IPL 2025 Auction Timing: The 18th edition of the Indian Premier League is expected to be played in its regular window of March – May 2025. A total of 74 matches will be played between 10 participating teams.
BCCI planned to host the IPL 2025 mega auction in late November this year in Riyadh while announced October 31 as the deadline for the teams to submit their retained players list. IPL 2025 retention live streaming will start at 4.30 PM IST on October 31.
Though this year’s auction was planned to be hosted in Riyadh, fans fromalla round the world can still enjoy the IPL 2025 auction live streaming from their home.
As a part of the season, BCCI will release the IPL 2025 schedule, IPL 2025 squad, IPL 2025 live streaming, IPL 2025 ticket booking links, and IPL 2025 team jersey details right before the start of the tournament.
IPL 2025 Auction Timing
IPL 2025 Auction Timing: The IPL 2025 auction is live-streamed and will be broadcast by Telecast channels. Star Sports will broadcast the IPL 2025 Auction live on TV while Jio Cinema will live-stream the event in India.
The IPL 2025 auction can be viewed across all locations. Check out the timings to watch the auction for all locations.
The exact time details for all locations will be listed here right after the board officially announced the IPL 2025 mega auction time details.
IPL 2025 Auction Rules
- Each team can retain six players from their existing squad, either via retention or by using the Right to Match (RTM) option.
- The franchise can decide on a combination of retentions and RTMs.
- A team can retain a maximum of five capped players whether Indian or Overseas and a maximum of 2 uncapped players.
- The auction purse value of each team has been set at INR 120 crores while it was INR 100 crores for the last auction.
- The total salary cap will now consist of an auction purse, incremental performance pay and match fees.
- Previously in 2024, the total salary cap (auction purse + incremental performance pay) was INR 110 Crs which will now be INR 146 Crs (2025), INR 151 Crs (2026) and INR 157 Crs (2027).
- BCCI has set various retention slabs for the player’s retention. The first retention must be INR 18 crore, the second INR 14 crore, the third INR 11 crore, the fourth INR 18 crore, the fifth INR 14 crore and the uncapped Rs 4 crore but franchises are also allowed to divide the 75cr retention amount among 5 capped players.
- If a team choose to retain a player for more than INR 18 Cr then the franchise should retain their second or third player for less than the desired amount. Teams can flex the retention amount as they wish but should be within the designated amount of INR 43 Crore(18+14+11) for three retentions.
- Ex: If CSK wishes to retain Gaikwad, Jadeja and Dube as their first three retentions and decides to retain Gaikwad for INR 20 Cr(which is INR 2 Cr over the first retention amount), then CSK must retain Jadeja for INR 12 Cr or Dube for INR 9 Cr which in turn will meet the INR 43 crore budget for the first three retentions.
- As per the IPL committee rules, each franchise can have 25 players in their squad, out of which a maximum of 8 can be foreign players. In Playing 11, each team can have a maximum of 4 overseas players in the mix.
- As an overseas player, he has to register for the Mega Auction. In case if he fails to do so, then he will be ineligible to register in the following year’s player auction.
- As per the new rule, an overseas player will have to mandatorily register for the mega auction (2025) if he fails to do so he will miss the subsequent small auction too.
- If any player registers in the player auction and after getting picked by a team and later makes himself unavailable before the start of the season, he will get banned from participating in the tournament and player auction for two seasons.
- A capped player will be considered an uncapped player if the player has not featured in the starting XI in any international games(Test, T20I, ODI) in the last five calendar years or does not have a Central Contract with BCCI. This will only be applicable to the Indian players.
- BCCI will finalize the auction players list and group them into three different categories: Capped, Uncapped, and Overseas players.
- Capped – Indian players who represented the country’s senior team in any format at least once.
- Uncapped – Indian domestic players who are in the first-class circuit but haven’t represented India in any international matches.
- Overseas – Players who are not from India. This category will contain all capped, uncapped non-Indian players.
- A team can compromise a minimum of 18 players and a maximum of 25 players in their squad.
- A team can hold a maximum of eight foreign players with only four being allowed to field at one time during the match.
IPL 2025 Teams Purse Value
IPL 2025 Auction Teams Purse Value: Ahead of the IPL 2025 Auction, BCCI increased the purse value of the franchises by INR 20 crores over the existing purse value of about INR 100 crores.
The final purse value of the team will be decided right after they submit the retained and released players list for the event. Following are the details of the “IPL 2025 Teams Purse Value” for all teams:
- Punjab Kings(PBKS) – INR 120 crore
- Sunrisers Hyderabad(SRH) – INR 120 crore
- Gujarat Titans(GT) – INR 120 crore
- Delhi Capitals(DC) – INR 120 crore
- Lucknow Super Giants(LSG) – INR 120 crore
- Rajasthan Royals(RR) – INR 120 crore
- Royal Challengers Bangalore(RCB) – INR 120 crore
- Kolkata Knight Riders(KKR) – INR 120 crore
- Chennai Super Kings(CSK) – INR 120 crore
- Mumbai Indians(MI) – INR 120 crore
