(Sports news) Mashal Sports, organisers of the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL), informs that the landmark Pro Kabaddi League Season 10 Player Auction will be held from 8 – 9 September 2023 in Mumbai. The total Salary Purse available to each franchise for its squad has increased from INR 4.4 crore to INR 5 crore after three seasons. 

The Domestic and Overseas players will be segregated into four categories: Category A, B, C, and D. The players will be further subdivided as ‘All-Rounders’, ‘Defenders’, and ‘Raiders’ within each category. The base prices for each of the categories are Category A – INR 30 Lakh, Category B – INR 20 Lakh, Category C – INR 13 Lakh, and Category D – INR 9 Lakh. The Season 10 Player Pool will consist of 500+ consisting of 24 players from the two finalist teams of the Khelo India University Games 2023.   

Mr. Anupam Goswami, Head of Sports Leagues, Mashal Sports and League Commissioner, Pro Kabaddi League said, “The tenth Season is obviously such a major milestone for any contemporaneous sports league in India.  The PKL Season 10 Player Auction too will be a landmark in PKL’s history.  Along with the retentions and nominations under the Season X Player Policy, our 12 franchises will use the Player Auction to select the world’s best kabaddi athletes for their Teams”.    

The PKL teams also have a choice of retaining players from their respective PKL Season 9 squads as per the league policies. The franchises are entitled to retain up to 6 players under the Elite Retained Players classification under stipulated conditions in each PKL season. The players, who are not retained by the franchises and from the pool of 500+ players, will go under the hammer during the two-day auction procedure in Mumbai.  

Mashal Sports and Disney Star, under the auspices and sanction from the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI), have built PKL into one of the most successful sports leagues in India. The competition consists of the most extensive number of matches among all sports leagues in India. The Pro Kabaddi League has transformed the image of India’s indigenous sport of Kabaddi and its athletes nationally as well as across the globe. After witnessing the participation of many of their players in PKL, several Kabaddi-playing nations have also intensified their domestic Kabaddi programs.

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