2020 Premier Badminton League

2020 Premier Badminton League (also known as Star Sports PBL for sponsorship reasons) was the fifth edition of Premier Badminton League. It was played from 20 January and concluded on 9 February 2020. The season featured seven competing teams. Also, the Chennai team previously known as Chennai Smashers featured as Chennai Superstarz. Bengaluru Raptors beat Northeastern Warriors 4-2 in the finals to become champions. It was also their second consecutive title in the PBL.

Squads

Teams		Awadhe Warriors	Bengaluru Raptors	Chennai Superstarz	Hyderabad Hunters	Mumbai Rockets	Northeastern Warriors	Pune 7 Aces
Coach		Template:Flagicon Anup Sridhar	Template:Flagicon Arvind Bhat	Template:Flagicon Aravindan Samiappan	Template:Flagicon Rajendra Kumar Jakkampudi	Template:Flagicon Amrish Shinde	Template:Flagicon Edwin Iriawan	Template:Flagicon Mathias Boe
Squads	Domestic	Template:Flagicon Ajay Jayaram	Template:Flagicon Ansal Yadav	Template:Flagicon B. Sumeeth Reddy	Template:Flagicon Gadde Ruthvika Shivani	Template:Flagicon Kuhoo Garg	Template:Flagicon Ashmita Chaliha	Template:Flagicon Arjun M.R.
		Template:Flagicon Subhankar Dey	Template:Flagicon Arun George	Template:Flagicon Dhruv Kapila	Template:Flagicon N. Sikki Reddy	Template:Flagicon Parupalli Kashyap	Template:Flagicon Kaushal Dharmamer	Template:Flagicon Chirag Shetty
		Template:Flagicon Tanvi Lad	Template:Flagicon B. Sai Praneeth	Template:Flagicon Gayathri Gopichand	Template:Flagicon Priyanshu Rajawat	Template:Flagicon Pranav Chopra	Template:Flagicon Krishna Prasad Garaga	Template:Flagicon Mithun Manjunath
			Template:Flagicon Medha Shashidharan	Template:Flagicon Lakshya Sen	Template:Flagicon P. V. Sindhu	Template:Flagicon Ramchandran Shlok	Template:Flagicon Rutaparna Panda	Template:Flagicon Rituparna Das
				Template:Flagicon Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian	Template:Flagicon Sourabh Verma	Template:Flagicon Shreyansh Jaiswal
				Template:Flagicon Sanjana Santosh		Template:Flagicon Shreyanshi Pardeshi
				Template:Flagicon Sathish Kumar Karunakaran
				Template:Flagicon Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
	Overseas	Template:Flagicon Christinna Pedersen	Template:Flagicon Tai Tzu-ying	Template:Flagicon Jessica Pugh	Template:Flagicon Ben Lane	Template:Flagicon Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth	Template:Flagicon Michelle Li	Template:Flagicon Chris Adcock
		Template:Flagicon Wong Wing Ki	Template:Flagicon Brice Leverdez	Template:Flagicon Tommy Sugiarto	Template:Flagicon Sean Vendy	Template:Flagicon Kim Gi-jung	Template:Flagicon Lee Cheuk Yiu	Template:Flagicon Gabby Adcock
		Template:Flagicon Ivan Sozonov	Template:Flagicon Rian Agung Saputro	Template:Flagicon Kirsty Gilmour	Template:Flagicon Liew Daren	Template:Flagicon Kim Sa-rang	Template:Flagicon Kim Ha-na	Template:Flagicon Tse Ying Suet
		Template:Flagicon Ko Sung-hyun	Template:Flagicon Chan Peng Soon		Template:Flagicon Vladimir Ivanov	Template:Flagicon Lee Dong-keun	Template:Flagicon Lee Yong-dae	Template:Flagicon Hendra Setiawan
		Template:Flagicon Shin Baek-cheol	Template:Flagicon Eom Hye-won				Template:Flagicon Bodin Isara	Template:Flagicon Kazumasa Sakai
		Template:Flagicon Beiwen Zhang					Template:Flagicon Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk	Template:Flagicon Loh Kean Yew
								Template:Flagicon Vũ Thị Trang

Points Table

Rank	Team	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr
1	Northeastern Warriors	30	13	11	5	1	22
2	Bengaluru Raptors (C)	30	13	11	5	1	22
3	Chennai Superstarz	30	10	14	6	0	22
4	Pune 7 Aces	30	14	10	4	2	20
5	Awadhe Warriors	30	11	13	3	3	14
6	Hyderabad Hunters	30	11	13	2	4	11
7	Mumbai Rockets	30	4	20	4	2	10

• Template:Color box Qualified for knockouts
• Five matches (MP) constitute one tie
• Each team will play six ties
• 1 point for each Regular Match Won (RMW)
• 0 points for Regular Matches Lost (RML)
• 2 points for each Trump Match Won (TMW)
• -1 point for each Trump Match Lost (TML)

Source: Official PBL website

Fixtures

All times are as Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30).

League stage

#	Date	Time	City	Home	Results	Away	Venue
1	January 20	19:00	Chennai	Chennai Superstarz	5–2	Hyderabad Hunters	Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium
2	January 21	19:00		Northeastern Warriors	4–3	Bengaluru Raptors
3	January 22	19:00		Chennai Superstarz	4–3	Mumbai Rockets
4	January 23	19:00		Northeastern Warriors	3–4	Awadhe Warriors
5	January 24	19:00		Chennai Superstarz	4–3	Bengaluru Raptors
6	January 25	19:00	Lucknow	Pune 7 Aces	5–2	Mumbai Rockets	Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium
7	January 26	19:00		Awadhe Warriors	1–2	Hyderabad Hunters
8	January 27	19:00		Pune 7 Aces	4–3	Bengaluru Raptors
9	January 28	19:00		Awadhe Warriors	5–0	Mumbai Rockets
10	January 29	19:00	Hyderabad	Hyderabad Hunters	2–1	Northeastern Warriors	G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium
11	January 30	15:30		Pune 7 Aces	5–2	Chennai Superstarz
12	January 30	19:00		Mumbai Rockets	2–5	Northeastern Warriors
13	January 31	19:00		Hyderabad Hunters	0–3	Bengaluru Raptors
14	February 1	15:30		Pune 7 Aces	0–5	Northeastern Warriors
15	February 1	19:00		Awadhe Warriors	3–4	Chennai Superstarz
16	February 2	19:00		Hyderabad Hunters	4–3	Mumbai Rockets
17	February 3	19:00		Awadhe Warriors	1–4	Pune 7 Aces
18	February 4	15:30		Northeastern Warriors	4–3	Chennai Superstarz
19	February 4	19:00		Bengaluru Raptors	5–0	Mumbai Rockets
20	February 5	19:00		Hyderabad Hunters	1–2	Pune 7 Aces
21	February 6	19:00		Bengaluru Raptors	5–0	Awadhe Warriors

Knockout stage

#	Date	Time	City	Team 1	Results	Team 2	Venue
SF1	February 7	19:00	Hyderabad	Chennai Superstarz	(-1)–3	Northeastern Warriors	G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium
SF2	February 8	19:00		Pune 7 Aces	3–4	Bengaluru Raptors
F	February 9	19:00		Northeastern Warriors	2–4	Bengaluru Raptors

Semifinal 1: Chennai Superstarz vs. Northeastern Warriors

February 7, 19:00 G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
#	Event	Team 1		Result			Team 2
		Chennai Superstarz		(-1)–3			Northeastern Warriors
1	Template:Abbr		B. Sumeeth ReddyTemplate:Flagicon Jessica PughTemplate:Flagicon	0	12–15 15–9 14–15	1	Template:Flagicon Lee Yong-dae Template:Flagicon Kim Ha-na
2	Template:Abbr		Tommy Sugiarto Template:Flagicon	0	12–15 12–15	1	Template:Flagicon Lee Cheuk Yiu
3	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	B. Sumeeth Reddy Template:Flagicon Dhruv Kapila Template:Flagicon	-1	13–15 15–14 10–15	1	Template:Flagicon Krishna Prasad Garaga Template:FlagiconBodin Isara
4	Template:Abbr		Kirsty Gilmour Template:Flagicon		–		Template:Flagicon Michelle Li	Template:Abbr
5	Template:Abbr		Lakshya Sen Template:Flagicon		–		Template:Flagicon Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk

Semifinal 2: Pune 7 Aces vs. Bengaluru Raptors

February 8, 19:00 G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
#	Event	Team 1		Result			Team 2
		Pune 7 Aces		3–4			Bengaluru Raptors
1	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Chirag Shetty Template:Flagicon Hendra Setiawan Template:Flagicon	2	15–12 15–10	0	Template:Flagicon Arun George Template:Flagicon Rian Agung Saputro
2	Template:Abbr		Mithun Manjunath Template:Flagicon	0	14–15 15–9 6–15	1	Template:Flagicon Brice Leverdez
3	Template:Abbr		Kazumasa Sakai Template:Flagicon	1	15–11 15–13	0	Template:Flagicon B. Sai Praneeth
4	Template:Abbr		Rituparna Das Template:Flagicon	0	12–15 12–15	2	Template:Flagicon Tai Tzu-ying	Template:Abbr
5	Template:Abbr		Chris AdcockTemplate:Flagicon Gabby Adcock Template:Flagicon	0	13–15 10–15	1	Template:Flagicon Chan Peng Soon Template:Flagicon Eom Hye-won

Final: Northeastern Warriors vs. Bengaluru Raptors

February 9, 19:00 G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
#	Event	Team 1		Result			Team 2
		Northeastern Warriors		2–4			Bengaluru Raptors
1	Template:Abbr		Lee Cheuk Yiu Template:Flagicon	0	15–14 9–15 3–15	1	Template:Flagicon B. Sai Praneeth
2	Template:Abbr	Template:Abbr	Bodin Isara Template:Flagicon Lee Yong-dae Template:Flagicon	2	15–11 13–15 15–14	0	Template:Flagicon Arun George Template:Flagicon Rian Agung Saputro
3	Template:Abbr		Michelle Li Template:Flagicon	0	9–15 12–15	1	Template:Flagicon Tai Tzu-ying
4	Template:Abbr		Krishna Prasad Garaga Template:Flagicon Kim Ha-na Template:Flagicon	0	14–15 15–14 12–15	2	Template:Flagicon Chan Peng Soon Template:Flagicon Eom Hye-won	Template:Abbr
5	Template:Abbr		Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk Template:Flagicon		–		Template:Flagicon Brice Leverdez

End-of-season awards

Player	Team	Award	Value
Template:Flagicon Tai Tzu-ying	Bengaluru Raptors	Player of the League	Template:INRConvert
Template:Flagicon N. Sikki Reddy	Hyderabad Hunters	Indian Player of the League	Template:INRConvert
Template:Flagicon Priyanshu Rajawat	Hyderabad Hunters	Emerging Player of the League	Template:INRConvert