placed at the bottom of the table.
+ Royal Challengers Bengaluru squad for the 2025 Indian Premier League S/N Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Salary Notes 5 Suyash Sharma Right-handed Right-arm leg-break 6 Krunal Pandya Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 8 Tim David Right-handed Right-arm off-break Overseas 13 Yash Dayal Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast 14 Abhinandan Singh Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 15 Bhuvneshwar Kumar Right-handed Right-arm medium 16 Mayank Agarwal Right-handed Right-arm off-break Replacement 18 Virat Kohli Right-handed Right-arm medium 21 Manoj Bhandage Left-handed Right-arm medium-fast 23 Liam Livingstone Right-handed Right-arm off-break Overseas 24 Swapnil Singh Right-handed Left-arm orthodox 28 Phil Salt Right-handed Overseas 29 Tim Seifert Right-handed Overseas; temporary replacement 32 Blessing Muzarabani Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Overseas; temporary replacement 38 Josh Hazlewood Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Overseas 42 Rasikh Salam Right-handed Right-arm medium 48 Romario Shepherd Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Overseas 53 Nuwan Thushara Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Overseas 55 Jitesh Sharma Right-handed Stand-in captain 97 Rajat Patidar Right-handed Right-arm off-break Captain 99 Swastik Chikara Right-handed Right-arm off-break 2 Jacob Bethell Left-handed Left-arm orthodox Overseas; withdrawn 22 Lungi Ngidi Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Overseas; withdrawn 37 Devdutt Padikkal Left-handed Right-arm off-break Withdrawn
Support staff Former player Dinesh Karthik joined the squad as batting coach and mentor following his retirement in the previous season replacing Neil McKenzie while Omkar Salvi replaced Adam Griffith as bowling coach.
Position Name Head coach Andy Flower Assistant coach Richard Halsall Batting coach and mentor Dinesh Karthik Bowling coach Omkar SalviMalolan Rangarajan Source: Wisden
League stage Royal Challengers Bengaluru began their season with two wins against Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings. They lost to Gujarat Titans, won against Mumbai Indians, lost to Delhi Capitals, won against Rajasthan Royals and lost to Punjab Kings. Bengaluru won their next four matches against Punjab, Rajasthan, Delhi and Chennai. Their twelfth match against Kolkata was abandoned due to rain. They lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad and won against Lucknow Super Giants; to finish the league stage in second place with nine wins from 14 matches, and advanced to Qualifier 1 in the playoffs. They also became the first IPL team to win all away games in a season.
Points table
League progression
Fixtures
Playoffs Bracket
Qualifier 1
Final
Statistics
+ Most runs Runs Player 657 Virat Kohli 403 Phil Salt 312 Rajat Patidar 261 Jitesh Sharma 247 Devdutt Padikkal + Most wickets Wickets Player 22 Josh Hazlewood 17 Krunal Pandya 17 Bhuvneshwar Kumar 13 Yash Dayal 8 Suyash Sharma
References Original 2025 IPL Schedule vs Revised 2025 IPL Schedule
General references
External links
Royal Challengers Bengaluru at IPLT20.com