Before the start of every PKL season, an auction takes place. Every team buys the best players according to their analysis to balance their squads. These players are highly required in the squads for the upcoming season and are retained by the 12 teams of Vivo Pro Kabaddi.
The three-time champions Patna Pirates have the most Elite Retained Players (4) and their all-rounder Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh is the only overseas player retained by any PKL team ahead of PKL Season 9 2022
Bengal Warriors Retained Players:
- Maninder Singh
- Manoj Gowda K
- Akash Pikalmunde
- Suyog Baban Gaikar
- R Guhan
- Parshant Kumar
- Vaibhav Bhausaheb Garje.
Auction Buys
- Deepak Niwas Hooda
- Ajinkya Rohidas Kapre
- Girish Maruti Ernak
- Shrikant Jadhav
- Soleiman Pahlevani
- Aslam Saja Mohammed Thambi
- Ashish Kumar Sangwan
- Vinod Kumar
- Balaji D
- Parveen Satpal
- Amit Sheoran
- Surender Nada
- Sakthivel R
- Shubham Shinde
- Rohit.
Bengaluru Bulls Retained Players:
- Mayur Kadam
- Yash Hooda
- Rohit Kumar
- Mahender Singh
- GB More
- Saurabh Nandal
- Aman
- Vinod Lachmayya Naik
- Bharat
- Rajnesh
Auction Buys
- Vikash Khandola
- Nageshor Tharu
- Lal Mohar Yadav
- Sachin Narwal
- Rahul Khatik
- Sudhakar Krishanth Kadam
- Neeraj Narwal
- Harmanjit Singh.
Dabang Delhi KC Retained Players
- Naveen Kumar
- Vijay Malik
- Vinay Kumar
- Krishan Dhull
- Ashu Malik
- Dipak
- Manjeet
- Suraj Panwar
- Ashish Narwal
- Vijay.
Auction Buys
- Sandeep Kumar Dhull
- Vishal Lather
- Md. Liton Ali
- Reza Katoulinezhad
- Amit Hooda
- Anil Kumar
- Ravi Kumar
- Aakash
- Tejas Maruti Patil
- Monu.
Gujarat Giants Retained Players
- Sonu
- Rakesh
- Gaurav Chhikhara
- Sonu Singh
- Sohit Malik
- Parteek Dahiya
- Rohan Singh.
Auction Buys
- Chandran Ranjit
- Pardeep Kumar
- Dong Geon Lee
- Young Chang Ko
- Arkam Shaikh
- Shankar Bhimraj Gadai
- Rinku Narwal
- Sourav Gulia
- Sandeep Kandola
- Vinod Kumar
- Baldev Singh Sawin
- Purna Singh
- Mahendra Ganesh Rajput
- Ujjval Singh
- Kapil Manuj
Haryana Steelers Retained Players
- Vinay
- Meetu
- Jaideep
- Ankit
- Mohit
- Monu
- Harsh
- Naveen
- Sunny
Auction Boys
- Manjeet
- Nitin Rawal
- Amirhossein Bastami
- Mohammad Maghsoudlou
- Sushil
- K Prapanjan
- Manish Gulia
- Lovepreet Singh
- Joginder Singh Narwal
- Rakesh Narwal
Jaipur Pink Panthers Retained Players
- Arjun Deshwal
- Deepak
- Devank
- Ankush
- Sahul Kumar
- Ashish
- Abhishek KS.
Auction Buys
- V Ajith Kumar
- Sunil Kumar
- Woosan KO
- Reza Mirbagheri
- Lucky Sharma
- Nitin Panwar
- Bhavani Rajput
- Navneet
- Rahul Chaudhari
- Nitin Chandel
- Rahul Dhanware.
Patna Pirates Retained Players
- Neeraj Kumar
- Monu Mohammadreza Chiyaneh
- Sajin Chandrasekhar
- Manish
- Rohit
- Ranjit Venkatramana Naik
- Thiyagarajan Yuvaraj
- Anuj Kumar
- Naveen Sharma
Auctioned Player
- Rohit Gulia
- Sachin
- Sunil Narwal
- Daniel Omondi Odhiambo
- Abdul Insamam S
- Shivam Chaudhari
- Anand Surendra Tomar
- Sushil Gulia
- Vishwas S
- Sagar Kumar
Puneri Paltan Retained Players
- Mohit Goyat
- Akash Santhosh Shinde
- Sanket Sawant
- Govind Gurjar
- Aslam Inamdar
- Sombir
- Abinesh Nadarajan
- Shubham Nitin Shelke
- Pankaj Mohite
- Badal Taqdir Singh
- Aditya Tushar Shinde
Auction Buys
- Fazel Atrachali
- Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh
- Alankar Kaluram Patil
- Rakesh Bhalle Ram
- Balasaheb Shahaji Jadhav
- Harsh Mahesh Lad
- D Mahindaprasad.
Tamil Thalaivas Retained Players
- Sagar
- Ajinkya Ashok Pawar
- Abhishek M
- Himanshu
- Himanshu Singh
- Mohit
- Ashish
- Sahil
- Jatin
- Himanshu
- Narender
Auction Buys
- Pawan Sehrawat
- Thanushan Laxmamohan
- Md. Arif Rabbani
- Visvanath V
- Arpit Saroha
- K Abhimanyu
- Ankit
Telugu Titans Retained Players
- Ankit Beniwal
- Rajnish
- Muhammed Shihas S
- Prince
- Palla Ramakrishna
- Vinay
- Mohit Pahal
- Mohit
- Nitin
Auction Buys
- Abhishek Singh
- Monu Goyat
- Parvesh Bhainswal
- Siddharth Desai
- Surjeet Singh
- Vishal Bhardwaj
- Hamid Mirzaei Nader
- Mohsen Maghsoudlou Jafari
- K Hanumanthu
- Adarsh T
- Vijay Kumar
- Ravinder Pahal
- Aman Kadian
- Ravinder.
U Mumba Retained Players
- Rinku
- Shivam
- Pranay Vinay Rane
- Prince
- Rahul
- Kamlesh
- Shivansh Thakur
- Rupesh
- Sachin
Auction Buys
- Ashish
- Guman Singh
- Surinder Singh
- Heidarali Ekrami
- Gholamabbas Korouki
- Harendra Kumar
- Kiran Laxman Magar
- Mohit
- Ankush
- Jai Bhagwan
- Satywan
UP Yoddha Retained Player
- Nitesh Kumar
- Surender Gill
- Sumit
- Aman
- Ashu Singh
- Nitin Panwar
- Shubham Kumar
- Rohit Tomar
- Anil Kumar
- Mahipal
- Durgesh Kumar
Auction Buys
- Pardeep Narwal
- Nitin Tomar
- James Namaba Kamweti
- Abozar Mighani
- Gurdeep
- Jaideep
- Gulveer Singh
- Rathan K
- Nehal B Sawal Desai
- Babu Murugasan.