2017 Pro Kabaddi League season

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The 2017 Vivo Pro Kabaddi League season was the fifth season of Pro Kabaddi League, a professional kabaddi league in India since 2014. It is organised by Mashal Sports and Star India. This season includes 12 teams after the inclusion of four new teams: UP Yoddha, Tamil Thalaivas, Haryana Steelers and Gujarat Fortunegiants.

Auction

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 a total of Rs 46.99 crore spent by the 12 teams.

The most expensive pick of the auction was raider Nitin Tomar, who was bought by the new UP franchise for a sum of Rs 93 lakh.^[1] Following in second place was Rohit Kumar after the Bengaluru Bulls picked him for a Rs 81 lakh price. The most expensive foreign player was South Korea's Jang Kun Lee after he was retained by the Bengal Warriors for Rs 80.3 lakhs.

Opening ceremony

The opening ceremony is held on the first match of every leg in each stadium.Template:Fact This is similar to that of IPL 2017.Template:Fact It is done so to highlight the importance of the tradition and culture all over the country.Template:Fact

Teams

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Stadiums and Locations

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Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.

Team	Location	Stadium^[2]
Bengal Warriors	Kolkata	Netaji Indoor Stadium
Bengaluru Bulls	Bengaluru	Shree Kanteerava Stadium
Dabang Delhi KC	Delhi	Thyagaraj Sports Complex
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Jaipur	Sawai Mansingh Stadium
Patna Pirates	Ranchi	Harivansh Tana Bhagat Indoor Stadium
Puneri Paltan	Pune	Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex
Telugu Titans	Hyderabad/Vizag	Gachibowli Indoor Stadium
U Mumba	Mumbai	Dome@NSCI SVP Stadium
Gujarat Fortune Giants	Ahmedabad	The Arena Indoor Stadium
UP Yoddha	Lucknow	Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium
Tamil Thalaivas	Chennai	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Haryana Steelers	Haryana	Motilal Nehru School of Sports

Personnel & kit

Teams	Owners	Captain	Head coach	Main Sponsor	Back Sponsor
Bengal Warriors	Birthright Games & Entertainment Private Limited	Surjeet Singh	Jagdish Kumble
Bengaluru Bulls	WL League Pvt. Ltd.	Rohit Kumar	Randhir Singh	-
Dabang Delhi KC	Mrs Radha Kapoor Khanna	Meraj Sheykh	Dr. Ramesh Bhendigiri	ISDI	ISME
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Abhishek Bachchan	Manjeet Chillar	Balwan Singh	Finolex Cables	Lux Cozi
Patna Pirates	Rajesh V. Shah	Pardeep Narwal	Ram Meher Singh	Birla Gold Premium Cement	Johnson
Puneri Paltan	Insurekot Sports	Deepak Niwas Hooda	BC Ramesh	Force Motors
Telugu Titans	Veera Sports	Rahul Chaudhari	Naveen Kumar	Greenko	TVS Tyres
U Mumba	Ronnie Screwvala	Anup Kumar	Bhaskaran Edacherry
Tamil Thalaivas	Iquest Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. & Blasters Sports Ventures Pvt. Ltd.	Ajay Thakur	K Baskaran	Muthoot Fincorp India	Maha Cement
Gujarat Fortune Giants	Mr. Gautam Adani	Fazel Atrachali	Manpreet Singh	Adani	Simpolo Ceramics
Haryana Steelers	JSW Group	Surender Nada	Rambir Singh Khokhar	Kent RO
UP Yoddha	GMR League Games Pvt. Ltd.	Nitin Tomar	J. Udaya Kumar	Tata Yodha	Karbonn

Sponsorship

Rules and regulations

The 12 teams are divided into two zones of six each. Each team plays a total of 22 matches in the league stage:

1. Teams from the same zone play each other thrice, totalling 15 matches in the zone.

2. Then, a team will play an additional of 6 matches with the teams from the other zone. (Each team plays other team from the other zone once). These 6 inter-zone matches for each team will be held on three different weeks. These weeks are known as inter-zone challenge weeks and the respective weeks are:

1st: 15 August – 20 August
2nd: 5 September – 10 September
3rd: 26 September – 1 October

3. Then, each team plays one wild card match which is an additional inter-zone match in the penultimate week, selected by a random mid-season draw, totalling 22 matches in the league stage.

The top three teams from each zone qualify for the super playoffs and compete for the title.