71st Senior National Men's Kabaddi Championship: Schedule, results, squads, teams, live streaming details

Pawan Sehrawat and Arjun Deshwal are among the top PKL stars who will be in action in the National Men’s Kabaddi Championship.

The highly anticipated 71st Senior National Men’s Kabaddi Championship is all set to kick off in Cuttack, Odisha, from February 20 to 23, 2025. Hosted at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, this prestigious tournament, organized by the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI), will witness intense battles between the country’s top teams on the Kabaddi mat.

A total of 30 teams will compete in the tournament, divided into multiple groups. Only the best from each group will progress to the next stage, making every match a high-stakes encounter. Defending champions Haryana will look to retain their title after their triumphant campaign in the 70th edition, where Indian Railways finished as the runner-up.

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When and Where is the 71st Senior National Men’s Kabaddi Championship take place?

The 71st Senior National Men’s Kabaddi Championship will run from February 20 to 23, 2025, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Cuttack, Odisha.

List of teams participating in the National Men’s Kabaddi Championship:

A total of 30 teams will participate in this tournament. Its complete list is as follows.

• Railway
• Madhya Pradesh
• BSNL
• Maharashtra
• Delhi
• Gujarat
• Goa
• Bihar
• Manipur
• West Bengal
• Haryana
• Himachal Pradesh
• Tripura
• Uttarakhand
• Tamil Nadu
• Jharkhand
• Pondicherry
• Rajasthan
• Chandigarh
• Karnataka
• Chhattisgarh
• Telangana
• Uttar Pradesh
• Kerala
• Jammu and Kashmir
• Vidarbha
• Services
• Punjab
• Andhra Pradesh
• Odisha

Groups:

• Pool A: Haryana, Delhi, Telangana
• Pool B: Indian Railways, Bihar, Manipur
• Pool C: Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Tripura, Kerala
• Pool D: Chandigarh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh
• Pool E: Services, Goa, Chhattisgarh, Jammu and Kashmir
• Pool F: Rajasthan, Vidarbha, Odisha, Jharkhand
• Pool G: Karnataka, Punjab, West Bengal, Uttarakhand
• Pool H: Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry

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71st Senior National Men’s Kabaddi Championship Squads:

Haryana Men’s Squad:

Ashu Malik, Mohit Goyat, Sanjay Dhull, Rajesh Narwal, Sandeep, Aman Antil, Nitin Dhankar, Yogesh Dahiya, Aman Saini, Jatin, Neeraj Narwal & Aman Dalal.

Bihar Men’s Squad:

Sandeep Kumar, Prince, Monu, Vikash, Ankit, Prince, Sagar, Ashutosh, Mukesh, Udaykant, Shivam & Rajkumar.

Jharkhand Men’s Squad:

Rahul Gope (Captain), Raju Singh, Nawaz Dilshan, Anshu Kumar, Jitender Kumar, Rohit Kumar, Roshan Kumar, Sourav Kumar, Navneet Kumar, Angad Singh, Bhisham Yadav & Jitendra Yadav.

Manipur Men’s Squad:

Bidyananda Singh, Chongtham I. Singh, Mayengham M. Singh, Borish M. Maibam, Iliyas Khan, Yumnam R. Singh, Huidrom J. Singh, Sangam, Vishwas, Thounaojam B. Singh & Khundrakpam I. Singh.

Punjab Men’s Squad:

Saurabh Nandal, Harmanjeet Singh, Gursahib Singh, Balraj Singh, Dheeraj, Kuldeep Singh, Atmajit Singh, Kuldeep Kumar, Vijay Malik, Sombir Goswami, Ronak & Ashish Narwa.

Andhra Pradesh Men’s Squad:

Brahma Reddy, Srikanth Reddy, Gopi Chand, Sasi Kumar, Tejesh, Pawan, Laxman, Samara, Teja, Srikanth, Manohar & Naga Babu.

Pondicherry Men’s Squad:

Pravin, Vignesh, Thamiz, Arun, Moham, Ramesh, Vicky, Iyyappan, Ranjith, Sujith, Surya & M. Sriram.

Kerala Men’s Squad:

Adarsh T, Muhammad Shihas, Muhammad Mufad, Prasoon Pramod K, Kaushik NK, Rishin AR, Adityan K, Pranav P, Muneez, Sujesh T, Sajin TC & Aswaith A.

Delhi Men’s Squad:

Vineet Mavi, Vipin Navi, Shubham Bidhuri, Ashish Chokar, Prashant, Akash Tanwar, Ajay, Prashant Sehrawat, Nikhil Nagar, Praveen Chauhan, Kuldeep Dedha & Sahil.

West Bengal Men’s Squad:

Kishor Dandapathak, Lucky Ali Khan, Sekh Surhuh, Yogesh, Gaurav Antil, Abdul Halik, Rosul Akram, Md Sarfaraj Alam, Sauvik Das, Purna Paul, Amit & Vikas.

Odisha Men’s Squad:

Rohit Raghav, Vinay Redhu, Sunny Sehrawat, Harsh Kumar, Ajay Nandal, Rinku Yadav, Narender, Santosh, Kunal, Niroj Kumar, Sawan Khatri & Rajesh Kumar.

Assam Men’s Squad:

Mojibur Rehman, Ikti Ahmed, Sabdiul Islam, Atikur Rahman, Rahmoni Ahmed, Khampai Wangpan, Gaurav Konvar, Anupam Deka, Aman Newar, Yakub Rehman, Deepjyoti Deka & Nam Ling Hung Tembe.

Karnataka Men’s Squad:

Vishwas Gowda, Vinod Naik, Kiran, Sushant Shetty, Vinod Sadamani, Shashank, Ganesh, Sandeep, Rama Krishna, Sandeep, Nuthan Gowda & Satyappa.

Goa Men’s Squad:

Mohit Jhakhar, Himanshu Narwal, Naveen Rawal, Jai Hind, Sanchit, Bhargaw, Dhruvik, Rama, Nehal Desai, Sunder Lather, Bhavani Rajput & Hitesh Kadian.

Chandigarh Men’s Squad:

Pawan Sehrawat, Ayan Lohchab, Rakesh Sungroya, Gaurav Khatri, Gurdeep Sangwan, Vishal Bhardwaj, Mohit, Ashu Ravish, Ashish Kumar, Manjeet Dhanda, Vishal Rana & Sachin.

Gujarat Men’s Squad:

Kishan Pandya (Captain), Sandeep Gujjar (Vice Captain), Vishal Singh, Yatharth Barot, Kuldeep Chaudhary, Aftab Vohra, Hardik Gojiya, Ronak Gamit, Vansh Munjal, Monu Singh, Rahul Dubey & Jay Bapodariya

Uttar Pradesh Men’s Squad:

Rahul Chaudhari (Captain), Vinay Tewathia, Sahul Kumar, Nitin Panwar, Shubham Baliyan, Amit Nagar, Harish Singh, Arjun Deshwal, Mohd Amaan, Ashu Singh, Ashwin Pal & Ritik Sharma.

Indian Railways Men’s Squad:

Pankaj Mohite, Ajinkya Pawar, Arkam Shaikh, Sunil Kumar, Parvesh Bhainswal, Guman Singh, Nitin Singh, Shubham Shinde, M. Sudhakar, Nitin Rawal, Sumit Sangwan & Abinesh Nadarajan.

Services Men’s Squad:

Naveen Kumar (Captain), Devank Dalal, Bharat Hooda, Deepak Rathee, Arjun Rathee, Ashish Bazzad, Ankit Jaglan, Surender, Rinku Sharma, Rahul Sethpal, Jaideep Dahiya & Rohan Ghanghas.

Telangana Men’s Squad:

Suresh Oruganti, Shiva Krishna, Raja Shekhar, Santosh, Anil, Sharandeep, Kotesh, Srinath, Ravi, Saddam, Ganesh & Akhil.

Rajasthan Men’s Squad:

Jitender Yadav, Jai Bhagwan, Manoj Khokhar, Rahul Choudhary, Vijay Saini, Piyush Jham, Hariom Choudhary, Brijendra Choudhary, Bangaram, Sachin Tanwar, Mahipal Sinwar & Rajiv Rahpurohit

Chhattisgarh Men’s Squad:

Dharmendra Maravi, Monendra Rathia, Suraj Gupta, Upendra Dhruw, Phool Chandra, Dipendra Bhuiya, Ajay Maravi, Moolchandra Singh, Sanskar Mishra, Sanskar Mishra, Surendra Kanwar, Prince Patre & Manish Yadav.

Madhya Pradesh Men’s Squad:

Ritik Thakare, Anil Gurjar, Santosh Kumar, Ashish Bhalavi, Rashid Ansari, Ganesh Raghuvanshi, Arpit Chouhan, Amit Tomar, Rahul Evne, Ram Kakodiya, Balkrishna Yadav & Ritesh Narwale.

Vidarbha Men’s Squad:

Akash Pikalmunde, Javed Pathan, Aditya Pangul, Amit Singh, Parth Dadvi, Abhishek Yadav, Sunil Cote, Yashwant Mokalkar, Aadesh Varkhade, Pawan Deshmukh, Chinmay Shende & Kunal Chavan.

Maharashtra Men’s Squad:

Akash Shinde (Captain), Shubham Pathare, Pranay Rane, Shankar Gadai, Akash Rudele, Rushikesj Bhojane, Sambhaji Wabale, Ajit Chouhan, Tejas Patil, Sanket Sawant, Mayur Kadam & Akshay Suryavanshi.

Tamil Nadu Men’s Squad:

Sathish Kanan, Dhanasekhar, Mukilan S., Thendral, Easaki, Deepak, Hari, Kesavan, Stuwart Singh, Gowtham Murugam, Jayasurya Nagarajan & Sundarvishwa R.

Himachal Pradesh Men’s Squad:

Parveen Thakur, Nitin Chandel, Mayank Saini, Vishal Patiyal, Anil, Sanjeev, Santam Singh, Preet Chandel, Rahul Rana, Shivansh Thakur, Hemraj Choudhary & Naresh Chaudhary.

71st Senior National Men’s Kabaddi Championship Schedule

20th Feb | 4:00 PM Onwards

• Oddisa 57-28 Vidharbha
• Haryana 50-20 Telangana
• Indian Railways 59-17 Manipur
• Maharashtra 39-35 Kerala
• Chandigarh 40-24 Gujarat
• Madhya Pradesh 59-35 Andhra Pradesh

21st Feb | 8:00 AM Onwards (Morning Session)

• Services 70-33 Chhattisgarh
• Goa 38-34 Jammu and Kashmir
• Rajasthan 61-43 Jharkhand
• Karnataka 46-26 Uttarakhand
• Punjab 46-24 West Bengal
• Uttar Pradesh 35-19 Assam
• Tamil Nadu 47-35 Pondicherry
• Haryana 39-19 Delhi
• Indian Railway 45-27 Bihar
• Maharashtra 37-24 Himachal Pradesh
• Madhya Pradesh 32-51 Chandigarh
• Gujarat 39-40 Andhra Pradesh

21st Feb | 3:00 PM Onwards (Afternoon Session)

• Goa 36-47 Services
• Chhattisgarh 56-53 Jammu and Kashmir
• Rajasthan 49-21 Vidarbha
• Kerala 26-41 Himachal Pradesh
• Maharashtra 46-36 Tripura
• Odisha 54-28 Jharkhand
• Karnataka 37-39 Punjab
• Uttarakhand 49-18 West Bengal
• Uttar Pradesh 45-44 Tamil Nadu
• Assam 17-32 Pondicherry
• Delhi 28-29 Telangana
• Bihar 53-31 Manipur
• Himachal Pradesh 42-40 Tripura
• Chandigarh 50-42 Andhra Pradesh

22nd Feb | 8:00 AM Onwards (Morning Session)

• Madhya Pradesh 53-54 Gujarat
• Services 50-30 Jammu and Kashmir
• Goa 62-39 Chhattisgarh
• Vidarbha 25-18 Jharkhand
• Karnataka 45-18 West Bengal
• Punjab 58-37 Uttarakhand
• Uttar Pradesh 67-34 Pondicherry

22nd Feb | 3:00 PM Onwards (Afternoon Session)

Knockout

Pre-quarterfinals

• Haryana 48-41 Tamil Nadu
• Madhya Pradesh 22-57 Services
• Punjab 47-18 Bihar
• Odisha 26-43 Maharashtra
• Indian Railway 48-27 Karnataka
• Himachal Pradesh 46 (5)-(6) 46 Rajasthan
• Uttar Pradesh 46-23 Telangana
• Goa 45-33 Chandigarh

Quarterfinals

• Haryana 32-43 Services
• Maharashtra 26-35 Punjab
• Indian Railways 54-31 Rajasthan
• Uttar Pradesh 51-26 Goa

23rd Feb | 3:00 PM Onwards (Afternoon Session)

Semi-finals

• Services 43-35 Punjab
• Indian Railways 42-34 Uttar Pradesh

Final

Services 30-30 (6-4) Indian Railways

Where & how to watch the National Men’s Kabaddi Championship matches?

The 71st Senior National Men’s Kabaddi Championship will not be telecast on any TV channel. However, you can enjoy all the matches of this Kabaddi tournament for free on the YouTube channel of Odisha Kabaddi.

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