Pakistan Super League 2026 Schedule Announced: Full Fixtures, Teams, Venues And Playoff Details of PSL Season 11

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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the long-awaited schedule of the 11th edition of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) on Tuesday, March 10. Season 11 has been scheduled for March 26 to May 3 and will feature an increased number of matches with eight teams playing in 44 matches registering a cricketing extravaganza of 39 days.

Never before in PSL’s history have as many as eight franchises participated. Two new additions that are Hyderabad Kingsmen and Rawalpindi Pindiz have been taken from the market for PKR 175 crore and PKR 245 crore, respectively. They will play with Islamabad United, Karachi Kings, Lahore Qalandars, Multan Sultans, Peshawar Zalmi, and Quetta Gladiators in what is expected to be the most challenging season so far.

This edition also sees a rise in the number of cities staging the league matches to six venues. Although Karachi, Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi are mainstays, now Faisalabad and Peshawar will be hosting the HBL-PSL matches for the very first time. Peshawar’s Imran Khan Cricket Stadium, quite famously, will see the first of its kind top-level match after a gap of many years on March 28 when Peshawar Zalmi plays Rawalpindi Pindiz.

Every team will have 10 matches in the group, stage. The first game will take place at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on March 26 and it will be an exciting opener as defending champions, Lahore Qalandars will take on the debutants Hyderabad Kingsmen.

Both Islamabad United and Rawalpindi Pindiz will share Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium as their home ground and the two local rivals will meet each other on April 4 and April 23.

The group stage will finish by the end of April and after that the playoffs in high-stakes will take place. The first four teams will qualify for the knockout stages, which will open on April 28 with Qualifier held at Rawalpindi. Then the focus will go back to the PCB headquarters, Lahore for the Eliminators on April 29 and May 1. The final is scheduled for Sunday, May 3 at the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.

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