Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) announced the ‘Elite Retained Players’, ‘Retained Young Players’ and ‘Existing New Young Players’ for Season 11 on Tuesday. Each of the franchises has retained a strong core group of players and is looking to build stronger units in the auction which will be held on August 15-16 in Mumbai.
Dabang Delhi K.C. has retained its raider duo of Ashu Malik and Naveen Kumar. Meanwhile, the Most Valuable Player award winner in Season 10 - Aslam Inamdar has been retained by Puneri Paltan. Furthermore, the Jaipur Pink Panthers has retained its star raider Arjun Deshwal.
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A total of 88 players were retained across three categories with 22 from the Elite Retained Players (ERP) category, 26 in the Retained Young Players (RYP) category and 40 in the Existing New Young Players (ENYP).
The non-retained players, which include star players such as Pawan Sehrawat, Pardeep Narwal, Maninder Singh, Fazel Atrachali and Mohammadreza Shadloui Chiyaneh will go under the hammer.
List of Elite Retained Players
| Team | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 |
| Bengal Warriors | Vishwas S | Nitin Kumar | - |
| Bengaluru Bulls | Ponparthiban Subramanian | Sushil | Rohit Kumar |
| Dabang Delhi K.C. | Ashu Malik | Vikrant | Naveen Kumar |
| Gujarat Giants | Balaji D | Jitender Yadav | - |
| Haryana Steelers | Rahul Sethpal | Ghanshyam Roka Magar | - |
| Jaipur Pink Panthers | Arjun Deshwal | Reza Mirbagheri | - |
| Patna Pirates | Ankit | Sandeep Kumar | - |
| Puneri Paltan | Abinesh Nadarajan | Gaurav Khatri | - |
| Tamil Thalaivas | - | - | - |
| Telugu Titans | Shankar Bhimraj Gadai | Ajit Pandurang Pawar | - |
| U Mumba | Amirmohammad Zafardanesh | Rinku | - |
| UP Yoddhas | - | - | - |
List of Retained Young Players
| Team | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 | Player 6 | Player 7 |
| Bengal Warriors | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Bengaluru Bulls | Saurabh Nandal | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dabang Delhi K.C. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Gujarat Giants | Parteek Dahiya | Rakesh | - | - | - | - | - |
| Haryana Steelers | Jaideep | Mohit | Vinay | - | - | - | - |
| Jaipur Pink Panthers | Ankur | Abhishek KS | - | - | - | - | - |
| Patna Pirates | Manish | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puneri Paltan | Aditya Tushar Shinde | Akash Santosh Shinde | Mohit Goyat | Aslam Mustafa Inamdar | Pankaj Mohite | Sanket Sawant | - |
| Tamil Thalaivas | Narender | Sahil | Mohit | Aashish | Sagar | Himanshu | M. Abishek |
| Telugu Titans | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| U Mumba | Shivam | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| UP Yoddhas | Sumit | Surender Gill | Ashu Singh | - | - | - | - |
List of Existing New Young Players
| Team | Player 1 | Player 2 | Player 3 | Player 4 | Player 5 | Player 6 |
| Bengal Warriors | Shreyas Umbardand | Aditya S. Shinde | Dipak Arjun Shinde | Maharudra Garje | - | - |
| Bengaluru Bulls | Aditya Shankar Powar | Akshit | Arulnanthababu | Parteek | - | - |
| Dabang Delhi K.C. | Ashish | Himmat Antil | Manu | Yogesh | - | - |
| Gujarat Giants | Nitin | - | - | - | - | - |
| Haryana Steelers | Jaya Soorya NS | Hardeep | Shivam Anil Patare | Vishal S. Tate | - | - |
| Jaipur Pink Panthers | Abhijeet Malik | - | - | - | - | - |
| Patna Pirates | Abinand Subhash | Kunal Mehta | Sudhakar M | - | - | - |
| Puneri Paltan | Dadaso Shivaji Pujari | Nitin | Tushar Dattaray Adhavade | Vaibhav Balasaheb Kamble | - | - |
| Tamil Thalaivas | Nitesh Kumar | Nitin Singh | Ronak | Vishal Chahal | - | - |
| Telugu Titans | Ankit | Omkar Narayan Patil | Praful Sudam Zaware | Sanjeevi S | - | - |
| U Mumba | Bittu | Gokulakannan M. | Mukilan Shanmugam | Sombir | - | - |
| UP Yoddhas | Gagana Gowda HR | Hitesh | Shivam Chaudhary | - | - | - |
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