2013 Indian Badminton League

Tournament Details
Dates	14 August – 31 August
Administrator(s)	Badminton Association of India
Tournament Format(s)	Round-robin and Knock-out
Host(s)	India
Venue(s)	6
Teams	6
Final Positions
Champions	Hyderabad HotShots (1st title)
Runner-up	Awadhe Warriors
Third Place	Mumbai Marathas, Pune Pistons
Tournament Summary
Matches played	16
2016 →

2013 Indian Badminton League was the first season of Indian Badminton League started from 14 August 2013.

Teams

Six teams participate in the first edition of Indian Badminton League:

Mumbai Marathas

• Lee Chong Wei (Captain)
• Pranav Chopra
• Siki Reddy
• Manu Attri
• P. C. Thulasi
• Sumeeth Reddy
• Rasika Raje
• Harsheel Dani
• Tine Baun
• Marc Zwiebler
• Vladimir Ivanov

Pune Pistons

• Ashwini Ponnappa (Captain)
• Saurabh Varma
• Anup Sridhar
• Sanave Thomas
• Arun Vishnu
• Rupesh Kumar K. T.
• Nguyen Tien Minh
• Juliane Schenk
• Joachim Fischer Nielsen
• Tan Wee Kiong

Banga Beats

• Parupalli Kashyap (Captain)
• Akshay Dewalkar
• Aparna Balan
• Arvind Bhat
• Aditya Prakash
• J. Meghana
• Daniel Farid
• Hu Yun
• Carsten Mogensen
• Tai Tzu-ying
• Carolina Marín

Hyderabad HotShots

• Saina Nehwal (Captain)
• Pradenya Gadre
• Tarun Kona
• Ajay Jayaram
• Kanthi Visalakshi P.
• Shubhankar Dey
• C. Rahul Yadav
• Taufik Hidayat
• Tanongsak
• Goh V Shem
• Lim Khim Wah

Delhi Smashers

• Jwala Gutta (Captain)
• H. S. Prannoy
• Sai Praneeth B.
• Arundhati Panthawane
• V. Diju
• Nichaon Jindapon
• Prajakta Sawant
• Tan Boon Heong
• Koo Kien Keat
• Wong Wing Ki

Awadhe Warriors

• P.V. Sindhu (Captain)
• Gurusai Datt
• K. Srikanth
• Ruthvika Shivani
• K. Maneesha
• Nanda Gopal
• Vinay Singh
• Sapsiree Taerattanachai
• Markis Kido
• Chong Wei Feng
• Mathias Boe

Venues

Six venues have been selected for the first edition of Indian Badminton League:

Lucknow Warriors

Mumbai Marathas

Banga Beats

Delhi Smashers

Pune Pistons

Hyderabad HotShots

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Locations of IBL teams

Delhi	Lucknow	Hyderabad
Delhi Smashers	Awadhe Warriors	Hyderabad HotShots
DDA Badminton and Squash Stadium	Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium	Gachibowli Indoor Stadium
Capacity: 5,000	Capacity: 5,000	Capacity: 4,000
Bangalore	Mumbai	Pune
Banga Beats	Mumbai Marathas	Pune Pistons
Kanteerava Indoor Stadium	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, NSCI	Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Badminton Hall
Capacity: 4,000	Capacity: 5,000	Capacity: 3,800

Standings

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GW	GL
Hyderabad Hotshots	17	5	3	2	14	11
Awadhe Warriors	16	5	3	2	13	12
Pune Pistons	16	5	3	2	13	12
Mumbai Marathas	15	5	2	3	13	12
Delhi Smashers	13	5	2	3	11	14
Banga Beats	13	5	2	3	11	14

Schedule

The following is the schedule for 2013 Indian Badminton League.

League Matches

• (H) represents designated home game for the club.

Delhi

14 August, 20:00	Delhi Smashers (H)	2 – 3	Pune Pistons
15 August, 16:00	Hyderabad HotShots	3 – 2	Awadhe Warriors
15 August, 20:00	Banga Beats	2 – 3	Mumbai Marathas

Lucknow

17 August, 16:00	Delhi Smashers	3 – 2	Hyderabad HotShots
17 August, 20:00	Mumbai Marathas	2 – 3	Pune Pistons
18 August, 20:00	Awadhe Warriors (H)	1 – 4	Banga Beats

Mumbai

19 August, 20:00	Hyderabad HotShots	4 – 1	Pune Pistons
20 August, 18:00	Mumbai Marathas (H)	4 - 1	Delhi Smashers

Pune

22 August, 16:00	Hyderabad HotShots	3 – 2	Mumbai Masters
22 August, 20:00	Delhi Smashers	1 – 4	Awadhe Warriors
23 August, 18:00	Pune Pistons (H)	4 – 1	Banga Beats

Bangalore

24 August, 20:00	Awadhe Warriors	3 – 2	Mumbai Masters
25 August, 18:00	Banga Beats (H)	1 – 4	Delhi Smashers

Hyderabad

26 August, 20:00	Awadhe Warriors	3 – 2	Pune Pistons
27 August, 18:00	Hyderabad HotShots (H)	2 – 3	Banga Beats

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	28 August, 20:00 – Hyderabad
	Hyderabad HotShots	3
					31 August, 20:00 – Mumbai
	Pune Pistons	0
					Hyderabad HotShots	3
	29 August, 20:00 – Bangalore
					Awadhe Warriors	1
	Awadhe Warriors	3
	Mumbai Marathas	2