You’ll get all the information about the full list of retained players before the Pro Kabaddi Auction 2023 by all 12 teams (team-wise) and PKL Season 10 details.
Before the start of every PKL Season, an auction takes place. Every team buys the best players according to their analysis to balance their squads. These players that are highly required in the squads for the upcoming season and are retained by the 12 teams of Vivo Pro Kabaddi.
All 12 teams ahead of the Vivo Pro Kabaddi Season 10 Player Auction retained a Total number of 84 players before the PKL Auction in 2023. Out of that 83 retained players, 24 are Retained Young Players, 22 are Elite Retained Players, and 38 are Existing New Young Players.
The three-time champions Patna Pirates have the most Elite Retained Players (4) and their all-rounder Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh is the only overseas player retained by any PKL team ahead of PKL Season 10 2023.
All the franchisees are only allowed to retain up to 6 players under the Elite Retained Players category and as many as only 4 New Young Players (NYPs) under specific conditions in every PKL season.
All players that are not retained are set to go under the hammer for a two-day auction in Mumbai from October 9th to 10th.
In this year’s auction, the non-retained players from all categories the Domestic, Overseas, and New Young Players (NYPs) groups will be divided into four categories: A, B, C, and D. The players are then subdivided as ‘All-Rounders’, ‘Defenders’ and ‘Raiders’ within these categories.
The base prices for each of the categories are:
- Category A – INR 30 Lakhs
- Category B – INR 20 Lakhs
- Category C – INR 10 Lakhs
- Category D – INR 6 Lakhs.
The total Salary Purse that will be available to each franchisee for its squad for PKL auction Season 10 is INR 5 Crores. The Vivo PKL Season 10’s Player Pool has been expanded to 500+ including 24 players from the top 2 teams of the Khelo India University Games 2023.
The Vivo Pro Kabaddi Season 10 Players Auction 2023 will be held in Mumbai from October 9th to 10th. A total number of 500+ players (domestic and international) will go under the hammer and the 12 teams will battle to sign them in.
PKL Season 10: Full List of Retained Players Before Pro Kabaddi Auction 2023 by All 12 Teams
The full list of retained players before Pro Kabaddi Auction 2023 by all 12 teams in Season 10 in all categories are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| 22 | 24 | 38 |
The Team wise full list of all these categories is broken down in the tables below:
Bengal Warriors 2023 Retained Players
Bengal Warriors retained a total number of 4 players before Pro Kabaddi Auction 2023 which are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| – | – | Vaibhav Bhausaheb Garje |
| – | – | R Guhan |
| – | – | Suyog Baban Gaikar |
| – | – | Parshant Kumar |
Bengaluru Bulls 2023 Retained Players
Bengaluru Bulls retained a total number of 5 players before the Pro Kabaddi Auction 2023 which are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| Neeraj Narwal | Bharat | Aman |
| – | Saurabh Nandal | Yash Hooda |
| – | – | – |
Dabang Delhi K.C 2023 Retained Players
Dabang Delhi KC retained a total number of 5 players before the Pro Kabaddi Auction 2023 which are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| – | Naveen Kumar – (Raider) | Vijay |
| – | – | Manjeet |
| – | – | Ashish Narwal |
| – | – | Suraj Panwar |
Gujarat Giants 2023 Retained Players
Gujarat Giants retained a total number of 5 players before PKL Auction 2023 which are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| Sonu – Raider | Rakesh – Raider | Rohan Singh |
| Manuj | – | Parteek Dahiya |
| – | – | – |
| – | – | – |
Haryana Steelers 2023 Retained Players
Haryana Steelers retained a total number of 8 players before PKL Auction 2023 which are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| K. Prapanjan | Vinay – Raider | Naveen |
| – | Jaideep – Defender | Monu |
| – | Mohit – Defender | Harsh |
| – | – | Sunny |
Jaipur Pink Panthers 2023 Retained Players
Jaipur Pink Panthers retained a total number of 10 players before Pro Kabaddi Player Auction 2023 which are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| Sunil Kumar | – | Ankush |
| Ajith V Kumar | – | Abhishek KS |
| Reza Mirbagheri | – | Ashish |
| Bhavani Rajput | – | Devank |
| Arjun Deshwal | – | – |
| Sahul Kumar | – | – |
Patna Pirates 2023 Retained Players
Patna Pirates retained a total number of 7 players before the Pro Kabaddi League Auction 2023 which are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| Sachin | Manish | Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj |
| Neeraj Kumar – Defender | – | Naveen Sharma |
| – | – | Ranjit Venkatramana Naik |
| – | – | Anuj Kumar |
Puneri Paltan 2023 Retained Players
Puneri Paltan retained a total number of 9 players before the PKL Player Auction 2023 which are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| Gaurav Khatri | Pankaj Mohite – Raider | Badal Taqdir Singh |
| Abinesh Nadarajan – Defender | Sanket Sawant – Defender | Aditya Tushar Shinde |
| – | Aslam Mustafa Inamdar | – |
| – | Mohit Goyat – Raider | – |
| – | Akash Santosh Shinde – Raider | – |
Tamil Thalaivas 2023 Retained Players
Tamil Thalaivas retained a total number of 10 players before the Pro Kabaddi Auction 2023 which are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| Ajinkya Ashok Pawar – Raider | Sagar – Defender | Himanshu – Raider |
| – | Himanshu – Defender | Narender |
| – | M. Abishek – Defender | Jatin |
| – | Sahil – Defender | – |
| – | Mohit – Defender | – |
| – | Ashish – Defender | – |
Telugu Titans 2023 Retained Players
Telugu Titans retained a total number of 5 players before PKL Auction Season 10 which are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| Parvesh Bhainswal | Rajnish – Raider | Mohit |
| – | – | Nitin |
| – | – | Vinay |
| – | – | – |
U Mumba 2023 Retained Players
U Mumba retained a total number of 9 players before the Pro Kabaddi League Auction Season 10 which are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| Rinku – Defender | Shivam | Shivansh Thakur |
| Surinder Singh | – | Pranay Vinay Rane |
| Jai Bhagwan | – | Rupesh |
| Heidarali Ekrami | – | Sachin |
U.P Yoddhas 2023 Retained Players
UP Yoddhas retained a total number of 7 players before the PKL Player Auction 2023 which are as follows:
| Elite Players | Retained Young Players | Existing Young Players |
| Pardeep Narwal | Sumit | Anil Kumar |
| Nitesh Kumar | Ashu Singh | Mahipal |
| – | Surender Gill | – |
| – | – | – |
FAQ’s
A team is allowed to retain a maximum number of 12 players. From which, a maximum of 6 Elite Retained Players (players from previous PKL seasons) and 6 Young Players (Retained Young Players/Existing New Young Players) are allowed.
All 12 teams in PKL 2023 retained a total number of 59 players.
Jaipur Pink Panthers retained the most number of players in Pro Kabaddi 2023 which are 7.
Tamil Thalaivas retained the least number of players in PKL 2023 which are only 3.
U Mumba retained the most elite players in Pro Kabaddi 2023 which are 4.
