BCCI has released the complete schedule of the 19th season of the Indian Premier League. The first match will be played on 28 March, while the league stage will conclude on 24 May. In the first match of the season, defending champion Royal Challengers Bangalore will face Sunrisers Hyderabad.

This team, captained by Rajat Patidar, will once again enter the field with the intention of creating history. RCB has a tremendous squad, which is capable of winning its second consecutive title. See here when and against whom the Bengaluru team will play all its matches in IPL 2026.

Complete schedule of RCB in IPL 2026:

March 28 – RCB vs SRH – Bengaluru

5 April – RCB vs CSK – Bengaluru

10 April – RCB vs RR – Guwahati

12 April – RCB vs MI – Mumbai

15 April – RCB vs LSG – Bengaluru

18 April – RCB vs DC – Bengaluru

24 April – RCB vs GT – Bengaluru

27 April – RCB vs DC – Delhi

30 April – RCB vs GT – Ahmedabad

7 May – RCB vs LSG – Lucknow

10 May – RCB vs MI – Raipur

13 May – RCB vs KKR – Raipur

17 May – RCB vs PBKS – Dharamshala

22 May – RCB vs SRH – Hyderabad

2 home grounds of RCB

In IPL 2026, Royal Challengers Bangalore team will play its home matches on 2 grounds like last time. Its 5 home matches will be played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru and 2 home matches will be played at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh Stadium in Raipur. Bengaluru team is the defending champion. If it also becomes champion in IPL 2026, then it will become only the third team after Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians, which has won the IPL trophy for two consecutive years.

RCB Squad: Rajat Patidar (captain), Virat Kohli, Tim David, Jacob Bethel, Romario Shepherd, Josh Hazlewood, Nuwan Thushara, Devdutt Padikkal, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Dar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jordan Cox, Suyyash Sharma, Venkatesh Iyer, Swapnil Singh, Jacob Duffy, Kanishk Chauhan, Abhinandan Singh, Mangesh Yadav, Phil Salt, Satvik Deswal, Vicky Oswal, Vihaan Malhotra

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