Tournament format(s)Double round-robin and playoffs
HostBangladesh
ChampionsRajshahi Warriors (2nd title)
Runners-upChattogram Royals
Participants6
Matches34
Player of the seriesShoriful Islam (Chattogram Royals)
Most runsParvez Hossain Emon (395) (Sylhet Titans)
Most wicketsShoriful Islam (26) (Chattogram Royals)
Official websitebplt20.com.bd
2025–26 Bangladesh Premier League (BPL 2026) was the 12th season of the Bangladesh Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in Bangladesh that is organised by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB). The season commenced on 26 December 2025, and the final was held on 23 January 2026. Rajshahi Warriors beat Chattogram Royals in the final by 63 runs and won their second title.
2025–26 Bangladesh Premier League is located in Bangladesh2025–26 Bangladesh Premier League is located in Bangladesh
Background
The 2025–26 BPL season overlapped with the BBL 15, SA20 2026, Super Smash 2025–26 and ILT20 2025–26.
During the previous season, payment-related issues involving Durbar Rajshahi and Chittagong Kings were reported. For the 2025–26 season, the Bangladesh Cricket Board disqualified teams that failed to submit the required documentation.
The 2026 general elections were also a reason for organising the BPL with fewer teams to complete the competition before the election.
The Chattogram franchise was acquired by Triangle Sports and renamed Chattogram Royals. The Rajshahi franchise also underwent a change in ownership, with Nabil Group of Industries taking over and renaming the team Rajshahi Warriors. The Sylhet franchise came under new ownership by Cricket With Sami and was renamed Sylhet Titans. Noakhali Express was introduced as a new franchise after being acquired by Desh Travels. The Khulna Tigers and Fortune Barishal franchises did not participate in the season.
The auction took place on 30 November 2025. Pakistan based company, TPT – Trans Production & Technologies won the official broadcasting rights for the 2025–26 BPL – Bangladesh Premier League replacing Real Impact.
On 25 December 2025, Triangle Sports terminated the ownership of Chattogram Royals, and the Bangladesh Cricket Board took charge.
Opening Ceremony
An opening ceremony had been previously planned to be on 23 December 2025 in Dhaka ahead of the opening game of this season of the BPL. But later, due to security concerns, BCB had decided to arrange an opening ceremony shortly before the opening game at Sylhet on 26 December 2026, and so the scheduled time of the first two matches of the first day of BPL got delayed by 1 hour and 45 minutes, respectively. Therefore, the opening game between Sylhet Titans and Rajshahi Warriors commenced at 3:00 pm and the second match between Noakhali Express and Chattogram Royals at 7:45 pm local time which had been previously scheduled at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm, respectively. The opening ceremony was held in two phases. The first phase was before the start of the first match of the day, and the second phase was held in the interval between the two matches of the opening day.
Practice Match
A practice match was played between the Rajshahi Warriors and the Rangpur Riders as the North Bengal derby before the league stage. Only the local players of both teams featured in that match.
Rajshahi Warriors won the toss and elected to field.
Practice Match 22 December 2025 (2025-12-22) 12:30 (GMT+6:00)
Najmul Hossain Shanto 34 (32) Abdul Halim 2/7 (2.1 overs)
Rajshahi Warriors won by 5 wickets Rangpur Riders Cricket Arena, Dhaka
Match Officials
These are the match officials for this season of BPL:
Neeyamur Rashid , Akhtar Ahmad , Salim Shahed , Simon Taufel
Sharfuddoula , Tanvir Ahmed , Masudur Rahman , Morshed Ali Khan , Gazi Sohel , Muhammad Kamruzzaman , Ali Arman , Sajedul Islam , Asif Yaqoob , Ruchira Palliyaguruge
Commentators
These are the commentators for this season of BPL:
Athar Ali Khan , Shamim Chowdhury , Samonnoy Ghosh , Mazhar Uddin Omi , Danny Morrison , Darren Gough , Samuel Badree , Waqar Younis , Ramiz Raja , Farveez Maharoof , Jamie Cox
Zainab Abbas , Ridhima Pathak
Teams
Five franchises were confirmed initially, and on 24 November, Noakhali Express joined as the sixth team.
Team
Location
Owner
Head Coach
Captain
Chattogram Royals
Chattogram
Bangladesh Cricket Board
Mizanur Rahman Babul
Mahedi Hasan
Dhaka Capitals
Dhaka
Champion Sports
Toby Radford
Mohammad Mithun
Noakhali Express
Noakhali
Desh Travels
Khaled Mahmud
Shykat Ali Haider Ali
Rajshahi Warriors
Rajshahi
Nabil Group of Industries
Hannan Sarkar
Najmul Hossain Shanto
Rangpur Riders
Rangpur
Toggi Sports
Mickey Arthur
Nurul Hasan Sohan Litton Das
Sylhet Titans
Sylhet
Cricket With Sami
Sohel Islam
Mehidy Hasan Miraz
Squads
The auction took place on 30 November 2025. Before the event, each franchise was permitted to secure two local players and up to two overseas players through direct signings. At the auction, opening batter Mohammad Naim emerged as the most expensive local player after being signed by Chattogram Royals for $90,300 (approx. BDT 1.1 crore). Meanwhile, Sri Lanka's Dasun Shanaka emerged as the highest-paid overseas player, joining Dhaka Capitals for a bid of $55,000 (approx. BDT 67.15 lakh).
The full squads are as follows:
Match summary
Note: The total points at the end of each group match are listed., Note: Click on the points (group matches) or W/L (playoffs) to see the match summary.
Note: Results listed are according to the home (horizontal) and visitor (vertical) teams., Note: Click on a result to see a summary of the match.
Team
Group matches
Playoffs
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Q1/E
Q2
F
Chattogram Royals
2
2
4
6
6
8
10
12
12
12
W
L
Dhaka Capitals
2
2
2
2
4
4
4
4
4
6
Noakhali Express
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
4
4
4
Rajshahi Warriors
2
2
4
6
8
8
10
12
14
16
L
W
W
Rangpur Riders
2
2
4
6
8
8
8
8
10
12
L
Sylhet Titans
0
2
4
4
4
6
6
8
10
10
W
L
Win
Loss
No result
Visitor team →
CR
DC
NE
RW
RR
STT
Home team ↓
Chattogram Royals
Dhaka42 runs
Chattogram5 wickets
Rajshahi3 wickets
Rangpur5 wickets
Chattogram14 runs
Dhaka Capitals
Chattogram10 wickets
Dhaka7 wickets
Dhaka5 wickets
Rangpur5 runs
Sylhet20 runs
Noakhali Express
Chattogram65 runs
Noakhali41 runs
Rajshahi4 wickets
Noakhali9 runs
Sylhet6 wickets
Rajshahi Warriors
Chattogram2 wickets
Rajshahi7 wickets
Rajshahi6 wickets
Rajshahi7 wickets
Rajshahi5 runs
Rangpur Riders
Rangpur7 wickets
Rangpur11 runs
Rangpur8 wickets
RajshahiSuper Over
Sylhet6 wickets
Sylhet Titans
Chattogram9 wickets
Sylhet6 runs
Sylhet1 wicket
Rajshahi8 wickets
Rangpur6 wickets
Home team won
Visitor team won
League stage
The BCB officially published the schedule on 2 December 2025.The schedules were again revised and published on 31 December 2025 by BCB.
Sylhet Phase
Rajshahi Warriors won the toss and elected to field.
Chattogram Royals won the toss and elected to bat. , This was the first match of the BPL for Noakhali Express.
Dhaka Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
Sylhet Titans won the toss and elected to field. , Mehedi Hasan Rana (Noakhali Express) took his first hat-trick in T20s, overall ninth in BPL and the first in this season.
Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to field.
Rajshahi Warriors won the toss and elected to field. , Haider Ali started captaining Noakhali Express from this match as their previously selected captain Shykat Ali didn't feature.
Dhaka Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to field. , Super Over: Rangpur Riders 6/2, Rajshahi Warriors 10/0.
Chattogram Royals won the toss and elected to field.
Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to field. , Mustafizur Rahman (Rangpur Riders) completed 400 wickets in his T20 career.
Chattogram Royals won the toss and elected to field. , Match postponed from 30 December 2025 to 4 January 2026 due to the passing away of the ex-Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia.
Dhaka Capitals won the toss and elected to field. , Match postponed from 30 December 2025 to 4 January 2026 due to the passing away of the ex-Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Khaleda Zia.
Noakhali Express won the toss and elected to bat.
Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to field. , Litton Das (Rangpur Riders) completed 6000 runs in his T20 career.
Dhaka Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
Sylhet Titans won the toss and elected to field.
Rajshahi Warriors won the toss and elected to field.
Dhaka Capitals won the toss and elected to field. , Ariful Islam (Sylhet Titans) made his BPL debut. , Sabbir Rahman (Dhaka Capitals) completed 2000 runs in his BPL career.
Chattogram Royals won the toss and elected to field. , Binura Fernando (Rajshahi Warriors) completed 150 wickets in his T20 career.
Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to field. , Mrittunjoy Chowdhury (Rangpur Riders) took the second hat-trick in his BPL career, overall tenth in BPL and the second in this season. He became the first player to take hat-trick multiple times in BPL history.
Rajshahi Warriors won the toss and elected to field.
Noakhali Express won the toss and elected to bat. , Hassan Eisakhil (Noakhali Express) made his BPL debut.
Sylhet Titans won the toss and elected to field. , Parvez Hossain Emon (Sylhet Titans) completed 2000 runs in his T20 career.
Dhaka Capitals won the toss and elected to bat. , Ripon Mondol (Rajshahi Warriors) took the first hat-trick in his BPL career, overall eleventh in BPL and the third in this season.
Match 1 26 December 2025 (2025-12-26) 15:00 (D/N) Scorecard
Najmul Hossain Shanto 101* (60) Khaled Ahmed 1/30 (3 overs)
Rajshahi Warriors won by 8 wickets Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, Sylhet Umpires: Tanvir Ahmed (Ban) and Sharfuddoula (Ban) Player of the match: Najmul Hossain Shanto (Rajshahi Warriors)
Match 2 26 December 2025 (2025-12-26) 19:45 (N) Scorecard
Chattogram Royals174/6 (20 overs)
v
Noakhali Express109 (16.5 overs)
Mirza Tahir Baig 80 (69) Sabbir Hossain 2/9 (1 over)
Maaz Sadaqat 38 (27) Tanvir Islam 3/39 (4 overs)
Chattogram Royals won by 65 runs Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, Sylhet Umpires: Masudur Rahman (Ban) and Asif Yaqoob (Pak) Player of the match: Mirza Tahir Baig (Chattogram Royals)
Match 3 27 December 2025 (2025-12-27) 13:00 Scorecard
Abdullah Al Mamun 45 (39) Mohammad Nawaz 3/21 (4 overs)
Dhaka Capitals won by 5 wickets Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, Sylhet Umpires: Morshed Ali Khan (Ban) and Ruchira Palliyaguruge (SL) Player of the match: Imad Wasim (Dhaka Capitals)
Match 4 27 December 2025 (2025-12-27) 18:00 (N) Scorecard
Noakhali Express143/7 (20 overs)
v
Sylhet Titans144/9 (20 overs)
Mahidul Islam Ankon 61* (51) Khaled Ahmed 4/23 (4 overs)
Sylhet Titans won by 1 wicket Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, Sylhet Umpires: Muhammad Kamruzzaman (Ban) and Asif Yaqoob (Pak) Player of the match: Khaled Ahmed (Sylhet Titans)
Match 5 29 December 2025 (2025-12-29) 13:00 Scorecard
Chattogram Royals102 (17.5 overs)
v
Rangpur Riders107/3 (15 overs)
Mohammad Naim 39 (20) Faheem Ashraf 5/17 (3.5 overs)
Dawid Malan 51 (48) Mukidul Islam 2/5 (2 overs)
Rangpur Riders won by 7 wickets Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, Sylhet Umpires: Sajedul Islam (Ban) and Asif Yaqoob (Pak) Player of the match: Faheem Ashraf (Rangpur Riders)
Dhaka Phase
Chattogram Royals won the toss and elected to field.
Sylhet Titans won the toss and elected to field. , Shohidul Islam (Sylhet Titans) completed 100 wickets in his T20 career.
Dhaka Capitals won the toss and elected to field.
Rajshahi Warriors won the toss and elected to field.
Rangpur Riders won the toss and elected to field.
Chattogram Royals won the toss and elected to field.
Eliminator
Sylhet Titans won the toss and elected to field.
Qualifier 1
Chattogram Royals won the toss and elected to field.
Qualifier 2
Sylhet Titans won the toss and elected to field.
Final
Chattogram Royals won the toss and elected to field.
Broadcasting
Here is the list of broadcasters of this season of BPL around the globe:
