New Delhi: The 38th National Games will kickstart from January 28, Tuesday to February 14, Friday. The National Games are the same as the Olympics, where different types of sports are being played by different states and union Territories from India.
Haridwar will host the 38th National Games 2025 and the Kabaddi will feature in the National Games from January 28 to February 3. The Amateur Kabaddi Federation allotted 50 technical officials to keep a deep eye on running the tournament transparently.
Services are the defending champions as they lifted the trophy in the last edition. Meanwhile, Haryana were the runner-up and Maharashtra and Chandigarh both won bronze medals in the 37th National Games.
The winning skipper of Pro Kabaddi League season 11 Rahul Sethpal will lead the defending champions and the top raider of PKL 11 Devank Dalal will also be on his side to help his team to win back-to-back titles. Many PKL stars will represent their states in the National Games 2025 like Arjun Deshwal, Ashu Malik, Pawan Sehrawat, Mohit Goyat, and many more.
Squads:
Uttar Pradesh: Arjun Deshwal, Vinay Tevathia, Sahul Kumar, Nitin Panwar, Mohd Amaan, Vikul Lamba, Robin Chaudhary, Shubham Baliyan, Vishal Chaudhary, Navneet Nagar, Anirudh Pandey, Karan Yadav
Services: Devank Dalal, Rahul Sethpal, Jaideep Dhaiya, Bharat Hooda, Dipak Rathee, Ankit Jaglan, Rinku Sharma, Ashish Bazzad, Arjun Rathi, Nitin Jaglan, Rohan Ganghas, Monu Sharma
Haryana: Rajesh, Vishal, Sanjay, Ashu Malik, Mohit Goyat, Mohit, Ashish, Akshay Kumar, Krishnan, Nitin Kumar, Nitin Dalal
Chandigarh: Pawan Sehrawat, Rakesh Sungroya, Ayan Lohchab, Gaurav Khatri, Gurdeep Sangwan, Vishal Bhardwaj, Vishal Chahal, Prashant Rathi, Afzal Khan, Lalit, Aniket, Deepak
Karnataka: Vishwas Gowda, Abhishek K.S., Pavan TR, Hemanth P, Rathan, Chetan Nayak, Vinod Gowda, Madhu Kaveerappa, Mithun Gowda, Vijay Rangappa, Shubham Singh, Shashank Acharya
Maharashtra: Akash Shinde, Pankaj Mohite, Ajit Chouhan, Shivam Patare, Vishal Tate, Omkar Patil, Shubham Shelke, Suresh Jadhav, Akshay Barde, Sambhaji Wamble, Tushar Adhawade, Shreyas U
Rajasthan: Jitender Yadav, Sachin Tanwar, Jai Bhagwan, Gangaram, Brijendra Chaudhari, Nitin Kumar, Mahipal Sinwar, Rahul Chaudhary, Arjun Chaudhary, Karanveer Singh, Vikash Kacchawa, Dinesh Gurjur
Uttarakhand: Team announcement pending
After the successful season of the Pro Kabaddi League, Kabaddi fans gear up for the National Games 2025 which will commence on January 28, Tuesday in Haridwar. Kabaddi Sports News: Latest Cricket News, Cricket Live Score, Sports Breaking News from Sports Today