With the new season of IPL rolling in, every team hopes to take home the Golden Cup this time. With best National and Local players and global cricketing stars in every squad. The competition becomes quite tough to even make it to the Playoffs, forget about the final. It is not an easy task to make it to the Finals year after year but there are a couple of teams. Who have managed to reach that level to make it to last night quite a few times. So Let’s take a look at the top 3 Teams With Most Finals Appearances in Indian Premier League history.
3. Kolkata Knight Riders – 3 times
As their war cry goes, so is their doings. “Korbo Lorbo Jeetbo Re” Knights have a 66.66%-win record in the IPL Finals. They reached the Finals in 2012 and 2014 and won the trophy both times. In 2012, they defeated CSK and in 2014 they defeated KXIP(Kings XI Punjab). To everyone’s surprise playing phenomenally well in the second leg of the 2021 IPL. The team made its appearance in the finals for the third time. With middle order batting fiasco, the trophy slipped away from them. With the new skipper rolling in, the team hopes to make a strong comeback.
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2. Mumbai Indians – 6 times
Mumbai Indians aren’t the ones having maximum IPL Finals. But have the maximum possession of the thing the teams compete for ‘the trophy’. MI is the first team to have Five IPL trophies in the history of the IPL. With last year’s successful adventure CSK too are rushing to equalling them with Four trophies. Mumbai Indians have played Six IPL finals. MI reached the IPL Finals for the first time in 2010 but they lost to CSK. In 2013 they once again made it to the Finals but this time they defeated CSK. The same duo met again in the 2015 final. And MI won their second title. In 2017, they defeated Rising Pune Supergiant and in 2019 they once again defeated CSK. In 2020, they defeated Delhi Capitals in the Finals. And won their 5th title.
1. Chennai Super Kings(CSK)- 10 times
Going by its logo and roaring from the first season itself. CSK showed it was a team to look out for. The team is captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni and coached by Stephen Fleming. Interestingly, they are the only team in the tournament to have just one major captain right from the inaugural season. Dhoni and CSK are now synonyms we take for granted. They are the current defending champions, having won the 2021 IPL season. In January 2022, CSK became India’s first unicorn sports enterprise.
3 Teams With Most Finals Appearances In Indian Premier League
| Team | Finals Played | Title Won |
| CSK | 10 | 4 times |
| MI | 6 | 5 times |
| KKR | 3 | 2 times |
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