The Indian Premier League (IPL) mega auction for 2025 took held on November 24 and 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This year’s sale will be conducted overseas for the second year in a row, following the auction in Dubai in 2024.

Unlike regular player auctions held annually, the mega auction is a major event that takes place every three years and lasts two days rather of one. The 10 IPL clubs plan to assemble their squads for the next three seasons, from 2025 to 2027.

According to the BCCI, 1,574 players have registered for the auction, with 1,165 from India and 409 from other countries. This broad pool of players comprises participants from a variety of countries, including Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Scotland, the United States, and the UAE, however Full Member states other than Pakistan are represented.

The auction will take place in the Abady Al Johar Arena, better known as the Benchmark Arena, where teams will have the option to fill a total of 204 open slots in their squads, with each team allowed to field a roster of up to 25 players.

On October 31, clubs made their final player retention decisions, with 46 players retained across all ten franchises. Sunrisers Hyderabad had the greatest retention rate, keeping wicketkeeper-batsman Heinrich Klaasen for a whopping Rs 23 crore.

Both Virat Kohli of Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Nicholas Pooran of Lucknow Super Giants were signed for Rs 21 crore apiece. Mumbai Indians kept its primary Indian players, including Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, and Tilak Varma, for Rs 75 crore.

Each franchise has a total auction purse of INR120 crore. However, after retention, the Punjab Kings have the greatest remaining budget at Rs 110.5 crore, having kept only two uncapped players, Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh, for a combined Rs 9.5 crore. In contrast, the Rajasthan Royals enter the auction with the smallest purse of Rs 41 crore, having retained a maximum of six players. Kolkata Knight Riders has a budget of Rs 51 crore.

For the super auction, IPL clubs can keep up to six players, with a maximum of five capped players and two uncapped players. During the auction, teams have the option of retaining players outright or using Right-to-Match (RTM) options. The RTM mechanism allows a club to repurchase a player by matching the highest bid made by another team after the first bidding process is completed.

Punjab Kings have the most RTM choices available, with four, despite only retaining two players. Royal Challengers Bangalore will have three RTM options, while Delhi Capitals will have two after retaining four players. Five franchises—the Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, Gujarat Titans, Sunrisers Hyderabad, and Lucknow Super Giants—have retained five players each and only have one RTM choice.

The Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders, who have retained six players each, will have no RTM choices available during the auction.

IPL 2025 Auction: Sold Players

– Rishabh Pant: Lucknow Super Giants – Rs 27 crore

– Shreyas Iyer: Punjab Kings – Rs 26.75 crore

– Venkatesh Iyer: Kolkata Knight Riders – Rs 23.75 crore

– Arshdeep Singh: Punjab Kings – Rs 18 crore (RTM)

– Yuzvendra Chahal: Punjab Kings – Rs 18 crore

– Jos Buttler: Gujarat Titans – Rs 15.75 crore

– KL Rahul: Delhi Capitals – Rs 14 crore

– Jofra Archer: Rajasthan Royals – Rs 12.5 crore

– Josh Hazlewood: Royal Challengers Bengaluru – Rs 12.5 crore

– Trent Boult: Mumbai Indians – Rs 12.5 crore

– Mohammed Siraj: Gujarat Titans – Rs 12.25 crore

– Mitchell Starc: Delhi Capitals – Rs 11.75 crore

– Phil Salt: Royal Challengers Bengaluru – Rs 11.5 crore

– Ishan Kishan: Sunrisers Hyderabad – Rs 11.25 crore

– Marcus Stoinis: Punjab Kings – Rs 11 crore

– Jitesh Sharma: Royal Challengers Bengaluru – Rs 11 crore

– Kagiso Rabada: Gujarat Titans – Rs 10.75 crore

– T Natarajan: Delhi Capitals – Rs 10.75 crore

– Mohammed Shami: Sunrisers Hyderabad – Rs 10 crore

– Noor Ahmad: Chennai Super Kings – Rs 10 crore

– Avesh Khan: Lucknow Super Giants – Rs 9.75 crore

– R Ashwin: Chennai Super Kings – Rs 9.75 crore

– Prasidh Krishna: Gujarat Titans – Rs 9.5 crore

– Jake Fraser-McGurk: Delhi Capitals – Rs 9 crore (RTM)

– Liam Livingstone: Royal Challengers Bengaluru – Rs 8.75 crore

– Harshal Patel: Sunrisers Hyderabad – Rs 8 crore

– David Miller: Lucknow Super Giants – Rs 7.5 crore

– Harry Brook: Delhi Capitals – Rs 6.25 crore

– Devon Conway: Chennai Super Kings – Rs 6.25 crore

– Anrich Nortje: Kolkata Knight Riders – Rs 6.5 crore

– Rasikh Salam Dar: Royal Challengers Bengaluru – Rs 6 crore

– Naman Dhir: Mumbai Indians – Rs 5.25 crore (RTM)

– Wanindu Hasaranga: Rajasthan Royals – Rs 5.25 crore

– Khaleel Ahmed: Chennai Super Kings – Rs 4.8 crore

– Maheesh Theekshana: Rajasthan Royals – Rs 4.4 crore

– Glenn Maxwell: Punjab Kings – Rs 4.2 crore

– Nehal Wadhera: Punjab Kings – Rs 4.2 crore

– Abdul Samad: Lucknow Super Giants – Rs 4.2 crore

– Rachin Ravindra: Chennai Super Kings – Rs 4 crore (RTM)

– Ashutosh Sharma: Delhi Capitals – Rs 3.8 crore

– Quinton de Kock: Kolkata Knight Riders – Rs 3.6 crore

– Mitchell Marsh: Lucknow Super Giants – Rs 3.4 crore

– Rahul Tripathi: Chennai Super Kings – Rs 3.4 crore

– Rahul Chahar: Sunrisers Hyderabad – Rs 3.2 crore

– Abhinav Manohar: Sunrisers Hyderabad – Rs 3.2 crore

– Angkrish Raghuvanshi: Kolkata Knight Riders – Rs 3 crore

– Suyash Sharma: Royal Challengers Bengaluru – Rs 2.6 crore

– Adam Zampa: Sunrisers Hyderabad – Rs 2.4 crore

– Mohit Sharma: Delhi Capitals – Rs 2.2 crore

– Aiden Markram: Lucknow Super Giants – Rs 2 crore

– Rahmanullah Gurbaz: Kolkata Knight Riders – Rs 2 crore

– Vijaykumar Vyshak: Punjab Kings – Rs 1.8 crore

– Vaibhav Arora: Kolkata Knight Riders – Rs 1.8 crore

– Mahipal Lomror: Rajasthan Royals – Rs 1.7 crore

– Yash Thakur: Punjab Kings – Rs 1.6 crore

– Simarjeet Singh: Sunrisers Hyderabad – Rs 1.5 crore

– Harpreet Brar: Punjab Kings – Rs 1.5 crore

– Vijay Shankar: Chennai Super Kings – Rs 1.2 crore

– Akash Madhwal: Rajasthan Royals – Rs 1.2 crore

– Sameer Rizvi: Chennai Super Kings – Rs 95 lakh

– Vishnu Vinod: Punjab Kings – Rs 95 lakh

– Kumar Kushagra: Gujarat Titans – Rs 65 lakh

– Robin Minz: Mumbai Indians – Rs 65 lakh

– Karn Sharma: Mumbai Indians – Rs 50 lakh

– Karun Nair: Delhi Capitals – Rs 50 lakh

– Nishant Sindhu: Gujarat Titans – Rs 30 lakh

– Atharva Taide: Sunrisers Hyderabad – Rs 30 lakh

– Anuj Rawat: Royal Challengers Bengaluru – Rs 30 lakh

– Mayank Markande: Kolkata Knight Riders – Rs 30 lakh

– Aryan Juyal: Lucknow Super Giants – Rs 30 lakh

– Kumar Kartikeya: Rajasthan Royals – Rs 30 lakh

– Manav Suthar: Gujarat Titans – Rs 30 lakh

IPL 2025 Auction: Unsold Players

– Devdutt Padikkal

– David Warner

– Jonny Bairstow

-Waqar Salamkheil

-Anmolpreet Singh

-Yash Dhull

-Utkarsh Singh

-Upendra Yadav

-Luvnith Sisodia

-Kartik Tyagi

-Piyush Chawla

-Shreyas Gopal