2021–22 Pro Kabaddi League

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The 2021-22 Vivo Pro Kabaddi League is the eighth season of Pro Kabaddi League. The season began on 22 December 2021.^[1] The usual travelling caravan format was changed to a single venue hosting all the matches of the season. Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, Bangalore was initially announced as the venue, but was later changed to the Sheraton Grand Hotel and Convention Center located in Whitefield, Bangalore.^[2]

Each team will play against all the other teams once, and the top 6 teams will proceed to the play-offs. The player auctions for the season were conducted from August 29 to 31, 2021 in Mumbai.^[3]

Teams

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Teams	Owners	Captain	Head coach	Kit Manufacturer	Main Kit Sponsor	Associate Sponsor
Bengal Warriors	Kishore Biyani	Maninder Singh	BC Ramesh	Spunk	Winzo
Bengaluru Bulls	Badri Narayan Choudhary Kota Ananda Giri	Pawan Kumar Sehrawat	Randhir Singh Sherahawat	TYKA	1xNews	PK
Dabang Delhi KC	Radha Kapoor	Joginder Narwal	Krishan Kumar Hooda	Shiv-Naresh	JK Super Cement	Vision11
Gujarat Giants	Gautam Adani	Sunil Kumar	Manpreet Singh	Shiv-Naresh	Winzo	Astral
Haryana Steelers	Parth Jindal	Vikash Khandola	Rakesh Kumar	T10 Sports	DafaNews	Borosil
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Abhishek Bachchan	Deepak Niwas Hooda	Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan	TYKA		MyFab11
Patna Pirates	Rajesh V. Shah	Prashant Kumar Rai	Ram Mehar Singh	Pace International	DafaNews	Winzo
Puneri Paltan	Rajesh Harkishandas Doshi Sumanlal Babulal Shah Nallepilly Ramaswami Subramanian	Vishal Bhardwaj	Anup Kumar	Shiv-Naresh	Indigo Paints	Schaeffler
Tamil Thalaivas	Nimmagadda Prasad Sachin Tendulkar Allu Arjun Ram Charan Ritik Chauhan	Surjeet Singh Narwal	Udaya Kumar	Trak Only	Parimatch News^[4]	Iodex
Telugu Titans	Srinivas Sreeramaneni Goutham Reddy Nedurmalli Mahesh Kolli	Rohit Kumar	Jagadish Kumble	Vats	Indinews	Woods
U Mumba	Ronnie Screwvala	Fazel Atrachali	Rajaguru Subramanian		Sansui	Macho Hint
UP Yoddha	Kiran Kumar Grandhi	Nitesh Kumar	Jasveer Singh	Sqad Gear	ABP News	Iodex

Sponsorship

Title Sponsor

Vivo

Associate Sponsors

Partners

Broadcast Sponsor

Star Sports

Viewership

This year PKL will be missing LIVE audiences and will shed the caravan style format. Instead, all teams will play at a single location in Bengaluru. Looking back at IPL last year, media planners suggest that format changes will have little to no impact on the viewership of the tournament. Mashal Sports has also announced that triple headers will be played on all Saturdays which may have a positive impact on the viewership over weekends.^[5]

Points Table

Template:2021-22 Pro Kabaddi League season points

League Stage

22 December 2021
19:30 (IST)

Bengaluru Bulls	30 – 46	U Mumba
Chandran Ranjit (13)	Report	Abhishek Singh (19)

Match 1
U Mumba won

22 December 2021
20:30 (IST)

Telugu Titans	40 – 40	Tamil Thalaivas
Siddharth Sirish Desai (11)	Report	Manjeet (12)

Match 2
Match drawn

22 December 2021
21:30 (IST)

Bengal Warriors	38 – 33	UP Yoddha
Esmaeil Nabibakhsh (8)	Report	Pardeep Narwal (8)

Match 3
Bengal Warriors won

23 December 2021
19:30 (IST)

Gujarat Giants	34 – 27	Jaipur Pink Panthers
Rakesh Narwal (7)	Report	Arjun Deshwal (10)

Match 4
Gujarat Giants won

23 December 2021
20:30 (IST)

Dabang Delhi	41 – 30	Puneri Paltan
Naveen Kumar (16)	Report	Nitin Tomar (7)

Match 5
Dabang Delhi won

23 December 2021
21:30 (IST)

Haryana Steelers	39 – 42	Patna Pirates
Rohit Gulia (10)	Report	Monu Goyat (15)

Match 6
Patna Pirates won

24 December 2021
19:30 (IST)

U Mumba	27 – 31	Dabang Delhi
V. Ajith Kumar (7)	Report	Naveen Kumar (17)

Match 7
Dabang Delhi won

24 December 2021
20:30 (IST)

Tamil Thalaivas	30 – 38	Bengaluru Bulls
Bhavani Rajput (8)	Report	Pawan Sehrawat (9)

Match 8
Bengaluru Bulls won

24 December 2021
21:30 (IST)

Bengal Warriors	31 – 28	Gujarat Giants
Maninder Singh (8)	Report	Rakesh Narwal (12)

Match 9
Bengal Warriors won

25 December 2021
19:30 (IST)

Patna Pirates	35 – 36	UP Yoddha
Sachin (10)	Report	Pardeep Narwal (12)

Match 10
UP Yoddha won

25 December 2021
20:30 (IST)

Puneri Paltan	34 – 33	Telugu Titans
Mohit Goyat (9)	Report	Siddharth Sirish Desai (15)

Match 11
Puneri Paltan won

25 December 2021
21:30 (IST)

Jaipur Pink Panthers	40 – 38	Haryana Steelers
Arjun Deshwal (18)	Report	Vikash Khandola (14)

Match 12
Jaipur Pink Panthers won

26 December 2021
19:30 (IST)

Gujarat Giants	24 – 24	Dabang Delhi
Rakesh Narwal (9)	Report	Naveen Kumar (11)

Match 13
Match drawn

26 December 2021
20:30 (IST)

Bengaluru Bulls	36 – 35	Bengal Warriors
Pawan Sehrawat (15)	Report	Maninder Singh (17)

Match 14
Bengaluru Bulls won

27 December 2021
19:30 (IST)

Tamil Thalaivas	30 – 30	U Mumba
Manjeet (8)	Report	Ajith Kumar (15)

Match 15
Match drawn

27 December 2021
20:30 (IST)

UP Yoddha	29 – 32	Jaipur Pink Panthers
Surender Gill (10)	Report	Arjun Deshwal (11)

Match 16
Jaipur Pink Panthers won

28 December 2021
19:30 (IST)

Puneri Paltan	26 – 38	Patna Pirates
Mohit Goyat (5)	Report	Sachin (10)

Match 17
Patna Pirates won

28 December 2021
20:30 (IST)

Telugu Titans	37 – 39	Haryana Steelers
Siddharth Sirish Desai (9)	Report	Meetu Mahender (12)

Match 18
Haryana Steelers won

29 December 2021
19:30 (IST)

Dabang Delhi	52 – 35	Bengal Warriors
Naveen Kumar (24)	Report	Maninder Singh (16)

Match 19
Dabang Delhi won

29 December 2021
20:30 (IST)

UP Yoddha	32 – 32	Gujarat Giants
Pardeep Narwal (11)	Report	Rakesh Narwal (13)

Match 20
Match drawn

30 December 2021
19:30 (IST)

Jaipur Pink Panthers	28 – 37	U Mumba
Arjun Deshwal (14)	Report	Ajith Kumar (11)

Match 21
U Mumba won

30 December 2021
20:30 (IST)

Haryana Steelers	28 – 42	Bengaluru Bulls
Vikash Khandola (7)	Report	Pawan Sehrawat (20)

Match 22
Bengaluru Bulls won

31 December 2021
19:30 (IST)

Tamil Thalaivas	36 – 26	Puneri Paltan
Ajinkya Pawar (11)	Report	Pankaj Mohite (7)

Match 23
Tamil Thalaivas won

31 December 2021
20:30 (IST)

Patna Pirates	44 – 30	Bengal Warriors
Monu Goyat (12)	Report	Maninder Singh (12)

Match 24
Patna Pirates won

01 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

U Mumba	28 – 28	UP Yoddha
V. Ajith Kumar (9)	Report	Surender Gill (8)

Match 25
Match drawn

01 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Bengaluru Bulls	34 – 34	Telugu Titans
Chandran Ranjit (9)	Report	Ankit Beniwal (10)

Match 26
Match drawn

01 January 2022
21:30 (IST)

Dabang Delhi	30 – 30	Tamil Thalaivas
Naveen Kumar (15)	Report	Manjeet (9)

Match 27
Match drawn

02 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Gujarat Giants	36 – 38	Haryana Steelers
H.S. Rakesh (19)	Report	Vikash Khandola (10)

Match 28
Haryana Steelers won

02 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Puneri Paltan	29 – 40	Bengaluru Bulls
Aslam Inamdar (6)	Report	Pawan Sehrawat (11)

Match 29
Bengaluru Bulls won

03 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Bengal Warriors	31 – 28	Jaipur Pink Panthers
Maninder Singh (12)	Report	Arjun Deshwal (16)

Match 30
Bengal Warriors won

03 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Telugu Titans	30 – 31	Patna Pirates
Ankit Beniwal (10)	Report	Monu Goyat (6)

Match 31
Patna Pirates won

04 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Haryana Steelers	24 – 24	U Mumba
Rohit Gulia (7)	Report	Abhishek Singh (4)

Match 32
Match drawn

04 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

UP Yoddha	33 – 39	Tamil Thalaivas
Surender Gill (13)	Report	Manjeet (6)

Match 33
Tamil Thalaivas won

05 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Puneri Paltan	33 – 26	Gujarat Giants
Mohit Goyal (10)	Report	Ajay Kumar (10)

Match 34
Puneri Paltan won

05 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Dabang Delhi	36 – 35	Telugu Titans
Naveen Kumar (25)	Report	Rajnish (20)

Match 35
Dabang Delhi won

06 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Patna Pirates	30 – 30	Tamil Thalaivas
Monu Goyat (8)	Report	Ajinkya Pawar (12)

Match 36
Match drawn

06 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Bengaluru Bulls	38 – 31	Jaipur Pink Panthers
Pawan Sehrawat (17)	Report	Arjun Deshwal (13)

Match 37
Bengaluru Bulls won

07 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Bengal Warriors	37 – 41	Haryana Steelers
Maninder Singh (14)	Report	Meetu Mahender (10)

Match 38
Haryana Steelers won

07 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Jaipur Pink Panthers	31 – 26	Puneri Paltan
Arjun Deshwal (11)	Report	Nitin Tomar (4)

Match 39
Jaipur Pink Panthers won

08 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

UP Yoddha	33 – 37	Dabang Delhi
Pardeep Narwal (9)	Report	Naveen Kumar (17)

Match 40
Dabang Delhi won

08 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

U Mumba	48 – 38	Telugu Titans
Abhishek Singh (13)	Report	Galla Raju (8)

Match 41
U Mumba won

08 January 2022
21:30 (IST)

Gujarat Giants	26 – 27	Patna Pirates
Mahendra Ganesh Rajput (7)	Report	Prashanth Kumar Rai (8)

Match 42
Patna Pirates won

09 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Puneri Paltan	39 – 27	Bengal Warriors
Aslam Inamdar (16)	Report	Maninder Singh (13)

Match 43
Puneri Paltan won

09 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Bengaluru Bulls	27 – 42	UP Yoddha
Bharat (11)	Report	Shrikant Jadhav (12)

Match 44
UP Yoddha won

10 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Tamil Thalaivas	45 – 26	Haryana Steelers
Manjeet (10)		Vikash Khandola (8)

Match 45
Tamil Thalaivas won

10 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Jaipur Pink Panthers	30 – 28	Dabang Delhi
Deepak Niwas Hooda (9)		Naveen Kumar (7)

Match 46
Jaipur Pink Panthers won

11 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Patna Pirates	43 – 23	U Mumba
Sachin (7)		Abhishek Singh (8)

Match 47
Patna Pirates won

11 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Telugu Titans	22 - 40	Gujarat Giants
Rajnish (11)		H.S. Rakesh (16)

Match 48
Gujarat Giants won

12 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Haryana Steelers	36 - 36	UP Yoddha
Vikash Khandola (17)	Report	Surender Gill (13)

Match 49
Match drawn

12 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Dabang Delhi	22 - 61	Bengaluru Bulls
Ashu Malik (6)		Pawan Sehrawat (27)

Match 50
Bengaluru Bulls won

13 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Bengal Warriors	37 - 28	Tamil Thalaivas
Maninder Singh (12)		Manjeet (8)

Match 51
Bengal Warriors won

13 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

U Mumba	23 - 42	Puneri Paltan
Abhishek Singh (4)		Aslam Inamdar (6)

Match 52
Puneri Paltan won

14 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Jaipur Pink Panthers	–	Patna Pirates

Match 53

14 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Gujarat Giants	–	Bengaluru Bulls

Match 54

15 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Haryana Steelers	–	Dabang Delhi

Match 55

15 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

UP Yoddha	–	Telugu Titans

Match 56

15 January 2022
21:30 (IST)

U Mumba	–	Bengal Warriors

Match 57

16 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Tamil Thalaivas	–	Jaipur Pink Panthers

Match 58

16 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Patna Pirates	–	Bengaluru Bulls

Match 59

17 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Puneri Paltan	–	UP Yoddha

Match 60

17 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Telugu Titans	–	Bengal Warriors

Match 61

18 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Dabang Delhi	–	Patna Pirates

Match 62

18 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Gujarat Giants	–	U Mumba

Match 63

19 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Haryana Steelers	–	Puneri Paltan

Match 64

19 January 2022
20:30 (IST)

Jaipur Pink Panthers	–	Telugu Titans

Match 65

20 January 2022
19:30 (IST)

Tamil Thalaivas	–	Gujarat Giants

Match 66

Play-offs

Bracket

All matches to be played in Bengaluru.

Eliminators	Semi-finals	Final




	Semi-final 1

	1st
Eliminator 1
	Winner Eliminator 1
3rd

6th
		Winner Semi Final 1

		Winner Semi Final 2

	Semi-final 2

	2nd
Eliminator 2
	Winner Eliminator 2
4th

5th

Eliminator 1

TBA

3rd	–	6th

Match 67

Eliminator 2

TBA

4th	–	5th

Match 68

Semi Final 1

TBA

1st	–	Winner of Eliminator 1

Match 69

Semi Final 2

TBA

2nd	–	Winner of Eliminator 2

Match 70

Final

TBA

Winner of Semi Final 1	–	Winner of Semi Final 2

Match 71

Statistics

Most Raid Points

Rank	Player	Team	Matches	Raid Points
1	Naveen Kumar	Dabang Delhi	8	130
2	Pawan Sehrawat	Bengaluru Bulls	9	122
3	Maninder Singh	Bengal Warriors	9	111
4	Arjun Deshwal	Jaipur Pink Panthers	8	99
5	Vikash Khandola	Haryana Steelers	9	77
As of 13 January 2022.^[6]

Most Tackle Points

As of 12 January 2022.^[7]

Rank	Player	Team	Matches	Tackle Points
1	Surjeet Singh Narwal	Tamil Thalaivas	9	33
2	Jaideep	Haryana Steelers	9	27
3	Sagar	Tamil Thalaivas	9	27
4	Surender Nada	Haryana Steelers	9	24
5	Mohammadreza Chiyaneh	Patna Pirates	8	23

Total Points

Rank	Player	Team	Matches	Total Points
1	Naveen Kumar	Dabang Delhi	8	133
2	Pawan Sehrawat	Bengaluru Bulls	9	127
3	Maninder Singh	Bengal Warriors	9	112
4	Arjun Deshwal	Jaipur Pink Panthers	8	100
5	Vikash Khandola	Haryana Steelers	9	79
As of 13 January 2022.^[8]

References

^ "IT'S BACK! vivo Pro Kabaddi Season 8 starts December 22". Pro Kabaddi. 5 Oct 2021. Retrieved 14 Oct 2021.
^ Desk, India com Sports. "Vivo Pro Kabaddi League Season 8 Schedule And Venue Announced: All You Need to Know". www.india.com. Retrieved 2021-12-01. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
^ "PKL 2021: Full list of kabaddi players sold at Pro Kabaddi auction". August 31, 2021. Retrieved 14 Oct 2021.
^ "PKL side Tamil Thalaivas appoint Parimatch as shirt sponsor: Reports".
^ https://plus.google.com/107324234873078450867 (2021-12-15). "Pro Kabaddi League Season 8 returns after two years: What has changed?". Indian Television Dot Com. Retrieved 2022-01-10. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help); External link in |last= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ https://www.prokabaddi.com/stats/20-22-player-raid-points-statistics
^ https://www.prokabaddi.com/stats/20-103-player-tackle-points-statistics
^ https://www.prokabaddi.com/stats/20-102-player-total-points-statistics

[1] "IT'S BACK! vivo Pro Kabaddi Season 8 starts December 22". Pro Kabaddi. 5 Oct 2021. Retrieved 14 Oct 2021.

[2] Desk, India com Sports. "Vivo Pro Kabaddi League Season 8 Schedule And Venue Announced: All You Need to Know". www.india.com. Retrieved 2021-12-01. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)

[3] "PKL 2021: Full list of kabaddi players sold at Pro Kabaddi auction". August 31, 2021. Retrieved 14 Oct 2021.

[4] "PKL side Tamil Thalaivas appoint Parimatch as shirt sponsor: Reports".

[5] ttps://plus.google.com/107324234873078450867 (2021-12-15). "Pro Kabaddi League Season 8 returns after two years: What has changed?". Indian Television Dot Com. Retrieved 2022-01-10. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help); External link in |last= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

[6] ttps://www.prokabaddi.com/stats/20-22-player-raid-points-statistics

[7] ttps://www.prokabaddi.com/stats/20-103-player-tackle-points-statistics

[8] ttps://www.prokabaddi.com/stats/20-102-player-total-points-statistics

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v t e Pro Kabaddi League
Seasons	2014 2015 January 2016 June 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2024
Teams	Bengal Warriors Bengaluru Bulls Dabang Delhi Gujarat Giants Haryana Steelers Jaipur Pink Panthers Patna Pirates Puneri Paltan Tamil Thalaivas Telugu Titans U Mumba UP Yoddha
Venues	Netaji Indoor Stadium Kanteerava Indoor Stadium Thyagaraj Sports Complex EKA Arena Motilal Nehru School of Sports Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium Patliputra Sports Complex Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium Gachibowli Indoor Stadium Port Trust Diamond Jubilee Stadium Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium