Purveli Super Kings spent the most money on player signings in the third edition of the Koshi Pride League (KPL) auction.

Purveli spent the most money when seven different franchise teams signed 12 players at the auction for the tournament to be held at the Dr. Khalil Azad Stadium in Bhokrahan Singh, Sunsari from Falgun 9 to 21.

Purveli of Biratnagar spent Rs. 418,000 for 12 different players from the auction that lasted until midnight on Saturday in Itahari. Gorkha Avengers of Kathmandu spent Rs. 400,000. While Birtamod Hides spent Rs. 368,000, Itahari Adarsh ​​Giants spent Rs. 364,000, Kathmandu's Everest Thunders spent Rs. 340,000, Itahari's Namuna Blastard spent Rs. 320,000 and Bhokrahan Singh Koshi Arnaz spent the least at Rs. 250,000.

In the auction, each team signed 3 to 6 players from the draft, including one marquee and one iconic. Out of 232 players included in the auction, 84 have been sold. There were 34 in Category 'A', 95 in Category 'B' and 103 in Category 'C'.

In the auction, the minimum price for Category 'A' was set at Rs 45,000 to Rs 65,000, for Category 'B' at Rs 25,000 to Rs 45,000 and for Category 'C' at Rs 5,000 to Rs 25,000. The team has the facility to spend the amount as per its requirement while bringing in players from the draft.

Everest Thunders, owned by Akash Khadka, has signed Narayan Joshi, Akash Tripathi, Dipendra Rawat, Roshan Bishwakarma, Pujan BK, Salahuddin Khan, Sahil Patel, Prajwal Thapa, Lokesh Joshi, Bhola Kumar Shah, Shivam Tiwari and Ravindra Mandal from the auction.

Everest has brought in national team players Karan KC, Sompal Kami, Yubaraj Khatri and Ranjit Kumar from the draft. Former champions Namuna Blasters, owned by Namuna College principal Dharma Neupane, have taken in national team players Nandan Yadav, Gaurav Katwal and Prakash Karki from the draft.

Namuna has signed Amit Shrestha, Bipin Rawal, Kiran Kumar Thagunna, Dayanand Mandal, Bipin Acharya, Sandeep Dhungana, Prateek Shrestha, Abhishesh Gautam, Raju Bishwakarma, Prabhat Rai, Sachin Lekhak and Nitesh Kumar Yadav from the auction. Pradeep Raj Pandey is the coach.

Kalpit Dhakal-owned Bishwo Adarsh ​​College team Itahari Adarsh ​​Giants has signed Kushal Malla, Bhupal Luitel, Binod Bhandari, Dipesh Kandel and Rupesh Singh from the draft while Arjun Kumal, Amar Singh Rautela, Yunis Vikram Singh Thakuri, Sunil Dhamla, Nar Bahadur Sarki, Sameer Karki, Ashutosh Ghiraiya, Shravan Yadav, Akash Saraf, Vikalp Acharya, Ritesh Roy and Sameer Timalsina from the auction. Kushal played for Namuna in the previous edition while Binod Duhabi played for Bapitals.

Anurag Pramanik-owned Birtamod Hits has signed Gulshan Jha, Sher Malla and Dinesh Adhikari, Bhim Sarki and Arjun Saund from the draft along with national team players. Gulshan played for Itahari Adarsh ​​Giants in the previous edition. Birtamod has signed Santosh Yadav, Deepak Dumre, Vikas Agri, Ravindra Jangshahi, Vivek KC, Vishal Susling, Sarthak Dhital, Ashok Dhami, Rajendra Bam, Ayush Neupane, Rupak Baral and Roshan Saund from the auction.

Sanjok Rana-owned Purveli Super Kings have signed Mohammad Adil Alam, Arjun Gharti, Tritaraj Das, Diwan Pun and Bharat Karki from the draft while continuing Lalit Rajbanshi. Naren Saund, Rijan Dhakal, Mayan Yadav, Adil Khan, Bishal Patel, Imran Sheikh, Chirag Shah, Deepak Paswan, Sonu Sharma, Abhishek Karki, Mohammad Sameer and Abhishek Sharma have been brought into the team from the auction.

Mohammad Seraj Ansari-owned Bhokrahanar Singh Kosi Arnaz has brought Firdos Ansari, Sujan Thapaliya, Santosh Karki and Bhuwan Karki from the draft and has signed Shankar Rana, Bipin Khatri, Himanshu Dutt, Dipesh Shrestha, Shakib Haque, Sumit Shrestha, Kamal Gupta, Lokendra Bahadur Chand, Josak Khadka, Kamaluddin Miyan, Shivan Yadav and Afan Tahir from the auction. The team is coached by Rajkumar Pradhan.