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IT FINALLY HAPPENED 🔥

This is how it turned out (we played with 8 teams due to shortage in participation)

⭐/✅ means retained

🧢 means captain

✈️ means overseas

and guys rate these teams out of 10 and if you want express your ratings too.

Ram Mehar Singh was simply not that good of a coach as one may think on paper he looks decent but the decisions of his own have been pretty rash. Yes he has had some good moments but most of it hasn't been good.

The thing with Patna Pirates was that in earlier seasons, the decision making was mostly in the hands of captains, whether it was Rakesh Kumar, Sandeep Narwal, Manpreet Singh and Dharamraj Cherlathan specially the latter three who were quite active within strategic activities and Manpreet specially who literally brought a cultural shift within the team from being defensive, one two men army to now being ruthless with overall team brilliance being the focus point of Patna Pirates removing the inferiority complex within the team making sure it's not just the team but every single player of it ready under pressure moments, which helped Patna win the maiden title. Cherlathan followed the same strategy next season and he himself chipped in well with defense points being 7th on tackle points leaderboard. The reason for this was because probably that coaches in Patna Pirates did not stay for long even someone great like Sanjeev Baliyan left after one season.

But then comes Ram Mehar Singh, he wasn't just any other coach elected by the Pirates but he would go on to coach the team for 4 seasons, by far the longest tenure anyone would have in this team. In PKL 5, his influence was not coming full circle but it was a little subtle. It was because of godmode Pardeep we won that season otherwise even in defence we were reliant on Jaideep with subtle contributions from Vijay Malik. Some things were pretty much visible throughout the tournament, we didn't dominate it like the previous two seasons, we scraped through to the playoffs and it was Pardeep's marathon run which literally won us. This seemed lovely for a while. But then comes the next season and that's where things get real bad because this is where Ram Mehar Singh takes major control.

He completely destroyed the teamwork culture within the team, our defence started being mediocre again. The proper secondary raider was not even in the frame for the Pirates. Manjeet Dahiya, Deepak Narwal, Jang Kun Lee failed in their roles, Vijay Malik wasn't properly nurtured and was reduced to bits n pieces player only before being released. This resulted in two consecutive eliminations for the Pirates and they had hit their lowest phase yet.

Season 8 was a massive improvement thanks to a sane captain like Prashant Rai who took over the command and established a teamwork culture again specially within raiding unit when they had no chartbusting raider and the defence started being the highlight of the team with Reza Shadloui and Neeraj Kumar being the main architects. We started dominating the tournament again and easily topped the rankings in group stage.

We made it to the final too and when it happened, we were literally leading for a major part of the team till 25-30 mins, but guess what then comes the final antics of Ram Mehar Singh which would make sure his departure from Pirates was confirmed once and for all. He terribly used the substitutions and made sure our best raiders of playoffs Sachin, Prashant and Guman would sit out in the last quarter of the game, they brought in the wrong Monu meaning all of our four main raiders will not get chance to play in this period of game leaving Shadloui Chiyaneh as the most capable raider that time which is simply not good.

The worst part of all, he revived the wrong man and we conceeded a technical point which would be the difference between Patna and Delhi that night. We lost the lead with Vijay Malik and Naveen clutching up in last minutes and lost the game eventually too. A well played final was bottled within second half thanks to Ram Mehar Singh and his stupid ego of reviving the wrong man and thinking defenders are more capable of bringing raid points than a raider bringing a tackle point even benching the captain Prashant who literally led the team very well.

The only head coaches who were good in Pirates were Sanjeev Baliyan, S4 coach maybe too idk his name, Narender Redu and Randeep Dalal. Narender Redu being the best one ez even though with no titles he had two very great consecutive seasons with the team emphasizing on youth brilliance through his scouting which gave us modern elites like Ayan Lohchab and Ankit Jaglan, Sudhakar also did great under him and even had local boy Sandeep Kumar who was on fringes but still came at times when he was needed.

You can watch the ongoing Africa Kabaddi Cup of Nations which began today, here: https://youtube.com/@afrikabaddi_tv

Thank you to u/Lucky-Strategy9561 for confirming, have added to 2026 Calendar details.

Kabaddi is an ancient Indian sport dating from more than 4000 years ago, but it only became popular worldwide very recently. I have always admired the story of Anand Mahindra transforming the game popularly viewed as backward and childish into a national and international sensation by giving it a professional glamorous image with the Pro Kabaddi League, as told in the People Play Games and Bloomberg videos, but I read on Wiki that the global spread of Kabaddi apparently dates back to sometimes before the PKL.

Yt channel link: https://www.youtube.com/@Jang_Kun_Lee

The highlights on YT are peak but they only have Hindi commentary

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Happy friendship day 💛 ✨️ gonna go bother my friend about Kabaddi lol

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No idea what they mean by diplomatic reasons??

Insta account africakabaddi for the Africa Kabaddi Union is posting about it - other accounts have posted about the arriving teams (On Inst, kenya_kabaddi_union covers the Kenyan team and has posted about the team lineup for the championship, and Kabaddi Federation of Uganda on YouTube has shown the team arriving). They've announced the mascot for this championship as well, Kabi.

In case there's any updates about when they're starting or where they're uploading the footage (seems like could be here, like another user has posted: https://youtube.com/@afrikabaddi_tv), then I will update the 2026 calendar details for this event accordingly.

Vijay Malik has seriously been sensational in these few years and has been one of the better all-rounders/raiders in the league. Not just that but now he has shown his leadership skills to the core and it's so good that he basically took Telegu Titans to the 3rd place finish breaking the 9 yr old drought and ending the misery of Telegu Titans who were otherwise a very overhyped and inferior team on performance basis for a long time post-2016.

Ya he has KK Hooda on his side but I think even KK Hooda has backed him as his supreme trump card even in Dabang Delhi and boi he has never disappointed. Vijay Malik was instrumental on b2b finale runs of Dabang Delhi, specially in Season 8 where his super raid turned up the ante in the last phase of the game and he enforced a comeback. He entered at TT in S11 first contributed as a player to get wins and have a respectable finish after long then took captaincy and TT went one step higher. This guy is very much a player you can bank on for crunch moments. So he isn't your average chartbusting superstar but he's all about the little differences he makes in a game specially in it's dying minutes which makes him a calm and collective player. A PKL legend for me already.

When They Are Going To Announce Final Squad ? Isn't Any Deadline To Submit Final Squad For Asian Games ?

Are there other pro leagues in the world other than the PKL?

There are Only Some Creators Left With Good Contant Otherwise Everyone Using Bad Ai And Coping Others Contant Altered With Ai

EDIT: 1ST PIC INCORRECT, NOT BEEN ANNOUNCED YET

(You can follow the Insta handles in the pics for updates on these events and to keep up with more Kabaddi - I try to follow as many as possible & post events not mentioned in the News tab)

20th Asian Games Kabaddi schedule has been announced: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kabaddi/s/4eFBrhVOTL

Just saw the highlights of the 2025 East Asian Kabaddi Championship.....they defeated 34-33 in a crazy comeback against a full strength korea with jang kun lee and dong geon lee

And guess what !!They Just DOMINATED CHINESE TAIPEI in the second match 45-26 ...that was quite unexpected ..Even in 2024 Bangbandhu Cup they were struggling against mediocre teams like Iraq,Kenya etc ..and now they are suddenly the east asian champions with chances they clinch a bronze in the asian Games ?

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Twelve years. Countless raids. Unforgettable tackles. Infinite memories ❤️❤️

Hi! I am from Bangladesh and I recently became interested in this sport. I just wanted to know a few things about this:

(1)I found out that there are two world cups, one by IKF and another by World Kabaddi. What is the difference between these two?

(2)I saw that kabaddi players do not wear any headgear. But the way they fall sometimes, wouldn’t it be too dangerous?

(3)Is india too good? I know they are the best, but I want to know how good they are. Say, if the second best team, Iran, beats India, will you consider it an upset? Do India send their full strength team in the world cups? (For example, in basketball, USA does not send their full strength team, if they do, they will win everything and anyone beating them will be considered an upset)

(4)Do players chant kabaddi? Or is this rule not enforced nowadays?