File photo of IPL 2025 Trophy© BCCI/IPL
The final of the 2025 Indian Premier League will be held on June 3 at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. According to a Cricbuzz report, Ahmedabad will also play the hosts for qualifier 2 on June 1, while Mulanpur in New Chandigarh is expected to host the Eliminator on 1 and 30 May on the first two playoff games-default on May 29 and 30 on May 29. This decision is said that high level meetings for cricket in India have been taken after a series of high level meetings.
These scheduling and venue changes were mainly implemented due to the onset of the rainy season and a one-week suspension of the recent tournament amidst the border-limit tension between India and Pakistan.
The league was temporarily suspended on 9 May and was resumed only on 17 May. The final, originally scheduled for 25 May, was pushed back to more than a week from a week to 3 June.
This will be potentially the third time when the world’s largest cricket sector Narendra Modi Stadium will host an IPL final. The prestigious grounds first hosted the finals in 2022 and 2023. In particular, during the Gujarat Titans debut season in 2022, Ahmedabad was limited to only two matches due to the Kovid -19 protocol -they were two qualifiers 2 and finals. Titans won the title that year, and the site retained the final in 2023.
With monsoon patterns affecting several parts of the country in late May, the board historically opted for dryer climate cities to ensure uninterrupted knockout matches.
So far, three teams have confirmed their places in the playoffs: Gujarat Titans, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings. The last place remains for the tombs, Mumbai Indians and the capitals of Delhi have been closed in a close fight for merit.
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