The sixth edition of the Pro Kabaddi League starts from October 19 where 12 teams will battle it out amongst themselves for the top prize. However, before that more than 200 players (including 58 foreigners) went under the hammer at the auctions held in Mumbai over a span of two days. The auctions garnered all the limelight as all the franchises broke the bank and to bag their desired players. At Rs 1.15 crore, Monu Goyat became the most expensive players. Five other players made their entry into the 1 crore-club including the likes of Rahul Chaudhuri, Nitin Tomar and Iran’s Fazel Atrachali. Meanwhile, before the games begin here’s a look at the full squads of the participating teams for the fifth edition of the Kabaddi League.
Ran Singh, Jang Kun Lee, Ziaur Rahman, Shrikant Tewthia, Mahesh Goud, Vijin Thangadurai, Bhupender Singh, Vittal Meti, Amit Kumar, Rakesh Narwal, Amit Nagar, Ashish Chhokar, Manoj Dhull
Retained players – Surjeet Singh, Maninder Singh, Ravindra Ramesh Kumawat, Amaresh Mondal
FKH players – Mithin Kumar
Squad strength: 18
Pawan Kumar, Mahender Singh, Kashiling Adake, Jasmer Singh Gulia, Raju Lal Choudhary, Dong Ju Hong, Gyung Tae Kim, Sandeep, Jawahar Vivek, Mahesh Maruti Magdum, Mahendra Singh Dhaka, Nitesh BR, Anil, Anand V, Rohit,
Retained players – Rohit Kumar
FKH players – Harish Naik, Amit Sheoran, Sumit Singh
Squad strength: 19
Chandran Ranjit, Vishal Mane, Viraj Landge, Pawan Kumar, Ravinder Pahal, Rajesh Narwal, Shabeer Bapu, Siddharth, Khomsan Thongkham, Anil Kumar, Kamal Kishor Jat, Yogesh Hooda, Joginder Narwal, Satpal Narwal
Retained players – Meraj Sheykh, Tushar Balaram Bhoir, Tapas Pal, Vishal
FKH players – Naveen Kumar
Squad strength: 19
K Prapanjan, Parvesh Bhainswal, Ruturaj Koravi, Ajay Kumar, Dong Geon Lee, Hadi Oshtorak, Shubham Palkar, Amit Sharma, Dharmender,
Retained players – Sachin, Sunil Kumar, Mahendra Rajput
FKH players – Lalit Chaudhary, Vikram Kandola, Anil
Squad strength: 15
Monu Goyat, Surender Nada, Vikash Khandola, Wazir Singh, Md. Zakir Hossain, Prateek, Patrick Nzau Muvai
Retained players – Kuldeep Singh, Mayur Shivtarkar, Neeraj Kumar, Vikas
FKH players – Arun Kumar
Squad strength: 12 (16 Indian, 2 Overseas)
Deepak Niwas Hooda, Sandeep Dhull, Mohit Chhillar, Anup Kumar, K Selvamani, Bajirao Hodage, Chang Ko, David Mosambayi, Gangadhari Mallesh, Sunil Siddhgavali, Anand Patil, Shiva Ramakrishna, Brijendra Singh Chaudhary,
FKH players – Lokesh Kaushik
Squad strength: 14
Deepak Narwal, Vikas Kale, Kuldeep Singh, Manjeet, Tushar Patil, Surender Singh, Taedeok Eom, Hyunil Park, Jae Min Lee, Vikas Jaglan, Vijay Kumar, Ravinder Kumar,
Retained players – Pardeep Narwal, Jaideep, Jawahar Dagar, Manish Kumar
FKH players – Parveen Birwal, Arvind Kumar, Vijay
Squad strength: 19
Nitin Tomar, Vinod Kumar, Sanjay Shrestha, Parvesh, Akshay Jadhav, Bajrang, Takamitsu Kono
Retained players – Sandeep Narwal, Rajesh Mondal, More GB, Girish Maruti Ernak, Vikash Khatri, Rinku Narwal, Monu
FKH players – Amit Kumar
Squad strength: 15
Sukesh Hegde, Darshan J, Manjeet Chillar, Jasvir Singh, K Jayasselan, Atul MS, Chan Sik Park, Anil Sharma, Abhinandan Chandel, D Gopu, Vimal Raj, Jae Min Lee
Retained players – Ajay Thakur, Amit Hooda, C. Arun, D Pradap
FKH players – Rajnish
Squad strength: 17
Rahul Chaudhari, Abozar Mohajermighani, Farhad Rahimi Milaghardan, Rakesh Singh Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Sanket Chavan, Mahender Reddy,
Retained players – Nilesh Salunke, Mohsen Maghsoudloujafari, Vishal Bhardwaj, Rakshith, Sombir
FKH players – Kamal Singh, Ankit Beniwal, Anand
Squad strength: 14
Rishank Devadiga, Prashanth Kumar Rai, Jeeva Kumar, Shrikant Jadhav, Sachin Kumar, Darshan Kadian, Seaong Ryeol Kim, Suleiman Kabir, Narender, Rohit Kumar Choudhary, Amit, Bhanu Pratap Tomar –
Retained players – Pankaj, Nitesh Kumar
FKH players – Azad Singh, Arkam Shaikh
Squad strength: 16
Fazel Atrachali, Dharmarajan Cheralathan, Abhishek Singh, Siddharth Desai, Vinod Kumar, Abofazl Maghsodloumahali, R. Sriram, Rohit Baliyan, Hadi Tajik, Adinath Gavali
Retained players – E Subash, Surinder Singh, Shiv Om
FKH players – Gaurav Kumar, Mohit Balyan, Anil
Squad strength: 16