Pro Kabaddi 2024 teams and players list - all squads
Naveen Kumar and Rohit Kumar were among the retained players. Mohammadreza Shadloui and Sachin Tanwar were the most sought-after players at the auction.
The Pro Kabaddi League 2024 auction witnessed 12 teams engage in intense bidding to fill their squads with top-quality players in Mumbai.
The PKL 2024 auction was held over two days with more than 500 kabaddi players listed in the bidding process.
On the first day of the auction, Sachin Tanwar emerged as the most sought-after player and was eventually bagged by Tamil Thalaivas. Tanwar was the captain of Patna Pirates last year.
Iranian all-rounder Mohammadreza Shadloui, who was instrumental in Puneri Paltan’s title win last year, was bagged by Haryana Steelers. His countryman Fazel Atrachali, a former Gujarat Giants player, went to the rechristened Bengal Warriorz.
Each PKL team is allowed to have a minimum of two and a maximum of four overseas players in their squad. Each squad can have a minimum of 18 and a maximum of 25 players.
Indian kabaddi captain Pawan Sehrawat, meanwhile, was retained by Telugu Titans during the auction. Bengal Warriorz also exercised their retention option to get back raider Maninder Singh.
The league’s top raider Pardeep Narwal, who struggled at UP Yoddhas last year, went to Bengaluru Bulls where he will pair up with veteran raider Rohit Kumar, who was retained ahead of the auction. Former Steelers player Siddharth Desai went to Dabang Delhi KC where he will join forces with Naveen Kumar, who was also retained before the auction.
The Republic of Korea's Jang Kun Lee made a return to PKL after an absence of four years. He was picked up by his old team Patna Pirates for the upcoming season.
Coming into the auction, Tamil Thalaivas and UP Yoddhas were the only two teams that did not retain their elite players while the Bengal Warriorz and Dabang Delhi KC did not keep their young players.
Tamil Thalaivas, however, had retained seven of their young players while defending champions Puneri Paltan kept six. The two teams, thus, had retained 12 and 11 kabaddi players, respectively.
Gujarat Giants and Jaipur Pink Panthers, meanwhile, went into the auction with just five retained players each – the least among all 12 PKL teams.
Pro Kabaddi 2024 teams and players
Bengal Warriorz 2024 squad
- Vishwas S - Elite retained player
- Nitin Kumar - Elite retained player
- Shreyas Umbardand - Existing new young player
- Aditya S. Shinde - Existing new young player
- Dipak Arjun Shinde - Existing new young player
- Maharudra Garje - Existing new young player
- Fazel Atrachali
- Maninder Singh
- Chai-Ming Chang
- Nitesh Kumar
- Mayur Jagannath Kadam
- Praveen Thakur
- Sambhaji Wabale
- Hem Raj
- Akash B Chavhan
- Arjun Rathi
- Vaibhav Bhausaheb Garje
- Sagar Kumar
- Pranay Vinay Rane
- Sushil Kambrekar
- Yash Malik
- Manjeet
- Deep Kumar
Bengaluru Bulls 2024 squad
- Ponparthiban Subramanian - Elite retained
- Sushil - Elite retained player
- Rohit Kumar - Elite retained player
- Saurabh Nandal - Retained young player
- Aditya Powar - Existing new young player
- Akshit - Existing new young player
- Arulnanthababu - Existing new young player
- Parteek - Existing new young player
- Ajinkya Pawar
- Pardeep Narwal
- Lucky Kumar
- Manjeet
- Chandranaik M
- Hasun Thongkruea
- Pramot Saising
- Nitin Rawal
- Jai Bhagwan
- Jatin
Dabang Delhi KC 2024 squad
- Ashu Malik - Elite retained player
- Vikrant - Elite retained player
- Naveen Kumar - Elite retained player
- Ashish - Existing new young player
- Himmat Antil - Existing new young player
- Manu - Existing new young player
- Yogesh - Existing new young player
- Ashish
- Siddharth Desai
- Mohit
- Sandeep
- Md. Mijanur Rahman
- Mohammad Baba Ali
- Nitin Panwar
- Brijendra Singh Chaudhary
- Gaurav Chhillar
- Himanshu
- Rahul
- Parveen
- Rinku Narwal
- Vinay
Gujarat Giants 2024 squad
- Balaji D - Elite retained player
- Jitender Yadav - Elite retained player
- Parteek Dahiya - Retained young player
- Rakesh - Retained young player
- Nitin - Existing new young player
- Guman Singh
- Sombir
- Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh
- Vahid Reza Eimehr
- Neeraj Kumar
- Monu
- Raj D Salunkhe
- Himanshu
- Himanshu Singh
- Aadesh Siwach
- Harsh Mahesh Lad
- Rohan Singh
- Mohit
- Manuj
- Nitesh
Haryana Steelers 2024 squad
- Rahul Sethpal - Elite retained player
- Ghanshyam Magar - Elite retained player
- Jaideep - Retained young player
- Mohit - Retained young player
- Vinay - Retained young player
- Jaya Soorya NS - Existing new young player
- Hardeep - Existing new young player
- Shivam Anil Patare - Existing new young player
- Vishal S. Tate - Existing new young player
- Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh
- Gnana Abhishek
- Manikandan S
- Sahil
- Vikas Jadhav
- Sanjay
- Manikandan S
- Ashish Gill
- Naveen
- Sanskar Mishra
Jaipur Pink Panthers 2024 squad
- Arjun Deshwal - Elite retained player
- Reza Mirbagheri - Elite retained player
- Ankush - Retained young player
- Abhishek KS - Retained young player
- Abhijeet Malik - Existing new young player
- Surjeet Singh
- Ritik Sharma
- Ronak Singh
- Sombir
- Nitin Kumar
- Amir Hossein Mohammadmaleki
- Arpit Saroha
- Shrikant Jadhav
- Vikash Kandola
- Neeraj Narwal
- Mayank Malik
- Aamir Wani
- Ravi Kumar
- Lucky Sharma
- K Dharanidharan
- Navneet
Patna Pirates 2024 squad
- Ankit - Elite retained player
- Sandeep Kumar - Elite retained player
- Manish - Retained young player
- Abinand Subhash - Existing new young player
- Kunal Mehta - Existing new young player
- Sudhakar M - Existing new young player
- Shubham Shinde
- Ayan
- Sahil Patil
- Deepak
- Navdeep
- Hamid Mirzaei Nader
- Jang Kun Lee
- Gurdeep
- Thiyagarajan Yuvraj
- Deepak Rajender Singh
- Prashant Kumar Rathi
- Meetu Sharma
- Devank
- Sagar
- Aman
- Pravinder
- Babu Murugasan
Puneri Paltan 2024 squad
- Abinesh Nadarajan - Elite retained player
- Gaurav Khatri - Elite retained player
- Aditya Shinde - Retained young player
- Akash Shinde - Retained young player
- Mohit Goyat - Retained young player
- Aslam Inamdar - Retained young player
- Pankaj Mohite - Retained young player
- Sanket Sawant - Retained young player
- Dadaso Pujari - Existing new young player
- Nitin - Existing new young player
- Tushar Adhavade - Existing new young player
- Vaibhav Kamble - Existing new young player
- Mohit
- Amir Hassan Noroozi
- Ali Hadi
- Aman
- Ajith V Kumar
- Mohd. Amaan
- Aryavardhan Navale
- Vishal
- Sourav
Tamil Thalaivas 2024 squad
- Narender - Retained young player
- Sahil - Retained young player
- Mohit - Retained young player
- Aashish - Retained young player
- Sagar - Retained young player
- Himanshu - Retained young player
- M. Abishek - Retained young player
- Nitesh Kumar - Existing new young player
- Nitin Singh - Existing new young player
- Ronak - Existing new young player
- Vishal Chahal - Existing new young player
- Sachin Tanwar
- Anuj Gawade
- Dhiraj Bailmare
- Ramkumar Mayandi
- Moein Safaghi
- Amirhossein Bastami
- Sourabh Fagare
Telugu Titans 2024 squad
- Shankar Gadai - Elite retained player
- Ajit Pawar - Elite retained player
- Ankit - Existing new young player
- Omkar Patil - Existing new young player
- Praful Zaware - Existing new young player
- Sanjeevi S - Existing new young player
- Pawan Sehrawat
- Krishan Dhull
- Vijay Malik
- Rohit
- Sagar
- Chetan Sahu
- Nitin
- Milad Jabbari
- Mohammad Malak
- Sunder
- Manjeet
- Ashish Narwal
- Amit Kumar
U Mumba 2024 squad
- Amirmohammad Zafardanesh - Elite retained player
- Rinku - Elite retained player
- Shivam - Retained young player
- Bittu - Existing new young player
- Gokulakannan M - Existing new young player
- Mukilan Shanmugam - Existing new young player
- Sombir - Existing new young player
- Sunil Kumar
- Manjeet
- Sunny
- Deepak Kundu
- Lokesh Gosliya
- Ajit Chouhan
- Amin Ghorbani
- Parvesh Bhainswal
- Shubham Kumar
- M Dhanasekar
- Stuwart Singh
- Vishal Choudhary
- Aashish Kumar
- Satish Kannan
UP Yoddhas 2024 squad
- Sumit - Retained young player
- Surender Gill - Retained young player
- Ashu Singh - Retained young player
- Gagana Gowda HR - Existing new young player
- Hitesh - Existing new young player
- Shivam Chaudhary - Existing new young player
- Bharat Hooda
- Sahul Kumar
- Jayesh Mahajan
- Gangaram
- Sachin
- Keshav Kumar
- Mohammadreza Kaboudrahangi
- Heidarali Ekrami
- Mahender Singh
- Bhavani Rajput
- Vivek
- Akshay R Suryawanshi