2019 Pro Kabaddi League season

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. The zonal system present in the previous seasons was removed, and each team played against all the other teams twice.

Bengal Warriors defeated Dabang Delhi in the final match to win their maiden title. Vivo PKL2019

Teams

Stadiums and Locations

Team	City/State	Stadium	Capacity
Bengal Warriors	Kolkata, West Bengal	Netaji Indoor Stadium	Template:Nts
Bengaluru Bulls	Bengaluru, Karnataka	Sree Kanteerava Stadium	Template:Nts
Dabang Delhi KC	Delhi	Thyagaraj Sports Complex	Template:Nts
Gujarat Fortune Giants	Ahmedabad, Gujarat	The Arena Indoor Stadium	Template:Nts
Haryana Steelers	Panchkula, Haryana	Tau Devilal Sports Complex	Template:Nts
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Jaipur, Rajasthan	Sawai Mansingh Indoor Stadium	Template:Nts
Patna Pirates	Patna, Bihar	Patliputra Sports Complex	Template:Nts
Punere Paltan	Pune, Maharashtra	Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex	Template:Nts
Tamil Thalaivas	Chennai, Tamilnadu	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	Template:Nts
Telugu Titans	Hyderabad/Vizag, Telangana	Gachibowli Indoor Stadium	Template:Nts
U Mumba	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Dome@NSCI SVP Stadium	Template:Nts
UP Yoddha	Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh	Shaheed Vijay Singh Pathik Sports Complex	Template:Nts

Personnel & Sponsorship

Teams	Owners	Captain	Head coach	Kit Manufacturer	Main Kit Sponsor	Associate Sponsor
Bengal Warriors	Kishore Biyani	Template:Flagicon Maninder Singh	Template:Flagicon BC Ramesh	Spunk	Future Pay	Voom Detergent
Bengaluru Bulls	Badri Narayan Choudhary Kota, Ananda Giri	Template:Flagicon Rohit Kumar	Template:Flagicon Randhir Singh Sherahawat	Vats	Ashirvad Pipes	Walkmate
Dabang Delhi KC	Radha Kapoor	Template:Flagicon Jogendar Narwal	Template:Flagicon Krishan Kumar Hooda	Reforce	JK Super Cement	Officer's Choice Blue
Gujarat Fortune Giants	Gautam Adani	Template:Flagicon Sunil Kumar	Template:Flagicon Manpreet Singh	Shiv Naresh	Finolex Cables	Fortune Foods
Haryana Steelers	Parth Jindal	Template:Flagicon Dharmraj Cherlathan	Template:Flagicon Rakesh Kumar	T10 Sports	APL Apollo Steel Pipes	Borosil
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Abhishek Bachchan	Template:Flagicon Deepak Niwas Hooda	Template:Flagicon Srinivas Reddy	TYKA	Ambuja Cements	TVS
Patna Pirates	Rajesh V. Shah	Template:Flagicon Pardeep Narwal	Template:Flagicon Ram Mehar Singh	Pace International	Birla Gold Cement	Revital-H
Puneri Paltan	Rajesh Harkishandas Doshi, Sumanlal Babulal Shah, Nallepilly Ramaswami Subramanian	Template:Flagicon PO Surjeet singh	Template:Flagicon Anup Kumar	Shiv Naresh	Force Motors	Netmeds
Tamil Thalaivas	Nimmagadda Prasad, Sachin Tendulkar, Allu arjun, Ram Charan & Allu Aravind	Template:Flagicon Ajay Thakur	Template:Flagicon E Baskaran	Kaizen Sports & Fitness	Celon Labs
Telugu Titans	Srinivas Sreeramaneni, Goutham Reddy Nedurmalli, Mahesh Kolli	Template:Flagicon Abozar Mohajermighani	Template:Flagicon Gholamreza Mazandarai	Vats	Greenko	Araku Coffee
U Mumba	Ronnie Screwvala	Template:Flagicon Fazel Atrachali	Template:Flagicon Sanjeev Kumar Baliyan		Indigo Paints	Haldiram's
UP Yoddha	Kiran Kumar Grandhi	Template:Flagicon Nitesh kumar	Template:Flagicon Jasveer Singh	Shiv Naresh	Tata Yodha	Valvoline

Foreign Players

Each team can sign maximum 3 foreign players in the squad.

Teams	Player 1	POS	Player 2	POS	Player 3	POS
Bengal Warriors	Template:Flagicon Mohammed Esmaeil Nabibakhsh	AR	Template:Flagicon Mohammad Taghi Paein Mahali	RD
Bengaluru Bulls	Template:Flagicon Lal Mohar Yadav	RD	Template:Flagicon Sanjay Shrestha	AR
Dabang Delhi KC	Template:Flagicon Meraj Sheykh	AR	Template:Flagicon Saeid Ghaffari	DF
Gujarat Fortune Giants	Template:Flagicon Abolfazl Maghsodloumahali	RD	Template:Flagicon Mohammed Shazid Hossain	AR
Haryana Steelers	Template:Flagicon Amirhossein Mohammed Maleki	RD	Template:Flagicon Tin Phonchoo	AR
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Template:Flagicon Dong Gyu Kim	AR	Template:Flagicon Milinda Chathuranga	RD
Patna Pirates	Template:Flagicon Hadi Oshtorak	AR	Template:Flagicon Lee Jang-kun	RD	Template:Flagicon Mohammed Esmaeil Maghsoudlou Mohalli	RD
Puneri Paltan	Template:Flagicon Emad Sedaghatnia	RD	Template:Flagicon Hadi Tajik	DF
Tamil Thalaivas	Template:Flagicon Milad Sheibak	DF	Template:Flagicon Victor Onyango Obiero	AR
Telugu Titans	Template:Flagicon Abozar Mohajermighani	DF	Template:Flagicon Farhad Rahimi Milaghardan	AR
U Mumba	Template:Flagicon Dong Geon Lee	RD	Template:Flagicon Fazel Atrachali	DF	Template:Flagicon Young Chang Ko	DF
UP Yoddha	Template:Flagicon MD. Masud Karim	RD	Template:Flagicon Mohsen Maghsoudloujafari	AR

Sponsorship

Title Sponsor

• Vivo

Associate Sponsors

• Tata Motors
• Dream11
• Honda

Partners

• UltraTech Cement

Broadcast Sponsor

• Star Sports

Viewership

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.

Best raiders

Rank	Player	Team	Matches	Total Points
1	Template:Flagicon Pawan Sehrawat	Bengaluru Bulls	24	346
2	Template:Flagicon Pardeep Narwal	Patna Pirates	22	302
3	Template:Flagicon Naveen Kumar	Dabang Delhi	23	301
4	Template:Flagicon Siddharth Sirish Desai	Telugu Titans	22	217
5	Template:Flagicon Maninder Singh	Bengal Warriors	20	205

Best defenders

Rank	Player	Team	Matches	Tackle Points
1	Template:Flagicon Fazel Atrachali	U Mumba	24	82
2	Template:Flagicon Nitesh Kumar	UP Yoddha	23	75
3	Template:Flagicon Sumit	UP Yoddha	23	77
4	Template:Flagicon Sandeep Kumar Dhull	Jaipur Pink Panthers	22	73
5	Template:Flagicon Baldev Singh	Bengal Warriors	24	66

League Stage

Source:prokabaddi.com

Playoffs

The Arena, Ahmedabad