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With the wrap-up of the 2024 IPL 17th edition, BCCI is once again engaged in the upcoming gala of IPL 2025, the 18th edition of the tournament. In the thrilling IPL 2024 Final Kolkata Knight Riders clinched their third IPL Trophy by beating Sunrisers Hyderabad at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.
Knight Riders repeated the feat after the 2014 IPL winning a title against Punjab Kings and registering a record for the longest winning streak of 14 games by any IPL Franchise. Undoubtedly, IPL 2024 was one of the most memorable editions so far with record-breaking high-scoring matches.
Now BCCI has already started prepping for the IPL 2025 Mega Auction 2025. Yes, unlike previous editions of 2023 and 2024 IPL, there will no longer be an IPL Mini auction.
Ahead of IPL 2025, BCCI will have a meeting with all IPL owners at the end of July. A few decisions will be made over the discussion of the RTM (Right to match) card, the salary cap increasing by 120 Crore, and the salary cap of top retained players.
So what are these conditions and how will it affect the IPL 2025 Mega Auction? Let’s find out in this blog!
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IPL 2025 Mega Auction Date, Time and Teams
The table below shows full details of the IPL 2025 Auction Date, Schedule, IPL 2024 Venue, and Teams.
| Event | Indian Premier League (IPL) |
|---|---|
| Season | IPL 2025, 18th Edition of IPL |
| Authority | Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) |
| Total Franchises | 10 Teams |
| IPL 2025 Teams | CSK, DC, GT, KKR, LSG, MI, PBKS, RR, RCB & SRH |
| Total Retained players | TBA |
| Total Players | TBA |
| IPL 2025 Maga Auction Schedule Date | December 2024-February 2025 |
| IPL 2025 Auction Venue | TBA |
| Budget of Each team | Expected upto Rs 120 Crore |
| Total Released Players | TBA |
| IPL 2025 Schedule | March 2025- May 2025 |
| Type of Article | Sports |
| IPL Portal | www.iplt20.com |
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Venue
The previous IPL 2024 edition had a Mini IPL Auction at Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai. It was the first time in 16 years of the tournament the IPL Auction was held overseas due to the wedding season in India in December 2023.
BCCI has made it clear there will be no mini auction instead IPL 2025 will have a Mega Auction where the IPL franchise will bet on players to make a whole new team. It makes sense the Mega Auction will be more grandeur in 2024-2025 than the previous one.
It is expected that after the IPL 2024 Mini Auction success, Dubai will be on top of the IPL 2025 Mega Auction venue list including, Bengaluru, Kochi, Chennai, and Mumbai.
The BCCI hasn’t released the official statement for the IPL 2025 Mega Auction Venue city. We will update you as soon as the BCCI confirms the venue.
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Date and Time
BCCI conducts an IPL Auction before commencing the actual tournament in each edition. For the 18th edition of IPL, BCCI will organize the Mega IPL Auction with the slightest modification. Mostly this auction takes two days in which IPL franchises place bets on their favorite players conducted in December in the same year as the previous edition. However, it is speculated that the IPL 2025 Mega Auction will take place between December 2024 to February 2025.
There is no official statement released from the BCCI regarding the IPL 18 Mega Auction date. We will update the IPL Mega Auction 2025 date as soon as the official statement confirms the date.
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Teams and Salary Cap
The BCCI increased the IPL budget per team last year from INR 95 Crore to INR 100 Crore. Ahead of the BCCI and IPL franchise meeting, it could be possible that the IPL Budget will go over RS 100 Crore expected to rise to INR 120 Crore. Which will also affect the retention value for each player. In the past, the salary of the top retained players was around 16-17 percent of the salary cap (INR 15 crore in a salary cap of INR 90 crore). This means the retained players’ salary will be lifted upto 20 Crore or more. The formula to determine the salary cap of retained players in the 2025 IPL will also be explained by the BCCI in the meeting.
IPL 2025 Mega Auction: Teams
A total of 10 IPL franchises based on domestic cities participate in the IPL tournament every year. Few teams go through some minor changes like altering their names. For Instance, Royal Challenger Bangalore officially changed to Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Other than that nothing changed same 10 IPL franchises such as Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Mumbai Indians (MI), Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), Delhi Capitals (DC), Rajasthan Royals (RR), Punjab Kings (PBKS), Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), Gujarat Titans(GT), Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). There will be no new team participating in the IPL 18 other than these 10 IPL franchises.
IPL 2025 Retained Players List: Expected
Each IPL franchise has a 3+1 retention rule meaning, they can retain 3 players plus one with a Right To Match card (RTM). This means the franchise can retain the final bid of a player from their squad of the previous season. However, the official number of retention players will be soon released by the BCCI.
The table shows the IPL 2025 retained players for each IPL team-
| Teams | IPL 2025 Retained Players |
|---|---|
| Chennai Super Kings | Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Matheesha Pathirana |
| Mumbai Indians | Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Rohit Sharma |
| Gujarat Titans | Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Mohammed Shami, Rashid Khan |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Shreyas Iyer, Varun Chakaravarthy |
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Virat Kohli, Mohammed Siraj, Glenn Maxwell, Rajat Patidar |
| Lucknow Super Giants | KL Rahul, Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav |
| Rajasthan Royals | Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag/ Yujvendra Chahal |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Abhishek Sharma, T Natarajan, Pat Cummins |
| Punjab Kings | Sam Curran, Arshdeep Singh, Shashank Singh, Shikhar Dhawan |
| Delhi Capitals | Rishabh Pant, Kuldeep Yadav, Axar Patel, Jake Fraser- McGurk |
IPL 2025 Released Players List: Expected
Unlike retained players, the BCCI hasn’t set any limit on the released players’ numbers. IPL franchises can release as many players ahead of the IPL tournament. We have created the expected released players list for the IPL 2025 season.
The table below shows all the players’ names released by the IPL franchises in IPL 2025.
| Teams | IPL 2025 Released Players |
|---|---|
| Chennai Super Kings | Devon Conway, Avanish Rao Aravelly, Shaik Rasheed, Ajinkya Rahane, Sameer Rizvi, Moeen Ali, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Mitchell Santner, Ajay Mandal, Nishant Sindhu, Rachin Ravindra, Daryl Mitchell, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Simarjeet Singh, Prashant Solanki, Maheesh Theekshana, Mustafizur Rahman, Mukesh Choudhary. |
| Mumbai Indians | Ishan Kishan, Vishnu Vinod, Tim David, N. Tilak Varma, Dewald Brevis, Romario Shepherd, Nehal Wadhera, Shams Mulani, Gerald Coetzee, Mohammad Nabi, Shivalik Sharma, Naman Dhir, Jason Behrendorff, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Arjun Tendulkar, Piyush Chawla, Dilshan Madushanka (SL), Nuwan Thushara (SL), Anshul Kamboj, Shreyas Gopal. |
| Gujarat Titans | Mathew Wade, Wriddiman Saha, Robin Minz, David Miller, Abhinav Manohar, Kane Williamson, Rahul Tewatia, Jayant Yadav, Vijay Shankar, Azmatullah Omarzai, Darshan Nalkande, Shahrukh Khan, Umesh Yadav, Josh Little, R. Sai Kishore, Mohit Sharma, Noor Ahmad, Sushant Mishra, Kartik Tyagi, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | KS Bharat, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Jason Roy, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Gus Atkinson, Sakib Hussain, Mujeeb Ur Rahman |
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru | Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik, Faf du Plessis, Suyash Prabhudessai, Saurav Chauhan, Mahipal Lomror, Manoj Bhandage, Tom Curran, Swapnil Singh, Will Jacks, Cameron Green, Akash Deep, Karn Sharma, Rajan Kumar, Reece Topley, Himanshu Sharma, Alzarri Joseph, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Dayal, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Mayank Dagar |
| Lucknow Super Giants | Quinton de Kock, Devdutt Padikkal, Ayush Badoni, Ashton Turner, Deepak Hooda, K. Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kyle Mayers, Marcus Stoinis, Prerak Mankad, Yudhvir Singh Charak, David Willey, Arshin Kulkarni, Md. Arshad Khan, Mark Wood, Mohsin Khan, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Naveen-ul-Haq, Shivam Mavi, Manimaran Siddarth |
| Rajasthan Royals | Dhruv Jurel, Kunal Rathore, Donovan Ferreira, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Shimron Hetmyer, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Ravichandran Ashwin, Abid Mushtaq, Trent Boult, Sandeep Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Sen, Adam Zampa, Nandre Burger, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | Glenn Phillips, Upendra Singh Yadav, Heinrich Klaasen, Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Rahul Tripathi, Mayank Agarwal, Travis Head, Anmolpreet Singh, Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sanvir Singh, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Marco Jansen, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jaydev Unadkat, Akash Singh, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Jhathavedh Subramanyan. |
| Punjab Kings | Jonny Bairstow, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Harpreet Bhatia, Rilee Rossouw, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sikandar Raza, Shivam Singh, Chris Woakes, Ashutosh Sharma, Vishwanath Singh, Tanay Thyagarajan, Harshal Pate, Harpreet Brar, Kagiso Rabada (SA), Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar, Vidhwath Kaverappa, Prince Choudhary |
| Delhi Capitals | Ishant Sharma, Prithvi Shaw, Khaleel Ahmed, Lalit Yadav, Pravin Dubey, Mukesh Kumar, Yash Dhull, Vicky Ostwal, Abishek Porel, Ricky Bhui, Kumar Kushagra, Rasikh Dar, Sumit Kumar, Swastik Chikara, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Anrich Nortje, Lungi Ngidi, Tristan Stubbs, Jhye Richardson and Shai Hope |
