By Admin 
Punjab Kings IPL 2025: IPL season 18 has reached its final stop, today the Gujarat Titans vs Mumbai Indians Eliminator will be played. Whatever team will lose this match, the dream of winning the title will be broken and that team will be out. The first match of the playoff has also lost Punjab Kings, so have it been out? Let us tell you about the rule of playoff matches and its history.
IPL 2025 playoff format
4 teams reach the IPL playoffs, which remain in the top 4 position after all the matches of the league stage are over. Now it gives more benefits to those 2 teams, which are on the top 2. This time Punjab Kings were first and Royal Challengers Bangalore was in second place.
Qualifier-1 is played between the top 2 teams, which took place on Thursday and RCB defeated Punjab by 8 wickets. The winning team enters the finals directly while the losing team is not out. We were talking about this benefit, while the third and fourth teams do not get this benefit.
Eliminator matches are played between the third and fourth team in the points table, which will be played between Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians on Friday, 30 May. The losing team will be out of the tournament, while the winning team will not reach the finals.
The second qualifier will be played before the final, which is between the winner of the eliminator match and the lost team of qualifier-1. The match will be held on June 1 at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium in Ahmedabad. The final will be played on this ground on June 3.
Punjab will get another chance
Now you must have understood that Punjab Kings have not been out of IPL 2025, now it will have to win another qualifier. Whatever team will lose this match, it will be out and the winning team will be the second finalist. Let us tell you how many times the qualifier matches are being played in history, how many times the qualifier-1 losing team has won and how many times has lost.
- 2024: Srh Qualifier-1 lost, she lost to KKR in the final as well.
- 2023: Gt Q-1 lost, she lost to CSK in the final as well.
- 2022: Rr Q-1 lost, she lost to GT in the final as well.
- 2021: Dc Q-1 was lost, she also lost Q-2.
- 2020: Dc Q-1 was lost, she lost to Mi in the final as well.
- 2019: Mi Q-1 was lost, she lost to Mi in the final as well.
- 2018: Srh Q-1 lost, she lost to CSK in the final as well.
- 2017: Mi Q-1 lost, she won the final.
- 2016: Gl Q-1 was lost, she also lost Q-2.
- 2015: CSK Q-1 lost, she lost to Mi in the final as well.
- 2014: Pbks Q-1 was lost, she lost to Kakar in the final as well.
- 2013: Mi Q-1 lost, she won in the final.
- 2012: Dc Q-1 was lost, she also lost Q-2.
- 2011: RCB Q-1 was lost, that final was also lost to CSK.