The World Kabaddi League (WKL) is a professional circle-style

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league in India, United States, Canada, Pakistan and the United Kingdom. It is the first worldwide

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league.

League organization

There will be 8 international teams that will play in 14 cities throughout 4 different countries. The World Kabaddi League will feature 144 international players with over 15 crore in players salaries. The regular season will be four months long then an elimination tournament will take place in

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, India for the top four teams to determine a champion. This is the first season World Kabaddi League, 2014 World Kabaddi League. The basic rules: Two teams of seven players each face off in a large square arena for two halves of twenty minutes each. Players from each team take turns running across the center line to the other team's half of the court, tagging members of the other team, and running back. The first season of men’s Pro-League Kabaddi attracted 435 million viewers on TV. This number is a huge indicator of the popularity of the game, as IPL generated 552 million viewers in the same year. n order to take the reach a lot higher, APS Sports and Training Pvt Ltd is going to launch th
Women Kabaddi League (WKL)
next year. The eight teams in the first edition will make Women’s Kabaddi League India’s biggest women’s sports league.

Teams

Schedule

Playing technique (style)

The game goes thus*: Two teams of seven players face each other in a circle and take turns sending a "raider" into the other team. To win a point, the raider must take a breath, run into the opposing half, tag one member of the opposite team, then return to his home . The raider will have only 30 seconds to touch the opponents and come back to his home. The game is played with 20-minute halves and a five-minute half-time break during which teams exchange sides.

Venues

The following are venues of World Kabaddi League.

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Title Sponsor for World Kabaddi League 2014

Sonalika International The Sonalika Group is an Indian multinational company headquartered in Hoshiarpur, Punjab and is active mainly in the automobile sector. It is best known for Sonalika Tractors. The Sonalika Group is headed by Lakshman Das Mittal. * Internati ...

Official Partner for World Kabaddi League 2014 Li Ning (company) signed on to be the Leagues clothing partner.

Television broadcasters

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has signed on to broadcast the league in India.

PTC Punjabi PTC Punjabi is a Punjabi language, Punjabi television network from India. Indian politician and the president of the Shiromani Akali Dal Sukhbir Singh Badal holds a majority stake in PTC. It features general interest programming including news ...

has signed on to broadcast the league around the world.

References

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