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2019 Pro Kabaddi League 
Summary
The 2019 Vivo Pro Kabaddi League was the seventh season of Pro Kabaddi League. The season began on 20 July 2019 and concluded on 19 October 2019.[1] The zonal system present in the previous seasons was removed, and each team played against all the other teams twice.[2]
 Le panga | |
| Tournament information | |
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| Dates | 20 July 2019–19 October 2019 |
| Administrator | Mashal Sports |
Tournament format(s) | Double round robin and playoffs |
| Host(s) | India |
| Teams | 12 |
| Website | prokabaddi |
| Final positions | |
| Champion | Bengal Warriors (1st title) |
| Runner-up | Dabang Delhi |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 137 |
| Top scorer(s) |  Pawan Sehrawat (346) (Bengaluru Bulls) |
| Most tackle points |  Fazel Atrachali (82) (U Mumba) |
| Most successful raid | Pawan Sehrawat (262) (Bengaluru Bulls) |
| Most successful tackle | Fazel Atrachali (77) (U Mumba) |
Bengal Warriors defeated Dabang Delhi in the final match to win their maiden title.[3]
Teams edit
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Locations of the Pro Kabaddi teamsStadiums and locations edit
| Team | Color | City/State | Stadium[4] | Capacity |
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| Bengal Warriors | Kolkata, West Bengal | Netaji Indoor Stadium | 12,000 | |
| Bengaluru Bulls | Bengaluru, Karnataka | Kanteerava Indoor Stadium | 4,200 | |
| Dabang Delhi KC | Delhi | Thyagaraj Sports Complex | 4,494 | |
| Gujarat Giants | Ahmedabad, Gujarat | EKA Arena | 4,000 | |
| Haryana Steelers | Sonipat, Haryana | Motilal Nehru School of Sports | 2,000 | |
| Jaipur Pink Panthers | Jaipur, Rajasthan | Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium | 2,000 | |
| Patna Pirates | Patna, Bihar | Patliputra Sports Complex | 3,500 | |
| Puneri Paltan | Pune, Maharashtra | Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex | 4,200 | |
| Tamil Thalaivas | Chennai, Tamil Nadu | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium | 5,000 | |
| Telugu Titans | Hyderabad/Vizag, Telangana | Gachibowli Indoor Stadium | 5,000 | |
| U Mumba | Mumbai, Maharashtra | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium | 5,000 | |
| UP Yoddha | Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh | Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium | 5,000 |
Personnel and sponsorship edit
| Teams | Owners | Captain | Head coach | Kit Manufacturer | Main Kit Sponsor | Associate Sponsor |
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| Bengal Warriors | Kishore Biyani | Maninder Singh
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BC Ramesh
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Spunk | Future Pay | Voom Detergent |
| Bengaluru Bulls | Badri Narayan Choudhary Kota, Ananda Giri | Rohit Kumar
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Randhir Singh Sherahawat
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Vats | Ashirvad Pipes | Walkmate |
| Dabang Delhi KC | Radha Kapoor | Joginder Narwal
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Krishan Kumar Hooda
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Reforce | JK Super Cement | Officer's Choice Blue |
| Gujarat Fortune Giants | Gautam Adani | Sunil Kumar
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Manpreet Singh
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Shivnaresh | Finolex Cables | Fortune Foods |
| Haryana Steelers | Parth Jindal | Dharmaraj Cheralathan
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Rakesh Kumar
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T10 Sports | APL Apollo Steel Pipes | Borosil |
| Jaipur Pink Panthers | Abhishek Bachchan | Deepak Niwas Hooda
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Srinivas Reddy
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TYKA | Ambuja Cements | TVS |
| Patna Pirates | Rajesh V. Shah | Pardeep Narwal
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Ram Mehar Singh
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Pace International | Birla Gold Cement | Revital-H |
| Puneri Paltan | Rajesh Harkishandas Doshi, Sumanlal Babulal Shah, Nallepilly Ramaswami Subramanian | PO Surjeet Singh
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Anup Kumar
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Shiv Naresh | Force Motors | Netmeds |
| Tamil Thalaivas | Nimmagadda Prasad, Sachin Tendulkar, Allu Arjun, Ram Charan & Allu Aravind | Ajay Thakur
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E Bhaskaran
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Kaizen Sports & Fitness | Celon Labs | |
| Telugu Titans | Srinivas Sreeramaneni, Goutham Reddy Nedurmalli, Mahesh Kolli | Abozar Mohajermighani
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Gholamreza Mazandarai
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Vats | Greenko | Araku Coffee |
| U Mumba | Ronnie Screwvala | Fazel Atrachali
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Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan
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Indigo Paints | Haldiram's | |
| UP Yoddha | Kiran Kumar Grandhi | Nitesh kumar
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Jasveer Singh
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Shivnaresh | Tata Yodha | Valvoline |
Foreign players edit
Each team can sign maximum 3 foreign players in the squad.
| Teams | Player 1 | POS | Player 2 | POS | Player 3 | POS |
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| Bengal Warriors | Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh
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AR | Mohammad Taghi Paein Mahali
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| Bengaluru Bulls |  Lal Mohar Yadav
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RD | Sanjay Shrestha
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| Dabang Delhi KC | Meraj Sheykh
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AR | Saeid Ghaffari
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DF | ||
| Gujarat Fortune Giants | Abolfazl Maghsodloumahali
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RD |  Mohammed Shazid Hossain
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AR | ||
| Haryana Steelers | Amirhossein Mohammed Maleki
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RD |  Tin Phonchoo
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AR | ||
| Jaipur Pink Panthers |  Dong Gyu Kim
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AR |  Milinda Chathuranga
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RD | ||
| Patna Pirates | Hadi Oshtorak
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AR | Lee Jang-kun
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RD | Mohammed Esmaeil Maghsoudlou Mohalli
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| Puneri Paltan | Emad Sedaghatnia
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RD | Hadi Tajik
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| Tamil Thalaivas | Milad Sheibak
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DF |  Victor Onyango Obiero
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| Telugu Titans | Abozar Mohajermighani
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DF | Farhad Rahimi Milaghardan
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AR | ||
| U Mumba | Dong Geon Lee
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RD | Fazel Atrachali
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DF | Young Chang Ko
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| UP Yoddha | MD. Masud Karim
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RD | Mohsen Maghsoudloujafari
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Sponsorship edit
Title Sponsor
- Associate Sponsors
- Partners
- Broadcast Sponsor
Viewership edit
Unlike the last season that witnessed a 31 percent dip in viewership data to 1.1 billion impressions from the 1.6 billion impressions of season five, PKL 7 has registered a growth of 9 percent in viewership numbers and has garnered 1.2 billion impressions, as per BARC India.[5]
Points table edit
| Team |
Pld | W | L | D | SD | Pts |
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| Dabang Delhi KC (R) | 22 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 66 | 85 |
| Bengal Warriors (C) | 22 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 71 | 83 |
| UP Yoddha | 22 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 74 |
| U Mumba | 22 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 47 | 72 |
| Haryana Steelers | 22 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 15 | 71 |
| Bengaluru Bulls | 22 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 16 | 64 |
| Jaipur Pink Panthers | 22 | 9 | 11 | 2 | -13 | 58 |
| Patna Pirates | 22 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 29 | 51 |
| Gujarat Forunte Giants | 22 | 7 | 13 | 2 | 18 | 51 |
| Puneri Paltan | 22 | 7 | 12 | 3 | -72 | 48 |
| Telugu Titans | 22 | 6 | 13 | 3 | -67 | 45 |
| Tamil Thalaivas | 22 | 4 | 15 | 3 | -119 | 37 |
Source: ProKabaddi
- advanced to Finals
- advanced to Eliminators
- Five (5) points for a win
- Three (3) points each for a drawn game
- One (1) point for a loss by 7 points or fewer
- Top 6 teams qualify for the playoffs
League stage edit
Leg 1 – Gachibowli Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad edit
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Leg 2 – Dome@NSCI SVP Stadium, Mumbai edit
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Leg 3 – Patliputra Sports Complex, Patna edit
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Leg 4 – The Arena, Ahmedabad edit
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Leg 5 – Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai edit
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Leg 6 – Thyagaraj Sports Complex, New Delhi edit
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Leg 7 – Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, Bangalore edit
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Leg 8 – Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Indoor Stadium, Kolkata edit
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Leg 9 – Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune edit
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Leg 10 – Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium, Jaipur edit
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Leg 11 – Tau Devilal Sports Complex, Panchkula edit
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Leg 12 – Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex, Greater Noida edit
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Playoffs edit
Bracket edit
| Eliminators | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| The Arena, Ahmedabad | ||||||||||
| Bengal Warriors | 37 | |||||||||
| The Arena, Ahmedabad | ||||||||||
| U Mumba | 35 | |||||||||
| U Mumba | 46 | |||||||||
| The Arena, Ahmedabad | ||||||||||
| Haryana Steelers | 38 | |||||||||
| Dabang Delhi | 34 | |||||||||
| Bengal Warriors | 39 | |||||||||
| The Arena, Ahmedabad | ||||||||||
| Dabang Delhi | 44 | |||||||||
| The Arena, Ahmedabad | ||||||||||
| Bengaluru Bulls | 38 | |||||||||
| UP Yoddha | 45 | |||||||||
| Bengaluru Bulls | 48 | |||||||||
Eliminator 1 edit
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Eliminator 2 edit
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Semi Final 1 edit
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Semi Final 2 edit
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Final edit
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Statistics edit
Best raiders edit
- As of 19 October 2019[6]
| Rank | Player | Team | Matches | Total Points |
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| 1 | Pawan Sehrawat
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Bengaluru Bulls | 24 | 346 |
| 2 | Pardeep Narwal
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Patna Pirates | 22 | 302 |
| 3 | Naveen Kumar
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Dabang Delhi | 23 | 301 |
| 4 | Siddharth Desai
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Telugu Titans | 22 | 217 |
| 5 | Maninder Singh
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Bengal Warriors | 20 | 205 |
Best defenders edit
- As of 19 October 2019[7]
| Rank | Player | Team | Matches | Tackle Points |
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| 1 | Fazel Atrachali
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U Mumba | 24 | 82 |
| 2 | Sumit
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UP Yoddha | 23 | 77 |
| 3 | Nitesh Kumar
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UP Yoddha | 23 | 75 |
| 4 | Sandeep Kumar Dhull
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Jaipur Pink Panthers | 22 | 73 |
| 5 | Baldev Singh
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Bengal Warriors | 24 | 66 |
References edit
- ^ "Start date of VIVO Pro Kabaddi Season VII announced". Pro Kabaddi. 28 May 2019. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ "Pro Kabaddi League 2019: Predicting the captains of former Zone B teams". www.sportskeeda.com. 28 June 2019. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
- ^ "Bengal Warriors outplay Dabang Delhi K.C. And lift their maiden vivo Pro Kabaddi title". 19 October 2019.
- ^ "Official Website for the Pro Kabaddi League". ProKabaddi.com. 9 March 2014. Archived from the original on 23 May 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
- ^ "Pro Kabaddi League is scoring high on revenue, viewership & sponsors".
- ^ https://www.prokabbadi.com/stats/%7B0%7D[permanent dead link]
- ^ https://www.prokabbadi.com/stats/%7B0%7D[permanent dead link]