Asian Kabaddi Championship: The Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 concluded in Busan, Republic of Korea, on June 30, with India beating Iran in the final to lift the title.
India went undefeated in the league stage, winning all five of their games, and topped the Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 points table. Iran finished second, losing only to India by a 33-28 scoreline. Get all results here.
In the final, India beat Iran 42-32 to bring home the title.
It was the Indian men’s kabaddi team’s eighth Asian Kabaddi Championship crown in nine editions.
Asian Kabaddi Championship was founded in 1980, 43 years ago in Asia. Asian Kabaddi Championship is a standard style Kabaddi tournament. Generally there are 10 teams which play against each other. However, as per the participation from the countries, the number of teams varies. The last Asian Kabaddi Championship tournament was held in 2017 in Gorgan, Iran which was the 10th edition. India defeated Pakistan to win the title for the 10th time and becomes the defending champion.
Asian Kabaddi Championship
In the last edition of the Asian Kabaddi Championship, the Indian men’s team defeated Pakistan 36-22 in the final. In the women’s category, India is the defending champion, having won the championship in 2017 by beating South Korea 42-20 in the summit clash.
Since 1980, the Indian Men’s teams has played in 8 editions till 2017 and out of 8, India has own 7 titles. The Indian Women’s team has played 5 tournaments and out of 5, they have own 4 titles.
| Asian Kabaddi Championship – Men’s Team | ||||
| Year | Host | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1980 | Kolkata, India | India | Bangladesh | Nepal |
| 1988 | Jaipur, India | India | Bangladesh | |
| 2000 | Colombo, Sri Lanka | India | Sri Lanka | Pakistan |
| 2001 | Bangkok, Thailand | India | ||
| 2002 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | India | Japan | Iran |
| 2003 | Kangar, Malaysia | Iran | Malaysia | Sri Lanka |
| 2005 | Tehran, Iran | India | Pakistan | Iran |
| 2017 | Gorgan, Iran | India | Pakistan | South Korea |
| 2023 | Busan, South Korea | |||
| Asian Kabaddi Championship – Women’s Team | ||||
| 2005 | Hyderabad, India | India | Japan | Sri Lanka |
| 2007 | Tehran, Iran | India | Iran | Srilanka,Thailand |
| 2008 | Madurai, India | India | Iran | Japan,Thailand |
| 2016 | Busan,South Korea | South Korea | Thailand | Iran,SriLanka |
| 2017 | Gorgan,Iran | India | South Korea | Iran,SriLanka |
Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023
The Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 is set to be held in Busan, South Korea from June 27 to June 30. The schedule has been announced. This Kabaddi tournament will be played after a gap of six years. There are 6 Men’s teams participating in this year’s league. Initially, it was supposed to be an eight-team tournament, but Pakistan and Sri Lanka withdrew due to visa issues.
India’s 12-member squad features many prominent names who excelled in season 9 of the Pro Kabaddi League such as Arjun Deshwal, Naveen Kumar, Aslam Inamdar and Nitin Rawal, with Pawan also returning from a lengthy injury layoff.
India will take on five nations – Iran, South Korea, Japan, Chinese Taipei ( Taiwan ) and Hong Kong – in the four-day event and the two teams that top the table at the end of the group stage will battle it out in the final on June 30. A win for team India here would augur well going into the Asian Games, where they will look to snatch back the crown from Iran.
It’s not the highest level of competition, in all honesty. Iran, India’s main competitors, have sent a second-string youth team without the likes of Fazel Atrachali or Mohammed Esmaeil Nabibakhsh, while South Korea could pose a challenge but they also have not named their main players such as Jang Kun Lee and Dong Geon Lee.
India could face some resistance from Chinese Taipei, who finished runner-up at the Bangabandhu Kabaddi Cup this year. The coaching camp for the 40 probable Indian men’s players for the Asian kabaddi meet and the Asian Games began on May 4 at the Patliputra Sports Complex in Patna, Bihar, India. The camp ended on May 18.
The Asian camp was being held under three coaches – Ashan Kumar, E Bhaskaran and Sanjeev Baliyan. E Bhaskaran, a popular coach in the Pro Kabaddi League (PKL), has been a national coach before.
The trials to select the Indian men’s kabaddi team for the Asian Kabaddi Championship took place at the Patliputra Sports Complex in Patna, Bihar on May 17.
Indian Men’s Kabaddi Team for Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023
Indian kabaddi team: Arjun Deshwal, Naveen Kumar, Sachin, Aslam Inamdar, Mohit Goyat, Sunil Kumar, Parvesh Bhainswal, Nitin Rawal, Nitesh Kumar, Surjeet Singh, Vishal Bhardwaj, Pawan Sehrawat
Stand-by players: Vijay Malik, Shubham Shinde
Coaches: Ashan Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar
Manager: Bhaskaran Edachery
Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 Schedule
27 June 2023 –
Chinese Taipei 28-52 Iran
India 76-13 South Korea (10:30 am)
Japan 85-11 Hong Kong (03:00 pm)
India 53-19 Taiwan (12:30 pm)
28 June 2023 –
Hong Kong 31-60 Iran (10:00 am)
South Korea 18-45 Japan (11:00 am)
Taiwan 117-12 Hong Kong (02:00 pm)
India 62-17 Japan (10:30 am)
South Korea 17-72 Iran (04:00 pm)
29 June 2023 –
Taiwan 37-29 Japan (10:00 am)
South Korea vs Hong Kong (11:00 am) – NA
India 33-28 Iran (10:30 am)
Taiwan 70-25 South Korea (03:00 pm)
30 June 2023 –
Japan 13-71 Iran (10:00 am)
India 64-20 Hong Kong (07:30 am)
Korea 95-16 Hong Kong
Final – India 42-32 Iran
| Date | Matches | Time | Winner |
| June 27, Tuesday | Taiwan/Chinese Taipei vs Iran | 6:30 AM | Iran |
| June 27, Tuesday | India vs Korea | 10:30 PM | India |
| June 27, Tuesday | Japan vs Hong Kong | 11:30 AM | Japan |
| June 27, Tuesday | India vs Chinese Taipei/Taiwan | 12:30 PM | India |
| June 28, Wednesday | Hong Kong vs Iran | 6:30 AM | |
| June 28, Wednesday | Korea vs Japan | 7:30 AM | |
| June 28, Wednesday | Chinese Taipei vs Hong Kong | 10:30 AM | |
| June 28, Wednesday | India vs Japan | 11:30 AM | |
| June 28, Wednesday | Korea vs Iran | 12:30 PM | |
| June 29, Thursday | Chinese Taipei vs Japan | 6:30 AM | |
| June 29, Thursday | Korea vs Hong Kong | 7:30 AM | |
| June 29, Thursday | India vs Iran | 10:30 AM | |
| June 29, Thursday | Chinese Taipei vs Korea | 11:30 AM | |
| June 30, Friday | Japan vs Iran | 6:30 AM | |
| June 30, Friday | India vs Hong Kong | 7:30 AM | |
| June 30, Friday | Final | 10:30 AM |
Live streaming of the Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 will be available on the tournament’s official YouTube channel.
There will be no live telecast of the Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 on any TV channel in India.
Asian Kabaddi Championship 2023 Points Table
| Rank | Country | Matches | Win | Loss | Tie | Points |
| 1 | India | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 2 | Japan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Iran | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Korea | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Hong Kong | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | Chinese Taipei | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
What is Kabaddi
Kabaddi is a contact team sport. Played between two teams of seven players. The objective of the game is for a single player on offense, referred to as a “raider”, to run into the opposing team’s half of the court, touch out as many of their players and return to their own half of the court, all without being tackled by the defenders in 30 seconds. Points are scored for each player tagged by the raider, while the opposing team earns a point for stopping the raider. Players are taken out of the game if they are touched or tackled, but are brought back in for each point scored by their team from a tag or a tackle.
Kabaddi is mainly popular in India and other Asian countries. The game was popularized as a competitive sport in the 20th century. It is the national sport of Bangladesh. It is the state game of the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Odisha, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh.
There are two major disciplines of kabaddi: “Punjabi kabaddi”, also referred to as “circle styles”, comprises traditional forms of the sport that are played on a circular field outdoors, while the “standard style”, played on a rectangular court indoors, is the discipline played in major professional leagues and international competitions such as the Asian Games.
Kabaddi is a sport developed centered on Jallikattu. It is common among the Ayar tribal people who lived in the Mullai geographical region of ancient Tamil Nadu. A player going to the opposition is treated like a Bull. It is like taming a bull without touching it, as it is mentioned in Sangam Literature that the game called Sadugudu was practised since ages. There are also accounts of Gautam Buddha having played the game recreationally. There is another version to this sport origins and rich history, kabaddi originated in Tamil Nadu over 4,000 years ago.
The game was said to have been popular among the Yadava people. An Abhang by Tukaram stated that the lord Krishna played the game in his youth.
Modern kabaddi is a synthesis of the game played in various forms under different names in the Indian subcontinent. India has been first credited with having helped to popularise kabaddi as a competitive sport, with the first organized competitions occurring in the 1920s, their introduction to the programme of the Indian Olympic Games in 1938, the establishment of the All-India Kabaddi Federation in 1950, and it being played as a demonstration sport at the inaugural 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi. These developments helped to formalize the sport, which had traditionally been played in villages, for legitimate international competition.
After being demonstrated again at the 1982 Asian Games in Delhi, Kabaddi was added to the Asian Games programme beginning in 1990.
There are basically two types of Kabaddi styles are there. One is Standard style and another one is Circle style ( In Punjabi Kabaddi ). In standard formats, there are many major competitions are being held now a days like the Kabaddi World Cup, Kabaddi at the Asian Games, the Pro Kabaddi League which was established in 2014 and many more national and international leagues.
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