PKL 2022-23 Teams and Players List of Pro Kabaddi Season 9

Get all the updates on PKL 2022-23 teams and players list of Pro Kabaddi League season 9.

Twelve PKL teams are also known as the PKL franchises. Pro Kabaddi’s season 1 was played in 2014 with a total of 8 teams. These 8 teams played the first 4 seasons of the Pro Kabaddi League (1-4) from 2014 to 2016. In PKL Season 5, four new teams were introduced making the total number of PKL teams twelve. These 12 teams played the other 4 seasons of the Pro Kabaddi (5-8) from 2017 to 2021-22. After that, no new team or franchise is introduced to the tournament.

Pro Kabaddi season 9 will entertain worldwide kabaddi fans from 7th October 2022 onwards. In the last season PKL season 8, Dabang won the PKL championship after defeating Patna Pirates by 37-36. Dabang Delhi will land in the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 as the defending champions.

PKL 2022-23 Teams, Coach, Captain, Sponsor, and Stadium

Before the start of every new season, almost every team change the captain, Coach, and sponsor while the others retained the old ones.

Following is the list of PKL 2022-23 teams captains, Coaches, sponsors, and stadiums:

Teams/Clubs	Coach	Captain	Sponsor	City & State	Stadium
Bengal Warriors	BC Ramesh	Maninder Singh	WinZO	Kolkata, West Bengal	Netaji Indoor Stadium
Bengaluru Bulls	Randhir Singh	Pawan Kumar Sherawat	BKT Tyres, Abhi Paisa & MI	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Kanteerava Indoor Stadium
Dabang Delhi K.C.	Krishan Kumar Hooda	Joginder Narwal	JK Super Cement	Delhi	Thyagaraj Sports Complex
Gujarat Giants	Manpreet Singh	Sunil Kumar	WinZO	Ahmedabad, Gujarat	EKA Arena
Haryana Steelers	Rakesh Kumar	Vikash Kandola	Borosil	Sonipat, Haryana	Tau Devi Lal Stadium
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan	Deepak Niwas Hooda	Ambuja Cement & TYKA	Jaipur, Rajasthan	Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium
Patna Pirates	Ram Mehar Singh	Prashanth Rai	Birla Gold, Premium Cement, 4U Sports & Golds Gym	Patna, Bihar	Patliputra Sports Complex
Puneri Paltan	Anup Kumar	Nitin Tomar	Schaeffler India	Pune, Maharashtra	Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex
Tamil Thalaivas	J. Udayakumar	Surjeet Singh	Luminous Power Technologies	Chennai, Tamilnadu	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Telugu Titans	Gholamreza Mazandarani	Rohit Kumar	Radio City 91.1 FM	Hyderabad, Telangana	Gachibowli Indoor Stadium
U Mumba	Sanjeev Kumar	Fazel Atrachali	Mitashi Edutainment Pvt. Ltd.	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium
U.P. Yoddha	Jasvir Singh	Nitesh Kumar	ABP News	Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh	Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex

PKL 2022-23 Players List of Pro Kabaddi League 9

All the updates on the PKL 2022-23 players list of the Pro Kabaddi season 9 after the PKL Auction 2022 are as follows:

Bengal Warriors 2022-23

Coach: BC Ramesh

Captain: Maninder Singh

Title Sponsor: WINZO

PKL 2022-23 players list of Bengal Warriors for the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 are as follows:

No.	Players	Position	Nationality
1	Shrikant Jadhav	Raider	India
2	Akash Pikalmunde	Raider	India
3	Maninder Singh	Raider	India
4	Parshant Kumar	Raider	India
5	R Guhan	Raider	India
6	Suyog Baban Gaikar	Raider	India
7	Aslam Saja Mohamed Thambi	Raider	Sri Lanka
8	Amit Sheoran	Defender	India
9	Girish Maruti Ernak	Defender	India
10	Parveen Satpal	Defender	India
11	Sakthivel R	Defender	India
12	Shubham Shinde	Defender	India
13	Surender Nada	Defender	India
14	Soleiman Pahlevani	Defender	Iran
15	Vaibhav Bhausaheb Garje	Defender	India
16	Ajinkya Rohidas Kapre	All-Rounder	India
17	Ashish Kumar Sangwan	All-Rounder	India
18	Balaji D	All-Rounder	India
19	Deepak Niwas Hooda	All-Rounder	India
20	Rohit	All Rounder	India
21	Vinod Kumar	All-Rounder	India
22	Manoj Gowda K.	All-Rounder	India

Bengal Warriors is one of the most prominent and strong teams in the Pro Kabaddi League. Bengal Warriors won the title of PKL champions in 2019 after defeating Dabang Delhi. The squad of Bengal Warriors 2022-23 has a good defensive unit. Their strong defensive unit will give them a unique advantage.

Bengal Warriors raiding/attacking unit includes Maninder Singh, Rishank Devadiga, Sukesh Hegde, Ravindra Kumavat, Anand V, and Akash Pikalmunde.

Bengal Warrior’s defense will be maintained by Vishal Mane, Vijin Thangadurai, Amit Nirwal, Abozar Mighani, Darshan J, Sachin Vittala, Parveen Satpal, and Rohit Banne. Except for the strong raiding and defending unit, Bengal Warriors also bought some all-rounders which boosts their squad depth. Bengal Warriors look good to win the title of PKL 2022-23.

Bengaluru Bulls 2022-23

Coach: Randhir Singh

Captain: Pawan Kumar Sherawat

Title Sponsor: BKT Tyres, Abhi Paisa & MI

PKL 2022-23 players list of Bengaluru Bulls for the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 are as follows:

No.	Players	Position	Nationality
1	Harmanjit Singh	Raider	India
2	Neeraj Narwal	Raider	India
3	Vikash Khandola	Raider	India
4	Lal Mohar Yadav	Raider	Nepal
5	Nageshor Tharu	Raider	Nepal
6	Bharat	Raider	India
7	More G B	Raider	India
8	Sudhakar Krishant Kadam	Defender	India
9	Aman	Defender	India
10	Mahender Singh	Defender	India
11	Mayur Jagannath Kadam	Defender	India
12	Rajnesh	Defender	India
13	Rohit Kumar	Defender	India
14	Saurabh Nandal	Defender	India
15	Vinod Lachmayya Naik	Defender	India
16	Yash Hooda	Defender	India
17	Rahul Khatik	All-Rounder	India
18	Sachin Narwal	All-Rounder	India

Bengaluru Bulls is also one of the most successful teams in the Pro Kabaddi League. Bengaluru Bulls became the Pro Kabaddi Champions in season 6, played in 2018. The Bengaluru Bulls 2022-23 squad is a balanced one. Although, the team didn’t include any all-rounders the balanced squad of Bengaluru Bulls has a sufficient number of raiders and defenders.

The Bengaluru Bull’s attack will be handled by Pawan Sehrawat, Chandran Ranjit, Deepak Narwal, Abolfazl Maghsodlo, More GB, Dong Geon Lee, Naseeb, Rohit Singh, and Bharat. Pawan Sehrawat is a prolific raider in the tournament of the Pro Kabaddi League.

He has the potential to cover up the deficiency of the attacking/raiding unit. Bengaluru Bulls bought in Mahender Singh, Vikas, Jaideep, Ankit, Mohit Sehrawat, Saurabh Nandal, Mayur Kadam, Rohit Kumar, Aman, and Sachin as the defenders. Bengaluru Bulls are all set to step into the PKL 9.

Dabang Delhi 2022-23

Coach: Krishan Kumar Hooda

Captain: Joginder Narwal

Title Sponsor: JK Super Cement

PKL 2022-23 players list of Dabang Delhi for the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 are as follows:

No.	Players	Position	Nationality
1	Ashish Narwal	Raider	India
2	Ashu Malik	Raider	India
3	Manjeet	Raider	India
4	Naveen Kumar	Raider	India
5	Suraj Panwar	Raider	India
6	Aakash	Defender	India
7	Amit Hooda	Defender	India
8	Anil Kumar	Defender	India
9	Monu	Defender	India
10	Ravi Kumar	Defender	India
11	Sandeep Kumar Dhull	Defender	India
12	Vishal	Defender	India
13	Md. Liton Ali	Defender	Bangladesh
14	Dipak	Defender	India
15	Krishan	Defender	India
16	Vijay	Defender	India
17	Vinay Kumar	Defender	India
18	Tejas Maruti Patil	All-Rounder	India
19	Reza Katoulinezhad	All-Rounder	Iran
20	Vijay	All-Rounder	India

Dabang Delhi will be playing the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 as the defending champions. They won the PKL season 8 (2021-22) after defeating Patna Pirates in the final. Dabang Delhi 2022-23 squad is a strong one in both aspects of raiding and defending but their defensive unit is more substantial. The team also got its hands on some all-rounders which are going to increase the squad’s firepower.

Dabang Delhi’s raiding unit consists of Naveen Kumar, Neeraj Narwal, Emad Sedaghatnia, Sushant Sail, Manjeet, Ashu Malik, and Nitin Panwar. The great raiders of the Pro Kabaddi League are now a part of the Dabang Delhi which are Manjeet Chhillar, Naveen Kumar, and Nitin Panwar.

The all-rounders, Sandeep Narwal, Manjeet Chhillar, Vijay, and Balram add horsepower to the Dabang Delhi’s squad. Dabang Delhi has all the essential abilities to step into the PKL 2022-23.

Gujarat Giants 2022-23

Coach: Manpreet Singh

Captain: Sunil Kumar

Title Sponsor: WINZO

PKL 2022-23 players list of Gujarat Giants for the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 are as follows:

No.	Players	Position	Nationality
1	Chandran Ranjit	Raider	India
2	Mahendra Ganesh Rajput	Raider	India
3	Pardeep Kumar	Raider	India
4	Purna Singh	Raider	India
5	Sawin	Raider	India
6	Dong Geon Lee	Raider	Korea
7	Gaurav Chhikara	Raider	India
8	Parteek Dhaiya	Raider	India
9	Rakesh	Raider	India
10	Sohit	Raider	India
11	Sonu	Raider	India
12	Sonu Singh	Raider	India
13	Baldev Singh	Defender	India
14	Kapil	Defender	India
15	Manuj	Defender	India
16	Rinku Narwal	Defender	India
17	Sandeep Kandola	Defender	India
18	Sourav Gulia	Defender	India
19	Ujjval Singh	Defender	India
20	Vinod Kumar	Defender	India
21	Young Chang Ko	Defender	Korea
22	Arkam Shaikh	All-Rounder	India
23	Shankar Bhimraj Gadai	All-Rounder	India
24	Rohan Singh	All-Rounder	India

Gujarat Giants is a strong team in the tournament of the Pro Kabaddi League. They became runner-up twice throughout the eight seasons of the PKL in seasons 5 and 6. Gujarat Giants have a powerful squad for PKL Season 9. Their raiding unit is more powerful instead of their defense.

They bought in the Iranian defender Soleiman Pahlevani along with experienced Iranian Kabaddi all-rounder Hadi Oshtorak. Both these players have the skills to turn the game upside down.

The strong attacking unit of Gujarat Giants 2022-23 consists of Mahendra Rajput, Rakesh Narwal, Ajay Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Gaur, Harmanjit Singh, Pardeep Kumar, Rathan K, Harshit Yadav, Maninder Singh, Rakesh, Sohit, and Sonu Singh. Gujarat Giants looks all set to play Pro Kabaddi Season 9.

Haryana Steelers 2022-23

Coach: Rakesh Kumar

Captain: Vikash Kandola

Title Sponsor: Borosil

PKL 2022-23 players list of Haryana Steelers for the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 are as follows:

No.	Players	Position	Nationality
1	K. Prapanjan	Raider	India
2	Lovepreet Singh	Raider	India
3	Manish Gulia	Raider	India
4	Manjeet	Raider	India
5	Rakesh Narwal	Raider	India
6	Sushil	Raider	India
7	Meetu	Raider	India
8	Vinay	Raider	India
9	Mohammad Esmaeil Maghsoudlou Mahalli	Raider	Iran
10	Joginder Singh Narwal	Defender	India
11	Amirhossein Bastami	Defender	Iran
12	Ankit	Defender	India
13	Harsh	Defender	India
14	Jaideep	Defender	India
15	Mohit	Defender	India
16	Monu	Defender	India
17	Naveen	Defender	India
18	Sunny	Defender	India
19	Nitin Rawal	All-Rounder	India

Haryana Steelers is not one of the successful teams in the Pro Kabaddi. They neither secure the PKL championship nor became runner-up throughout all the eight seasons of the tournament. When we talk about raiding and defending, the Haryana Steelers squad is balanced.

Despite getting raiders and defenders in the squad, Haryana Steelers also got some good all-rounders. All-rounders always give the team a great advantage. The raiding unit of Haryana Steelers includes Vikash Kandola, Vinay, Ashish, Mohammad Mahalli, Akshay, and Meetu while their defense contains Surender Nada, Ravi Kumar, Vijay Kumar, Jaideep, Rajesh Gurjar, Mohit, and Ankit.

All-rounders who are gonna boost the performance of Haryana Steeler’s 2022-23 squad are Shrikant Tewthia, Rohit Gulia, Vikash Jaglan, Ajay, and Hamid Nader. They are going to use the advantage of their squad’s depth in Pro Kabaddi 9.

Jaipur Pink Panthers 2022-23

Coach: Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan

Captain: Deepak Niwas Hooda

Title Sponsor: Ambuja Cement & TYKA

PKL 2022-23 players list of Jaipur Pink Panthers for the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 are as follows:

No.	Players	Position	Nationality
1	Ajith V Kumar	Raider	India
2	Bhavani Rajput	Raider	India
3	Navneet	Raider	India
4	Nitin Panwar	Raider	India
5	Rahul Chaudhari	Raider	India
6	Arjun Deshwal	Raider	India
7	Devank	Raider	India
8	Lucky Sharma	Defender	India
9	Nitin Chandel	Defender	India
10	Sunil Kumar	Defender	India
11	Reza Mirbagheri	Defender	Iran
12	Woosan KO	Defender	Korea
13	Abhishek KS	Defender	India
14	Ankush	Defender	India
15	Ashish	Defender	India
16	Deepak	Defender	India
17	Sahul Kumar	Defender	India
18	Rahul Gorakh Dhanawade	All-Rounder	India

Jaipur Pink Panthers is the winner of Pro Kabaddi’s inaugural season. They also secure the title of runner-up in PKL season 4 (2016). Jaipur Pink Panthers always spend big money on building their squad. Jaipur Pink Panther got a steady and well-balanced squad for Pro Kabaddi Season 9.

The attack of Jaipur Pink Panthers 2022-23 will be handled by Amit Nagar, Amirhossein Mohammad Maleki, Arjun Deshwal, Naveen, Sushil Gulia, and Ashok. They also got a skilled Iranian raider Mohammad Nosarati. In the defensive unit, Jaipur Pink Panthers got a Malaysian defender Elavarasan.

Their defense will be managed by Dharmaraj Cheralathan, Sandeep Dhull, Vishal, Pavan TR, Sahul Kumar, and Deepak Singh. They got performance booster players in the form of all-rounders Deepak Hooda, Nitin Rawal, Brijendra Singh Choudhary, and Sachin Narwal. Jaipur Pink Panthers is on the way to finishing in the top teams of the PKL 2022-23.

Patna Pirates 2022-23

Coach: Ram Mehar Singh

Captain: Prashanth Rai

Title Sponsor: DafaNews

PKL 2022-23 players list of Patna Pirates for the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 are as follows:

No.	Players	Position	Nationality
1	Anand Surendra Tomar	Raider	India
2	Sachin	Raider	India
3	Sushil Gulia	Raider	India
4	Vishwas S	Raider	India
5	Anuj Kumar	Raider	India
6	Monu	Raider	India
7	Ranjit Venkatramana Naik	Raider	India
8	Rohit	Raider	India
9	Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj	Defender	India
10	Naveen Sharma	Defender	India
11	Neeraj Kumar	Defender	India
12	Shivam Chaudhari	Defender	India
13	Sunil	Defender	India
14	Manish	Defender	India
15	Abdul Insamam S	All-Rounder	India
16	Rohit Gulia	All-Rounder	India
17	Sagar Kumar	All-Rounder	India
18	Daniel Omondi Odhiambo	All-Rounder	Kenya
19	Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh (F)	All-Rounder	India
20	Sajin Chandrasekar	All-Rounder	India

Patna Pirates is the most successful and prominent team in the Pro Kabaddi League. They secured the PKL championship consecutively three times in a row which was PKL seasons 3, 4, and 5. They were also the runner-up of season 8. Patna Pirates used the balanced scouting approach to assemble their squad for the Pro Kabaddi season 9.

Patna Pirates have the best Kabaddi squad among all the teams in the PKL. The names from this best squad are Prashanth Kumar Rai, Selvamani K, Monu Goyat, Sachin, Monu, Guman Singh, Mohit, Rajveersinh Chavan, Rohit, Sandeep, Neeraj Kumar, Shubham Shinde, Sunil, Sourav Gulia, Manuj, Manish, Sunder, Sahil Mann, Mohammadreza Chiyaneh, Balaji D, and Sajin C.

Patna Pirates 2022-23 also signed the Kenyan Kabaddi player Daniel Odhiambo who is a great addition to the Patna Pirates squad. Patna Pirates is going to ProKabaddi League 9 to win the title once again.

Puneri Paltan 2022-23

Coach: Anup Kumar

Captain: Nitin Tomar

Title Sponsor: INDIGO

PKL 2022-23 players list of Puneri Paltan for the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 are as follows:

No.	Players	Position	Nationality
1	Aditya Tushar Shinde	Raider	India
2	Akash Santosh Shinde	Raider	India
3	Aslam Mustafa Inamdar	Raider	India
4	Mohit Goyat	Raider	India
5	Pankaj Mohite	Raider	India
6	Shubham Nitin Shelke	Raider	India
7	Abinesh Nadarajan	Defender	India
8	Badal Taqdir Singh	Defedner	India
9	Sanket Sawant	Defender	India
10	Sombir	Defender	India
11	Alankar Kaluram Patil	Defender	India
12	Balasaheb Shahaji Jadhav	Defender	India
13	D Mahindraprasad	Defender	India
14	Harsh Mahesh Lad	Defender	India
15	Rakesh Bhalle Ram	Defender	India
16	Fazel Atrachali	Defender	Iran
17	Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh	All-Rounder	Iran
18	Govind Gurjar	All-Rounder	India

Puneri Paltan is not a successful team but a prominent team in the game of kabaddi. They cleared the league stages and qualified in the eliminator rounds of the PKL seasons 3, 4, 5, and 8. Puneri Paltan 2022-23 assembled a defensive squad for PKL 2022-23.

The squad of Puneri Paltan has more defenders as compared to the raiders and a few all-rounders. They hired a Kenyan all-rounder Victor Obiero, who can give them some advantage in the performance boost.

The raiders in the Puneri Paltan squad are Nitin Tomar, Rahul Chaudhari, Pawan Kadian, Pankaj Mohite, Mohit Goyat, Vishwas S, Aslam Inamdar, Akash Shinde, and Shubham Shelke. Puneri Paltan also bought three all-rounders which are Subash E, Victor Obiero, and Govind Gurjar. Puneri Paltan looks good to win the Pro Kabaddi season 9.

Tamil Thalaivas 2022-23

Coach: J. Udayakumar

Captain: Surjeet Singh

Title Sponsor: Pari Match News

PKL 2022-23 players list of Tamil Thalaivas for the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 are as follows:

No.	Players	Position	Nationality
1	Pawan Kumar Sehrawat	Raider	India
2	Ajinkya Ashok Pawar	Raider	India
3	Himanshu	Raider	India
4	Himanshu	Raider	India
5	Jatin	Raider	India
6	Narender	Raider	India
7	Ankit	Defender	India
8	Arpit Saroha	Defender	India
9	Md. Arif Rabbani	Defender	Bangladesh
10	Ashish	Defender	India
11	Himanshu	Defender	India
12	M. Abishek	Defender	India
13	Mohit	Defender	India
14	Sagar	Defender	India
15	Sahil	Defender	India
16	K. Abhimanyu	All-Rounder	India
17	Visvanath V.	All-Rounder	India
18	Thanushan Laxmamohan	All-Rounder	Sri Lanka

Tamil Thalaivas never won the PKL title and they also never became the runner-up. They performed well only in PKL season 7. Tamil Thalaivas 2022-23 reshaped their squad with an equal number of raiders and defenders along with some all-rounders to boost the chances of victory in Pro Kabaddi Season 9.

Tamil Thalaivas signed the experienced foreigner kabaddi players Asiri Alawathge and Anwar Baba. All the other kabaddi players in their squad are the local Indian kabaddi players. Kabaddi fans around the world can expect some surprises in PKL 2022-23 due to the balanced PKL squad of the Tamil Thalaivas. 

Telugu Titans 2022-23

Coach: Gholamreza Mazandarani

Captain: Rohit Kumar

Title Sponsor: Truke

PKL 2022-23 players list of Telugu Titans for the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 are as follows:

No.	Players	Position	Nationality
1	Abhishek Singh	Raider	India
2	Aman Kadian	Raider	India
3	Monu Goyat	Raider	India
4	Siddharth Sirish Desai	Raider	India
5	Ankit Beniwal	Raider	India
6	Vinay	Raider	India
7	Rajnish	Raider	India
8	Mohit	Defender	India
9	Mohit Pahal	Defender	India
10	Muhammed Shihas S	Defender	India
11	Nitin	Defender	India
12	Palla Ramakrishna	Defender	India
13	Prince	Defender	India
14	Ravinder Pahal	Defender	India
15	Surjeet Singh	Defender	India
16	Vijay Kumar	Defender	India
17	Vishal Bhardwaj	Defender	India
18	Parvesh Bhainswal	Defender	India
19	Adarsh T	Defender	India
20	K. Hanumanthu	All-Rounder	India
21	Ravinder	All-Rounder	India
22	Hamid Mirzaei Nader	All-Rounder	Iran
23	Mohsen Maghsoudlou Jafari	All-Rounder	Iran

Telugu Titans remained unsuccessful in winning any title in the Pro Kabaddi League. They also failed to be the runner-up in any season of the tournament. Their performance in the PKL seasons 2 and 4 are their best performances.

Telugu Titans 2022-23 gives more importance to the defense instead of attack. They spend their money to build a defensive squad. Telugu Titans 2022-23 squad consists of eight raiders and twelve defenders. They didn’t buy any all-rounder. Instead of an under-power squad, Telugu Titans is ready to land in PKL 2022-23.

U Mumba 2022-23

Coach: Sanjeev Kumar

Captain: Fazel Atrachali

Title Sponsor: SANSUI

PKL 2022-23 players list of U Mumba for the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 are as follows:

No.	Players	Position	Nationality
1	Ankush	Raider	India
2	Ashish	Raider	India
3	Guman Singh	Raider	India
4	Jai Bhagwan	Raider	India
5	Heidarali Ekrami	Raider	Iran
6	Kamlesh	Raider	India
7	Pranay Vinay Rane	Raider	India
8	Rupesh	Raider	India
9	Sachin	Raider	India
10	Shivam	Raider	India
11	Prince	Defender	India
12	Rahul	Defender	India
13	Rinku	Defender	India
14	Shivansh Thakur	Defender	India
15	Harendra Kumar	Defender	India
16	Kiran Laxman Magar	Defender	India
17	Mohit	Defender	India
18	Satywan	Defender	India
19	Surinder Singh	Defender	India
20	Gholamabbas Korouki	All-Rounder	Iran

U Mumba became the PKL champions in PKL season 2 (2015). They also became the runner-up in the 3^rd season of the Pro Kabaddi League. The team of U Mumba formed a well-balanced squad to step in the Pro Kabaddi season 9. U Mumba 2022-23 squad includes seven raiders, eight defenders, and four all-rounders.

They also include two foreign kabaddi players Fazel Atrachali and Mohsen Maghsoudlou in the squad who are Iranian kabaddi players. This Kabaddi team of U Mumba looks good to finish in the top four teams of PKL 2022-23.

UP Yoddha 2022-23

Coach: Jasvir Singh

Captain: Nitesh Kumar

Title Sponsor: ABP News

PKL 2022-23 players list of UP Yoddha for the Pro Kabaddi Season 9 are as follows:

No.	Players	Position	Nationality
1	Gulveer Singh	Raider	India
2	Nitin Tomar	Raider	India
3	Pardeep Narwal	Raider	India
4	Rathan K	Raider	India
5	James Namaba Kamweti	Raider	Kenya
6	Aman	Raider	India
7	Anil Kumar	Raider	India
8	Durgesh Kumar	Raider	India
9	Mahipal	Raider	India
10	Rohit Tomar	Raider	India
11	Surender Gill	Raider	India
12	Shubham Kumar	Defender	India
13	Sumit	Defender	India
14	Abozar Mohajer Mighani	Defender	Iran
15	Ashu Singh	Defender	India
16	Nitesh Kumar	Defender	India
17	Jaideep	Defender	India
18	Babu Murugasan	Defender	India
19	Gurdeep	All-Rounder	India
20	Nehal B Sawal Desai	All-Rounder	India
21	Nitin Panwar	All-Rounder	India

UP Yoddha 2022-23 squad comprises ten raiders, six defenders, and three all-rounders. The team spends money to recreate an attacking squad. Their defensive unit is also not bad because they also got some all-rounders.

They signed Iranian kabaddi player Mohammad Taghi Paein Mahali and Kenyan kabaddi player James Kamweti. UP Yoddha’s performance in PKL seasons 5, 6, 7, and 8 was great. They cleared league stages and qualified for the playoffs in these seasons of the tournament. The team of UP Yoddha is confident to win PKL 2022-23.