{"id":26712,"date":"2026-10-26T09:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srkbharat.com\/?p=26712"},"modified":"2026-10-26T09:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T09:43:25","slug":"indias-first-womens-pro-volleyball-league-builds-squads-with-rs-1-5-crore-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srkbharat.com\/?p=26712","title":{"rendered":"India's First Women's Pro Volleyball League Builds Squads with Rs 1.5 Crore Investment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe paddles went up early and the bidding never cooled. At the Season 1 Player Auction of the Women’s Pro Volleyball League (WPVL), India’s first professional women’s volleyball league and affiliated with the Steering Committee, Volleyball Federation of India, six franchises snapped up 66 players for a combined Rs.\u00a078.85 lakh.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\n\tWomen\u2019s Volleyball League Launch Event<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\tThe money is real. Each franchise carries a Rs.\u00a025 lakh budget: Rs.\u00a015 lakh for the auction, Rs.\u00a07 lakh for its foreign players and Rs.\u00a03 lakh for its Icon player, taking the league’s total player budget to Rs.\u00a01.5 crore. Every team will field a 14-player squad, 84 players in all.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\n\tSeason 1 Player Auction of the Women’s Pro Volleyball League (WPVL)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\tFive players hit the day’s ceiling of Rs.\u00a02.5 lakh. Punjab SherniZ landed Kavita, Bengaluru Thunders doubled up with Anna Mathew and Ezhilmathi D P, Rajasthan Queens claimed Shilpa R S and Mumbai Dolphins won the race for Prerona Pal. Hyderabad Harriers moved fast for setter Nandana V at Rs.\u00a02.4 lakh, while Lucknow Shahi Warriors made Anamika P their top buy at Rs.\u00a01.8 lakh. Bengaluru Thunders were the boldest spenders, splashing Rs.\u00a013.9 lakh of their Rs.\u00a015 lakh auction purse.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\tEvery squad is built around a marquee Icon player: Anagha Radhakrishnan (Bengaluru Thunders), Shaalini Saravanan (Mumbai Dolphins), Ayushi Bhandari (Rajasthan Queens), Roli Pathak (Lucknow Shahi Warriors), Anusree K P (Hyderabad Harriers) and Juhi Shaw (Punjab SherniZ).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\tCalling the shots at the tables were the owners: Inderjeet Singh, Brajesha Sharma, Amresndra Singh, Jai Govind Singh, Manju Singh and Mritunjay Singh (Bengaluru Thunders); Tamoghon Gupta, Mukesh Kumar, Nirankar Singh and Jaswant Singh (Mumbai Dolphins); Raju Jatt (Rajasthan Queens); Anjali Mishra (Lucknow Shahi Warriors); Sunit Kumar (Hyderabad Harriers); and Ashu Bhadouria, Madhur Lahoti, Anany Pratap Singh, Indresh Pratap Singh and Pramugdha Solanki (Punjab SherniZ).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\tDr. R.P. Singh graced the auction as chief guest.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\tDr. Rajeshwar Singh, MLA of Sarojini Nagar, attended as guest of honour.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\tWrestling champion and WPVL brand ambassador Sangram Singh joined the owners on stage. The event was organised by Powerspike International and managed by Xperia Group.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\t\u201cToday, India’s women volleyball players finally have a league of their own<\/em>,\u201d said Mrs. Ritu Shahi, Founder, WPVL<\/strong>. \u201cSeason 1 is only the beginning. We want to build a lasting pathway that grows every year and inspires young girls across the country to pick up a volleyball<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\tThe squads are set and the countdown is on. Over eleven days, six teams will chase the first-ever WPVL crown at Ekana Stadium, Lucknow, from 11 to 21 November 2026. The league is backed by Ptraani by Nupur, King Power, JUST, Vixen, HYPR and Yushfa.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t
\n\tAbout WPVL<\/strong>
\n\tThe Women’s Pro Volleyball League (WPVL) is India’s first professional women’s volleyball league, affiliated with the Steering Committee, Volleyball Federation of India. Founded by Mrs. Ritu Shahi and Dr. Bukhrat Ahmed and organised by Powerspike International, the league gives India’s women volleyball players a professional stage.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The paddles went up early and the bidding never cooled. At the Season 1 Player Auction of the Women’s Pro Volleyball League (WPVL), India’s first professional women’s volleyball league and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srkbharat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srkbharat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srkbharat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srkbharat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srkbharat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/srkbharat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srkbharat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srkbharat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srkbharat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srkbharat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}