The Indian Premier League chairman, Arun Dhumal, exposed on Monday that the league can expand to a full home-and-away, 94-match schedule when its next media-rights series starts in 2028, though adding new teams is off the table for now.
Since 2022 the IPL has featured 74 games, next the adding of Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants.
A planned increase to 84 matches in 2025 was deferred among a crowded international calendar and broadcastersโ concerns about too many double-headers. However, the idea of further growth remains active.
Under the present Future Tours Programme, the IPL window runs from mid-March to the end of May for the next two years.
To spread that gap or add matches within it will mean selling around two-sided series and ICC tournaments.
Dhumal self-confessed a jump to 84 or 94 games โmay not be possible in the short period,โ but maintained the board will return it when the time is right.
โEvery team playing every other team home and away would need 94 games,โ Dhumal told media.
โWe have discussed this inside at the BCCI and with the ICC. Fansโ attention in T20 and franchise cricket is rising, so we must portable how to create maximum value for all investors,โ he added.
Franchise officers say they would back a 94-match season, but any increase pivots on the broadcaster’s buy-in. Television and coursing figures often hollow mid-season, which rights-holders guilt on viewer tiredness.
A full home and absent arrangement would likely add two weeks to the Indian Premier League (IPL) present nine-week slot.
Although investors’ interest in more teams, Dhumal harassed that ten franchises are โa good number for now.โ
He decorated that upholding the tournamentโs quality is supreme and that any future decision on development will depend on how the cricket scenery changes.
