Kabaddi points table: PKL and Asian Games scoring, and the latest standings
Two points for a win, no bonus points and no ties at all in Pro Kabaddi, but a tie is still worth a point at the Asian Games. How each kabaddi points table works, the checks that catch a wrong one, and the standings that are current.
Feb 20, 2022 · Updated Aug 10, 2026
“Kabaddi points table” is a single search covering at least three different sets of rules. Pro Kabaddi hands out two points for a win and nothing else at all. The Asian Games still gives a point for a tie. And any table that mentions bonus points is describing a competition that has not existed since 2024, because PKL threw out its five-three-one system in Season 12. This page covers each of them: how the scoring works, which standings are actually current, and three arithmetic checks that will tell you in about ten seconds whether the table in front of you is right.
Three checks that tell you whether a kabaddi points table is correct
Most kabaddi standings online are copied from another page rather than built from results, which is how stale tables survive for years. These three checks catch both the stale ones and the miscopied ones, and you can run all three on your phone.
- The difference column has to add up to zero. Score difference in Pro Kabaddi and points difference at the Asian Games are the same idea: points scored minus points conceded. Inside a complete group, every point one team gains is a point another team lost, so the column must cancel out exactly. If it does not, a row is wrong or a team is missing.
- In Pro Kabaddi, the points column must be exactly double the wins column. A win is worth two, and nothing else scores at all. An odd number in a PKL points column is arithmetically impossible.
- In Pro Kabaddi, the total wins must equal the total matches played. There are no ties left to absorb a result, so a 108-match league stage produces exactly 108 wins.
The second and third checks only apply to Pro Kabaddi, and that is what makes them useful. An odd number sitting in a points column tells you straight away that you are either looking at a different competition or at a table from Season 11 or earlier.
How the PKL points table works
- A win is worth 2 points. A loss is worth nothing.
- There are no bonus points. Losing narrowly earns you exactly the same as being thrashed.
- There are no tied matches. A level score goes to a five-raid shootout, then a Golden Raid, then a toss.
- Each team plays 18 league matches, out of 108 in the league stage.
- Teams level on points are separated by score difference, the total raid and tackle points scored minus those conceded across the season.
The tie-break rules are worth knowing in detail, because they now apply to every league match rather than just the knockouts. In the shootout each side fields seven players, the baulk line doubles as the bonus line, and five different nominated raiders raid alternately. Out and revival rules are suspended, so only points scored count. If the sides are still level after five raids each, a fresh toss decides who gets the decisive Golden Raid, and a toss settles it if even that finishes level.
What changed in Season 12, and why the old numbers still float around
The system Pro Kabaddi used up to Season 11 gave 5 points for a win, 3 for a tie, and 1 to a losing side beaten by seven points or fewer. Lose by more than seven and you got nothing. Combine that with a longer season and the totals looked completely different.
Season 8, in 2021-22, was a 22-match double round-robin. Patna Pirates finished top of it on 86 points. Season 12, in 2025, was an 18-match single round-robin under the new rules, and Puneri Paltan topped it on 26. Both figures are correct. They are answers to different questions, which is exactly why a stale points table is worse than no points table at all.
Patna’s 86 is also a neat demonstration of why the wins-times-two check fails on an old table. They won 16, tied one and lost five of those 22 matches. Sixteen wins at five points each is 80, the tie adds three, and the remaining three points came from three of those five defeats being by seven points or fewer. Under Season 12 scoring those 16 wins would have been worth 32, with the tie and the narrow defeats counting for nothing.
One thing the two seasons have in common: the side that finished first did not win the trophy. Patna topped the Season 8 table and Dabang Delhi K.C. won the final; Puneri Paltan topped Season 12 and Dabang Delhi won again.
PKL Season 12 points table (2025)
The 12th season ran from 29 August to 31 October 2025. These are the final league-stage standings, and the most recent complete Pro Kabaddi table there is.
| # | Team | P | W | L | SD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puneri Paltan | 18 | 13 | 5 | +88 | 26 |
| 2 | Dabang Delhi K.C. | 18 | 13 | 5 | +38 | 26 |
| 3 | Bengaluru Bulls | 18 | 11 | 7 | +97 | 22 |
| 4 | Telugu Titans | 18 | 10 | 8 | +45 | 20 |
| 5 | Haryana Steelers | 18 | 10 | 8 | +40 | 20 |
| 6 | U Mumba | 18 | 10 | 8 | +8 | 20 |
| 7 | Patna Pirates | 18 | 8 | 10 | +12 | 16 |
| 8 | Jaipur Pink Panthers | 18 | 8 | 10 | −48 | 16 |
| 9 | UP Yoddhas | 18 | 7 | 11 | −65 | 14 |
| 10 | Tamil Thalaivas | 18 | 6 | 12 | −36 | 12 |
| 11 | Gujarat Giants | 18 | 6 | 12 | −73 | 12 |
| 12 | Bengal Warriorz | 18 | 6 | 12 | −106 | 12 |
Run the three checks on it. Every points figure is double the wins beside it. The wins column adds up to 108, matching the 108 matches played. And the score difference column, from +88 all the way down to −106, sums to exactly zero. A table that fails any of those is not a Season 12 table.
Note also how little separated the middle. Telugu Titans, Haryana Steelers and U Mumba all finished on 20 points with ten wins each, ordered purely on score difference, with a 37-point spread between the best and worst of the three. Bengaluru Bulls had the best score difference in the league at +97 and still finished third, four points off the top, which is the clearest illustration of what the new system rewards: winning, not winning well.
Dabang Delhi K.C. went on to beat Puneri Paltan 31-28 in the final on 31 October 2025 for their second PKL title, won at the Thyagaraj Sports Complex in Delhi, which made them the first home side to lift the trophy since U Mumba in Season 2.
How the PKL playoffs are reached
Eight of the twelve teams make the knockouts, through a longer route than the league used to run:
- 5th to 8th meet in the Play-ins, and the winners move into the Eliminators.
- 3rd and 4th face each other in a Mini-Qualifier.
- 1st and 2nd meet in Qualifier 1, and the winner goes straight to the Final.
- Three Eliminators and two Qualifiers are played in all before the Final.
That structure is the practical reason the league table matters beyond bragging rights. Finishing in the top two buys a direct shot at the Final and a second life if you lose it. Finishing fifth means winning a Play-in before you have even reached an Eliminator.
The Asian Games kabaddi points table works differently
This is where the PKL rules stop applying, and it matters right now because the next kabaddi points table anyone will be refreshing is not a Pro Kabaddi one. Kabaddi at the Asian Games in Aichi, Japan runs from 21 to 26 September 2026 at the Tōkai Citizens Gymnasium, with the group stage from 21 to 24 September, both semi-finals on 25 September and both finals on 26 September.
The men’s event has ten teams in two groups of five, the women’s eight teams in two groups of four. Each group is a single round-robin and the top two go through to the semi-finals, a structure the Games have used since 2006. India are the defending champions in both.
- Men’s Group A: India, Bangladesh, Republic of Korea, Chinese Taipei, Japan
- Men’s Group B: Iran, Pakistan, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia
- Women’s Group A: India, Iran, Japan, Bangladesh
- Women’s Group B: Chinese Taipei, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal
The scoring is two points for a win, one for a tie and none for a defeat, with points difference separating teams who finish level. That single difference from Pro Kabaddi, the surviving tie, is what makes an Asian Games table look wrong to anyone who has only ever read a PKL one.
The 2023 women’s tournament in Hangzhou is the worked example. India drew their opening match with Chinese Taipei, and the two finished the group like this:
| Team | W | T | L | Pts | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | +65 |
| Chinese Taipei | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | +20 |
| Thailand | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | −21 |
| South Korea | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | −64 |
Five points from three matches is two wins plus a tie. It is also an odd number, which no Pro Kabaddi team can ever record. India and Chinese Taipei were identical on wins, ties and points, and were separated only by points difference, +65 against +20. The difference column still sums to zero, so the first of the three checks works exactly as it does on a PKL table.
The men’s group that year had no ties at all, which is why it reads like a Pro Kabaddi table even though it is not one:
| Team | W | T | L | Pts | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| India | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | +123 |
| Chinese Taipei | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | +27 |
| Bangladesh | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | +1 |
| Japan | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | −60 |
| Thailand | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | −91 |
Both tables went the way of the medals. India beat Iran 33-29 in the men’s final and Chinese Taipei 26-25 in the women’s, the second of which brought up India’s 100th medal of those Games. The women had been held 34-34 by that same Chinese Taipei side on 2 October, five days before beating them by a single point for the gold, which is a reasonable argument for reading the group table before assuming a final is a formality.
Other kabaddi competitions run their own variations, and the safest assumption is that none of them uses the PKL system. The Kabaddi World Cup is complicated further by three different bodies having staged a tournament under that name.
PKL champions, season by season
| Season | Year | Champion | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2014 | Jaipur Pink Panthers | U Mumba |
| 2 | 2015 | U Mumba | Bengaluru Bulls |
| 3 | 2016 | Patna Pirates | U Mumba |
| 4 | 2016 | Patna Pirates | Jaipur Pink Panthers |
| 5 | 2017 | Patna Pirates | Gujarat Fortune Giants |
| 6 | 2018-19 | Bengaluru Bulls | Gujarat Fortune Giants |
| 7 | 2019 | Bengal Warriors | Dabang Delhi |
| 8 | 2021-22 | Dabang Delhi K.C. | Patna Pirates |
| 9 | 2022 | Jaipur Pink Panthers | Puneri Paltan |
| 10 | 2023-24 | Puneri Paltan | Haryana Steelers |
| 11 | 2024 | Haryana Steelers | Patna Pirates |
| 12 | 2025 | Dabang Delhi K.C. | Puneri Paltan |
Patna Pirates are the only side to have won three in a row, taking Seasons 3, 4 and 5. Eight of the twelve franchises have lifted the trophy at least once.
What about the PKL Season 13 points table?
There is not one yet, and there will not be for a while. Mashal Sports has confirmed neither a schedule nor an auction date for the 13th season. Reports through the middle of 2026 have put the auction in October and a season start around December, pushed back by a congested international calendar that includes the Asian Games and the Commonwealth Kabaddi Championship. None of that is official.
The same twelve franchises are involved, and we have been following the off-season in how PKL 13 is taking shape and in the coaching reshuffle behind it. Until the league says otherwise, the scoring described above is what the Season 13 table will run on, and this page will carry the standings once matches begin.
Quick answers
How many points is a win worth in Pro Kabaddi?
Two. Since Season 12, a win is worth two points and a loss nothing at all.
Are there still bonus points in the PKL points table?
No. Up to Season 11 a team beaten by seven points or fewer collected one point. Season 12 scrapped it.
What happens if a PKL match is tied?
It does not stay tied. A five-raid shootout is played, then a Golden Raid, and a toss decides it if the sides are still level.
Does the Asian Games kabaddi points table award points for a tie?
Yes. A tie is worth one point there, which is why an Asian Games team can finish on an odd number of points and a Pro Kabaddi team cannot. India’s women finished the 2023 group stage on five.
How are teams separated when they are level on points?
By score difference in Pro Kabaddi and points difference at the Asian Games. Both mean the same thing: total points scored across the competition minus total points conceded.
Who won PKL Season 12?
Dabang Delhi K.C., who beat Puneri Paltan 31-28 in the final on 31 October 2025. It was their second title.
How many matches does each PKL team play?
Eighteen in the league stage, from a total of 108 league matches.
For more on the league, see the all-time list of Pro Kabaddi’s leading raiders and our explainer on how many players a kabaddi team fields.