Pro Kabaddi League

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Pro Kabaddi
Current season, competition or edition: 2014 Pro Kabaddi League
Logo of Pro Kabaddi League
Sport	Kabaddi
Founded	2014
Owner(s)	Mashal Sports
Director	Charu Sharma
Inaugural season	2014
No. of teams	8
Country	India
TV partner(s)	STAR Sports
Official website	prokabaddi.com

The Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) is a professional kabaddi league in India, based on the format of the Indian Premier League.^[1] The first edition of the tournament started on 26 July 2014 with eight franchises consisting of players from around the world.It is currently supervised by Mashal Sports Managing Director Charu Sharma.^[2]

League Organization

The 8 teams will play in a caravan format, travelling together to all 8 venues to play a total of 60 league matches.^[3] Currently it is being played at Thyagraja stadium in Delhi with U-Mumba (Mumbai Team) leading the table. The top scoring four teams at the end of the group stages will play in the Semi Finals at Kanteerava Indoor Stadium in Bengaluru on August 29th.

2014 Standings

League Points are scored as follows: A Win earns the winning team 5 points. A Tie earns both teams 3 points. A loss, if lost by 7 or less points, earns the losing team 1 point. A loss, if lost by more than 7 points, earns the losing team 0 points.

Club Name	Played	Wins	Losses	Ties	SD	Points
U Mumba	8	6	0	2	64	36
Bengaluru bulls	6	3	2	1	-9	19
Dabang Delhi	5	3	2	0	25	16
Jaipur Pink Panthers	4	3	1	0	31	15
Bengal Warriors	7	3	4	0	-36	15
Patna Pirates	7	2	5	0	-25	13
Telugu Titans	5	1	3	1	-18	10
Puneri Paltan	6	1	5	0	-32	8

Franchises

Club Name	City	Owner(s)^[2]	Captain	Head coach	Home ground^[4]
Current Teams
Bengal Warriors	Kolkata	Kishore Biyani Future Group	Nilesh Shinde	Raj Narain Sharma	Netaji Indoor Stadium Kolkata, West Bengal
Bengaluru Bulls	Bengaluru	Kosmik Global Media	Manjit Chillar	Randhir Singh	Kanteerava Indoor Stadium Bengaluru, Karnataka
Dabang Delhi	Delhi	Radha Kapoor DO IT Sports Management	Jasmer Singh	Arjun Singh	Thyagaraj Sports Complex New Delhi, Delhi
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Jaipur	Abhishek Bachchan	Navneet Gautam	Kasinathan Baskaran	Sawai Mansingh Stadium Jaipur, Rajasthan
Patna Pirates	Patna	Rajesh Shah	Rakesh Kumar	R S Khokhar	Kankarbagh Indoor Stadium Patna, Bihar
Puneri Paltan	Pune	Sumanlal Shah Insurekot Sports	Wazir Singh	Ramphal Kaushik	Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Balewadi Pune, Maharashtra
Telugu Titans	Vizag	Veera Sports	Rajaguru Subramanian	J Udayakumar	Port Trust Golden Jubilee Stadium Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh
U Mumba	Mumbai	Ronnie Screwvala Unilazer Sports	Anup Kumar	Ravi Shetty	National Sports Club of India Mumbai, Maharashtra

Leaderboard

No.	Player	Team	Points
1	Anup Kumar	U Mumba	66
2	Surjeet Narwal	Dabang Delhi	63
3	Shabeer Bapu Sharfudheen	U Mumba	61
4	Ajay Thakur	Bengaluru Bulls	51
5	Kashiling Adake	Dabang Delhi	50

Broadcasting Rights

Star Sports TV channel was named as the official broadcaster in May 2014.^[5] The Pro Kabaddi League Schedule 2014 can be found here

Player Signings

The first signing and auction of players for the 8 teams was held on 20 May 2014^[5] in Mumbai. The team auction was held on 20 May 2014. India's national kabaddi captain Rakesh Kumar was the priciest among the players bought for

12.80 lakh by Patna franchise. Sports Authority of India's Deepak Nivas was bought by Vizag franchise for

12.60 lakh.^[5] Mostafa Noudehi was the highest paid overseas player bought for

6.6 lakh by Pune franchise,^[6] amongst players from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Iran, Japan, the UK, Indonesia, South Korea, Oman, Taiwan, Kenya and Turkmenistan.