Pro Kabaddi League

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Pro Kabaddi League
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Pro Kabaddi League logo
Country India
First tournament2014
Last tournament2019
Next tournament2021–22
Tournament formatDouble round-robin league and playoffs
Number of teams12
Current championsBengal Warriors (1st title)
Most successfulPatna Pirates (3 titles)
Most raid pointsIndia Pardeep Narwal (1160)[1]
Most tackle pointsIndia Manjeet Chhillar (340)
TV partner(s)Star Sports 2
Star Sports 1 Hindi
SloganLe Panga
Websiteprokabaddi.com
2021–22 Pro Kabaddi League season

Pro Kabaddi League (known as Vivo Pro Kabbadi for sponsorship reasons)[2] or PKL in short is a professional Kabaddi league of India. It was launched in 2014 and is broadcast on Star Sports.[3] However, Season 8 was postponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic and the same season is scheduled to commence on 22 December 2021.[4][5]

The league's inception was influenced by the popularity of the Kabaddi tournament at the 2006 Asian Games. The format of the competition was influenced by the Indian Premier League. The Pro Kabaddi League uses a franchise-based model and its first season was held in 2014 with eight teams each of which has paid fees of up to US$250,000 to join.[6][7]

There were doubts over whether the Pro Kabaddi League would be successful, noting that many leagues were attempting to emulate the IPL's business model and success and that, unlike cricket, there were relatively fewer well-known players in Kabaddi. However, it was also noted that kabaddi was widely played in grassroots community settings, and could thus attract a wide variety of rural and metropolitan viewers for advertisers to target if the league gained significant traction.[6]

The inaugural season was seen by 43.5 crores (435 million) viewers, second to the 2014 Indian Premier League's 55.2 crores (552 million), while the first season final between Jaipur Pink Panthers and U-Mumba was watched by 8.64 crores (86.4 million).[8][9] Star Sports, the Pro Kabaddi League's broadcaster,[10] subsequently announced in 2015 that it would acquire a 74% stake in the league's parent company Mashal Sports.[11]

For the 2017 and 2018–19 season, the Pro Kabaddi League added four new teams, and changed its format to split the teams into two divisions known as "zones".[12] Soon the league returned to its regular double round-robin format for the 2019 season

Format[]

The Pro Kabaddi League's rules are similar to that of the indoor team version of Kabaddi, but with additional rules to encourage more scoring. Playing two "empty" raids in a row will trigger a "do-or-die raid", where the raider must score a point or they will be declared out. When a defensive side has three or fewer players remaining, tackles scored are termed as "Super Tackle", which is worth two points instead of one.[13][14][15]

Seasons[]

Season 1(Jaipur Pink Panther)

The first signing and auction of players for the 8 teams were held on 20 May 2014[10] in Mumbai. India's national kabaddi captain Rakesh Kumar was the priciest among the players bought for 12.80 lakh by the Patna Pirates.[16] Sports Authority of India's Deepak Niwas Hooda was bought by the Telugu Titans franchise for 12.60 lakh.[16] Tae Deok Eom was the highest paid overseas player bought for 7 lakh by the Patna franchise.[16]

The duration of the season was from 26 July 2014 to 31 August 2014. There were double round-robin matches along with two semifinals, third place and final games. 56 games were to be played in the first round and 4 in the playoff stage, making a total of 60 games. 8 teams took part in the first edition. The first game was played on 26 July between U Mumba and Jaipur Pink Panthers and the final was played on 31 August at Mumbai. Jaipur Pink Panthers beat U Mumba by 35–24 to win the inaugural Pro Kabaddi League.

Season 2

Best defenders[]

Most tackle points (All seasons)
Rank Player Current Team Matches Tackle Points Points/match
1 India Manjeet Chillar Tamil Thalaivas 111 341 3.07
2 India Ravinder Pahal Gujarat Giants 115 331 2.87
3 Iran Fazel Atrachali U Mumba 105 319 3.03
4 India Sandeep Narwal Dabang Delhi 128 316 2.46
5 India PO Surjeet Singh Tamil Thalaivas 96 285 2.96
As of 27 December 2021.[17]
Most successful tackles (All seasons)
Rank Player Current Team Matches Successful Tackles Points/match
1 India Manjeet Chillar Dabang Delhi 111 326 2.93
2 India Ravinder Pahal Gujarat Giants 115 312 2.71
3 Iran Fazel Atrachali U Mumba 105 298 2.83
4 India Sandeep Narwal Dabang Delhi 128 288 2.25
5 India PO Surjeet Singh Tamil Thalaivas 96 267 2.78
As of 27 December 2021.[18]
Most high 5s
Rank Player Name Position Current Team Match Played High 5s Match/high 5s
1 India PO Surjeet Singh Defender, right cover Tamil Thalaivas 96 27 3.55
2 India Manjeet Chhillar All Rounder Dabang Delhi 111 23 4.82
India Ravinder Pahal Defender, right corner Gujarat Giants 115 23 5
4 Iran Fazel Atrachali Defender, left corner U Mumba 105 21 5
5 India Surender Nada Defender, left corner Haryana Steelers 73 20 3.65
6 India Mohit Chhillar Defender, right corner Tamil Thalaivas 109 18 6.05
India Nitesh Kumar Defender UP Yoddha 69 18 3.83
8 India Girish Maruti Ernak Defender, left corner Gujarat Giants 109 17 6.41
India Sandeep Narwal All Rounder Dabang Delhi 128 17 7.52
10 India Vishal Bhardwaj Defender Puneri Paltan 62 15 4.13
As of 27 December 2021.[19]
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Star Sports Pro Kabaddi season 2 was from 18 July 2015 to 23 August 2015. There were 60 matches played with two semifinals, a third place play-off and a final. The first game was played on 18 July between U Mumba and Jaipur Pink Panthers and the final was played on 23 August at Mumbai between U Mumba and Bengaluru Bulls. U Mumba beat Bengaluru Bulls by 36–30 to win the 2015 season of the Pro Kabaddi League.[20] U Mumba stood first, Bengaluru Bulls stood second and Telugu Titans stood in the third position in the league.

Season 3(tamil)

Star Sports Pro Kabaddi season 3 will have two editions. The CEO of Star India, Sanjay Gupta,[21] confirmed that Star Sports Pro Kabaddi wants to make Pro Kabaddi, a 5-week event, happen 10 weeks a year by having two editions a year. The idea is to play the tournament once in January–February 2016 and once in June–July 2016. It also had 8 teams. Patna Pirates beat U Mumba by 3 points in the final in Delhi to take home the trophy. Puneri Paltan came third this season.

Season 4(Patna Pirates)

The fourth season took place from 25 June to 31 July 2016, with the existing eight teams participating. Patna Pirates beat Jaipur Pink Panthers in the final. Season 4 also saw the launch of the first professional women's kabaddi league, Women's Kabaddi Challenge (WKC). The first season saw 3 teams namely Ice Divas, Fire Birds and Storm Queens battle out to be the first ever WKC champions. In the finale, scheduled along with the men's final in Hyderabad, the Storm Queens defeated the Fire Sourav Tomar play hard with u Mumba and got a new young player(NYP) Trophy.

Season 5(Patna Pirates)

The 2017 season was the fifth edition of the Pro Kabaddi League, and it featured 12 teams, including new teams from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, and Gujarat. The team from Haryana is known as Haryana Steelers owned by JSW Sports.[22] Sachin Tendulkar co-owns the Tamil Nadu team named Tamil Thalaivas.[23] The Uttar Pradesh team is named as UP Yoddha owned by GMR group and the Gujarat team is named as Gujarat Fortune Giants owned by Gautam Adani.

Auctions for the new season were held in May, before which the existing teams were allowed to retain one player each. The auction saw over 400 players go under the hammer and ₹46.99 crores spent by the 12 teams.[24]

The Pro Kabaddi League season 5 started on 28 July 2017.

The most expensive pick of the auction was raider Nitin Tomar, who was bought by the Uttar Pradesh team for a sum of ₹93 lakh. Following in second place was Rohit Kumar after the Bengaluru Bulls picked him for a ₹81 lakhs price. The most expensive foreign player was South Korea's Lee Jang-kun after he was retained by the Bengal Warriors for ₹80.3 lakhs.

The new season was slated to be the biggest league tournament of its kind in the history of Indian sports in terms of geographical coverage and duration. It featured 138 matches spread across a time period of 13 weeks across 11 states.

A children's Kabaddi tournament, known as KBD Juniors, was also organised between schools of the cities in which the matches were held.

Patna Pirates beat Gujarat Fortune Giants by 55–38 in the final with the Man of the Tournament Pardeep Narwal stealing the show with 19 raid points against the Fortune Giants defence for the first time in the tournament.

The award ceremony of the finale was hosted by Pooja Bhamrah. Pardeep Narwal was adjudged the man of the finale.

Season 6(Bengaluru Bulls)

The 2018 season is the sixth edition of the Pro Kabaddi League, and it features 12 teams. Auctions for the new season were held in which Haryana Steelers paid ₹1.51 crores for Monu Goyat[25] who became the highest paid player in the history of Pro Kabaddi league.

The most expensive foreign player this season is Fazel Atrachali[26] from Iran. He was bought by U Mumba for ₹1 crore.

Zone B toppers, Bengaluru Bulls beat the Zone A toppers, Gujarat Fortune Giants by 38–33 in the final with the Man of the Tournament Pawan Kumar Sehrawat stealing the show with a record 22 raid points against the young Fortune Giants defence. For a consecutive second time, Gujarat Fortune Giants have lost in the finals. The coach of Bengaluru Bulls, Randhir Singh was happy as his team finally won the tournament after underwhelming finishes in the previous couple of seasons. On the other hand, Manpreet Singh, the coach of the Gujarat Fortune Giants rued the opportunity to win the tournament after losing two successive finals.

Season 7(Bengal Warriors)

The 2019 season is the seventh edition of the Pro Kabaddi League, and it features 12 teams. Auctions for the new season were held in Mumbai on 8 and 9 April. The franchises splashed out over 50 crores to acquire 200 players. Siddharth Sirish Desai became the most expensive buy of the season after Telugu Titans got the winning bid of him at ₹1.45 crore.[27] The most expensive foreign player of this season was Iranian Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh who was bought by Bengal Warriors for ₹77.75 lakh.[28] As termed by the organisers 'Most Toughest Season', the zonal system present in the previous season is removed, and each team will play against all the other teams twice. Top 6 teams will qualify for the playoffs. The top two teams will automatically make the semi-finals while the remaining four will battle it out in eliminators.[29] Dabang Delhi and Bengal Warriors emerged as the winners in the semi finals and qualified to the final for the first time.[30][31] In the final, Bengal Warriors outplayed Dabang Delhi by a margin of 39–34 and clinched their maiden Pro Kabaddi League title.[32][33] The season witnessed several records. Pardeep Narwal became the first ever player to reach 1000 points in the Pro Kabaddi League.[34] Naveen Kumar scored 21 consecutive Super 10s and overall 22.[35] While Pawan Sehrawat registered most individual points in a match (39) against Haryana Steelers.[36] In this season, for the first time three raiders crossed the 300-raid points mark.[37] Among the defenders, Neeraj Kumar of Patna Pirates scored most tackle points (11) in a match and equalled the record of Mohit Chillar (11).[38]

Season 8

season 8 was postponed due to the covid-19 pandemic and the same season is scheduled to commence on 22 december 2021.

Viewership[]

As per the available data of the opening two weeks, Star Sports Pro Kabaddi viewership on TV increased by nearly 56% from the 2014 year's viewership. During the inaugural season, viewership was 43.5 crore (435 million) viewers, which was the second in India after the 56 crore (560 million) of IPL viewership. The online viewership also increased 1.3 crore unique visitors, which is 18.5 times than of last year's 7 lakh unique visitors. The third season which was flagged off on 30 January, recorded a surge in viewership with the opening week ratings 36 per cent higher than the week one viewership for its last season.[39]

Teams[]

Stadiums and locations[]

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.
Team City/State Stadium[40] Capacity
Bengal Warriors Kolkata, West Bengal Netaji Indoor Stadium 12,000
Bengaluru Bulls Bengaluru, Karnataka Sree Kanteerava Stadium 4,200
Dabang Delhi KC Delhi Thyagaraj Sports Complex 4,494
Jaipur Pink Panthers Jaipur, Rajasthan Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium 2,000
Patna Pirates Patna, Bihar Patliputra Sports Complex 20,000
Puneri Paltan Pune, Maharashtra Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex 4,200
Telugu Titans Hyderabad/Vizag, Telangana Gachibowli Indoor Stadium 5,000
U Mumba Mumbai, Maharashtra Dome@NSCI SVP Stadium 5,000
Gujarat Giants Ahmedabad, Gujarat The Arena Indoor Stadium 4,000
UP Yoddha Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex 8,000
Tamil Thalaivas Chennai, Tamilnadu Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium 5,000
Haryana Steelers Sonipat, Haryana Motilal Nehru School of Sports 2,000

Kits[]

Teams Owners Captain Head coach Kit Manufacturer Main Kit Sponsor Associate Sponsor
Bengal Warriors Kishore Biyani India Maninder Singh India Spunk
Bengaluru Bulls Badri Narayan Choudhary Kota
Ananda Giri
India Pawan Kumar Sehrawat India TYKA 1xNews PK
Dabang Delhi KC Radha Kapoor India India Krishan Kumar Hooda Shiv-Naresh JK Super Cement Vision11
Gujarat Giants Gautam Adani India Sunil Kumar India Shiv-Naresh Astral
Haryana Steelers Parth Jindal India Vikash Khandola India Rakesh Kumar T10 Sports DafaNews Borosil
Jaipur Pink Panthers Abhishek Bachchan India Deepak Niwas Hooda India Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan TYKA MyFab11
Patna Pirates Rajesh V. Shah India India Ram Mehar Singh Pace International DafaNews
Puneri Paltan Rajesh Harkishandas Doshi
Sumanlal Babulal Shah
Nallepilly Ramaswami Subramanian
India Nitin Tomar India Anup Kumar Shiv-Naresh Indigo Paints Schaeffler
Tamil Thalaivas Nimmagadda Prasad
Sachin Tendulkar
Allu Arjun
Ram Charan
India Surjeet Singh Narwal India Udaya Kumar Trak Only Parimatch News[41] Iodex
Telugu Titans Srinivas Sreeramaneni
Goutham Reddy Nedurmalli
Mahesh Kolli
India Rohit Kumar India Jagadish Kumble Vats Indinews Woods
U Mumba Ronnie Screwvala Iran Fazel Atrachali India Rajaguru Subramanian Sansui Macho Hint
UP Yoddha Kiran Kumar Grandhi India Nitesh Kumar India Sqad Gear ABP News Iodex

Up yodhha captain - Nitesh Kumar

PKL season results[]

Four teams, Jaipur Pink Panthers, U Mumba, Bengaluru Bulls and Bengal Warriors have won the tournament once, while Patna Pirates have won the Pro Kabaddi League thrice and the only champions to have defended their title twice. The current champions are Bengal Warriors.

Results[]

Season Final Final venue No. of teams Best raider (Most raid points) Best defender (Most tackle points) Most total points
Winner Result Runner-up
2014 Jaipur Pink Panthers 35–24
SD = 11
Report
U Mumba National Sports Club of India, Mumbai 8 Anup Kumar Manjeet Chhillar Anup Kumar
2015 U Mumba 36–30
SD = 6
Report
Bengaluru Bulls Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, Mumbai Kashiling Adake Ravinder Pahal Kashiling Adake
2016 Patna Pirates 31–28
SD = 3
Report
U Mumba Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, New Delhi Pardeep Narwal Manjeet Chhillar Pardeep Narwal
2016 Patna Pirates 37–29
SD = 8
Report
Jaipur Pink Panthers Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad Rahul Chaudhari Fazel Atrachali Rahul Chaudhari
2017 Patna Pirates 55–38
SD = 17
Report
Gujarat Fortune Giants Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai 12 Pardeep Narwal[42] Surender Nada Pardeep Narwal
2018 Bengaluru Bulls 38–33
SD = 5
Report
Gujarat Fortune Giants DOME@NSCI SVP STADIUM, Mumbai Pawan Sehrawat

[43]

Nitesh Kumar[44] Pawan Sehrawat

[45]

2019 Bengal Warriors 39–34
SD = 5
Report
Dabang Delhi The Arena Indoor Stadium, Ahmedabad Pawan Sehrawat[46] Fazel Atrachali Pawan Sehrawat
2021–22 TBD TBD

Performance of all the teams in all seasons[]

Team[47] Played Won Loss
Draw
Win% Loss% Draw% Trophy
Bengal Warriors 132 61 56 15 46.21% 42.42% 11.36% 1
Bengaluru Bulls 133 62 63 8 46.61% 47.36% 6.01% 1
Dabang Delhi 129 49 69 11 37.98% 53.48% 8.52% 0
Gujarat Giants 74 42 24 8 56.75% 32.43% 10.81% 0
Haryana Steelers 70 32 31 7 45.71% 44.28% 10.00% 0
Jaipur Pink Panthers 129 56 62 11 43.41% 48.06% 8.52% 1
Patna Pirates 136 71 52 13 52.20% 38.23% 9.55% 3
Puneri Paltan 130 51 68 11 39.23% 52.30% 8.46% 0
Tamil Thalaivas 69 15 43 11 21.73% 63.31% 15.94% 0
Telugu Titans 128 51 61 16 39.84% 47.65% 12.59% 0
U Mumba 134 82 43 9 61.19% 32.08% 6.71% 1
UP Yoddha 74 32 32 10 43.24% 43.24% 13.51% 0
Last updated: 28 December 2021, As of Jaipur Pink Panthers vs UP Yoddha

Sponsorship[]

Period Sponsor Tournament
2013–16 India Star Sports Star Sports Pro Kabaddi
2017–19 China Vivo Vivo Pro Kabaddi
2021–25

Tournament statistics[]

Total points (All seasons)[]

Rank Player Current Team Matches Total Points Points/match
1 India Pardeep Narwal UP Yoddha 110 1,192 10.83
2 India Rahul Chaudhari Puneri Paltan 124 1,020 8.22
3 India Deepak Niwas Hooda Jaipur Pink Panthers 126 966 7.66
4 India Ajay Thakur Dabang Delhi 118 813 6.88
5 India Maninder Singh Bengal Warriors 82 772 9.41
6 India Pawan Sehrawat Bengaluru Bulls 83 752 9.06
7 India Rohit Kumar Telugu Titans 92 711 7.72
8 India Rishank Devadiga Bengal Warriors 121 671 5.54
9 India Kashiling Adake Bengaluru Bulls 92 612 6.65
10 India Anup Kumar Jaipur Pink Panthers 91 596 6.54
As of 28 December 2021.[48]

Best raiders[]

Most raid points (All seasons)
Rank Player Current Team Matches Raid Points Raid points/match
1 India Pardeep Narwal UP Yoddha 110 1,183 10.75
2 India Rahul Chaudhari Puneri Paltan 124 961 7.75
3 India Deepak Niwas Hooda Jaipur Pink Panthers 126 879 6.97
4 India Ajay Thakur Dabang Delhi 118 791 6.70
5 India Maninder Singh Bengal Warriors 82 763 9.30
6 India Pawan Sehrawat Bengaluru Bulls 83 718 8.65
7 India Rohit Kumar Telugu Titans 92 670 7.28
8 India Rishank Devadiga Bengal Warriors 121 624 5.15
9 India Kashiling Adake Bengaluru Bulls 92 561 6.09
10 India Anup Kumar Jaipur Pink Panthers 91 527 5.79
As of 28 December 2021.[49]


Most successful raids (All seasons)
Rank Player Current Team Matches Successful Raids Successful raids/match
1 India Pardeep Narwal UP Yoddha 110 900 8.18
2 India Rahul Chaudhari Puneri Paltan 124 792 6.38
3 India Deepak Niwas Hooda Jaipur Pink Panthers 126 718 5.69
4 India Ajay Thakur Dabang Delhi 118 641 5.43
5 India Maninder Singh Bengal Warriors 82 610 7.43
6 India Pawan Sehrawat Bengaluru Bulls 83 549 6.61
7 India Rohit Kumar Telugu Titans 92 548 5.95
8 India Rishank Devadiga Bengal Warriors 121 494 4.08
9 India Naveen Kumar Dabang Delhi 48 434 9.04
10 India Kashiling Adake Bengaluru Bulls 92 424 4.60
As of 28 December 2021.[50]
Most Super 10s (All seasons)
Rank Player Name Current Team Match Played Super 10s Matches/super 10s
1 India Pardeep Narwal UP Yoddha 109 60 1.81
2 India Rahul Chaudhari Puneri Paltan 124 40 3.1
3 India Maninder Singh Bengal Warriors 82 34 2.41
4 India Naveen Kumar Dabang Delhi 48 33 1.45
India Pawan Sehrawat Bengaluru Bulls 83 33 2.51
6 India Deepak Niwas Hooda Jaipur Pink Panthers 125 32 3.90
7 India Ajay Thakur Dabang Delhi 118 29 4.06
8 India Rohit Kumar Telugu Titans 92 26 3.53
9 India Siddharth Sirish Desai Telugu Titans 45 24 1.87
10 India Monu Goyat Patna Pirates 75 22 3.40
As of 26 December 2021.[51]

Best defenders[]

Most tackle points (All seasons)
Rank Player Current Team Matches Tackle Points Points/match
1 India Manjeet Chillar Dabang Delhi 111 341 3.07
2 India Ravinder Pahal Gujarat Giants 115 331 2.87
3 Iran Fazel Atrachali U Mumba 106 319 3.00
4 India Sandeep Narwal Dabang Delhi 128 316 2.46
5 India PO Surjeet Singh Tamil Thalaivas 97 288 2.96
6 India Mohit Chillar Tamil Thalaivas 109 277 2.54
7 India Girish Maruti Ernak Gujarat Giants 109 270 2.47
8 India Dharmaraj Cheralathan Jaipur Pink Panthers 119 260 2.18
9 India Amit Hooda Jaipur Pink Panthers 90 239 2.65
10 India Jeeva Kumar Dabang Delhi 118 237 2.00
As of 28 December 2021.[52]
Most successful tackles (All seasons)
Rank Player Current Team Matches Successful Tackles Points/match
1 India Manjeet Chillar Dabang Delhi 111 326 2.93
2 India Ravinder Pahal Gujarat Giants 115 312 2.71
3 Iran Fazel Atrachali U Mumba 106 298 2.81
4 India Sandeep Narwal Dabang Delhi 128 288 2.25
5 India PO Surjeet Singh Tamil Thalaivas 97 270 2.78
6 India Girish Maruti Ernak Gujarat Giants 109 256 2.34
6 India Mohit Chillar Tamil Thalaivas 109 254 2.33
8 India Dharmaraj Cheralathan Jaipur Pink Panthers 119 235 1.97
9 India Amit Hooda Jaipur Pink Panthers 90 221 2.45
10 India Ran Singh Tamil Thalaivas 120 220 1.83
As of 28 December 2021.[53]
Most high 5s
Rank Player Name Position Current Team Match Played High 5s Match/high 5s
1 India PO Surjeet Singh Defender, right cover Tamil Thalaivas 96 27 3.55
2 India Manjeet Chhillar All Rounder Dabang Delhi 111 23 4.82
India Ravinder Pahal Defender, right corner Gujarat Giants 115 23 5
4 Iran Fazel Atrachali Defender, left corner U Mumba 105 21 5
5 India Surender Nada Defender, left corner Haryana Steelers 73 20 3.65
6 India Mohit Chhillar Defender, right corner Tamil Thalaivas 109 18 6.05
India Nitesh Kumar Defender UP Yoddha 69 18 3.83
8 India Girish Maruti Ernak Defender, left corner Gujarat Giants 109 17 6.41
India Sandeep Narwal All Rounder Dabang Delhi 128 17 7.52
10 India Vishal Bhardwaj Defender Puneri Paltan 62 15 4.13
As of 27 December 2021.[54]

Prize money[]

Prize money for the winner of season 6 was ₹3 crore. The first and second runners-up were awarded ₹1.83 crore and ₹1.2 crore respectively.[55] The consolidated prize money for season 7 is ₹8 crore. The champions of season 7 will bag ₹3 crore while the runners-up will receive ₹1.8 crore. The losing semifinalists will receive ₹90 lakh each and, the fifth and the sixth-placed teams will earn ₹45 lakh.[56]

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