PKL 2024: The Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) season 11 is about to start and the excitement is getting fever-high. Teams have built a strong squad to win the coveted PKL title this year and one such team is Bengal Warriors. They failed to qualify for the playoffs in PKL 10 but for the upcoming season, Bengal looks like one of the title contenders.
Bengal Warriors had started preparing for the PKL 11 way before, in July 2024 they announced a new coaching setup. The franchise has promoted assistant coach Prashant Surve to the head coach role and added Praveen Yadav as assistant coach.
Under the leadership of new coaches, Bengal has strategically retained the previous season’s star performers raider Nitin Kumar and defender Aditya Shinde. Bengal bought back Maninder Singh using FBM card at the PKL 11 auction. They have also added some valuable players like Nitesh and Fazel Atrachali through the auction, here take a look.
PKL 2024: Bengal Warriors full squad
| S.No | Name | Retained/Bought | Role | Price |
| 1 | Nitin Dhankar | Elite Retained Players | Raider | 37.23 L |
| 2 | Vishwas Gowda | Elite Retained Players | Raider | 15.60 L |
| 3 | Maharudra Garje | Existing New Young Players | Raider | 10.63 L |
| 4 | Sushil Kambrekar | New Young Player (NYP) | Raider | 10.63 L |
| 5 | Dipak Shinde | Existing New Young Players | Right Corner Defender | 10.63 L |
| 6 | Deep Kumar | New Young Player (NYP) | Cover Defender | 10.63 L |
| 7 | Aditya Shinde | Existing New Young Players | Left Corner Defender | 10.63 L |
| 8 | Yash Malik | New Young Player (NYP) | Left Corner Defender | 10.63 L |
| 9 | Shreyas Umbardand | Existing New Young Players | Cover Defender | 10.63 L |
| 10 | Manjeet Choudhary | New Young Player (NYP) | Cover Defender | 10.63 L |
| 11 | Fazel Atrachali | Bought | Defender | 50 L |
| 12 | Maninder Singh | Bought | Raider | 1.15 Cr |
| 13 | Chai-Ming Chang | Bought | Raider | 13 L |
| 14 | Nitesh Kumar | Bought | Defender | 13 L |
| 15 | Mayur Kadam | Bought | Cover Defender | 30.20 L |
| 16 | Praveen Thakur | Bought | Cover Defender | 13 L |
| 17 | Sambhaji Wabale | Bought | Cover Defender | 12.90 L |
| 18 | Hem Raj | Bought | Defender | 9 L |
| 19 | Akash B Chavhan | Bought | Raider | 9 L |
| 20 | Arjun Rathi | Bought | Raider | 41 L |
| 21 | Vaibhav Garje | Bought | Defender | 20 L |
| 22 | Sagar Kumar | Bought | All Rounder | 13 L |
| 23 | Pranay Rane | Bought | Raider | 13 L |
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