IPL 2027 Schedule — Full Fixtures & Key Dates

IPL 2027 Schedule — What We Know So Far

The Indian Premier League returns in 2027 for its landmark 20th season, and the most important dates are already locked in. The BCCI has confirmed that IPL 2027 will be played from 10 March 2027 to 15 May 2027, with 74 matches across the season. Ten teams, one trophy, and a little over two months of the loudest cricket on the planet.

What has not been released yet is the match-by-match fixture list — which team plays whom, on which date, at which stadium. That list is announced by the BCCI closer to the season. The fixture area at the top of this page reads the official match feed automatically, so the complete IPL 2027 schedule will appear here the moment it is published. Until then, an expected (tentative) fixture list is shown below so fans can plan ahead — it is clearly marked as tentative, and the official fixtures will replace it the moment the BCCI publishes them.

Key Dates at a Glance

Event	Date	Details
Season opener	Wednesday, 10 March 2027	The first match of IPL 2027
League stage	March – May 2027	70 matches — every team plays 14
Playoffs	May 2027	Qualifier 1, Eliminator, Qualifier 2
The Final	Saturday, 15 May 2027	The last match of the season — the champion is crowned
Total matches	74	70 league matches + 4 playoff matches

How the IPL Schedule Works

If you are new to the IPL, the schedule is easier to understand than it looks. The season has two parts: a long league stage, and a short, ruthless playoff stage.

The league stage — 70 matches

All 10 teams play in one big race. In the current format, every team plays 14 league matches — a mix of home games at their own stadium and away games on the road. Teams earn 2 points for a win, and if a match is washed out by rain, both teams take 1 point each. When teams finish level on points, Net Run Rate (NRR) decides who stands higher. If you want to see how that race works in practice, our IPL 2027 points table explains every column in simple words.

The playoffs — 4 matches

Only the top 4 teams survive the league stage. The playoffs then work like this:

• Qualifier 1: 1st vs 2nd. The winner goes straight to the Final.
• Eliminator: 3rd vs 4th. The loser goes home.
• Qualifier 2: The loser of Qualifier 1 vs the winner of the Eliminator. The winner takes the second Final spot.
• The Final: One match, one night, one champion.

This format is why the league stage stays tense until the very last week — finishing 2nd instead of 3rd gives a team two chances to reach the Final instead of one.

Match Timings

IPL matches follow a rhythm Indian fans know by heart. Evening matches start at 7:30 PM IST. On double-header days — usually weekends — an afternoon match is added at 3:30 PM IST before the evening game. Most matches finish in about three and a half hours, which is why the evening games end close to 11 PM. Exact timings for every IPL 2027 fixture will be listed with each match as soon as the fixtures are released.

Venues — Where IPL 2027 Will Be Played

Every team has a home stadium, and the league stage is built around them. These are the 10 home grounds of IPL 2027:

Team	Home Ground	City
Chennai Super Kings	M.A. Chidambaram Stadium (Chepauk)	Chennai
Mumbai Indians	Wankhede Stadium	Mumbai
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium	Bengaluru
Kolkata Knight Riders	Eden Gardens	Kolkata
Sunrisers Hyderabad	Rajiv Gandhi Intl. Stadium	Hyderabad
Delhi Capitals	Arun Jaitley Stadium	Delhi
Punjab Kings	New Chandigarh Stadium	Mullanpur
Rajasthan Royals	Sawai Mansingh Stadium	Jaipur
Gujarat Titans	Narendra Modi Stadium	Ahmedabad
Lucknow Super Giants	Ekana Stadium	Lucknow

The playoff venues, including the stadium for the Final on 15 May 2027, are confirmed by the BCCI along with the fixtures. In 2026 the Final was played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, the largest cricket stadium in the world.

IPL 2027 First Match — The Season Opener

Every IPL season begins with a night that feels like a festival, and the IPL 2027 first match on Wednesday, 10 March 2027 will be no different. Traditionally, the opening game features the defending champions — which means all eyes will be on Royal Challengers Bengaluru and their opponents under lights. Which two teams actually open the season will only be known when the IPL 2027 fixtures are published, and the answer will appear in the fixture list at the top of this page the same day. If the recent pattern holds, expect a full house, a ceremony before the toss, and the kind of first-ball roar you can hear outside the stadium.

IPL 2027 Time Table — How a Match Day Runs

The IPL 2027 time table follows the rhythm fans know by heart. On a normal match day, the captains walk out for the toss about 30 minutes before the start, and the first ball is bowled at 7:30 PM IST. Each innings lasts around an hour and twenty minutes, with a short break in the middle, and the match usually wraps up close to 11 PM. On double-header days — most often Saturdays and Sundays — the day starts earlier with an afternoon match at 3:30 PM IST, giving fans two full games in one day. When the IPL 2027 match list is released, every fixture on this page will carry its own date and start time in IST, so you never have to convert time zones or guess.

IPL 2027 Match List — What the Full Fixture List Will Show

When people search for the IPL 2027 match list, this is what they are looking for: every match, in date order, with the two teams, the stadium and the start time. That is exactly how the fixture list on this page is built. Each row will show the match date, the teams playing, the venue and the time — and once the season starts, the final score appears in the same row, so the list quietly turns into a results archive as the weeks go by. The playoff matches — Qualifier 1, the Eliminator, Qualifier 2 and the Final — will be marked clearly at the end of the list.

Want the IPL 2027 schedule as a PDF?

A lot of fans like to save the schedule as a PDF or print it for the wall. Once the fixtures are out, simply open this page in your browser and use Print → Save as PDF — because this page updates itself, your PDF will always be the latest version, not an old screenshot circulating on social media. Until the fixtures are official, be careful with "IPL 2027 schedule PDF" files shared in random groups: if the BCCI has not released the list, any PDF claiming to have it is made up.

Tickets and Where to Watch

Stadium tickets for IPL matches are normally sold online through official team and league channels once the fixtures are announced, and popular games — especially in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Chennai — can sell out within hours. Our honest advice: buy only from official sellers, and wait for the fixture list before planning travel. On television and streaming, the current broadcast cycle runs through the 2027 season, so IPL 2027 is expected to be shown on the Star Sports network and streamed on JioHotstar in India, as in recent seasons. We will update this section the moment the official details for 2027 are confirmed.

When Will the Full IPL 2027 Fixtures Be Announced?

Going by the pattern of recent seasons, the BCCI usually releases the full fixture list a few weeks before the opening match — which means fans can expect the complete schedule in the weeks leading up to 10 March 2027. Before that, the player auction (expected in December 2026) finalises the squads, and only then does the fixture list make sense to publish. We track this daily: the fixture box at the top of this page fills itself automatically as soon as the official list is out, so bookmark this page and check back.

A Quick Look Back — IPL 2026

The season just gone set the bar high. IPL 2026 ran from 28 March to 31 May 2026, and it ended with Royal Challengers Bengaluru beating Gujarat Titans by 5 wickets in the Final at Ahmedabad to defend their title — Virat Kohli's unbeaten 75 in the final was the story of the night. Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's record-breaking 776 runs took the Orange Cap, and Kagiso Rabada's 29 wickets sealed the Purple Cap in the final itself. IPL 2027 starts with RCB as the team everyone wants to beat. You can meet all 10 squads on our teams page.

The 10 Teams of IPL 2027 — Captains at a Glance

Every schedule is really a story about 10 teams chasing the same four playoff spots. Here are the sides who will fill the fixture list, with the captains confirmed from last season (squads are finalised at the player auction before the season):

Team	Captain	Home Ground
Chennai Super Kings	Ruturaj Gaikwad	Chepauk, Chennai
Mumbai Indians	Hardik Pandya	Wankhede, Mumbai
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	Rajat Patidar	Chinnaswamy, Bengaluru
Kolkata Knight Riders	Ajinkya Rahane	Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Sunrisers Hyderabad	Pat Cummins	Rajiv Gandhi Intl, Hyderabad
Delhi Capitals	Axar Patel	Arun Jaitley, Delhi
Punjab Kings	Shreyas Iyer	New Chandigarh, Mullanpur
Rajasthan Royals	Riyan Parag	Sawai Mansingh, Jaipur
Gujarat Titans	Shubman Gill	Narendra Modi, Ahmedabad
Lucknow Super Giants	Rishabh Pant	Ekana, Lucknow

How This Page Updates Itself

This schedule page is connected to the official match feed. The fixture list, timings and stadiums above appear automatically when the BCCI publishes them — and once the season begins, the same list shows results as matches finish, just like our auto-updating points table. On match days, head to the homepage for live scores or the today's match page for the day's game in detail.

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The Final Word

The dates are set, the teams are hungry, and the 20th IPL season is on its way. The full IPL 2027 schedule will land on this page the moment it is official — until then, everything that is confirmed is right here. See you on 10 March 2027.