Most recent season or competition: 2025 InBL Pro season | |
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Sport | Basketball |
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Founded | 2021 |
First season | 2022–23 |
CEO | Parveen Batish Rupinder Brar Dushyant Khanna Abhishek Yash Tyagi |
Motto | Done. Hiding. |
No. of teams | 6 |
Country | India |
Most recent champion(s) | Gujarat Stallions (1st title) (2025) |
TV partner(s) | Sony Sports Network InBL Pro (YouTube) |
Official website | https://inblpro.com/ |
The Indian National Basketball League, aka INBL, is a developmental professional basketball league in India. In 2025, it shifted to a league for players under the age of 25.
The INBL was founded in 2021. [1] [2] The league was granted a five-year license by the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) to run the competition and also help promote the 3x3 version of the game. [1] In its first season, the INBL allowed only Indian players to participate, with the aim being to provide players with additional competitive games to improve their standards towards the Elite Pro Basketball League and look to qualify for competitions such as the Olympics and World Cups. [1] [3]
The inaugural season was held between October 2022 and January 2023 across three different cities, namely Kochi, Pune and Delhi. The Chennai Heat won the first-ever INBL championship after defeating the Bengaluru Kings in the finals, that were hosted in the Kanteerava Indoor Stadium in Bengaluru.
Following the 5x5 tournament, the INBL also hosted an inaugural 3x3 tournament. [4]
In May 2024, the league was relaunched as INBL Pro with an August start date and six city-based teams. [4] The competition ultimately did not go ahead due to contract and legal disputes. [5] [6]
On 30 October 2024, Indian Panthers, a team owned by the INBL Pro, entered the New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL) for the 2025 season. The team will be based exclusively in South Auckland. [7] [8]
In December 2024, the league announced that the InBL Pro U25 would commence in January 2025, with six teams comprising youth and college players under the age of 25. [9]
Team | Representing city/state |
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Chennai Heat | Chennai |
Punjab Warriors | Punjab |
Delhi Dribblers | Delhi |
Gujarat Stallions | Gujarat |
Hyderabad Falcons | Hyderabad |
Mumbai Titans | Mumbai |
Team | Representing city/state |
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Bengaluru Kings | Bengaluru |
Kochi Tigers | Kochi |
Season | Champions | Score | Runner-up | Ref. |
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2022–23 | Chennai Heat | 91–74 | Bengaluru Kings | [10] |
2025 | Gujarat Stallions | 77–69 | Punjab Warriors | [11] |
Season | Player | Team |
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2022–23 | Arvindkumar Muthu Krishnan | Chennai Heat |
2025 | Jack Purchase [12] | Hyderabad Falcons |