How to Watch PKL Live: Season 12 Channels & Season 13 Update

Last Updated: 20 October 2026

Learning how to watch pkl live for Season 13 starts with one honest fact: the Season 13 broadcast and streaming partners are To Be Announced. No channel and no streaming platform has been confirmed for the new season. What is confirmed is how Season 12 was shown — Star Sports Network on television in India and JioHotstar on streaming — and that record is the reference this guide is built on. When the league announces the Season 13 deal, this page will name it at the top.

How to Watch PKL Live — Key Facts

• Season 13 TV channel: To Be Announced.
• Season 13 streaming partner: To Be Announced.
• Season 12 TV (reference): Star Sports Network, India.
• Season 12 streaming (reference): JioHotstar.
• Season 12 match timings: First match 8:00 PM IST, with double and triple headers continuing at 9:00 PM and 9:30 PM IST.
• Season 13 fixtures: To Be Announced — no match can be watched until dates exist.

Season 13: The Broadcaster Is To Be Announced

Broadcast deals are announced by the league, and for Season 13 that announcement has not happened. Any website naming a confirmed Season 13 channel today is ahead of the facts. The reported Season 13 timeline — auction window 18–25 October 2026, season start late December 2026, final February 2027 — suggests the broadcast announcement lands between the auction and the first match, alongside or near the fixture list. This site will label the partner Reported if credible reports emerge, and Confirmed only on the league’s announcement on the official Pro Kabaddi League site.

Until then, treat Season 12 as the guide, not the guarantee. Broadcast arrangements change between seasons in every league. The channels below are where a fan would have watched Season 12, and they are the most useful reference available — clearly labelled as Season 12 information wherever they appear on this site.

How Season 12 Was Shown

On television

In Season 12, Pro Kabaddi League matches aired on Star Sports Network on television in India. The season ran from 29 August to 31 October 2025, across caravan legs in Vizag, Jaipur, Chennai and Delhi, and the network carried the league stage, the nine postseason matches and the final — Dabang Delhi K.C.’s 31–28 win over Puneri Paltan at the Thyagaraj Indoor Stadium on 31 October 2025. For a fan with a television and a sports pack, Star Sports was the Season 12 home of the league.

On streaming

Season 12 streamed on JioHotstar in India. Streaming carried the same matches as the television broadcast, which mattered in a caravan season: with legs in four cities and most fans watching from home cities that were not hosting, the stream was how the league travelled. If Season 13 keeps the same partners, nothing changes for viewers. If it does not, this page changes first — the Season 13 partner will be named here the day it is announced.

Match Timings: The Season 12 Pattern

Season 13 start times are To Be Announced with the fixtures, but Season 12 set a clear evening pattern. Match nights typically began at 8:00 PM IST. On double-header nights a second match followed at 9:00 PM IST, and triple headers added a third at 9:30 PM IST. Across 117 matches in 63 days, that rhythm held: kabaddi owned the evening slot, and a fan in India could plan dinner around the first raid.

The PKL schedule homepage carries the reported Season 13 timeline and will carry confirmed start times for every match once fixtures are published. Standings through the season will run on the PKL points table page, and every club’s fixtures will land on its page under the Pro Kabaddi teams hub.

How Fans Followed Season 12 Across Four Cities

Season 12’s caravan format shaped how the country watched. The league opened in Vizag on 29 August 2025, moved to Jaipur, then Chennai, and closed in Delhi, so no single city held the season. A fan in Mumbai, Patna or Bengaluru followed the whole campaign on a screen, and the television and streaming pairing carried equal weight because of it. When your team plays its “home” season in four other cities, the broadcast is the home ground.

The nine postseason matches raised the stakes at the end of October. Qualifier 1 between Dabang Delhi K.C. and Puneri Paltan finished 34–34 and went to a five-raid shootout, which Delhi won 6–4. The final, on 31 October 2025 in Delhi, ended 31–28 to the same club. Those two matches are the strongest argument for having your viewing setup settled before the playoffs: the biggest nights of the season arrive at the end of a 63-day run, and nobody wants to be searching for a working channel when a final goes to the last raid.

What to Do Before the Season 13 Announcement

Three practical steps. First, do not buy any subscription on the strength of a rumoured channel — wait for the league’s announcement, which this page will carry. Second, expect the announcement to arrive with the fixture list: a broadcaster reveal without match dates would leave the partner with nothing to schedule, and the league tends to publish the product whole. Third, when the deal is announced, check whether your existing television pack or streaming subscription covers it before paying for anything new. Season 12’s pairing of a major sports network and a major streamer meant most fans were already covered.

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