Written by: Ankit Yadav
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The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 is the 33rd edition of India’s premier domestic List A (50-over) cricket tournament, organized annually by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). This season is scheduled to run from 24 December 2025 to 18 January 2026 and features 38 teams representing nearly all Indian domestic cricket associations.

This edition is especially notable because top Indian international stars like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Ishan Kishan, and others are participating for their respective state teams.

Each team enters with a squad typically announced by their respective state board. Get the complete details about the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 in this article. 

Teams Participating In The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26

A total of 38 teams are participating in this domestic ODI tournament, divided into 2 groups: Elite and Plate. 

Teams Participating In The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26
Source: Deccan Chronicle 
Group AGroup BGroup CGroup DPlate Group
KarnatakaVidarbhaMaharashtraHaryanaNagaland
RajasthanBarodaPunjabGujaratBihar
Tamil NaduBengalMumbaiRailwaysMizoram
JharkhandHyderabadHimachal PradeshAndhraMeghalaya
Madhya PradeshUttar PradeshUttarakhandSaurashtraManipur
PondicherryAssamGoaDelhiArunachal Pradesh
KeralaChandigarhChhattisgarhOdisha
TripuraJammu & KashmirSikkimServices

Vijay Hazare Trophy Winners List 

Vijay Hazare Trophy was introduced in 1993-94, since then, it has been played in the zonal format till 2001-02. There were 5 winners per season, all from different zones across the country. 

EditionZone Winners
1993–94Central: Uttar PradeshEast: BengalNorth: HaryanaSouth: KarnatakaWest: Bombay
1994–95Central: Madhya PradeshEast: BengalNorth: PunjabSouth: HyderabadWest: Maharashtra
1995–96Central: Uttar PradeshEast: BengalNorth: HaryanaSouth: KarnatakaWest: Bombay
1996–97Central: Madhya PradeshEast: AssamNorth: DelhiSouth: Tamil NaduWest: Mumbai
1997–98Central: Madhya PradeshEast: BengalNorth: DelhiSouth: Tamil NaduWest: Mumbai
1998–99Central: Madhya PradeshEast: BengalNorth: PunjabSouth: KarnatakaWest: Mumbai
1999–2000Central: Madhya PradeshEast: BengalNorth: DelhiSouth: Tamil NaduWest: Mumbai
2000–01Central: Madhya PradeshEast: OrissaNorth: PunjabSouth: Tamil NaduWest: Mumbai
2001–02Central: RailwaysEast: OrissaNorth: PunjabSouth: KarnatakaWest: Mumbai

After the 2001-02 edition, the format changed from a zonal format to a state format, where there was only one champion in an edition. 

Karnataka won, and Tamil Nadu are the most successful teams of the edition, winning 5 times. Mumbai follows them with 4 titles in this tournament. 

EditionWinnerRunner-up
2002–03Tamil NaduPunjab
2003–04MumbaiBengal
2004–05Tamil Nadu & Uttar Pradesh (Shared)
2005–06RailwaysUttar Pradesh
2006–07Mumbai Rajasthan
2007–08SaurashtraBengal 
2008–09Tamil Nadu Bengal 
2009–10Tamil Nadu Bengal 
2010–11JharkhandGujarat
2011–12BengalMumbai
2012–13DelhiAssam
2013–14KarnatakaRailways
2014–15Karnataka Punjab 
2015–16GujaratDelhi
2016–17Tamil NaduBengal
2017–18Karnataka Saurashtra
2018–19Mumbai Delhi 
2019–20Karnataka Tamil Nadu
2020–21Mumbai Uttar Pradesh 
2021–22Himachal PradeshTamil Nadu 
2022–23Saurashtra Maharashtra
2023–24HaryanaRajasthan 
2024–25KarnatakaVidarbha

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 Teams And Their Squad 

Here is the squad of all 38 teams participating in the Vijay Hazare 2025-26.

Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 Teams and Their Squad 
Source: ANI News 

Tamil Nadu Squad 

N. Jagadeesan (C), B. Sai Sudharsan (Vice-capt), B. Indrajith, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, C. Andre Siddarth, M. Boopathi Vaishna Kumar, S. Mohamed Ali, S.R. Athish, R. Sai Kishore, Sachin Rathi, Gurjapneet Singh, C.V. Achyuth, G. Govinth, R. Sonu Yadav, Sunny Sandhu, V.S. Karthick Manikandan

Madhya Pradesh Squad

Venkatesh Iyer (c), Harsh Gawli, Himanshu Mantri (WK), Yash Dubey, Shubham Sharma, Harpreet Singh, Rishabh Chauhan, Ritik Tada, Kumar Kartikeya, Saransh Jain, Shivang Kumar, Aryan Pandey, Rahul Batham, Tripuresh Singh, Mangesh Yadav, Madhav Tiwari

Punjab Squad

Abhishek Sharma, Shubman Gill (c), Mayank Markande, Arshdeep Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Harpreet Brar, Salil Arora, Ramandeep Singh, Sanvir Singh, Naman Dhir, Nehal Wadhera, Anmol Malhotra, Abhinav Sharma, Baltej Singh, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Raghu Sharma, Ashwani Kumar, Harnoor Singh, Jassinder Singh, Gaurav Chaudhary, Prerit Dutta, Uday Saharan, Aaradhya Shukla, Vishwanath Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, Abhay Choudhary, Krish Bhagat, Emanjot Singh Chahal, Jaskaranvir Singh Paul, Sukhdeep Bajwa, Prabjot Singh, Sohraab Dhaliwal, Kunwar Kuckreja, Sahaj Dhawan, Harjas Singh, Ayush Goyal, Jashanpreet Singh, Sahil Khan, Anmolpreet Singh

Odisha Squad

Shantanu Mishra, Swastik Samal, Om T. Munde, Dinesh Kumar Majhi (wk), Aashirwad Swain (wk), Biplab Samantray (c), Prayash Kumar Singh, Sambit Baral, Rajesh Mohanty (vc), Debabrata Pradhan, Soumya R Lenka, Anil Parida, Sandeep Pattanaik, Badal Biswal, Govinda Poddar, Sayed Tufayl Ahmad

Saurashtra Squad

Harvik Desai (wk), Tarang Gohel, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvraj Chudasama, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Ruchit Ahir, Parth Bhut, Sammar Gajjar, Ansh Gosai, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Jay Gohil, Hiten Kanbi, Pranav Karia, Hetvik Kotak, Ankur Panwar, Parswaraj Rana

Haryana Squad

Anshul Kamboj, Ankit Kumar, Ajit Chahal, Kapil Hooda, Aman Kumar, Rohit Sharma, Sumit Kumar, Yuvraj Singh, Amit Rana, Nishant Sindhu, Dinesh Bana, Mayank Shandilya, Bhuwan Rohilla, Lakshya Dalal, Dheeru Singh, Yash Dalal, Parth Vats, Arsh Ranga, Anuj Thakral, Nikhil Kashyap, Rahul Rathee, Samant Jakhar, Vivek Kumar, Ashish Siwach, Ishant Bhardwaj, Ashok Menaria, Yuzvendra Chahal, Rahul Tewatia, Himanshu Rana

Railways Squad

Karn Sharma (c), Ashutosh Sharma (vc), Suraj Ahuja (wk), Kush Marathe, Pratham Singh, Ravi Singh, Upendra Yadav (wk), Ansh Yadav, Raj Choudhary, Kunal Yadav, Mohammad Saif, Akash Pandey, Sahab Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Sharma, Adarsh Singh, Zubair Ali

Rajasthan Squad

Manav Suthar (c), Manendra Singh, Ram Mohan Chauhan, Sumit Godara, Mahipal Lomror, Deepak Hooda, Karan Lamba, Mukul Chaudhary, Ajay Singh Kukna, Khaleel Ahmed, Aniket Choudhary (vc), Ashok Sharma, Aditya Singh Rathore, Samarpit Joshi, Akash Singh, Rahul Chahar

Jharkhand Squad

Ishan Kishan (c), Virat Singh, Utkarsh Singh, Kumar Kushagra (wk) (vc), Robin Minz, Anukul Roy, Sharandeep Singh, Shikhar Mohan, Pankaj Kumar (wk), Bala Krishna, Mohammad Kounain Qureshi, Shubh Sharma, Amit Kumar, Manishi, Abhinav Sharan, Sushant Mishra, Vikash Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Rajandeep Singh, Shubham Singh

Karnataka Squad

Mayank Agarwal (c), Karun Nair (vc), Devdutt Padikkal, R. Smaran, KL Shrijith, Abhinav Manohar, Shreyas Gopal, V. Vyshak, Manvanth Kumar, Shreesha Achar, Abhilash Shetty, B.R. Sharath, Harshil Dharmani, Dhruv Prabhakar, KL Rahul, Prasidh Krishna

Kerala Squad

Rohan Kunnummal (c), Sanju Samson (wk), Vishnu Vinod (wk), Mohammad Azharuddeen (Wicketkeeper), Ahammed Imran, Salman Nizar, Abhishek J. Nair, Krishna Prasad, Akhil Scaria, Abhijith Praveen V, Biju Narayanan, Ankit Sharma, Baba Aparajith, Vignesh Puthur, Nidheesh MD, Asif KM, Abhishek P. Nair, Sharafudeen NM, Eden Apple Tom

Tripura Squad

Manisankar Murasingh (c), Udiyan Bose, Rajat Dey, Sridam Paul, Vijay Shankar, Hanuma Vihari, Parvez Sultan, Rana Dutta, Ajay Sarkar, Swapnil Singh, Saurabh Das, Bikramjit Debnath, Arjun Debnath, Subham Ghosh, Saruk Hossain, Tejasvi Jaiswal, Riaz Uddin, Viki Saha, Abhijit Sarkar, Nirupam Sen, Sentu Sarkar, Arkaprabha Sinha, Debaprasad Sinha

Chandigarh Squad

Manan Vohra (c), Jagjeet S Sandhu, Arslan Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Ankit Kaushik, Arjun Azad, Tushar Joshi, Taranpreet Singh, Nikhil Thakur, Hartejassvi Kapoor, Nishunk Birla, Vishu Kashyap, Hardik Choudhary, Sanyam Saini, Rohit Dhanda

Chhattisgarh Squad

Ajay Mandal, Amandeep Khare (c), Anuj Tiwari, Ashutosh Singh, Ayush Pandey, Harsh Sahu (wk), Harsh Yadav, M Ravi Kiran, Mayank Verma (wk), Mayank Yadav, Aditya Sarvate, Prateek Yadav, Sanjeet Desai, Shubham Agrawal, Sourabh Majumdar, Mohit Raut, Vikalp Tiwari

Goa Squad

Deepraj Gaonkar (c), Snehal Kauthankar (vc), Lalit Yadav, Darshan Misal, Suyash Prabhudessai, Vasuki Koushik, Arjun Tendulkar, Vikash Singh, Kashyap Bakhale, Rajashekhar Harikant, Amulya Pandrekar, Shubham Desai, Shubham Tari, Abhinav Tejrana, Azaan Thota

Maharashtra Squad

Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Prithvi Shaw, Arshin Kulkarni, Siddhesh Veer, Ankeet Bawane, Rahul Tripathi, Saurabh Navale (wk), Vicky Ostwal, Jalaj Saxena, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Rajneesh Gurbani, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Prashant Solanki, Nikhil Naik (wk), Pradeep Dadhe, Siddharth Mhatre, Sachin Dhas, Satyajeet Bacchav

Hyderabad Squad

Rahul Singh (c), Rahul Buddhi (vc), Tanmay Agarwal, Tanay Thyagarajan, Aman Rao, Abhirath Reddy, Nitesh Reddy, A Varun Goud, Pragnay Reddy, Prateek Reddy, Nitin Sai Yadav, Rakshann Readdi, Kartikeya Kak, Ilyaan Sathani, Md Arfaz

Uttar Pradesh Squad

Abhishek Goswami, Adarsh Singh, Priyam Garg, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Aryan Juyal (wk), Sameer Rizvi, Rinku Singh, Prashant Veer, Kartik Tyagi, Vipraj Nigam, Zeeshan Ansari, Aaradhya Yadav, Vaibhav Chaudhary, Kartik Yadav, Kunal Tyagi, Vineet Panwar, Rituraj Sharma

Bengal Squad

Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Anustup Majumdar, Abishek Porel (wk), Sudip Gharami, Sumanta Gupta, Sumit Nag (wk), Chandrahas Dash, Shahbaz Ahmed, Karan Lal, Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep, Mukesh Kumar, Sayan Ghosh, Ravi Kumar, Aamir Gani, Vishal Bhati, Ankit Mishra

Vidarbha Squad

Harsh Dubey (c), Yash Thakur (vc), Atharva Taide, Dhruv Shorey, Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod, Shivam Deshmukh (wk), Akshay Wadkar, Nachiket Bhute, Darshan Nalkande, R. Samarth, Parth Rekhade, Dipesh Parwani, Praful Hinge, Shubham Dubey, Ganesh Bhosle

Mumbai Squad

Shardul Thakur (c), Rohit Sharma (two games), Ishan Mulchandani, Musheer Khan, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sarfaraz Khan, Siddhesh Lad, Chinmay Sutar, Akash Anand (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Tushar Deshpande, Onkar Tarmale, Sylvester D’Souza, Sairaj Patil, Suryansh Shedge

Jammu & Kashmir Squad

Paras Dogra (c), Shubham Khajuria (vc), Qamran Iqbal, Vivrant Sharma, Yawer Hassan, Abdul Samad, Kawalpreet Singh, Rydham Sharma (wk), Abid Mushtaq, Ashwin Murugan, Sahil Lotra, Auqib Nabi, Yudhvir Singh, Sunil Kumar, Lone Nasir Muzaffar

Assam Squad

Sumit Ghadigaonkar (c) (wk), Denish Das, Nihar Deka, Pradyun Saikia, Sibsankar Roy, Saurav Mousam Dihingia, Sarupam Purkayastha, Avinav Choudhury, Rahul Singh, Akash Sengupta, Ayushman Malakar, Muktar Hussain, Bhargab Pratim Lahkar, Ruhinandan Pegu (wk), Abdul Ajij Kuraishi

Baroda Squad

Krunal Pandya (c), Priyanshu Moliya, Mitesh Patel (wk), Shivalik Sharma, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Vishnu Solanki, Aryan Chavda, Hardik Pandya, Atit Seth, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam, Karan Umatt, Nitya Pandya, Bhanu Pania, Amit Pasi, Mahesh Pithiya, Ninad Rathva, Shashwat Rawat, Lakshit Toksiya

Sikkim Squad

Leeyong Lepcha, Gurinder Singh, K Sai Satwik, M Kranti Kumar, Anwesh Karan Sharma, Amit Rajera, Rahul Kumar, Ankur Malik, Ashish Thapa, Aamir Iqbal Bhutia, Abhishek Kr Shah, Siddharth Prasad, Palzor Tamang, MD Saptulla, Robin Limboo

Himachal Pradesh Squad

Mridul Surroch (c), Ankush Bains (wk), Innesh Mahajan (wk), Ekant Sen, Akash Vasisht, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Dagar, Abhishek Kumar, Amanpreet Singh, Aryaman Singh, Ayush Jamwal, Ankit Kalsi, Kushal Pal, Mukul Negi, Nitin Sharma, Pukhraj Mann, Rohit Kumar, Vipin Sharma

Uttarakhand Squad

Kunal Chandela (c), Deepesh Nailwal, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Agnivesh Ayachi, Akash Madhwal, Jagadeesha Suchith, Aarav Mahajan, Avneesh Sudha, Devendra Singh Bora, Shashwat Dangwal, Harshit Paliwal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Naveen Kumar Singh, Nikhil Harsh, Saurabh Rawat, Sanskar Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi

Andhra Squad

Nitish Kumar Reddy (c), Ricky Bhui, KS Bharat (wk), Ashwin Hebbar, Shaikh Rasheed, Hemanth Reddy, SDNV Prasad, Y Sandeep, M Dhanush, Saurabh Kumar, B Vinay Kumar, T Vinay, CH Stephen, PV Satyanarayana Raju, KSN Raju, J Saketh Ram, CR Gnaneshwar, CH Sandeep

Delhi Squad

Rishabh Pant (c), Virat Kohli, Ishant Sharma, Navdeep Saini, Ayush Badoni (vc), Arpit Rana, Yash Dhull, Sarthak Ranjan, Priyansh Arya, Tejasvi Dahiya (wk), Nitish Rana, Hrithik Shokeen, Harsh Tyagi, Simarjeet Singh, Prince Yadav, Divij Mehra, Ayush Doseja, Vaibhav Kandpal, Rohan Rana

Anuj Rawat (stand-by)

Gujarat Squad

Chintan Gaja (c), Urvil Patel (vc), Aarya Desai, Abhisek Desai, Jaymeet Patel, Kshitij Patel, Saurav Chauhan, Ahaan Poddar, Hemang Patel, Siddharth Desai, Ravi Bishnoi, Vishal Jayswal, Arzan Nagaswalla, Amit Desai, Japagnya Bhatt

Services Squad

Rajat Paliwal, Vikas Hathwala, Irfan Ali, Mohit Jangra, Mohit Ahlawat, Nakul Sharma, Pulkit Narang, Nitin Yadav, Poonam Poonia, Raj Bahadur, Ravi Chauhan, Sagar Dahiya, Arjun Sharma, Amit Shukla, Nitin Tanwar

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Conclusion: Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26 Will Start From December 24

The Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025–26 will run from 24 December 2025 to 18 January 2026. With 38 domestic teams split across Elite and Plate groups, the competition is set to be fierce, fast, and full of drama. The presence of icons like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Rishabh Pant will add a whole new level of excitement. Keep following up for more updates about the 33rd edition of the Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025-26. 

About the Author

Meet Ankit Yadav, a dedicated cricket analyst at The Cricket Panda. Growing up playing street leagues and college tournaments, Ankit's love for cricket has been a lifelong journey. With a knack for numbers and a talent for data analysis, he brings a unique perspective to cricket reporting. At The Cricket Panda, Ankit combines his passion for cricket with his expertise in data analysis to provide fans with in-depth insights and comprehensive coverage of the sport.

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