2020 Premier Badminton League (also known as Star Sports PBL for sponsorship reasons) was the fifth edition of Premier Badminton League. It was played from 20 January and concluded on 9 February 2020. The season featured seven competing teams.^[1]^[2] Also, the Chennai team previously known as Chennai Smashers featured as Chennai Superstarz. Bengaluru Raptors beat Northeastern Warriors 4–2 in the finals to become champions. It was also their second consecutive title in the PBL.^[3]

Squads

Teams		Awadhe Warriors	Bengaluru Raptors	Chennai Superstarz	Hyderabad Hunters	Mumbai Rockets	Northeastern Warriors	Pune 7 Aces
Coach		Anup Sridhar	Arvind Bhat	Aravindan Samiappan	Rajendra Kumar Jakkampudi	Amrish Shinde	Edwin Iriawan	Mathias Boe
Squads	Domestic	Ajay Jayaram	Ansal Yadav	B. Sumeeth Reddy	Gadde Ruthvika Shivani	Kuhoo Garg	Ashmita Chaliha	Arjun M.R.
		Subhankar Dey	Arun George	Dhruv Kapila	N. Sikki Reddy	Parupalli Kashyap	Kaushal Dharmamer	Chirag Shetty
		Tanvi Lad	B. Sai Praneeth	Gayathri Gopichand	Priyanshu Rajawat	Pranav Chopra	Krishna Prasad Garaga	Mithun Manjunath
			Medha Shashidharan	Lakshya Sen	P. V. Sindhu	Ramchandran Shlok	Rutaparna Panda	Rituparna Das
				Sankar Muthusamy Subramanian	Sourabh Verma	Shreyansh Jaiswal
				Sanjana Santosh		Shreyanshi Pardeshi
				Sathish Kumar Karunakaran
				Satwiksairaj Rankireddy
	Overseas	Christinna Pedersen	Tai Tzu-ying	Jessica Pugh	Ben Lane	Pia Zebadiah Bernadeth	Michelle Li	Chris Adcock
		Wong Wing Ki	Brice Leverdez	Tommy Sugiarto	Sean Vendy	Kim Gi-jung	Lee Cheuk Yiu	Gabby Adcock
		Ivan Sozonov	Rian Agung Saputro	Kirsty Gilmour	Liew Daren	Kim Sa-rang	Kim Ha-na	Tse Ying Suet
		Ko Sung-hyun	Chan Peng Soon		Vladimir Ivanov	Lee Dong-keun	Lee Yong-dae	Hendra Setiawan
		Shin Baek-cheol	Eom Hye-won				Bodin Isara	Kazumasa Sakai
		Beiwen Zhang					Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk	Loh Kean Yew
								Vũ Thị Trang

Points Table

Rank	Team	MP	RMW	RML	TMW	TML	Pts.
1	Northeastern Warriors	30	13	11	5	1	22
2	Bengaluru Raptors (C)	30	13	11	5	1	22
3	Chennai Superstarz	30	10	14	6	0	22
4	Pune 7 Aces	30	14	10	4	2	20

5	Awadhe Warriors	30	11	13	3	3	14
6	Hyderabad Hunters	30	11	13	2	4	11
7	Mumbai Rockets	30	4	20	4	2	10

Qualified for knockouts
Five matches (MP) constitute one tie
Each team will play six ties
1 point for each Regular Match Won (RMW)
0 points for Regular Matches Lost (RML)
2 points for each Trump Match Won (TMW)
-1 point for each Trump Match Lost (TML)^[4]

Source: Official PBL website

Fixtures

All times are as Indian Standard Time (UTC+05:30).

League stage

Further information: 2020 Premier Badminton League – League stage

#	Date	Time	City	Home	Results	Away	Venue
1	20 January	19:00	Chennai	Chennai Superstarz	5–2	Hyderabad Hunters	Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium
2	21 January	19:00		Northeastern Warriors	4–3	Bengaluru Raptors
3	22 January	19:00		Chennai Superstarz	4–3	Mumbai Rockets
4	23 January	19:00		Northeastern Warriors	3–4	Awadhe Warriors
5	24 January	19:00		Chennai Superstarz	4–3	Bengaluru Raptors
6	25 January	19:00	Lucknow	Pune 7 Aces	5–2	Mumbai Rockets	Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium
7	26 January	19:00		Awadhe Warriors	1–2	Hyderabad Hunters
8	27 January	19:00		Pune 7 Aces	4–3	Bengaluru Raptors
9	28 January	19:00		Awadhe Warriors	5–0	Mumbai Rockets
10	29 January	19:00	Hyderabad	Hyderabad Hunters	2–1	Northeastern Warriors	G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium
11	30 January	15:30		Pune 7 Aces	5–2	Chennai Superstarz
12	30 January	19:00		Mumbai Rockets	2–5	Northeastern Warriors
13	31 January	19:00		Hyderabad Hunters	0–3	Bengaluru Raptors
14	1 February	15:30		Pune 7 Aces	0–5	Northeastern Warriors
15	1 February	19:00		Awadhe Warriors	3–4	Chennai Superstarz
16	2 February	19:00		Hyderabad Hunters	4–3	Mumbai Rockets
17	3 February	19:00		Awadhe Warriors	1–4	Pune 7 Aces
18	4 February	15:30		Northeastern Warriors	4–3	Chennai Superstarz
19	4 February	19:00		Bengaluru Raptors	5–0	Mumbai Rockets
20	5 February	19:00		Hyderabad Hunters	1–2	Pune 7 Aces
21	6 February	19:00		Bengaluru Raptors	5–0	Awadhe Warriors

Knockout stage

#	Date	Time	City	Team 1	Results	Team 2	Venue
SF1	7 February	19:00	Hyderabad	Chennai Superstarz	(-1)–3	Northeastern Warriors	G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium
SF2	8 February	19:00		Pune 7 Aces	3–4	Bengaluru Raptors
F	9 February	19:00		Northeastern Warriors	2–4	Bengaluru Raptors

Semifinal 1: Chennai Superstarz vs. Northeastern Warriors

7, 19 February:00 G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
#	Event	Team 1		Result			Team 2
#	Event	Chennai Superstarz		(-1)–3			Northeastern Warriors
1	XD		B. Sumeeth Reddy Jessica Pugh	0	12–15 15–9 14–15	1	Lee Yong-dae Kim Ha-na
2	MS		Tommy Sugiarto	0	12–15 12–15	1	Lee Cheuk Yiu
3	MD	TM	B. Sumeeth Reddy Dhruv Kapila	-1	13–15 15–14 10–15	1	Krishna Prasad Garaga Bodin Isara
4	WS		Kirsty Gilmour		–		Michelle Li	TM
5	MS		Lakshya Sen		–		Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk

Semifinal 2: Pune 7 Aces vs. Bengaluru Raptors

8, 19 February:00 G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
#	Event	Team 1		Result			Team 2
#	Event	Pune 7 Aces		3–4			Bengaluru Raptors
1	MD	TM	Chirag Shetty Hendra Setiawan	2	15–12 15–10	0	Arun George Rian Agung Saputro
2	MS		Mithun Manjunath	0	14–15 15–9 6–15	1	Brice Leverdez
3	MS		Kazumasa Sakai	1	15–11 15–13	0	B. Sai Praneeth
4	WS		Rituparna Das	0	12–15 12–15	2	Tai Tzu-ying	TM
5	XD		Chris Adcock Gabby Adcock	0	13–15 10–15	1	Chan Peng Soon Eom Hye-won

Final: Northeastern Warriors vs. Bengaluru Raptors

9, 19 February:00 G. M. C. Balayogi SATS Indoor Stadium, Hyderabad
#	Event	Team 1		Result			Team 2
#	Event	Northeastern Warriors		2–4			Bengaluru Raptors
1	MS		Lee Cheuk Yiu	0	15–14 9–15 3–15	1	B. Sai Praneeth
2	MD	TM	Bodin Isara Lee Yong-dae	2	15–11 13–15 15–14	0	Arun George Rian Agung Saputro
3	WS		Michelle Li	0	9–15 12–15	1	Tai Tzu-ying
4	XD		Krishna Prasad Garaga Kim Ha-na	0	14–15 15–14 12–15	2	Chan Peng Soon Eom Hye-won	TM
5	MS		Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk		–		Brice Leverdez

End-of-season awards

Player	Team	Award	Value
Tai Tzu-ying	Bengaluru Raptors	Player of the League	₹1 lakh (US$1,300)
N. Sikki Reddy	Hyderabad Hunters	Indian Player of the League	₹50,000 (US$630)
Priyanshu Rajawat	Hyderabad Hunters	Emerging Player of the League	₹50,000 (US$630)

References

^ "Premier Badminton League Official Website". Retrieved 9 January 2020.
^ "PBL 2020: Reigning world champion PV Sindhu, World No 2 Tai Tzu Ying to headline fifth edition of Premier Badminton League". Firstpost. PTI. 18 January 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
^ Sportstar, Team. "PBL FINAL, As it Happened: Bengaluru Raptors beats North Eastern Warriors 4-2". Sportstar. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
^ "Rules and Regulations". PBL. Retrieved 23 December 2018.

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Participating teams	Awadhe Warriors Bengaluru Raptors Chennai Superstarz Hyderabad Hunters Mumbai Rockets Northeastern Warriors Pune 7 Aces
Defunct teams	Ahmedabad Smash Masters Delhi Dashers
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