Pro Kabaddi League 9: List of all retained players ahead of the upcoming auction

The teams have retained a mix of old and experienced and young and new players, while many great names like Pardeep Narwal have been released. 

Puneri Paltan was the first team to retain a player. They released the news of retaining Aslam Inamdar on July 21, followed by the news of keeping Mohit Goyat on July 22. 

Subsequently, all teams released the names of the retained players for the next season. 

The players retained are under three categories: 19 have been retained from the Elite Retained Players category, 13 players from the Retained Young Players category and 38 players are kept from the New Young Players category. 

Talking about the upcoming auctions, Anupam Goswami, League Commissioner, VIVO Pro Kabaddi League and CEO, Sports League, Disney Star India, said, “Some of the star performers of VIVO Pro Kabaddi have a fan following across the country, and we believe that this auction will witness some interesting bidding wars. This will lead to the creation of new team squads and an increased level of competition in the upcoming season 9.”  

The auction is scheduled for August 5 and 6, and the bidding wars will see many incredible players going under the hammer. 

Following is the list of the players retained by each franchise. 

Here is the list of players retained from the Elite Retained Players category:

Bengal Warriors – Maninder Singh, Manoj Gowda K, Akash Pikalmunde

Bengaluru Bulls- Mahender Singh, Mayur Jagannath Kadam, More G B

Dabang Delhi K.C– Vijay

Gujarat Giants– Sonu

Haryana Steelers– None

Jaipur Pink Panthers – Arjun Deshwal, Sahul Kumar

Patna Pirates– Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh (F), Sajin Chandrasekar, Neeraj Kumar, Monu

Puneri Paltan– Sombir, Abinesh Nadarajan

Tamil Thalaivas– Ajinkya Ashok Pawa

Telugu Titans– None

U Mumba– Rinku

U.P. Yoddha– Nitesh Kumar 

List of other players retained from the different two categories:

UP Yoddha– Surender Gill, Sumit Sangwan, Ashu Singh (Young Retained Players)

Puneri Paltan– Aslam Inamdar, Mohit Goyat, Akash Shinde, Govind Gurjar, Sanket Sawant, Badal Singh, Aditya Shinde