Defending champions kolkata knight riders made a league stage exit from the IPL 2025.
KKR, the Defending Champions, Failed to Qualify for the Playoffs. This marked the third straight time the franchise made a league stage exit from the ipl as the reigning champions.
Last year, kkr won the ipl under the Leadership of Shreyas Iyer, but this season their new captain, ajinkya rahane, even the not inspire the team to retain consistency.
Kkr first won the IPL in 2012 and then Again in 2014. But in the successing season both times, they failed to qualify for the playoffs.
In the second Edition of the IPL in 2009, The Previous Edition’s Champions, Rajasthan Royals, Became the First-Ever Team to Make a League Stage Exit.
While mi and kkr have made league stage exits thrice, chennai super kings are the only other side to make a group stage more than once – In 2022 and 2024 as Defending Champions.
Kkr will now be keen to wrap up their ipl 2025 campaign with a win when they face sunrisers hyderabad on may 25.
Teams who have suffred league-stage exit from ipl as defending champions:
RR – IPL 2009 (6th with 6 Wins in 14 matches)
KKR – IPL 2013 (7th with 6 Wins in 16 matches)
KKR-IPL 2015 (5th with 7 Wins in 14 matches)
Mi-IPL 2016 (5th with 7 Wins in 14 matches)
Mi-IPL 2018 (5th with 6 Wins)
Mi-IPL 2021 (7th with 7 Wins in 14 matches)
CSK-IPL 2022 (9th with 4 Wins in 14 matches)
CSK – IPL 2024 (5th with 7 Wins in 14 matches)
KKR – IPL 2025*
