PKL Season 12 Award Winners: Fazel, Ayan Lohchab & Navdeep

Last Updated: 20 October 2026

The pkl season 12 awards told a story the points table did not. The Most Valuable Player award went to the champions. The Best Raider and Best Defender awards both went to a team that finished seventh. Three players took the league’s headline individual honours for Season 12: Fazel Atrachali of Dabang Delhi K.C., and Ayan Lohchab and Navdeep of Patna Pirates. This post records each award with its verified numbers — and nothing beyond them.

A note on what this page does and does not carry. These are the three verified Season 12 awards, with the marks that won them. Where a number is part of the record, it is printed. Where it is not, this page does not fill the gap with a guess.

PKL Season 12 Awards — Key Facts

• Most Valuable Player: Fazel Atrachali — Dabang Delhi K.C.
• Best Raider: Ayan Lohchab — Patna Pirates — 316 raid points in 22 games
• Best Defender: Navdeep — Patna Pirates — 73 tackle points in 21 games
• Awards by club: Patna Pirates 2, Dabang Delhi K.C. 1
• The odd split: The MVP played for the champions; the other two winners played for the 7th-placed team

Most Valuable Player: Fazel Atrachali

Fazel Atrachali of Dabang Delhi K.C. was named the Most Valuable Player of Season 12. The award is the league’s biggest individual honour, and in Season 12 it landed where such awards often land — with the team that won the title. Delhi finished second in the league table, won Qualifier 1 in a shootout, and beat Puneri Paltan 31–28 in the final. Their season ended with the trophy and the MVP.

The MVP completes the champions’ side of the awards story. Delhi’s campaign was built on winning the matches that decided the season, and the league’s judges put one of their players at the top of the individual list. The club’s full title run is recorded on the Dabang Delhi K.C. team page, and the championship itself sits in the record on the PKL Winners List.

Best Raider: Ayan Lohchab

Ayan Lohchab of Patna Pirates was the Best Raider of Season 12, with 316 raid points in 22 games. The number is the headline: over a full season of league and playoff kabaddi, no raider in the league outscored him. Raid points are the currency of the sport’s most watched role, and Lohchab produced them at a rate that carried his team through match after match.

The context sharpens the achievement. Patna finished seventh in the table, winning 8 of 18 league matches. Their raider still finished as the best in the league. Individual output and team position do not always move together, and Lohchab’s season is the clearest proof Season 12 offered — the league’s most productive raider played for a team that took the second-to-last playoff place.

Best Defender: Navdeep

Navdeep of Patna Pirates was the Best Defender of Season 12, with 73 tackle points in 21 games. Defence rarely takes the headlines in kabaddi — raids fill the highlight reels — but tackle points win the matches raids cannot. Navdeep’s total made him the most productive tackler in the league across the season.

His award also completed something rare. Patna Pirates held the Best Raider and the Best Defender awards in the same season, one player leading the league in raid points and a teammate leading it in tackle points. The two ends of the mat, attack and defence, both belonged to the same club. Their seasons are recorded together on the Patna Pirates team page.

The Awards in One Table

Award	Winner	Team	Verified Mark
Most Valuable Player	Fazel Atrachali	Dabang Delhi K.C.	MVP of the championship team
Best Raider	Ayan Lohchab	Patna Pirates	316 raid points in 22 games
Best Defender	Navdeep	Patna Pirates	73 tackle points in 21 games

What the Awards Say About Season 12

The three awards map neatly onto the season’s two storylines. The first is the title race: two teams level on 26 points, a tied qualifier settled by a shootout, and a final decided by three points. The MVP came out of that race, from the team that won it. The second storyline is the one the table tells less well — how much individual quality sat in the lower half of the standings. The Best Raider and the Best Defender both came from seventh place.

Just as telling is where the awards did not go. Puneri Paltan topped the league table and reached the final, yet no Pune player took one of the three headline awards. Bengaluru Bulls, third with the league-best score difference of +97, also finished the season without one. Team success and individual honours overlapped in Season 12 in only one place — Delhi, the champions and the home of the MVP.

The Patna Paradox

Hold the awards table next to the points table and Season 12 looks stranger. Patna Pirates finished seventh with 16 points and a score difference of +10 — the last-but-one playoff place. The same club supplied the league’s best raider and its best defender. The full standings are on the PKL Points Table page, and the contrast is worth sitting with: two league-leading individuals, one lower-half team finish.

Kabaddi is a squad game, and seven players share the mat. Two outstanding seasons at the two ends of the court cannot carry every match, and Patna’s 8–10 league record shows where the rest of the contest was lost. For Season 13, Patna’s squad is To Be Announced, and whether the award winners wear green again depends on the auction process. The auction window is reported for 18–25 October 2026, the start is reported for late December 2026, and the final is reported for February 2027. For the official league record behind these awards, see the official Pro Kabaddi League site.

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