Administrator(s) Mashal Sports | Host(s) India | |
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Dates 30 January 2016 (2016-01-30) – 5 March 2016 (2016-03-05) Kabaddi format Double round-robin & semi-finals Tournament format(s) Double round robin and playoffs Champions Patna Pirates (1st title) | ||
The 2016 Pro Kabaddi League season was the third season of Pro Kabaddi League, a professional kabaddi league played in India since 2014. Pro Kabaddi, which saw astounding success in its second season, was all set to make its much awaited return for a third season from 30 January 2016, just five months after completion of the second season. Hyderabad hosted the opening leg of Season 3, with the first match being played between Telugu Titans and U Mumba at the Titan's home turf, Gachibowli Indoor Stadium.The winner is Patna Pirates.
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Star Sports Pro Kabaddi, organized by Mashal Sports and Star India, in association with the International Kabaddi Federation, Asian Kabaddi Federation and the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India is now going to be a bi-annual league with two seasons every year, promising much more action for the audiences and also encouraging them to take up to playing Kabaddi.
The third season of the league will feature 60 games played on specially developed mats, in state of the art indoor stadiums across 34 days in 8 cities. Following the same ‘caravan style’ format like in the first two seasons, the league will be played at each franchise city for a duration of 4 days, where the home team will play 4 of the visiting franchises. All seven visiting franchises will play a set of away games in each city.
After the opening leg in Hyderabad, the caravan will move to the Kanteerava Indoor Stadium, Bengaluru, followed by Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata. This season, the badminton arena in the Balewadi Sports Complex, Pune will be the venue for the culmination to the first half of the league. The indoor stadium at the Patliputra Sports Complex, Patna will play host to the second half of the league with the caravan then moving to Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on 20 February 2016. Moving on from Jaipur, the league will be played in at the Thyagaraj Indoor Stadium in Delhi and move to the home of the reigning champions, U Mumba at National Sports Club of India, Mumbai. The playoffs will return to the national capital for the semi-finals, playoffs and the finals.
Star Sports Pro Kabaddi is the only domestic Indian sports league to witness a strong rise in viewership as compared to its inaugural season. The rise in viewership in the second season validates the viewers’ progression from initial curiosity of season 1 to a deeper level of affinity and engagement with the aspirational avatar of Indian sport of Kabaddi.
The appeal of the league continues to deliver strongly with core urban youth audiences passionately following the game. The metro contribution in the first two weeks of Season 2 was 65% to overall television viewership demonstrating that the urban, millennial audiences have a strong affinity for the sport. The League has not only seen the viewership grow on TV but has also made a big impact digitally. The online viewership of Season 2 increased nearly 20 times already and over 13 million unique visitors to date. It has also been among the most talked about events on social media and has generated 5.73 billion potential impressions globally across 310,000 conversations so far.
Green Card, Yellow Card OR Red Card
The referee and the umpires shall have the power to warn, declare technical point against, temporarily suspend or to disqualify any player or team from the match who is committing any of the following violations or Foul:
Persistently protesting or objecting the official's decision, thereby disrupting the match.
Making derogatory remarks about the officials & their actions, thereby trying to influence their decision
Showing overt aggression towards the referee or umpire demanding a favorable decision.
Stifle a raider by shutting his mouth or throat in any way
Violent tackling leading to injuries being sustained by the opponent raider
Taking more than 5 seconds to start the raid unless specified in the rules
Hold the raider with the help of scissors operated by legs
Coaching from outside by the coaches and the players
Preventing the raider to take his turn of raid
In any of these cases, the referee and the umpire can use the following cards to warn, temporarily suspend, suspend from the match or debar from the tournament, a player coach/manager/ team:
Green Card: An initial warning for any violation of rules
Yellow Card: 2 minute suspension from the game along with 1 technical point to the opposition
Red: 1 technical point to the opposition and suspension for the rest of the match. In this case, the team that loses the player shall continue the match with the remaining number of players. No substitution for a red carded player is allowed
Note:
- The two minutes suspension of players shall commence from the time the player is on court only.
- If the player out is suspended for two minutes then the suspension will begin after revival.
- Teams will not be allowed to revive the next out player in place of the suspended player.
Green Cards
The graph on the right indicates the green cards conceded by all the teams in the first two seasons.
U Mumba has the least number of green cards per match which indicates they have committed the least number of fouls.
Playoff Stage
All matches played at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium, New Delhi.
Semi-final
Team Statistics
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