The sixth season of VIVO Pro Kabaddi will begin in Chennai and will travel across 13 cities, with the final showdown in Mumbai on January 5th, 2019.
The opening day will witness the clash of kabaddi giants, Telugu Titans, and Tamil Thalaivas. The competition will intensify, as the neighbors renew their rivalry in the latest season. In the second match Anup Kumar, the ‘Captain Cool’ of U Mumba for the last 5 seasons, who moves to Jaipur Pink Panthers this season, will lock horns with his former team.
The other highly anticipated matches through the week include Tamil Thalaivas vs Patna Pirates, as the Dubki King Pardeep Narwal will dodge his way through defenders to break his previous seasons’ record of 369 raid points. VIVO Pro Kabaddi League’s highest paid player, Monu Goyat will begin his raid for glory as Haryana Steelers takes on Puneri Paltans in the fifth match of the season.
Anupam Goswami, League Commissioner, VIVO Pro Kabaddi said, “We have had to adjust the Season VI window to October onwards, in lieu of the ongoing Asian Games that have nearly all the world ’s top Kabaddi athletes playing for their respective national teams. We will return to a July start for VIVO PKL Season VII. Meanwhile, I look forward to VIVO PKL Season VI being an intensely competitive affair, as well as a great celebration of Kabaddi”
The 12 participating teams have been divided into two zones of six teams each, where each team will be playing a set of 15 intra-zone and 7 inter-zone matches, prior to the anticipated play-offs. The play-offs stage will comprise of 3 adrenaline filled eliminators, 2 qualifiers and the finals scheduled to take place in Mumbai.
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7⃣5⃣ days of action-packed kabaddiHere’s how the kabaddi bandwagon will take over the country come #VivoProKabaddi Season 6! pic.twitter.com/7Zfxb1UhpJ
— ProKabaddi (@ProKabaddi) August 22, 2018
Pro Kabaddi League Season 6 Schedule –
Chennai Leg – 5th to 11th October 2018
Sonipat Leg – 12th to 18th October 2018
Pune Leg – 19th to 24th October 2018, Inter-Zone Week
Patna Leg – 26th October to 1st November 2018, Inter-Zone Week
UP, (Noida) Leg – 2nd to 8th November 2018
Mumbai Leg – 9th to 15th November 2018, Inter-Zone Week
Ahmedabad Leg – 16th to 22nd November 2018, Inter-Zone Week
Bengaluru Leg – 23rd to 29th November 2018
Delhi Leg – 30th November to 6th December 2018, Inter-Zone Week
Hyderabad Leg – 7th to 13th December 2018, Inter-Zone Week
Jaipur Leg – 14th to 20th December 2018
Kolkata Leg – 21st to 27th December 2018, Wild Card Week
Kochi Leg – 30th December 2018, Qualifier 1 and 2, 31st December 2018 Qualifier 3 and Eliminator 1
Mumbai Leg – 3rd January 2019, Eliminator 2 and 5th January 2019 Final
