2025 Indian Premier League

The 2025 Indian Premier League (IPL 18 and branded as TATA IPL 2025) will be the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League. Ten teams will feature in tournament in total 74 matches from 22th March to 25 May 2025. It will held across 13 cities in India. As Kolkata Knight Riders are the defending champions, Kolkata will host the opening ceremony and the final match.

The IPL organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and is held annually since the first edition in 2008. Kolkata Knight Riders are the defending Champions, having won their title in the last season after beating Sunrisers Hyderabad in the final.

Format

Each team in IPL will play twice against the teams in their group and the team in the same row in the other group, and once against the remaining four teams in the other group. After the group stage, the top four teams based on aggregate points will qualify for the payoffs. In this stage, the top two teams complete with each other (in a match titled “Qualifier 1”), as do the remaining two teams (in a match titled “Eliminator”). While the winner of Qualifier 1 directly qualifies for the final match, the losing team will complete against the winning team of the Eliminator match (in a match titled “Qualifier 2”). The winner of this subsequent Qualifier 2 match will move on to the final match. The IPL Governing Council decided to keep the total number of matches as same in the previous three seasons to 74 to help the cricketers balance their workload, however it will be increased to 84 for the next two seasons.