PKL Season 9 Players Auction 2022 | Retained & Highest Paid

Vivo Pro Kabaddi will return in a big way. Dabang Delhi after winning the last kabaddi season will be a hot favorite. The Pro Kabaddi Season 9 Schedule, however, is still a mystery. But it is soon to be anticipated that the competition would start between October-December 2022.

So, kabaddi lovers, are you ready to cheer up your team?

Pro Kabaddi Season 9 Player Auction
PKL Auction 2022

The PKL Season 9 Auction dates have been released.

Mashal Sports, the organization behind the VIVO Pro Kabaddi League (PKL), has finally confirmed the dates, thus PKL Season 9 will soon return.

The PKL Season 9 auction is scheduled to take place in Mumbai on August 5 and 6, 2022. 

Shocking Updates before Mega PKL 2022 Auction

  • There will be 500+ players participating in this auction, including domestic, international, and new young players.
  • At the auction, Pawan Sehrawat, Siddharth Desai and Pardeep Narwal will be under hammered.
  • New Patna Pirates head coach to be named is Ravi Shetty
  • This season, UP Yuddha will appear in a new avatar.
  • Ram Mehar Singh is named the head coach of the Gujarat Giants for the upcoming PKL season.
  • The auction for the PKL Season 9 will be hosted by Charu Sharma.

Pro Kabaddi League 2022 Auction Date & Price Bands

The dates for the Pro Kabaddi 2022 Auction have been announced, and the mega season auction will take place on the 5th and 6th of August.

Furthermore, this next weekend will be a major event with several well-known kabaddi players in auction. Most intriguing, over 500 players, including NYP stars, will be up for auction.

There will be four categories created from the Domestic, Overseas, and New Young Players (NYPs): A, B, C, and D. Within each category, the players will be again classified into “All-Rounders,” “Defenders,” and “Raiders.”

The starting costs for every category in Pro Kabaddi Auction 2022 are as follows:

CategoryBase Prices
Category A30 lakhs
Category B20 lakhs
Category C10 lakhs
Category D6 lakhs

PKL Auction Season 9 Key Details

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The 24 players from the 2 best teams at the Bangalore-based Khelo India University Games in 2021 will be among the over 500+ participants in the PKL season 9 auction 2022. 

In front of the vivo Pro Kabaddi Season 9 Player Auction, all 12 teams have maintained a total of 19 Elite Retained Players, 38 Existing New Young Players (NYPs), and 13 Retained Young Players (RYP).

This year, 41 New Young Players (NYPs) have received nominations from franchisees.

Here are some details about the Auction:

  • 12 teams would each receive 4.4 crore for the auction. Nevertheless, it could be reduced based on the PKL Season 9 retained players list.
  • There can be a total of 18 to 25 players in each squad.
  • The league has decided that teams may keep up to 6 top players from each category while adding up to 4 new young players (NYP).

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PKL Season 9 Retained Players List

Since the PKL Auction is coming up shortly, all of the 12 PKL teams have retained their players. The team owners’ battle over auctioning players will be quite entertaining to watch.

Before that, let’s check out the pro kabaddi season 9 retained list.

PlayerPositionRetained By
Maninder SinghRaiderBengal Warriors
Akash PikalmundeRaiderBengal Warriors
Manoj K GowdaAll-rounderBengal Warriors
Mahender SinghDefenderBengaluru Bulls
GB MoreAll-rounderBengaluru Bulls
Mayur Jagannath KadamDefenderBengaluru Bulls
Saurabh NandalDefenderBengaluru Bulls
BharatRaiderBengaluru Bulls
Rohit KumarDefenderBengaluru Bulls
Vinod Lachmaya NaikDefenderBengaluru Bulls
VijayAll-rounderDabang Delhi
Naveen KumarRaiderDabang Delhi
Krishan ExistingDefenderDabang Delhi
Vinay KumarDefenderDabang Delhi
Ashu MalikRaiderDabang Delhi
DipakDefenderDabang Delhi
SonuRaiderGujarat Giants
Rakesh SRaiderGujarat Giants
Gaurav ChhikaraTBCGujarat Giants
Sohit ExistingRaiderGujarat Giants
Arjun DeshwalRaiderJaipur Pink Panthers
Sahul KumarDefenderJaipur Pink Panthers
Deepak RDefenderJaipur Pink Panthers
Abhinesh NadarajanDefenderPuneri Paltan
SombirDefenderPuneri Paltan
Sanket SawantDefenderPuneri Paltan
Monu GoyatRaiderPuneri Paltan
Aslam InamdarAll-rounderPuneri Paltan
Pankaj MohiteRaiderPuneri Paltan
Akash ShindeRaiderPuneri Paltan
Govind GujjarAll-rounderPuneri Paltan
Aditya ShindeRaiderPuneri Paltan
Badal SinghDefenderPuneri Paltan
RinkuAll-rounderUMumba
Prince ExistingDefenderUMumba
Rahul SethpalDefenderUMumba
Kamlesh ExisitingRaiderUMumba
Shivam ExistingRaiderUMumba
Mohammedreza Shadlou Chiyaneh (Iran)DefenderPatna Pirates
Sajin ChandrashekarDefenderPatna Pirates
Neeraj KumarDefenderPatna Pirates
MonuRaiderPatna Pirates
ManishDefenderPatna Pirates
Rohit NewTBCPatna Pirates
Nitesh KumarDefenderUP Yoddha
Surender GillRaiderUP Yoddha
Sumit RetainedDefenderUP Yoddha
Ashu SinghDefenderUP Yoddha
Nitin PanwarAll-rounderUP Yoddha
Shubham KumarDefenderUP Yoddha
AmanRaiderUP Yoddha
Rohit TomarRaiderUP Yoddha
Ajinkya Ashok PawarRaiderTamil Thalaivas
SagarDefenderTamil Thalaivas
Sahil GuliaDefenderTamil Thalaivas
AashishDefenderTamil Thalaivas
MohitDefenderTamil Thalaivas
HimanshuDefenderTamil Thalaivas
Himanshu SinghRaiderTamil Thalaivas
M AbhishekDefenderTamil Thalaivas
Ankit BeniwalRaiderTelugu Titans
RajnishRaiderTelugu Titans
Muhammed ShihasDefenderTelugu Titans
Prince DDefenderTelugu Titans
Palla RamakrishnaDefenderTelugu Titans
VinayRaiderHaryana Steelers
JaideepDefenderHaryana Steelers
AnkitDefenderHaryana Steelers
MohitDefenderHaryana Steelers
MeetuRaiderHaryana Steelers

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