IPL 2025 Prize Money: Winning Team, Orange Cap & Purple Cap Rewards

The world’s toughest league, the Indian Premier League 2025, will begin on March 22, 2025, with the top cricketers from across the world competing for 10 different franchises in the 18th edition of the IPL. This is one of the world’s most sensationalized leagues, competing with the Premier League, the Super Bowl, and the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a result, the league’s following and popularity are rapidly increasing. As a result, the BCCI (the Board of Control for Cricket in India) handled the league’s finances and profits, which turned out to be quite significant.

BCCI, the world’s richest cricket body, overtook other large cricket boards such as the England Cricket body (ECB) and Cricket Australia in terms of finances. This all happened as a result of the IPL’s growing popularity among cricket fans, where major brands collaborated to sponsor the entire IPL, broadcasting rights for this league were sold at skyrocketing prices, and many players became millionaires overnight in this season’s auction.

So, from all of this, can you get a sense of how significant and massive the IPL is? For players, businesses, and Indian cricket. Because of the tremendous inflow of money that the IPL receives, the BCCI announces massive and exciting prize money to the winning team as well as the other top performing teams during the IPL season. The interesting aspect is that this award increases by a certain percentage each year, and in addition to the teams, the top run scorer (Orange Cap Winner) and top wicket taker (Purple Cap Winner) also receive a huge amount of money.

In this article, we will look at how much money the winning team will receive after winning the IPL 2025, as well as the reward money that the Orange and Purple Cap Winners will receive during this season of the IPL.

IPL 2025 Prize Money

The champion of the IPL 2025 will receive a prize money of Rs. 20 crore, followed by the runner-up, who will receive Rs. 13 crore, while the teams finishing third and fourth will receive Rs. 7 crore and 6.5 crore, respectively.

Prize Money for Orange Cap in IPL

The prize money for the Orange Cap winner in the IPL 2025 is Rs. 10 lakh plus a trophy.

IPL Purple Cap Prize Money

The prize money for the Purple Cap winner in the IPL 2025 is Rs. 10 lakh plus a trophy.

How much will each player receive in IPL Prize Money?

Each player in the squad is paid a match fee for each match, regardless of whether they are a member of the playing XI or not. They also receive the auction price paid by their franchises, and winning franchise players earn 50% of the IPL final prize money, which is then evenly distributed among the players, with the remaining 50% going to the franchise owners.

Highest Paid Players in IPL 2025 Auction

In the IPL 2025 Auction, which was held in Jeddah, all the franchises spent their money to buy the players on whom they are targeted, and while doing so, some records were broken and history was created in this IPL 2025 auction, because one of the most expensive players in the history of the IPL were bought in this auction, where Rishabh Pant became the most expensive buy in the IPL history with a price of Rs. 27 Crore, which was bought by the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG).

Also, players such as Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer, Heinrich Klassen, and Nicholas Pooran were also top buys in the IPL 2025 auction, with teams spending crores of rupees on them to add those marquee players to their squads.

IPL 2025 Schedule

The BCCI just released the IPL 2025 schedule, which will feature defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders taking on Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on March 22, 2025, at 7:30 pm. On the second day, a double header will take place, with the Sunrisers Hyderabad facing the Rajasthan Royals at 3:30 PM on 23 March 2025 at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, and one of the toughest rivalry of the IPL, the ‘El-Classico’ Chennai Super Kings vs Mumbai Indians, taking place at 7:30 PM at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Chennai on the same day.

As the IPL 2025 carnival goes till May 25, 2025, the qualifier 1 and eliminator will be played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad, while the qualifier 2 and final will be hosted by Kolkata at the Eden Gardens.