The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025 is scheduled to run from November 26 to December 18, 2025. The tournament features 38 teams divided into two main divisions: Elite and Plate.
The Elite division consists of 32 teams divided into four groups (A, B, C, D) of eight teams each, while the Plate division has six teams competing.
SMAT 2025-26 Teams and Groups
Elite Division
Elite Group A: Teams like Mumbai, Bengal, and others.
Elite Group B: Teams including Delhi, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Saurashtra, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand.
Elite Group C: Baroda, Bengal, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Puducherry, Services.
Elite Group D: Delhi, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Saurashtra, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttarakhand.
Plate Division
Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh, and Manipur.
SMAT 2025-26 Format
The format of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025 involves dividing the 38 teams into two main categories: the Elite and the Plate groups. The Elite category consists of 32 teams split into four groups of eight teams each. These teams play each other once in a round-robin format within their groups. The top two teams from each Elite group qualify for the quarter-finals, making it a direct knockout phase after the group stage.
The Plate group comprises six teams, which also compete in a round-robin format, playing each other once. The top two teams from the Plate group advance to the Plate final, and the winner of this final gets promoted to the Elite group for the next season.
SMAT 2025-26 Squads: Full List of Players Announced So Far
Andhra Pradesh
Ricky Bhui (c), SK Rasheed, Ashwin Hebbar, Srikar Bharat, Pyla Avinash, Saurabh Kumar, Prithvi Raj, Satyanarayana Raju, KV Sasikanth, Tripurana Vijay, Bailapudi Yeswanth, Sai Rahul, Panduranga Raju, Siraparapu Ashish, Cheepurapalli Stephen, Munish Verma.
Assam
Denish Das, Riyan Parag (c), Sibsankar Roy, Abdul Ajij Kuraishi, Sumit Ghadigaonkar, Avinov Choudhury, Bhargab Lahkar, Mukhtar Hussain, Mrinmoy Dutta, Saahil Jain, Jitumoni Kalita, Nibir Deka, Pradyun Saikia, Rhot Sen, Akash Sengupta.
Baroda
Krunal Pandya (c), Mitesh Patel, Jitesh Sharma, Shivalik Sharma, Vishnu Solanki, Hardik Pandya, Atit Sheth, Raj Limbani, Rasikh Salam Dar, Chintal Gandhi, Bhanu Pania, Amit Passi, Safvan Patel, Dhruv Patel, Mahesh Pithiya, Shashwat Rawat, Lakshit Toksiya
Bengal
Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Sudip Gharami, Abishek Porel (wk), Shakir Habib Gandhi (wk), Yuvraj Keswani, Priyanshu Srivastav, Shahbaz Ahmed, Pradipta Pramanik, Writtick Chatterjee, Karan Lal, Saksham Chaudhary, Mohammed Shami, Akash Deep, Sayan Ghosh, Kanishk Seth, Yudhajit Guha, Shreyan Chakraborty.
Bihar
Sakibul Gani (c), Vaibhav Suryavanshi (vc), Piyush Singh, Bipin Saurabh, Suraj Kashyap, Khalid Alam, Ayush Loharuka, Mangal Mahrour, Nawaz Khan, Malay Raj, Akash Raj, Amod Yadav.
Chandigarh
Shivam Bhambri (c), Manan Vohra, Arjun Azad, Rahul Singh, Gaurav Puri, Arjit Singh, Nikhil Thakur, Sandeep Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Chiragvir Dhindsa, Jagjit Sandhu, Nikhil Sharma, Bhagmender Lather, Raman Bishnoi, Nehal Pajni
Chhattisgarh
Amandeep Khare (c), Ajay Mandal, Aditya Sarwate, Shashank Singh, Shubham Agarwal, Amit Kumar Yadav, Ayush Pandey, Shashank Chandrakar, Gagandeep Singh, Sanidhya Hurkat, Sourabh Majumdar, Mayank Verma, Mayank Yadav, Anand Rao, Ravi Kiran, Prateek Yadav.
Delhi
Nitish Rana (c), Arpit Rana, Priyansh Arya, Sarthak Ranjan, Ayush Badoni, Ayush Doseja, Mayank Rawat, Tejasvi, Anuj Rawat, Yash Dhull, Himmat Singh, Simarjeet Singh, Rahul Dagar, Yash Bhatia, Ankit Rajesh Kumar, Harsh Tyagi, Suyash Sharma, Prince Yadav, Money Grewal, Rohan Rana, Dhruv Kaushik, Aryan Rana, Vaibhav Khandpal.
Subject to availability: Ishant Sharma, Harshit Rana, Navdeep Saini.
Goa
Suyash Prabhudessai (c), Deepraj Gaonkar, Snehal Kauthankar, Lalit Yadav, Darshal Misal, Felix Alemao, Vasuki Koushik, Arjun Tendulkar, Kashyap Bakhale, Ishan Gadekar, Rajashekhar Harikant, Amulya Pandrekar, Heramb Parab, Mohit Redkar, Shubham Tari, Abhinav Tejrana, Vikash Singh.
Gujarat
Arya Desai, Urvil Patel, Saurav Chauhan, Hiten Mehra, Ripal Patel, Arzan Nagwaswalla, Harshal Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Amit Desai, Japagnya Bhatt, Abhishek Desai, Yash Doshi, Umang Kumar, Hemang Patel, Dhrushant Soni, Vishal Jayswal.
Haryana
TBA
Himachal Pradesh
Ankush Bains (c), Innesh Mahajan, Ekant Sen, Nikhil Gangta, Naveen Kanwar, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Dagar, Arpit Guleria, Amanpreet Singh, Aryaman Singh, Divesh Sharma, Rahul Chauhan, Pukhraj Mann, Mridul Surroch, Ravi Thakur, Vipin Sharma.
Hyderabad
Chama Milind (c), Tanmay Agarwal, Rahul Buddhi, Tanay Thyagarajan, Rakshan Readdi, Aman Rao, Arfaz Ahmed, Ashish Srivastav, Bhavesh Seth, Ajay Dev Goud, Nitesh Reddy, Nitin Sai Yadav, Pragnay Reddy, HK Simha, Rishiket Sisodia.
Jammu & Kashmir
Shubham Khajuria (c), Qamran Iqbal, Vivrant Sharma, Musaif Aijaz, Abdul Samad, Yawer Hassan, Kanhaiya Wadhawan (vc), Abid Mushtaq, Vanshaj Sharma, Ashwin Murugan, Yudhvir Singh, Auqib Nabi, Umran Malik, Nasir Lone, Sunil Kumar.
Jharkhand
Ishan Kishan (c) (wk), Virat Singh, Kumar Kushagra (wk), Robin Minz, Pankaj Kumar, Anukul Roy, Utkarsh Singh, Bal Krishna, Sushant Mishra, Amit Kumar, Md Kounain Qureshi, Manishi, Rajandeep Singh, Saurabh Shekhar, Shubh Sharma, Vikash Singh.
Karnataka
Mayank Agarwal (c), Macneil H. Noronha, K.L. Shrijith, Karun Nair, R. Smaran, Abhinav Manohar, Shreyas Gopal, Shikhar Shetty, V. Vyshak, Vidwath Kaverappa, Vidyadhar Patil, Shreevathsa R. Acharya, Shubhang Hegde, Pravin Dubey, B.R. Sharath, Devdutt Padikkal.
Kerala
Sanju Samson (c), Mohammed Azharuddeen, Ahammed Imran, Rohan Kunnummal, Salman Nizar, Vishnu Vinod, Abdul Basith, Ankit Sharma, KM Asif, MD Nidheesh, Vignesh Puthur, Sibin Gireesh, Krishna Devan, Krishna Prasad, Saly Samson, Akhil Scaria, Sharafuddeen NP
Madhya Pradesh
Harpreet Singh, Aniket Verma, Venkatesh Iyer, Arshad Khan, Kumar Kartikeya, Kuldeep Sen, Ankush Singh, Rahul Batham, Rishabh Chouhan, Harsh Gawli, Abhishek Pathak, Ritik Tada, Shivam Shukla, Shivang Kumar, Tripuresh Singh.
Maharashtra
Prithvi Shaw (c), Arshin Kulkarni, Rahul Tripathi, Azim Kazi, Nikhil Naik (wk), Ramakrishna Ghosh, Vicky Ostwal, Tanay Sanghvi, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, Mandar Bhandari (wk), Jalaj Saxena, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Yogesh Dongare, Ranjit Nikam.
Mumbai
Shardul Thakur (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Shivam Dube, Ajinkya Rahane, Ayush Mhatre, Sarfaraz Khan, Siddhesh Lad, Musheer Khan, Tushar Deshpande, Atharva Ankolekar, Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Suryansh Shedge, Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Hardik Tamore (wk), Sairaj Patil, Irfan Umair.
Odisha
Biplab Samantray (c), Subhranshu Senapati, Govinda Poddar, Aditya Rout, Anil Parida, Badal Biswal, Sambit Baral, Gaurav Choudhury, Sourav Gouda, Sarbeswar Mohanty, Pappu Roy, Sandeep Pattnaik, Prayash Singh, Rajesh Mohanty, Swastik Samal, Subham Satrujit, Aashirwad Swain.
Puducherry
TBA
Punjab
TBA
Rajasthan
TBA
Railways
Karn Sharma (c), Suraj Ahuja, Kush Marathe, Ashutosh Sharma, Atal Bihari Rai, Shubham Chaubey, Shivam Chaudhary, Raj Chaudhary, Kunal Yadav, Mohammad Saif, Akshat Pandey, Akash Pandey, Ravi Singh, Rahul Sharma, Navneet Virk.
Saurashtra
Harvik Desai, Chirag Jani, Prerak Mankad, Yuvraj Chudasama, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Chetan Sakariya, Jaydev Unadkat, Ruchit Ahir, Parth Bhut, Sammar Gajjar, Krains Fuletra, Vishvaraj Jadeja, Jay Gohil, Devang Karamta, Ankur Panwar, Parswaraj Rana, Siddhant Rana, Luckyraj Vaghela.
Services
Gaurav Kochar, Mohit Rathee, Arun Kumar, Vineet Dhankhar, Jayant Goyat, Harsh Vardhan, Vikas Hathwala, Mohit Jangra, Mohit Ahlawat, Nakul Sharma, Pulkit Narang, Nitin Tanwar, Abhishek Tiwari, Vishal Gaur, Vikas Yadav.
Tamil Nadu
Varun Chakaravarthy (c), N. Jagadeesan (vc), Tushar Raheja (wk), Amith Sathvik, Shahrukh Khan, Andre Siddharth, Pradosh Ranjan Paul, Shivam Singh, R. Sai Kishore, M. Siddharth, T. Natarajan, Gurjapneet Singh, A. Esakkimuthu, Sonu Yadav, R. Silambarasan, Rithik Easwaran (wk).
Uttarakhand
Prashant Chopra, Bhupen Lalwani, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Mayank Mishra, Dikshanshu Negi, Agnivesh Ayachi, Akash Madhwal, Rajan Kumar, Jagadeesha Suchith, Agrim Tiwari, Aarav Mahajan, Avneesh Sudha, Himanshu Bisht, Kunal Chandela, Shashwat Dangwal, Jagmohan Nagarkoti, Naveen Kumar Singh, Rahul Raj, Sanskar Rawat, Aanjaneya Suryavanshi.
Uttar Pradesh
TBA
Vidarbha
Harsh Dubey (c), Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod, Dhruv Shorey, Akshay Wadkar, Nachiket Bhute, Parth Rekhade, Atharva Taide, Yash Thakur (vc), Praful Hinge, Darshan Nalkande, Umesh Yadav, Varun Bisht, Adhyayan Daga, Shivam Deshmukh, Yash Kadam, Dipesh Parwani.
