This is a list of all personnel changes for the 2019 Indian Premier League (IPL).
IPL set the deadline of 15 November for both the trading window and the list of each IPL franchise team's retained and released players.
After being unhappy with his retention price by Sunrisers Hyderabad, Shikhar Dhawan was rumored to be transferred to Mumbai Indians, or Kings XI Punjab before eventually returning to his home team of Delhi Capitals.
Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh and Glenn Maxwell were the prominent names among the released players. Jaydev Unadkat, the costliest Indian player in 2018 auction, was also released.
The team retentions were announced on 15 November 2018.
<div style="text-align: center;"> Maximum overseas players: 9; Squad size- Min:18 and Max:25; Budget:â¹82 crore </div>
The player auction was held on 18 December 2018 at Jaipur. The auction was reckoned to be affected by limited availability of foreign players due to the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Initially 1003 players submitted their names for auction and the franchises were asked to submit their final shortlist by 10 December. 346 players were shortlisted. 5 more players were added to list on auction day making the final list to 351 including 228 Indian players. Ten players have listed themselves at the base price of Rs. 2 crore. 60 players were sold and amount of Rs.106.8 crore was spent in the auction. Jaydev Unadkat and uncapped Varun Chakravarthy were the costliest players at Rs.8.4 crore. Sam Curran was the most expensive foreign player at Rs. 7.2 crore. Prominent players like Cheteshwar Pujara, Brendon McCullum and Alex Hales remained unsold.
Source:Vivo IPL 2019 Player Auction
A trading window opened after the auction took place with a deadline of 5:00PM 30 days prior to the start of the 2019 season.
The following players withdrew from the tournament either due to injuries or because of other reasons.