The auction for the seventh season of the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) was held in Mumbai on 8 and 9 April.
A total of Rs 50 crore were spent by the 12 franchises to buy 200 domestic and foreign players over the two days of the auction.
Only two players – Siddharth Desai (Rs 1.45 crore for category A) and Nitin Tomar (Rs 1.20 crore for category A) – fetched over Rs 1 crore in the auction. They were bought by Telugu Titans and Puneri Paltan, respectively, on the first day of the auction on 8 April.
Among the foreign players, Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh of Iran was the highest paid player with a Rs 77.75 lakh bid.
Season 7 is set to run from 1 July to 9 October featuring 173 domestic and 27 international players.
Here is a list of the players picked by each team and the bids they attracted:
Bengaluru Bulls
Elite Retained Players
Rohit Kumar, Pawan Kumar Sehrawat, Ashish Kumar
Retained Young Players
Amit Sheoran, Sumit Singh
New Young Players
Mohit Sehrawat, Banty
Players Bought in PKL Auction 2019
- Mahender Singh: Rs. 80 lakh
- Vijay Kumar: Rs. 21.25 lakh
- Sanjay Shreshtha: Rs. 10 lakh
- Lal Mohar Yadav: Rs. 10 lakh
- Sandeep: Rs. 10 lakh
- Raju Lal Choudhary: Rs. 10 lakh
- Vinod Kumar: Rs. 10 lakh
- Aman: Rs. 6 lakh
UP Yoddha
Elite Retained Players
Amit Narwal, Sachin Kumar
Retained Young Players
Nitesh Kumar, Aashish Nagar, Azad Singh, Arkam Shaikh
Players Bought in PKL Auction 2019
- Monu Goyat: Rs. 93 lakh
- Shrikant Jadhav: Rs. 68 lakh
- Rishank Devadiga: Rs. 61 lakh
- Mohsen Maghsoudloujafari: Rs. 21 lakh
- Narender: Rs. 20 lakh
- Masud Karim: Rs. 10 lakh
- Surender Singh: Rs. 10 lakh
- Gulveer Singh: Rs. 10 lakh
- Gurdeep: Rs. 10 lakh
- Ankush: Rs. 6.25 lakh
U Mumba
Elite Retained Players
Fazel Atrachali, Rajaguru Subramanian, Arjun Deshwal
Retained Young Players
Anil, Gaurav Kumar, Mohit Balyan, Surender Singh
Players Bought in PKL Auction 2019
- Sandeep Narwal: Rs. 89 lakh
- Rohit Baliyan: Rs. 35 lakh
- Dong Geon Lee: Rs. 25 lakh
- Athul MS: Rs. 20 lakh
- Ajinkya Rohidas Kapre: Rs. 10.25 lakh
- Young Chang Ko: Rs. 10 lakh
- Abhishek Singh: Rs. 10 lakh
- Vinoth Kumar: Rs. 10 lakh
- Harsh Vardhan: Rs. 10 lakh
- Harendra Kumar: Rs. 10 lakh
Gujarat Fortunegiants
Elite Retained Players
Sachin Tanwar, Sunil Kumar
Retained Young Players
Lalit Chaudhary, Rohit Gulia
Players Bought in PKL Auction 2019
- Parvesh Bhainswal: Rs. 75 lakh
- Rituraj Koravi: Rs. 30.5 lakh
- Vinod Kumar: Rs. 26 lakh
- GB More: Rs. 21.50 lakh
- Amit Kharb: Rs. 17.25 lakh
- Abolfazl Maghsoudloumahali: Rs. 15.75 lakh
- Mohammad Shazid Hossain: Rs. 10 lakh
- Pankaj: Rs. 10 lakh
- Gurvinder Singh: Rs. 10 lakh
- Sonu: Rs. 10 lakh
- Abhishek: Rs. 8 lakh
- Sonu Gahlawat: Rs. 6 lakh
Telugu Titans
Elite Retained Players
Armaan, Farhad Rahimi Milaghardan, Krushna Madane
New Young Players
Manish, Akash Choudhary
Players Bought in PKL Auction 2019
- Siddharth Desai: Rs. 1.45 crore
- Abozar Mighani: Rs. 75 lakh
- Vishal Bhardwaj: Rs. 60 lakh
- Duet Jennings: Rs. 10 lakh
- Amit Kumar: Rs. 10 lakh
- C Arun: Rs. 10 lakh
- Suraj Desai: Rs. 10 lakh
- Suraj Kumar: Rs. 10 lakh
- Sombir: Rs. 10 lakh
- Mula Siva Ganesh Reddy: Rs. 6 lakh
- Rakesh Gowda: Rs. 6 lakh
Patna Pirates
Elite Retained Players
Pardeep Narwal, Vikas Jaglan, Jawahar Dagar
New Young Players
Mohit
Players Bought in PKL Auction 2019
- Surender Nada: Rs. 77 lakh
- Neeraj Kumar: Rs. 44.75 lakh
- Jang Kun Lee: Rs. 40 lakh
- Mohammad Maghsoudlou: Rs. 35 lakh
- Jaideep: Rs. 35 lakh
- Hadi Oshtorak: Rs. 16 lakh
- Ravinder: Rs. 10 lakh
- Ashish: Rs. 6 lakh
- Mahendra Choudhary: Rs. 6 lakh
Bengal Warriors
Elite Retained Players
Baldev Singh, Maninder Singh
Retained Young Players
Adarsh T, Ravindra Kumawat
New Young Players
Sahil
Players Bought in PKL Auction 2019
- Mohammad Nabibakhsh: Rs 77.75 lakh
- K Prapanjan: Rs 55.5 lakh
- Jeeva Kumar: Rs 31 lakh
- Rinku Narwal: Rs 20 lakh
- Sukesh Hedgde: Rs 20 lakh
- Amit Kumar: Rs. 17.5 lakh
- Rakesh Narwal - Rs 16.25 lakh
- Mohammad Taghi - Rs 15.5 lakh
- Amir Santosh Dhumal - Rs. 15.5 lakh
- AR Avinash: Rs. 10 lakh
- Vijin Thangadurai: Rs. 10 lakh
- Bhuvneshwar Gaur: Rs 10 lakh
- Viraj Vishnu Landge: Rs. 10 lakh
- Dharmendra Singh: Rs. 10 lakh
Haryana Steelers
Elite Retained Players
Kuldeep Singh, Vikash Khandola
New Young Players
Vinay
Players Bought in PKL Auction 2019
- Prashanth Kumar Rai: Rs. 77 lakh
- Dharmaraj Cheralathan: Rs. 38.5 lakh
- Vikas Kale: Rs. 34.25 lakh
- Naveen: Rs. 33.5 lakh
- Ravi Kumar: Rs. 20 lakh
- K Selvamani: Rs. 16.5 lakh
- Amir Mohammad Maleki: Rs. 12.5 lakh
- Tim Phonchoo: Rs. 10 lakh
- Vikram Khandola: Rs. 10 lakh
- Subhash Narwal: Rs. 6 lakh
Dabang Delhi KC
Elite Retained Players
Meraj Sheykh, Joginder Narwal
Players Bought in PKL Auction 2019
- Chandran Ranjit: Rs. 70 lakh
- Ravinder Pahal: Rs. 61 lakh
- Vijay Malik: Rs. 41 lakh
- Vishal Mane: Rs. 28.5 lakh
- Anil Kumar: Rs. 20 lakh
- Saeid Ghaffari: Rs. 16.5 lakh
- Sombir: Rs. 10 lakh
- Pratik Patil: Rs. 6 lakh
- Neeraj Narwal: Rs. 6 lakh
- Satywan: Rs. 6 lakh
Tamil Thalaivas
Elite Retained Players
Ajay Thakur, Manjeet Chhillar, Victor Onyango Obiero
New Young Players
Himanshu, M. Abhishek
Players Bought in PKL Auction 2019
- Rahul Chaudhari: Rs. 94 lakh
- Ran Singh: Rs. 55 lakh
- Mohit Chhillar: Rs. 45 lakh
- Ajeet: Rs. 32 lakh
- Milad Sheibak: Rs. 10 lakh
- Shabeer Bapu: Rs. 10 lakh
- Yashwant Bishnoi: Rs. 10 lakh
- Vineet Sharma: Rs. 10 lakh
Jaipur Pink Panthers
Elite Retained Players
Deepak Niwas Hooda, Sandeep Kumar Dhull
Retained Young Players
Ajinkya Pawar, Lokesh Kaushik
New Young Players
Pavan TR, Sachin Narwal, Sushil Gulia
Players Bought in PKL Auction 2019
- Amit Hooda: Rs. 53 lakh
- Deepak Narwal: Rs. 30.5 lakh
- Nilesh Salunke: Rs. 23.5 lakh
- Vishal Lather: Rs. 25.5 lakh
- Sunil Siddhgawali: Rs. 20 lakh
- Dong Gyu Kim: Rs. 10 lakh
- Malinda Chaturanga: Rs. 10 lakh
- Karamvir: Rs. 6 lakh
- Guman Singh: NA
Puneri Paltan
Retained players
None
Players Bought in PKL Auction 2019
- Nitin Tomar: Rs. 1.20 crore
- Manjeet: Rs. 63 lakh
- Surjeet Singh: Rs. 56 lakh
- Girish Maruti Ernak: Rs. 33 lakh
- Darshan Kadian: Rs 20 lakh
- Pawan Kumar Kadian: Rs. 20 lakh
- Satpal: Rs. 20 lakh
- Amit Kumar: Rs. 12 lakh
- Emad Sedaghat: Rs. 11.25 lakh
- Jadhav Balasaheb Shahaji: Rs. 10.25 lakh
- Hadi Tijak: Rs. 10 lakh
- Deepak Yadav: Rs. 10 lakh
- Sagar B Krishna: Rs. 10 lakh
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