Indian Premier League’s General Council (IPL GC) held a meeting with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Saturday, September 28, in Bengaluru. The Indian Premier League (IPL) is set for one of its biggest shake-ups yet ahead of the IPL 2025 season.
In the latest development, it was revealed that the franchises can retain up to six players along with the Right-to-match (RTM) option, Impact Rule to continue in IPL 2025.
The total purse for the IPL 2025 Mega auction will be ₹120 crore, which exceeds the last edition by a whopping 20 crore in Indian rupees.
These are among the most significant points finalised by the IPL on Saturday for the retention rules, which would be applied ahead of the 2025 mega auction.
IPL 2025 Mega Auction New Rules
- The IPL franchises can retain a total of 6 players from their existing squad. This can be either via retention or by using the Right to Match (RTM) option.
- It is at the discretion of the IPL franchise to choose their combination for Retentions and RTMs. The 6 retentions / RTM’s can have a maximum of 5 capped players (Indian & Overseas) and a maximum of 2 uncapped players.
- The auction purse for the franchises has been set at ₹120 crore for IPL 2025 Auction. The total salary cap will now consist of auction purse, incremental performance pay and match fees. Previously in 2024, the total salary cap (auction purse + incremental performance pay) was ₹110 crore which will now be ₹146 crore in the IPL 2025 Auction, ₹151 crore in IPL 2026 Auction and ₹ 157 crore in IPL 2027 Auction.
- A match fee has been introduced for the first time in the history of IPL. Each Playing member (Including the Impact Player) will get a match fee of ₹7.5 Lakhs per match. This will be in addition to his contracted amount.
- Any Overseas Player will have to register for the Big Auction. In case the overseas player doesn’t register, then he will be ineligible to register in the following year’s player auction.
- Any player who registers in the player auction and after getting picked at the auction, makes himself unavailable before the start of the season, will get banned from participating in the tournament and player auction for 2 Seasons.
- A capped Indian player will become uncapped if the player has in the last five calendar years preceding the year in which the relevant Season is held, not played in the starting XI in International Cricket (Test match, ODI, Twenty20 International) or does not have a Central Contract with BCCI. This will be applicable for Indian Players only.
- The Impact Player Regulation will continue for the 2025 to 2027 cycle.
