Pro Kabaddi League season 5: New Zone and Playoff Rules

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Teams are divided into two zones and each team will play 22 matches.

Be ready for the beginning of the pro kabaddi league season 5, which is going to be began from July 28. This time it will be seen very special. A total of 12 teams will participate in this fifth edition of pro kabaddi league, which will be more grander and bigger than ever. All the 12 teams are divided into two pools, and a total of 2 teams will face the finals after 132 matches. This time there will be a lot difference, so the league format has also been changed, under which this time the traditional version of the last four editions will not be followed.

In previous seasons, eight teams were shown. It was played according to round-robin format. In which all teams met each other twice and the top four went to the knockout stage. The first edition of PKL, was won by Jaipur Pink Panthers, the second edition was won by U Mumba, while winning the third and fourth consecutive edition, Patna Pirates managed to maintain its empire.

New format of Pro Kabaddi League

This season of pro kabaddi league will be quite new and different than the previous season. The biggest challenge for the organisers was that in this long lasting season, sports fans should have more share of their favourite team and more matches so that their interest remains in it.

Organisers have come up with unique ideas to bring new season of pro kabaddi league, in which they have divided the teams into two pools. Considering the strength of the teams in this, the teams have been equally distributed in both the pools. In such a situation, all the teams will play with each other and equal number of teams will play in each place.

Another concern for organisers may have been that this long-running season should not be very straightforward and dull, for which they have introduced leagues such as Inter-Zonal Week and Wildcards Week. With such 12 teams, it became important to ensure that the lower ranked teams also remained in the game till the end, for which a long playoff time has been fixed between the six teams.

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The zone of Pro Kabaddi League

Considering the pro  kabaddi league popularity, geographical proximity and past performance all the teams are divided into zones. So that those who watched them got a tough competition between the teams. The two zones divided between teams are as follows:

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Tournament Review of Pro Kabaddi League

There will be a large number of 132 matches in the league stage. The tournament, which starts on 28th July, will end on October 20. Each team will play 22 games in the league stage, 15 of them will be intra-zone and seven inter-zone matches. There will be a total of 11 matches in every game, and there will be six domestic matches for each team.

There will be a total of six matches in the playoff, which will run from October 22 to 28. In which both the top 3 teams of the zone will be reached and thus will consistently reward the team performing good

League phase of Pro Kabaddi League

At the intra-zone stage, each team will face three teams of the team three times, which means total 15 matches for each.

The tournament is going to be quite interesting in the inter zone phase and it will last three weeks. It will be seen that all the teams will face the remaining 6 teams of the second zone. In the last week, there will be wild card matches which will be the inter zone and the decision will be made in the Mid-session draw.

Playoff format of Pro Kabaddi League

Playoff Week will be seen in some way like this:

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