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The Pro Kabaddi League Season 10 player auction will now take place on October 9 and 10 after the organisers Marshal Sports announced the revised dates on Friday.

The PKL Season 10 player auction was previously slated to be held on September 8–9. The Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India requested that the auction be postponed from that date due to the ongoing preparations of the Indian kabaddi team for the Asian Games, which begin later this month.

For the auction, the Domestic and International players will be divided into four categories - A, B, C, and D. Within each category, the players will be further split into 'All-Rounders', 'Defenders', and 'Raiders'. The base price for each category are INR 30 lakh for Category A, INR 20 lakh for Category B, INR 13 lakh for Category C, and INR 9 lakh for Category D. The season 10 player pool will have 500+ participants, including the 24 players from the two Khelo India University Games 2023 finalist teams. Each franchise has access to INR 5 crore in salary purse.

Anupam Goswami, League Commissioner, Pro Kabaddi League said, “We are delighted to announce that the Pro Kabaddi League Season 10 Player Auction will now be held immediately after the Asian Games. We are certain that there will be very strong fan excitement and interest in a blockbuster Player Auction, where several star performers from the Asian Games will attract competitive bidding from the PKL teams”.

The PKL teams have already begun building their squads for PKL Season 10 under the League Player Policy for the Season. In August 2023, the PKL teams exercised their option of retaining players from their respective PKL Season 9 squads. The franchises had the choice of retaining players across three categories - Elite Retained Players (ERP), Retained Young Players (RYP) and Existing New Young Players (ENYP). A total of 84 players were retained with 22 from the ERP category, 24 in the RYP category and 38 in the ENYP category. The non-retained players, which include star players such as Pawan Sehrawat, Vikash Kandola & Fazel Atrachali, will go under the hammer at the PKL Season 10 Player Auction.

Under the aegis and sanction from the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI), Mashal Sports and Disney Star have built PKL into one of India's most successful sports leagues. The competition consists of the largest 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 and globally.