2025 · Nepal

Nepal Premier League 2025 squads and captains

The Nepal Premier League 2025 squad archive contains 154 roster entries across eight teams. Each card keeps the completed Season 2 list separate from 2026 recruitment, names the season captain and coach, and labels the two withdrawn-player records without treating squad membership as proof of a match appearance.

Completed Season 2 archive

What is included in the NPL 2025 squad directory?

The directory records the final reviewed squad timeline for each of the eight teams. The team counts add to 154 entries: Biratnagar 18, Chitwan 19, Janakpur 20, Karnali 18, Kathmandu 18, Lumbini 20, Pokhara 21 and Sudur Paschim 20.

These are season rosters, not eight playing XIs. A player can appear because they were registered, added or later withdrawn; only a scorecard establishes participation in a particular match.

154Roster entries

8Team records

2Withdrawn labels retained

2025Season boundary

Biratnagar Kings

18 names

Captain: Sandeep Lamichhane

18-player completed roster; Dhammika Prasad was head coach. The seven overseas entries are part of the dated 2025 list, not Biratnagar's separate 2026 domestic group.

Sandeep Lamichhane
Basir Ahamad
Lokesh Bam
Naren Bhatta
Subash Bhandari
Pratish GC
Shubham Ranjane
Surya Tamang
Faf du Plessis
Martin Guptill
Shankar Rana
George Munsey
Narayan Joshi
Sahil Patel
Marchant de Lange
Sam Heazlett
Aayush Neupane
Shehan Jayasuriya

CRmark pending

Chitwan Rhinos

19 names

Captain: Kushal Malla

19-player completed roster; Kalam Ali was head coach. The list contains five overseas entries and remains separate from Chitwan's 2026 recruitment.

Kushal Malla
Deepak Bohara
Dev Khanal
Dawid Malan
Bipin Acharya
Alpesh Ramjani
Deepak Dumre
Bipin Rawal
Arjun Saud
Rijan Dhakal
Gautam KC
Sohail Tanvir
Kamal Airee
Ranjeet Kumar
Saugat Dhakal
George Scrimshaw
Ravi Bopara
Saif Zaib
Amar Routela

Janakpur Bolts

20 names

Captain: Anil Sah

20-player completed roster; Shivnarine Chanderpaul was head coach. Eight overseas entries are retained in this dated season record.

Anil Sah
Shubh Kansakar
Mayan Yadav
Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton
Sangeeth Cooray
Tul Thapa
Rupesh Singh
Sanjay Krishnamurthi
Lahiru Samarakoon
Maaz Sadaqat
Aasif Sheikh
Lahiru Milantha
Lalit Rajbanshi
Bikash Agri
Sachin Bhatt
Kishore Mahato
Imran Tahir
Aditya Mahat
Wayne Parnell
Pappu Yadav

KYmark pending

Karnali Yaks

18 names

Captain: Sompal Kami

18-player completed roster; Gyanendra Malla was head coach. This page preserves the final season directory instead of inferring availability from nationality labels.

Sompal Kami
Imran Sheikh
Max O'Dowd
Priyank Panchal
Najibullah Zadran
Gulshan Jha
Dipendra Rawat
Pawan Sarraf
William Bosisto
Arjun Gharti
Deepak Dumre
Manish Thapa
Jaykishan Kolsawala
Nandan Yadav
Unish Singh
Bipin Sharma
Yuvraj Khatri
Mark Watt

KGmark pending

Kathmandu Gorkhas

18 names

Captain: Karan KC

18-player completed roster; Monty Desai was head coach. The 2025 Gorkhas list is not the later Season 3 retention group.

Karan KC
Bhim Sharki
Rashid Khan
Pratik Shrestha
Dipesh Kandel
Aadil Alam
Shahab Alam
Uttam Thapa Magar
John Simpson
Santosh Yadav
Aakash Tripathi
Gerhard Erasmus
Milind Kumar
Ricardo Vasconcelos
Sunny Patel
Ben Charlesworth
Sonu Devkota
Tul Bahadur Thapa

LLmark pending

Lumbini Lions

20 names

Captain: Rohit Paudel

20-name season timeline; Tinu Yohannan was head coach. Bibek Yadav is retained with a withdrawn label in the source record, so the 20 names are not presented as simultaneously available.

Rohit Paudel
Sundeep Jora
Sumit Maharjan
D'Arcy Short
Dinesh Adhikari
Gulbadin Naib
Bibek Yadav — withdrawn
Movin Subasingha
Dilip Nath
Aadil Khan
Sameer Ali
Niroshan Dickwella
Abhishesh Gautam
Tilak Bhandari
Thomas Draca
Durgesh Gupta
Sher Malla
Ruben Trumpelmann
Bishal Patel
JJ Smit

PAmark pending

Pokhara Avengers

21 names

Captain: Kushal Bhurtel

21-name season timeline; Rajiv Kumar was head coach. Raymon Reifer is retained with the source's withdrawn label rather than being silently removed.

Kushal Bhurtel
Kiran Thagunna
Trit Raj Das
Jason Roy
Arjun Kumal
Sandeep KC
Rohit Chand
Adam Rossington
Bipin Khatri
Dinesh Kharel
James Neesham
Abhishek Tiwari
Sumeet Verma
Dan Douthwaite
Raymon Reifer — withdrawn
Rishi Dhawan
Dhananjaya Lakshan
Sagar Dhakal
Aakash Chand
Matt Taylor
Krishna Poudel

Sudur Paschim Royals

20 names

Captain: Dipendra Singh Airee

20-player completed roster; Jagat Tamata was head coach. This is the 2025 runners-up group, not the franchise's incomplete 2026 domestic list.

Dipendra Singh Airee
Binod Bhandari
Aarif Sheikh
Abinash Bohara
Ishan Pandey
Harmeet Singh
Chris Lynn
Scott Kuggeleijn
Dipak Bohara
Puneet Mehra
Hikmat Mahara
Narendra Saud
Josh Brown
Hemant Dhami
Dhruv Parashar
Dipendra Thapa
Tek Rawat
Milan Bohara
Sheldon Jackson
Mukhtar Ahmed

Season leadership

Who captained and coached each NPL 2025 team?

The leadership directory is season-specific. It does not silently carry a 2025 coach into NPL 2026 or replace match-specific captaincy evidence.

Team	Captain	Head coach
Biratnagar Kings	Sandeep Lamichhane	Dhammika Prasad
Chitwan Rhinos	Kushal Malla	Kalam Ali
Janakpur Bolts	Anil Sah	Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Karnali Yaks	Sompal Kami	Gyanendra Malla
Kathmandu Gorkhas	Karan KC	Monty Desai
Lumbini Lions	Rohit Paudel	Tinu Yohannan
Pokhara Avengers	Kushal Bhurtel	Rajiv Kumar
Sudur Paschim Royals	Dipendra Singh Airee	Jagat Tamata

Final list does not mean one-day availability

Why do Lumbini and Pokhara include withdrawn players?

The completed squad source marks Bibek Yadav withdrawn in Lumbini's 20-name record and Raymon Reifer withdrawn in Pokhara's 21-name record. StumpScope keeps both labels because removing the names would turn a season timeline into an inaccurate final-day snapshot.

Overseas totals are also copied only when the season directory labels them. Nationality alone is not used to decide whether a player occupied an overseas slot, and a registration does not prove that the player travelled or appeared.

Squad membership is not an appearance

How should the NPL squad lists be read?

Use these cards to answer who belonged to each completed 2025 roster timeline. Use the match archive and scorecards to answer who played, kept wicket or captained in a particular fixture.

The 2026 retention and auction process is a different season state. Current team guides may show that newer domestic group, while this page remains fixed to the completed 17 November–13 December 2025 competition.

Page record

Sources and update date

Prepared by StumpScope Cricket Desk. Season information updated 17 August 2026.

NPL 2025 eight-team squad directory ↗Official CAN NPL 2025 event record ↗StumpScope complete 32-match archive ↗