June 4, IPL 2025 Final: In the final of IPL 2025, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Punjab Kings to win the title. This match was very interesting. RCB won the trophy for the first time and ended the title drought. RCB has maintained the trend of the Qualifier-1 team becoming the champion. This trend has been going on for the last eight years. Let us tell you how many times it has happened in the IPL so far that the team winning Qualifier-1 has captured the title…
12 out of 15 times the team winning Qualifier-1 became the champion
In the IPL, initially i.e. from 2008 to 2010, the knockout matches of the league were played in the semi-final format. However, from 2011, its rules were changed and the playoffs started. Qualifier-1, Qualifier-2 and Eliminator matches were fixed. From then till 2025, there have been a total of 15 seasons and out of these, 12 times the team winning Qualifier-1 has won the final. To make it more concrete, in the last eight years, only the team that won Qualifier-1 has become the champion. From 2018 to 2025, only the team that won Qualifier-1 has become the champion. CSK did this in 2018, 2021, 2023, Mumbai in 2019 and 2020, Gujarat in 2022 and KKR in 2024. All these teams reached the final by winning Qualifier-1. Now RCB has maintained this trend.
The team that won Qualifier-1 three times did not become the champion
It has happened only three times when the team that won Qualifier-1 could not capture the title. The RCB team itself has suffered this before. This was RCB’s fourth final. Earlier, the team had also reached the final in 2009, 2011, 2016. In 2016, RCB reached the final by winning Qualifier-1, but Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated them in the final. Then SRH team reached the final by playing the Eliminator and SRH is the only team to reach the final and win it by playing the Eliminator. However, now RCB has overcome it.
In 2013, 2016 and 2017, the team that won Qualifier-1 had to face defeat in the final. At the same time, the team that won Qualifier-2 has captured the title three times (including SRH in 2016). These three years are 2013, 2016 and 2017 only. In 2013, Chennai Super Kings defeated Mumbai in Qualifier-1 and made it to the final. However, after this Mumbai won Qualifier-2 and reached the final and became the champion by defeating CSK. At the same time, Mumbai did this once again in 2017. Then Rising Pune Supergiants defeated Mumbai in Qualifier-1. However, Mumbai won Qualifier-2 and then won the title by defeating RPS by one run in the final.
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