2014 Pro Kabaddi League season

Pro Kabaddi 2014

PKL
Dates 26 July 2014 (2014-07-26) – 31 August 2014 (2014-08-31)
Administrator(s) Mashal Sports
Tournament format(s) Double round robin and playoffs
Champions Jaipur Pink Panthers (1st title)
Participants 8
Matches played 60
Player of the Series Anup Kumar
Official website prokabaddi.com

The 2014 Pro Kabaddi League was the first season of Pro Kabaddi League. The duration of the season was from 26 July 2014 to 31 August 2014. There was double round robin matches along with two semi finals, third place and final games. 56 games were to be played in first round and 4 in play off stage making total of 60 games. 8 teams took part in first edition. First game was played on July 26 between U Mumba and Jaipur Pink Panthers and the final was played on August 31 at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, Mumbai. Jaipur Pink Panthers beat U Mumba by 35-24 to win the inaugural Pro Kabaddi League.[1][2]

Player auction

The first signing and auction of players for the 8 teams was held on 20 May 2014[3] in Mumbai. India's national kabaddi captain Rakesh Kumar was the priciest among the players bought for 12.80 lakh by Patna franchise. Sports Authority of India's Deepak Nivas was bought by Vizag franchise for 12.90 lakh.[3] Mostafa Noudehi was the highest paid overseas player bought for 6.6 lakh by Pune franchise.[4]

Franchises

Locations of the 2014 Pro Kabaddi teams

Stadia and locations

Note: Table lists in alphabetical order.
Team Location Stadium[5]
Bengal Warriors Kolkata Netaji Indoor Stadium
Bengaluru Bulls Bengaluru Kanteerava Indoor Stadium
Dabang Delhi Delhi Thyagaraj Sports Complex
Jaipur Pink Panthers Jaipur Sawai Mansingh Stadium
Patna Pirates Patna Patliputra Sports Complex
Puneri Paltan Pune Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex
Telugu Titans Visakhapatnam Port Trust Golden Jubilee Stadium
U Mumba Mumbai Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, Mumbai

Personnel

Team Owner(s)[6] Captain Head coach
Bengal Warriors Future Group Nilesh Shinde Raj Narain Sharma
Bengaluru Bulls Kosmik Global Media Manjit Chillar Randhir Singh
Dabang Delhi DO IT Sports Management Jasmer Singh Arjun Singh
Jaipur Pink Panthers Abhishek Bachchan Navneet Gautam Kasinathan Baskaran
Patna Pirates Rajesh Shah Rakesh Kumar R S Khokhar
Puneri Paltan Insurekot Sports Wazir Singh Ramphal Kaushik
Telugu Titans Veera Sports Rajaguru Subramanian J Udayakumar
U Mumba Unilazer Sports Anup Kumar Ravi Shetty

Results

Points Table

Team Pld W L D SD Pts
Jaipur Pink Panthers (C) 14 10 3 1 100 54
U Mumba (R) 14 8 3 3 59 51
Bengaluru Bulls (4) 14 8 5 1 36 47
Patna Pirates (3) 14 7 5 2 18 45
Telugu Titans 14 6 5 3 26 42
Dabang Delhi 14 5 8 1 -27 32
Bengal Warriors 14 4 9 1 -85 24
Puneri Paltan 14 2 12 0 -127 17

Source:prokabaddi.com[1]

Playoff Stage

All matches played at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, Mumbai.

Semi-finals Final
29 August 20:00
 Jaipur Pink Panthers  38  
 Patna Pirates  18  
 
31 August 21:00
     Jaipur Pink Panthers  35
   U Mumba  24
Third place
29 August 21:00 31 August 20:00
 U Mumba  27  Patna Pirates  29
 Bengaluru Bulls  23    Bengaluru Bulls  22

Statistics

Top 5 Raiders

No. Player Team Points
1 Anup Kumar U Mumba 155
2 Rahul Chaudhari Telugu Titans 151
3 Ajay Thakur Bengaluru Bulls 122
4 Surjeet Narwal Dabang Delhi 113
5 Maninder Singh Jaipur Pink Panthers 107

Top 5 Defenders

No. Player Team Points
1 Manjit Chillar Bengaluru Bulls 51
2 Sureender nada U Mumba 34
3 Ravinder Singh Dabang Delhi 33
4 Rohit Rana Jaipur Pink Panthers 32

For News on the finals look at this news [8]

For more detailed content for this season you can refer to an Analytics website[9]

For all results for Season 1 look at Official Website [10]

References

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