Season 1

The first signing and auction of players for the 8 teams was held on 20 May 2014 in Mumbai. India’s national kabaddi captain Rakesh Kumar was the priciest among the players bought for ₹12.80 lakh by the Patna Pirates. Sports Authority of India’s Deepak Nivas was bought by Telugu Titans franchise for ₹12.60 lakh. Tae Deok Eom was the highest paid overseas player bought for ₹7 lakh by Patna franchise.

The duration of the season was from 26 July 2014 to 31 August 2014. There were double round robin matches along with two semi finals, third place and final games. 56 games were to be played in first round and 4 in play off stage making total of 60 games. 8 teams took part in first edition. First game was played on July 26 between U Mumba and Jaipur Pink Panthers and the final was played on August 31 at Mumbai. Jaipur Pink Panthers beat U Mumba by 35-24 to win the inaugural Pro Kabaddi League.

Season 2

Star Sports Pro Kabaddi season 2 was from July 18 to 23 August 2015. They were a total of 60 matches played these season with two semifinals, a third place play-off and a final. First game was played on July 18 between U Mumba and Jaipur Pink Panthers and the final was played on August 23 at Mumbai between U Mumba and Bengaluru Bulls. U Mumba beat Bengaluru Bulls by 36-30 to win the 2015 season of Pro Kabaddi League.^[5] U Mumba stood first, Bengaluru Bulls stood second and Telugu Titans stood on third position in the league.

Season 3

Star Sports Pro Kabaddi Season 3 will have two editions. The COO of Star India, Mr. Sanjay Gupta confirmed that Star Sports Pro Kabaddi wants to make Pro Kabaddi, a 5-week event, happen 10 weeks a year by having two editions a year. The idea is to play the tournament once in January–February 2016 and once in June–July 2016. It also had 8 teams. Patna Pirates beat U Mumba by 3 Points in the final in Delhi to take home the trophy. Puneri Paltan came third this season.

Season 4

The fourth season took place from June 25 to July 31, with the existing eight teams participating. Patna Pirates beat Jaipur Pink Panthers in the men’s final. Season 4 also saw the launch of first professional woman kabaddi league, Women’s Kabaddi Challenge (WKC). First season saw 3 teams namely Ice Divas, Fire Birds and Storm Queens battle it out to be the first ever WKC champions. The final, scheduled along with the men’s final in Hyderabad, saw the Storm Queens defeat the Fire Birds.

Season 5

The 2017 season will be the fifth edition of the Pro Kabaddi League, and it will feature a total of 12 teams, including the new teams from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, and Gujarat. The team Haryana is known as Haryana Steelers owned by JSW Sports.^[6] Sachin Tendulkar co-owns the Tamil Nadu team named Tamil Thalaivas. The Uttar Pradesh team is named as UP Yoddha owned by GMR group and Gujarat team is named Gujarat FortuneGiants owned by Gautam Adani.

The Pro Kabaddi League Season 5 is all set to start on July 28, 2017. It will feature a total of 12 teams, after four new ones were added for the first time. Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh are the four states where the new teams will be based. Auctions for the new season were held in May, before which the existing teams were allowed to retain one player each. The auction saw over 400 players go under the hammer and a total of Rs 46.99 crore spent by the 12 teams.

The most expensive pick of the auction was raider Nitin Tomar, who was bought by the Uttar Pradesh team for a sum of Rs 93 lakh. Following in second place is Rohit Kumar after the Bengaluru Bulls picked him for a Rs 81 lakhs price. The most expensive foreign player was South Korea’s Jang Kun Lee after he was retained by the Bengal Warriors for Rs 80.3 lakhs.

The new season is slated to be the biggest league tournament of its kind in the history of Indian sports in terms of geographical coverage and duration. It will feature 138 matches spread across a time period of 13 weeks across 11 states.

There will also be a Children’s Kabaddi known as KBD Juniors between schools of the city in which the matches are going on.