IPL 2026: Full list of retained, released, traded players with purse left and spots remaining for all 10 teams

The stage is set for a blockbuster Indian Premier League 2026 auction as all 10 teams have finalised their retention and releases which were revealed on Saturday, November 15.

Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings both released a host of their star players while the four play-off teams of last season expectedly kept their core intact.

With the dust over retentions and releases now settled, here is all the information about the current squad, released players, purse left, spots to fill for all 10 teams ahead of the IPL 2026 auction.

Chennai Super Kings

Retained: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brevis, MS Dhoni, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dube, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmed, Khaleel Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjanpreet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Choudhary, Sanju Samson (traded in)

Released: Rachin Ravindra, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Shaik Rasheed, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Matheesha Pathiran, Rahul Tripathi, Vansh Bedi, C Andre Siddharth, Devon Conway, Sam Curran (traded out), Ravindra Jadeja (traded out)

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Purse left: Rs 43.4 crore

Spots left: 9 (4 overseas)

Mumbai Indians

Retained: Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Robin Minz, Ryan Rickelton, Hardik Pandya, Naman Dhir, Michell Santner, Will Jacks, Corbin Bosch, Raj Bawa, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Deepak Chahar, Ashwani Kumar, Raghu Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar, Sherfane Rutherford (traded in), Shardul Thakur (traded in), Mayank Markande (traded in)

Released: Satyanarayana Raju, Reece Topley, KL Srijith, Karn Sharma, Arjun Tendulkar (traded out), Bevon Jacobs, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Lizard Williams, Vignesh Puthir, Charith Assalanka, Jonny Bairstow

Purse left: Rs 2.75 crore

Spots left: 5 (1 overseas)

SunRisers Hyderabad

Retained: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari, Ravichandran Smaran, Zeeshan Ansari

Released: Mohammed Shami (traded out), Atharva Taide, Abhinav Manohar, Sachin Baby, Wiaan Mulder, Simarjeet Singh, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa

Purse left: Rs 25.5 crore

Spots left: 10 (2 overseas)

Kolkata Knight Riders

Retained: Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Angrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Umran Malik

Released: Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock, Moeen Ali, Anrich Nortje, Mayank Markande (traded out), Spencer Johnson, Chetan Sakariya, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Luvnit Sisodia

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Purse left: Rs 64.3 crore

Spots left: 13 (6 overseas)

Rajasthan Royals

Retained: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Vaibhav Suryavnashi, Shubham Pandey, Lhuan Dre-Pretorius, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Yudhvir Singh, Kwena Maphaka, Nandre Burger, Ravindra Jadeja (traded in), Sam Curran (traded in), Donovan Ferreira (traded in)

Released: Sanju Samson (Traded out), Nitish Rana (Traded out), Wanindu Hasaranga and Maheesh Theekshana, Kunal Singh Rathore, Fazhalhaq Farooqi, Akash Madhwal, Ashok Sharma, Kumar Kartikeya

Purse left: Rs 16.05 crore

Spots left: 9 (1 overseas)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Retained: Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Krunal Pandya, Josh Hazlewood, Tim David, Jitesh Sharma, Devdutt Padikkal, Nuwan Thushara, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jacob Bethell, Romario Shepherd, Suyash Sharma, Swapnil Singh, Yash Dayal, Abhinandan Singh, Rasikh Dar

Released: Liam Livingstone, Swastik Chikara, Mayank Agarwal, Tim Seifert, Manoj Bhandage, Lungi Ngidi, Mohit Rathee, Blessing Murazabani

Purse left: Rs 16.4 crore

Spots left: 8 (2 overseas)

Punjab Kings

Retained: Arshdeep Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harnoor Pannu, Harpreet Brar, Lockie Ferguson, Marco Jansen, Marcus Stoinis, Mitch Owen, Musheer Khan, Nehal Wadhera, Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Pyla Avinash, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Suryansh Shedge, Vishnu Vinod, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Xavier Bartlett, Yash Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal

Released:  Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardie, Glenn Maxwell, Kuldeep Sen, Praveen Dubey

Purse left: Rs 11.5 crore

Spots left: 4 (2 overseas)

Delhi Capitals

Retained: Tristan Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Abishek Porel, Axar Patel, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay, Ajay Mandal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera, Nitish Rana (traded in)

Released: Faf du Plessis, Jake Frasher McGurk, Sediqullah Atal, Manvanth Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Darshan Nalkande, Donovan Ferreria (Traded out)

Purse left: Rs 21.8 crore

Spots left: 8 (4 overseas)

Gujarat Titans

Retained:  Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, M Shahrukh Khan, Kumar Kushagra, Jos Buttler, Anuj Rawat, Rahul Tewatia, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Jayant Yadav, Nishant Sindhu, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Siraj, Kagiso Rabada, Prasidh Krishna, Sai Kishore, Gurnoor Brar, Arshad Khan, Ishant Sharma, Manav Suthar.

Released: Dasun Shanaka, Karim Janat, Sherfane Rutherford (traded out), Mahipal Lomror, Gerald Coetzee, Kulwant Khejroliya

Purse left: Rs 12.9 crore

Spots left: 5 (4 overseas)

Lucknow Super Giants

Retained: Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Rishabh Pant, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, M Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Mohammed Shami (traded in), Arjun Tendulkar (traded in)

Released: Aryan Juyal, David Miller, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Shardul Thakur (Traded out), Akash Deep, Ravi Bishnoi, Shamar Joseph

Purse left: Rs 22.95 crore

Spots left: 6 (4 overseas)