The 2025 Indian Premier League will be the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League, a franchise Twenty20cricket league held in India, organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The Auction for the 2025 season will be the 5th IPL mega-auction[1][2] after 2011,[3]2014,[4]2018[5] and 2022.[6] In a mega-auction, most of the players, apart from a selection of retained players, will return to the auction pool. The current IPL system is to hold a mega-auction once every three years, with mini auctions being held in the intermediate seasons.[7][8]
The rules and regulations for the 2025 auction were announced on 29 September 2024.[9][10]
The ten IPL franchise teams could retain a maximum of six players from their squad, which is the highest in the history of IPL mega-auctions. Five player retentions and one "Right To Match (RTM)" option is available for each franchise. Out of the six retentions a maximum of five capped players (including Indian and overseas players) could be retained and a maximum of two uncapped players could be retained.[11][12]
The auction purse for each franchise is set at ₹120 crore (US$14 million), the highest in the history of IPL.[14] The salary cap of a player would consist of auction purse, incremental performance pay and match fees. Each playing member (including the Impact player) will get a match fee of ₹7.5 lakh (US$9,000) in addition to their auctioned price, first such instance in the IPL.[15]
Any overseas player will have to register for the mega-auction. Overseas players failing to register for the mega-auction would be become ineligible to participate in the following year's mini auction as well.[16] If an auctioned player withdraws before the season commences, they would be banned from IPL for the next two years.[17] Any Indian capped player who hasn't played in the starting XI in international cricket (Test, ODI, T20I) in the preceding five calendar years or doesn't have a central contract with the BCCI will become an uncapped player for the auction.[18][19][20][21]
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Australia
Bangladesh
England
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Ireland
New Zealand
Sri Lanka
South Africa
West Indies
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