Mashal Sports

As they say: "There is many a slip between the cup and the lip." Mashal Sports, the Disney Star-promoted organisers of the well established franchise-based Pro Kabaddi League, have been hit with a googly in the wake of its recent announcement that it would soon be staging a women’s kabaddi league.

A potential spanner has been thrown in the works as far as those plans are concerned after the International Kabaddi Federation (IKF) denied having given its endorsement to Mashal Sports for organising a women’s kabaddi league.

Apr 19, 2021 19:04
MUMBAI: The Star India network, which owns a majority stake in Mashal Sports, commercial rights holder of the Pro Kabaddi League, has, as expected, retained the media rights to the PKL for the next five seasons. Mashal Sports announced at the weekend that it had successfully concluded its PKL media rights auction for five Seasons (Season 8 to Season 12) to be held during 2021-2025. 
Mar 25, 2021 19:03
MUMBAI: Star India-controlled Mashal Sports Pvt Ltd (Mashal), founder and commercial rights holder of the Pro Kabaddi League, has extended by ten days the deadline it had set for potential bidders to submit bid documents for PKL's media rights. 
Mar 11, 2021 19:03
MUMBAI: The Pro Kabaddi League is looking at the June to October window for its "return to action" after the forced break last year caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. 
Feb 25, 2021 12:02
MUMBAI: Star India-controlled Mashal Sports Pvt Ltd (Mashal), founder and commercial rights holder for the Pro Kabaddi League, is set to conduct an open market media rights auction for 5 seasons (Season 8 – Season 12) of PKL to be held during 2021 – 2025.
Feb 24, 2021 17:02
MUMBAI: In the wake of sustained demands from the franchises, sports management company Mashal Sports, founded by Anand Mahindra and Charu Sharma, and now majority owned by Star India, has confirmed it will open the tender process for the media rights of Pro Kabaddi League (PKL).  The rights will be awarded for five years, from Seasons 8 to 12, or until 2025, whichever is earlier.
Dec 24, 2020 14:12
MUCH HAS BEEN ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT Indian media's biggest executive departure of 2020. The resignation of Uday Shankar as president, The Walt Disney Company APAC and chairman, Star & Disney India, announced October 8, also marks the end of arguably THE defining decade in the evolution of professional Indian sport in the 21st century. 
Jul 24, 2020 18:07
MUMBAI: There is nothing official about it. Yet. But SportzPower has it on good authority that the eighth edition of the Pro Kabaddi League will in due course be joining the ever-growing list of big sporting events across the globe that have had to be cancelled this year as a fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jun 25, 2020 20:06
MUMBAI: Mashal Sports, which holds the commercial rights to the Pro Kabaddi League and has Star India as its controlling stakeholder, has dismmised "speculative news"  that the league has approached the Sri Lanka Kabaddi Federation to organize PKL season 8.
Jul 12, 2019 16:07
MUMBAI: The nation will stand witness to a one-of-a-kind Kabaddi match with the best of Indian players taking on the best of International talent that the VIVO Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) has ever showcased.
Jun 22, 2019 16:06
HYDERABAD:  Mashal Sports Pvt. Ltd, organiser of the VIVO Pro Kabaddi League (PKL), have announced the fixtures for season 7 starting July 20.