IPL crosses ₹12,000 crore

The Indian Premier League brought in a record ₹12,005 crore in 2024-25, according to a Factly analysis of Board of Control for Cricket in India annual-report data. (factly.in) That total is more than ten times the ₹1,195 crore the league reported in 2013-14. Factly said the jump tracks the Indian Premier League’s transformation from a cricket tournament into a broadcast-led media business. (factly.in) The biggest line item is media rights. Factly said more than 70% of 2024-25 revenue came from television and streaming deals, and media-rights income alone rose from ₹3,780 crore to ₹8,744 crore when the new rights cycle started in 2023-24. (factly.in) (sportspro.com) SportsPro reported that the current 2023-2027 media-rights cycle is worth about US$6.2 billion in total, or roughly US$13.4 million per match. That deal helps explain why broadcast money now outweighs gate receipts and other matchday income. (sportspro.com) (factly.in) Expenses rose too. Factly put 2024-25 expenditure at ₹6,892.73 crore, up from ₹860.87 crore in 2013-14, as franchise payouts, operations, logistics, marketing and prize money all scaled up with the tournament. (factly.in) Even with that cost growth, the league remained heavily profitable. Factly said the gap between income and expenditure reached about ₹5,113 crore in 2024-25, compared with a surplus of ₹334 crore in 2013-14. (factly.in) The structure of the business also shapes how the tournament is run. When central media revenue rises, expenditure rises with it because the league shares half of that central pool with franchises, Factly reported. (factly.in) That makes the Indian Premier League less dependent on ticket windows than many traditional sports leagues. It also ties the tournament more tightly to broadcast delivery, sponsorship inventory and the reliability of a short, high-volume season. (factly.in) (sportspro.com) SportsPro said the 2026 season expanded to 84 matches from 74 last season, with the Board of Control for Cricket in India considering 94 matches from 2028. More inventory means more saleable broadcast and sponsorship slots, even as the next phase of value growth looks less automatic than it did during the last bidding war. (sportspro.com) The result is a league that now looks as much like a media-rights machine as a cricket competition. The numbers in 2024-25 show where the money comes from, and why the next fight will be over how long that broadcast engine can keep accelerating. (factly.in) (sportspro.com)