The 2025 IPL season will take place at 13 venues across India. Here's what the amount of travel between games looks like for each side.
Each of the 10 teams will play 14 matches, seven at home and seven away, meaning they will play at eight different venues over the course of the season. Three teams are exceptions to this, and will play at nine venues – Delhi Capitals, Rajasthan Royals and Punjab Kings all have second home venues of Visakhapatnam, Guwahati and Dharamsala in addition to Delhi, Jaipur and New Chandigarh (Mullanpur) respectively.
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Sunrisers Hyderabad - 8536 km
SRH have the least taxing schedule as far as travel is concerned. Four of their first six matches are at home, and one of the two away ones in this run is at Visakhapatnam, which is in the same state as Hyderabad. Even after this run, their next three matches are in Mumbai, Hyderabad and Chennai – all sub-1000 km journeys.
Crucially, Sunrisers do not travel to any of the venues farthest from their base – Mullanpur, Delhi and Jaipur.
Delhi Capitals - 9270 km
DC's first two matches are in their adopted home of Visakhapatnam, and they will remain in South India for their next two matches in Chennai and Bengaluru. There is then a short turnaround (3 days) and a long journey back to Delhi, but for four of the next six matches at home, and one in Lucknow which is relatively close.
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Their biggest advantage is getting the away fixtures at the opposite end of the country out of the way with minimal travel early on.
Lucknow Super Giants - 9747 km
Based in Uttar Pradesh, LSG are centrally situated compared to a few other sides in the competition. Their first two matches are in Visakhapatnam and Hyderabad, before they play four of the next five at home, and the other fixture in Kolkata, not too far away.
The back half of their schedule has a Lucknow-Mumbai-Dharamsala-Lucknow sequence which could be taxing, but the gaps between those fixtures are five, seven and five days.
Gujarat Titans - 10405 km
GT have a slightly awkward schedule – consecutive home games to start and end the season, but they are constantly on the road in between. A Bengaluru-Hyderabad-Ahmedabad-Lucknow sequence in games 3, 4, 5 and 6 will see them work their way up the country from the south. But immediately afterwards is an Ahmedabad-Kolkata-Jaipur leg which will have them going from the west end to the east end, back to the west end of India again.
Mumbai Indians - 12702 km
MI are one of two sides that has only one set of consecutive home games. This comes bang in the middle of their schedule, which is immediately preceded by a punishing start early portion; Mumbai-Lucknow-Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai is more or less a zigzag.
The other big trip will round off their season – Mumbai-Dharamsala-Mumbai for their last three fixtures.
Rajasthan Royals - 12730 km
RR may have created a couple of their own problems with one home ground in Jaipur in the west, and the other in Guwahati at the opposite end of the country. Luckily, they play twice in a row at Guwahati in games two and three, before Mullanpur-Ahmedabad-Jaipur-Delhi-Jaipur sees them remain in and around North India.
The back half is where the real travel comes in – around consecutive matches in Jaipur, they travel twice to the south (Bengaluru and Chennai) and once to the east (Kolkata).
Kolkata Knight Riders - 13537 km
Into the top four, which is not surprising given these teams have bases close to the ends of India.
KKR have three sets of back-to-back home games. Most of their travel comes from two major trips – Guwahati to Mumbai for game three, and Chennai to Mullanpur for game seven.
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The end of their campaign is far better. They have a run of four out of five games at home, with a trip to Delhi in between and their last two matches are relatively close by in Hyderabad and Bengaluru.
Punjab Kings - 14341 km
Punjab's schedule fluctuates wildly – their first four matches are quite conveniently in Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Mullanpur (two back-to-back). But in the middle of the season, they have a Hyderabad-Mullanpur-Bengaluru-Mullanpur-Kolkata run, where they shuttle between south, north and east ends of the country.
Their solace after that will come from three consecutive home games in Dharamsala, before a short trip to Jaipur to round off the league phase.
Chennai Super Kings - 16184 km
The IPL's southern-most team will naturally have large distances to cover. They open with two games at home before a Guwahati-Chennai-Mullanpur-Chennai-Lucknow sequence; all trips of 1500 km or more.
The respite is only brief with two consecutive home games on 25 & 30 April, before a Bengaluru-Kolkata-Chennai-Ahmedabad sequence to end the campaign.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru - 17084 km
RCB have rather drawn the short end of the stick, travel-wise. They have only one set of back-to-back home games – all the way in their last two fixtures. Essentially, they will be on the road for more or less the entire season.
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Matches 6-13 are almost nightmarish for RCB as they go Jaipur-Bengaluru-Mullanpur-Bengaluru-Delhi-Bengaluru-Lucknow-Bengaluru, shuttling between South and North India for eight consecutive trips of over 1500 km, in just under a month.
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