Every IPL franchise

A league that keeps changing

Eight franchises played the first season in 2008. Two more, Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Pune Warriors India, joined in 2011, and the league shrank back as they left over the next two seasons. Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants took the league to ten teams again in 2022, where it has stayed since.

Several of the original teams have changed names without changing identity: Delhi Daredevils became Delhi Capitals, Kings XI Punjab became Punjab Kings, and Royal Challengers Bangalore became Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Their pages cover the whole history under every name.

Titles have been far from evenly shared, and money has not decided them. Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings have won the most, five apiece, several franchises have never won at all, and the tables below show how each side's record compares with what it has spent at auction. Mumbai have won five titles while spending less at auction than any other franchise that has played every season; Punjab have spent the most of any franchise and are still without a title.

The ones that left

Five franchises no longer play. Deccan Chargers won the 2009 title and were terminated in 2012, with a new Hyderabad franchise, Sunrisers Hyderabad, taking their place the following year. Kochi Tuskers Kerala lasted a single season in 2011, and Pune Warriors India three. Rising Pune Supergiant and Gujarat Lions were created for 2016 and 2017 to fill the places of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, who were suspended in the fallout from the 2013 spot-fixing and betting scandal, and both were dissolved once Chennai and Rajasthan returned in 2018.

Their pages keep their seasons and signings on the record, and show how short a franchise's life in this league can be: one lasted a single season, and three others fewer than four. Every auction they took part in is in the auction archive.

Finals and finishes

Nineteen finals have been played. Chennai have reached ten of them, more than any other franchise, and won five; Mumbai have won five of their six. Three franchises have won the title in consecutive seasons: Chennai in 2010 and 2011, Mumbai in 2019 and 2020, and Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2025 and 2026. Two finals were decided by a single run, both won by Mumbai, in 2017 and 2019, and one, in 2023, by the DLS method after rain.

Three finals have been played outside India, at the Wanderers in Johannesburg in 2009 and in Dubai in 2020 and 2021. The Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad has hosted four, more than any other ground. Sunil Narine is the only player to have been named player of the tournament three times.

Reaching the playoffs is a steadier measure of a franchise than titles. Chennai have finished in the top four in twelve of their seventeen seasons, and Mumbai and Bengaluru in eleven of nineteen. Punjab, for all their spending, have done it three times, and Delhi six. The full grid of finishing positions is below.