PKL Auction 2024: Team wise PKL retention list

Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) recently announced the ‘Elite Retained Players’ ‘Retained Young Players’ and ‘Existing New Young Players’ for Season 11 on Tuesday. Each of the franchises has retained a strong core group of players and is looking to build stronger units for the auction, which will be held on August 15–16 in Mumbai.

Dabang Delhi K.C. has retained its raider duo of Ashu Malik and Naveen Kumar. Meanwhile, the Most Valuable Player award winner in Season 10, Aslam Inamdar, has been retained by Puneri Paltan. Furthermore, the Jaipur Pink Panthers has retained their star raider, Arjun Deshwal.

88 players retained ahead of PKL auction

A total of 88 players were retained across three categories with 22 from the Elite Retained Players (ERP) category, 26 in the Retained Young Players (RYP) category and 40 in the Existing New Young Players (ENYP).

The non-retained players, which include star players such as Pawan Sehrawat, Pardeep Narwal, Maninder Singh, Fazel Atrachali and Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh will go under the hammer.

PKL retention list

Elite retained players

TEAM	PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	PLAYER 3	PLAYER 4	PLAYER 5	PLAYER 6
Bengal Warriors	Vishwas S	Nitin Kumar	_	_	_	_
Bengaluru Bulls	Ponparthiban Subramanian	Sushil	Rohit Kumar	_	_	_
Dabang Delhi K.C.	Ashu Malik	Vikrant	Naveen Kumar	_	_	_
Gujarat Giants	Balaji D	Jitender Yadav	_	_	_	_
Haryana Steelers	Rahul Sethpal	Ghanshyam Magar	_	_	_	_
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Arjun Deshwal	Reza Mirbagheri	_	_	_	_
Patna Pirates	Ankit	Sandeep Kumar	_	_	_	_
Puneri Paltan	Abinesh Nadarajan	Gaurav Khatri	_	_	_	_
Tamil Thalaivas	_	_	_	_	_	_
Telugu Titans	Shankar Gadai	Ajit Pawar	_	_	_	_
U Mumba	Amirmohammad Zafardanesh	Rinku	_	_	_	_
UP Yoddhas	_	_	_	_	_	_

Retained young players

TEAM	PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	PLAYER 3	PLAYER 4	PLAYER 5	PLAYER 6	PLAYER 7
Bengal Warriors	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
Bengaluru Bulls	Saurabh Nandal	_	_	_	_	_	_
Dabang Delhi K.C.	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
Gujarat Giants	Parteek Dahiya	Rakesh	_	_	_	_	_
Haryana Steelers	Jaideep	Mohit	Vinay	_	_	_	_
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Ankush	Abhishek KS	_	_	_	_	_
Patna Pirates	Manish	_	_	_	_	_	_
Puneri Paltan	Aditya Shinde	Akash Shinde	Mohit Goyat	Aslam Mustafa Inamdar	Pankaj Mohite	Sanket Sawant	_
Tamil Thalaivas	Narender	Sahil	Mohit	Aashish	Sagar	Himanshu	M. Abishek
Telugu Titans	_	_	_	_	_	_	_
U Mumba	Shivam	_	_	_	_	_	_
UP Yoddhas	Sumit	Surender Gill	Ashu Singh	_	_	_	_

Existing new young players

TEAM	PLAYER 1	PLAYER 2	PLAYER 3	PLAYER 4	PLAYER 5	PLAYER 6
Bengal Warriors	Shreyas Umbardand	Aditya S. Shinde	Dipak Arjun Shinde	Maharudra Garje	_	_
Bengaluru Bulls	Aditya Powar	Akshit	Arulnanthababu	Parteek	_	_
Dabang Delhi K.C.	Ashish	Himmat Antil	Manu	Yogesh	_	_
Gujarat Giants	Nitin	_	_	_	_	_
Haryana Steelers	Jaya Soorya NS	Hardeep	Shivam Anil Patare	Vishal S. Tate	_	_
Jaipur Pink Panthers	Abhijeet Malik	_	_	_	_	_
Patna Pirates	Abinand Subhash	Kunal Mehta	Sudhakar M	_	_	_
Puneri Paltan	Dadaso Pujari	Nitin	Tushar Adhavade	Vaibhav Kamble	_	_
Tamil Thalaivas	Nitesh Kumar	Nitin Singh	Ronak	Vishal Chahal	_	_
Telugu Titans	Ankit	Omkar Patil	Praful Zaware	Sanjeevi S	_	_
U Mumba	Bittu	Gokulakannan M.	Mukilan Shanmugam	Sombir	_	_
UP Yoddhas	Gagana Gowda HR	Hitesh	Shivam Chaudhary	_	_	_