Kabaddi World Cup 2025 Deemed Illegal By IKF

The Kabaddi World Cup 2025 has been deemed illegal by the International Kabaddi Federation (IKF). The men’s and women’s Kabaddi World Cup is underway in England under the banner of World Kabaddi Federation. 

The IKF has said that it had not authorised the staging of the ongoing Kabaddi World Cup. 

The OCA, the IKF, and the AKF also oversee and supervise kabaddi events at the Asian Games since 1990 and other international kabaddi tournaments.

Furthermore, these governing bodies, and the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI) have no association with the so-called World Kabaddi Federation or any of its activities.

According to IKF, every National Sport Federation (NSF) for kabaddi that has affiliation or association with the National Olympic Federation of their respective country is a member-affiliate of IKF and AKF.

These authorized NSF’s with formal recognition of the Olympics system in their respective countries are not participating in the so-called Kabaddi World Cup 2025 in the United Kingdom.

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Thus, no national kabaddi federation that participates in the kabaddi medal discipline at the Asian Games is participating in this event. The teams allegedly (mis)representing such countries at the ongoing so-called Kabaddi World Cup in the United Kingdom do not have any sanction from the relevant NSFs for Kabaddi.

IKF has been communicated by AKFI, the so-called India team at the so-called Kabaddi World Cup in the United Kingdom does not have any sanction or recognition from the Amateur Kabaddi Federation of India (AKFI), that is the officially recognized custodian body of the sport of kabaddi in India.

Kabaddi World Cup 2025: Men’s schedule 

Kabaddi World Cup 2025: Women’s schedule