Going into the auction, there is a combined budget of ₹237.55 crore available across teams to fill 77 open slots. The size of each team’s remaining purse and the number of open slots will shape how aggressively they bid for players when the hammer falls.
For some teams like the Kolkata Knight Riders, large budgets and many slots opened the door to a major rebuild. Others like Mumbai Indians, constrained by purse and fewer slots, will need to target value, balancing between experienced players and emerging talent.
Full List — Team-wise Retained & Released Players (IPL 2026)
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Retained: Ajinkya Rahane; Angkrish Raghuvanshi; Anukul Roy; Harshit Rana; Manish Pandey; Ramandeep Singh; Rinku Singh; Rovman Powell; Sunil Narine; Umran Malik; Vaibhav Arora; Varun Chakravarthy
Released: Andre Russell (₹ 12 crore), Venkatesh Iyer (₹ 23.75 crore), Quinton de Kock, Moeen Ali, Anrich Nortje
Purse Remaining: ₹ 64.30 crore
Slots Open: 13 (including 6 overseas slots)
Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
Retained: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brevis, MS Dhoni, Urvil Patel, Sanju Samson (traded in), Shivam Dube, Khaleel Ahmed, Mukesh Choudhary, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Nathan Ellis, Anshul Kamboj, Jamie Overton, Gurjapneet Singh, Noor Ahmed, Shreyas Gopal
Released / Traded Out: Ravindra Jadeja (₹ 18.00 crore), Matheesha Pathirana (₹ 13.00 crore), Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Sam Curran (₹ 2.40 crore), Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddarth, Shaikh Rasheed, Kamlesh Nagarkoti.
Purse Remaining: ₹ 43.40 crore
Slots Open: 9
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
Retained: Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R. Smaran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari.
Released / Traded Out: Mohammed Shami (traded out), Adam Zampa, Rahul Chahar, Wiaan Mulder, Abhinav Manohar, Atharva Taide, Sachin Baby.
Purse Remaining: ₹ 25.50 crore
Slots Open: 10
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)
Retained: Rishabh Pant (captain), Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, M. Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh.
Released / Traded Out: Ravi Bishnoi, David Miller, Akash Deep.
Purse Remaining: ₹ 22.95 crore
Slots Open: 6
Delhi Capitals (DC)
Retained: Nitish Rana, Abishek Porel, Ajay Mandal, Ashutosh Sharma, Axar Patel, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, T Natarajan, Tripurana Vijay, Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, Mukesh Kumar.
Released / Traded Out: Donovan Ferreira, Darshan Nalkande, Faf du Plessis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Manvanth Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Sediqullah Atal.
Purse Remaining: ₹ 21.80 crore
Slots Open: 8 (including 5 overseas slots)
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)
Retained: Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Jitesh Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Abhinandan Singh, Jacob Bethell, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Dar, Swapnil Singh.
Released: Liam Livingstone, Lungi Ngidi, Mayank Agarwal, Manoj Bhandage, Swastik Chikara, Mohit Rathee.
Purse Remaining: ₹ 16.40 crore
Slots Open: 8 (including 2 overseas slots)
Gujarat Titans (GT)
Retained: Shubman Gill (captain), Sai Sudharsan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav.
Released / Traded Out: Mahipal Lomror, Karim Janat, Dasun Shanaka, Gerald Coetzee, Kulwant Khejroliya. (Also Sherfane Rutherford traded out)
Purse Remaining: ₹ 12.90 crore
Slots Open: 5 (including 4 overseas slots)
Rajasthan Royals (RR)
Retained: Dhruv Jurel (wk), Jofra Archer, Kwena Maphaka, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Nandre Burger, Riyan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Tushar Deshpande, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Yudhvir Singh.
Released: Kunal Singh Rathore, Akash Madhwal, Ashok Sharma, Fazal Farooqi, Kumar Kartikeya, Wanindu Hasaranga and Maheesh Theekshana.
Purse Remaining: ₹ 16.05 crore
Slots Open: 9 (including 1 overseas slot)
Punjab Kings (PBKS)
Retained: Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harpreet Brar, Suryansh Shedge, Vishnu Vinod, Xavier Bartlett, Yash Thakur, Mitchell Owen, Harnoor Singh, Musheer Khan, Pyla Avinash, Marco Jansen, and Lockie Ferguson.
Released: Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Aaron Hardie, Kuldeep Sen, and Pravin Dubey.
Purse Remaining: ₹ 11.50 crore
Slots Open: 4 (including 2 overseas slots)
Mumbai Indians (MI)
Retained: AM Ghazanfar, Ashwani Kumar, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Mayank Markande (Trade In), Mitchell Santner, Naman Dhir, Raghu Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Robin Minz, Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Shardul Thakur (Trade In), Sherfane Rutherford (Trade In), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Trent Boult, Will Jacks
Released Players: Bevon Jacobs, Karn Sharma, KL Shrijith, Lizaad Williams, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, PSN Raju, Reece Topley, Vignesh Puthur, Arjun Tendulkar (traded out)
Purse Remaining: ₹ 2.75 crore — the smallest among all teams.
Slots Open: 5 (including 1 overseas slot)
