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2025 Pakistan Super League

Official logo
Dates	11 April – 25 May 2025
Administrator(s)	Pakistan Cricket Board
Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Double round robin andplayoffs
Participants	6
Matches	34
Official website	psl-t20.com
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The2025 Pakistan Super League (referred to asHBL PSL X for sponsorship reasons) is the ongoing tenth season of thePakistan Super League. Established by thePakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in 2015 as a franchiseTwenty20 cricket league, it is played between six teams in adouble round robin andpage playoff system.

Originally scheduled to take place across four cities in Pakistan from 11 April to 18 May 2025, the league was delayed to 25 May amid the2025 India–Pakistan conflict.

In May 2024, the PCB planned the league's tenth season to take place from April to May to host the2025 ICC Champions Trophy during February and March. This meant that the tournament's schedule coincided for the first time with that of2025 Indian Premier League. The season is the last under the ten-year agreement for a six-team structure,HBL Pakistan's title sponsorship, and the current broadcast rights deals.^[a] The PCB plans to expand the league to eight teams from 2026.^[5][6]

The squads were finalized with the draft in Lahore on 13 January 2025, after the franchises announced their retained players.^[7][8] The new squad was finalized on 16 May.^[9][10]

The tournament took place across four cities;Karachi,Lahore,Multan, andRawalpindi. While Rawalpindi Stadium remained home ground for Peshawar Zalmi, Gaddafi Stadium was the one for Quetta Gladiators.^[11] The Karachi and Lahore's stadiums were briefly renovated, and re-inaugurated in February 2025.^[12][13] Tickets went on sale from 3 April 2025.^[14][15]

Later, one home match from Multan Stadium was shifted to Lahore due to extreme weather conditions and logistics issue.^[16] The playoff stage was completely shifted to Lahore, and one more league stage match from Multan to Rawalpindi.^[17][18]

City	Lahore	Multan	Karachi	Rawalpindi
Stadium	Gaddafi Stadium	Multan Cricket Stadium	National Stadium	Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium
Matches	15	3	5	11
Home teams	Lahore Qalandars Quetta Gladiators	Multan Sultans	Karachi Kings	Islamabad United Peshawar Zalmi
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Capacity	34,000[19]	30,000[20][21]	28,000[22]	15,000[23][24]
Karachi Lahore Rawalpindi Multan

On 7 April 2025, the PCB announced the list of thirteen umpires and seven referees for the league stage. They include four members of theElite Panel of ICC Umpires, four of the PCB'sInternational Panel of ICC Umpires, and four of the Elite Panel of PCB Umpires. They further include one member ofElite Panel of ICC Referees and two of PCB's International Panel of ICC Referees. The Match Official's Technology, powered byHawk-Eye Innovations, will include live umpire communications through handheld tablets for auto no-ball detection, instantDecision Review System, innings timers, match logging, and real-time multi-angle replays.^[25][26][27]

The season's logo variant was revealed on 4 February 2025, with nomenclature as HBL PSL X.^[28][b] The official anthem "X Dekho" was released on 2 April,^[29] and opening ceremony was held at Rawalpindi stadium on 11 April.^[30]

The 'Luminara Trophy' was unveiled on 13 March 2025. Weighing 10 kg, it has 22,850 high-lustre zircon stones on it. Notably, the PSL trophy will have a first-ever nation-wide tour prior to the tournament.^[31][32][33] On 10 April, the PCB announced the prize money; the winning team will be awarded withUS$500,000, while the runner-up team will receiveUS$200,000.^[34][c]

In 2025, the league introduced simultaneous commentary in English and Urdu;PTV Sports returned withA Sports to share the broadcast feeds, while Walee Technologies sub-licensed various platforms forlive streaming. Along with eight international commentators, the PCB listed thirteen national commentators.Zainab Abbas andErin Holland present the season.^{[36][37][38][39]}

Thechildhood cancer awareness day was observed on 3 May in Lahore, with the stadium themed with the golden ribbon.^[40][41]

To pay tribute to thePakistan Armed Forces, three days were dedicated toPakistan Army,Pakistan Navy, andPakistan Air Force respectively from 17 to 19 May.^[42]

Like previous year, the league yet again faced boycott campaigns from Pro-Palestinian groups in view ofGaza war, mainly because of sponsorships byKFC andPepsi, claiming their parent companies' affiliation with pro-Israeli stances.^[43][44] Empty stadiums were noted particularly in Karachi,^[45][46] and poor traffic conditions, unprofessional security arrangement, and many other issues were heavily criticised.^[47] Although, large gathering was reported in Karachi for Gaza Solidarity March on 13 April 2025.^[48]

In aftermath of2025 Pahalgam attack,Sony Sports Network andFanCode stopped broadcasting the tournament in India after the first thirteen matches, while Indian media personnel left Pakistan, with the PCB finding substitutes.^[49][50][51]

On 8 May, the match in Rawalpindi was postponed after an attempted drone attack near the stadium, due to the India–Pakistan conflicts.^[52] Later that night, the PCB announced to shift the remaining fixtures and playoff stage to UAE to ensure safety and security,^{[53][54][55][56]} however, scrapped the plan the next day and postponed the league upon instructions by then Prime MinisterShehbaz Sharif.^[57][58][59]

As ceasefire happened over the conflict on 10 May,^[60] the PCB announced to resume the league in Pakistan,^[17][18] and contacted the foreign players to re-join after they were off-boarded to Dubai.^[61][62]

Each team plays every other team twice in a double round robin format; onehome match and oneaway match, with the top four teams in the points table advancing to the playoffs.^[11][63]

On 28 February 2025, the PCB had scheduled the fixtures during 11 April to 18 May.^[64] However, on 13 May, the PCB rescheduled the last 4 matches and the playoff stage during 17 May to 25 May.^[17][18]

As of 18 May 2025

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