Cricket fans are eager to see the IPL retention list, which will be released on Saturday, November 15. After this it will become clear which players will be at stake in the IPL auction. Here we are telling you on which date the IPL auction will be held, how much money is left in the purse of all the 10 teams and which team spent the most money on which top-3 players in the last edition.

Where will IPL auction 2026 take place?

The priority for the venue of IPL auction is India, but according to the report, due to the wedding season in December, consideration is also going on to keep the venue outside India. IPL auction is likely to be held in UAE.

How much money is in the purse of all 10 IPL teams?

• Punjab Kings (PBKS) – Rs 35 lakh
• Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) – Rs 10 lakh
• Gujarat Titans (GT) – Rs 15 lakh
• Delhi Capitals (DC) – Rs 20 lakh
• Chennai Super Kings (CSK) – Rs 5 lakh
• Mumbai Indians (MI) – Rs 10 lakh
• Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) – Rs 5 lakh
• Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) – Rs 20 lakh
• Rajasthan Royals (RR) – Rs 30 lakh
• Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) – Rs 75 lakh

The thing to note here is that this is the purse which is still left with all the teams. After the release of IPL retention list, it will be known which franchise has released which players. This will add their value to this purse. For example, if Delhi Capitals releases players worth Rs 5 crore, their purse will become Rs 5 crore 20 lakh.

Top 3 expensive players of all 10 IPL teams

punjab kings

• Shreyas Iyer- Rs 26.75 crore
• Arshdeep Singh- Rs 18 crore
• Yuzvendra Chahal – Rs 18 crore

Lucknow Super Giants

• Rishabh Pant- Rs 27 crore
• Nicholas Pooran – Rs 21 crore
• Ravi Bishnoi/Mayank Yadav – Rs 11 crore (each)

gujarat titans

• Rashid Khan- Rs 18 crore
• Shubman Gill- Rs 15.5 crore
• Jos Buttler- Rs 15.75 crore

Delhi Capitals

• Akshar Patel – Rs 16.5 crore
• KL Rahul- Rs 14 crore
• Kuldeep Yadav – Rs 13.25 crore

Chennai Super Kings

• Ruturaj Gaikwad – Rs 18 crore
• Ravindra Jadeja- Rs 18 crore
• Mathisha Pathirana – Rs 13 crore

Mumbai Indians

• Jasprit Bumrah- Rs 18 crore
• Suryakumar Yadav – Rs 16.35 crore
• Hardik Pandya – Rs 16.35 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders

• Venkatesh Iyer- Rs 23.75 crore
• Rinku Singh- Rs 13 crore
• Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy – Rs 12 crore (each)

Sunrisers Hyderabad

• Heinrich Klaasen – Rs 23 crore
• Pete Cummins – Rs 18 crore
• Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma – Rs 14 crore (each)

Rajasthan Royals

• Yashasvi Jaiswal – Rs 18 crore
• Sanju Samson – Rs 18 crore
• Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag – Rs 14 crore

Royal Challengers Bangalore

• Virat Kohli- Rs 21 crore
• Josh Hazlewood- Rs 12.50 crore
• Phil Salt- Rs 11.50 crore

On which date will the auction for IPL 2026 take place?

There will be a mini auction for the 19th edition of IPL, according to reports it will last for one day. The mega auction for the last edition lasted for 2 days. The auction for IPL 2026 is likely to take place on December 15, 2025.

Preparations are going on for the auction for the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League, meanwhile a new news has come related to the sale of Royal Challengers Bangalore. There was news of this for the last few days, but now the report has revealed that the sale process of RCB has started. This process will be finished before the next season. According to the report, the current owner of the franchise, Diageo itself has announced this. RCB, which has been a part of the league since 2008, had won its first IPL title in the last edition (2025), this was also the first title of Virat Kohli who has been playing for this team since the first season.

RCB men’s team plays in IPL and women’s team plays in WPL. There was speculation about the sale of RCB for a long time, but now the franchise owner Diageo itself has confirmed it. According to the report of Cricbuzz, the information about the sale of the team has been given by Diageo itself.

In a message to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Wednesday (November 5), the British company described it as a ‘strategic review’ of its investment in Royal Challengers Sports Pvt Ltd (RCSPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Diageo’s Indian subsidiary United Spirits Ltd, according to the report.

The company said in its disclosure, “USL is initiating a strategic review of its investment in its wholly owned subsidiary RCSPL. RCSPL’s business includes the ownership of the Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise team, which participates in the Men’s Indian Premier League and Women’s Premier League cricket tournaments organized annually by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.”

Diageo is close to a sale deal

In their covering letter to the stock exchange, Diageo and USL revealed “it is expected that this process will be completed by March 31, 2026.” Cricbuzz report said that people familiar with such matters say that there is every possibility that USL/Diageo are close to a deal and that is why the date has been announced.

Vijay Mallya bought RCB team in 2008

The Indian Premier League was started in 2008, when BCCI had initially bid for 8 teams to play. The bid for RCB team was won by Vijay Mallya, he bought this franchise for about Rs 600 crores. Vijay Mallya was then the owner of United Spirits. In 2014, the entire ownership rights in USL came to Diageo with more than 54 percent stake.