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AB de Villiers
Bengaluru

Kabuni Playmakers

SUPER COACH
AB de Villiers
CO-OWNER
To be announced
Unorthodox, 360 degrees, and impossible to set a field to. Sets the team’s playing identity and owns the coaching standard in its academy.
BECOME A CO-FOUNDER
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A MESSAGE FROM YOUR SUPER COACHLeague film · team channel opens at launch
TWO HALVES OF ONE TEAM

A side is built on the field and in the city.

AB de Villiers
ON THE FIELD
AB de Villiers
SUPER COACH
Sets how Playmakers play, shapes the academy programme, and puts their name to the players it develops.
Cricket always leads. The coach is named first, every time.
Kabuni Playmakers playing shirt
IN THE CITY
Cultural ambassador to be announced
INDIE AND DESIGN · Bengaluru
The country’s indie music and design scene. Playmakers are made with the people already building India’s new culture.
Measured in appearances, not impressions.
FOUNDING INVITATION

Become a co-founder of this team.

and join the Kabuni Sports Council
One school or organisation in Bengaluru takes half of Kabuni Playmakers — named with the team, hosting its academy, with a seat on the Kabuni Sports Council.
HALF THE TEAM IS YOURS
Fifty per cent partner ownership in a permanent Kabuni Premier League team, named with you.
A SEAT ON THE COUNCIL
The Kabuni Sports Council sets the standards every team plays to — rules, safeguarding, data and pathway.
AN ACADEMY IN YOUR CITY
A year-round academy inside your school or site, carrying your team badge and its Super Coach.
BECOME A CO-FOUNDER
Ten places. Founding conversations run city by city.
THE FIFTEEN

Fifteen shirts. That is all there is.

Play for AB de Villiers.
Fifteen players will wear Kabuni Playmakers in Season One, coached by AB de Villiers — the same Villiers who has done it at the highest level. Every shirt is won at open trials. Nobody is picked because of who they know.
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YOUR SHIRT ?
OPENING 2027

Twelve flagship academies.

Coming soon.
Every team gets a flagship academy, hosted inside its co-founder school and open all year to students and the local community. Bengaluru’s is being built now, to the programme AB de Villiers sets.
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FLAGSHIP ACADEMIES
One per team. Each with its own nets, turf and floodlights.
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PARTNER SCHOOLS
Hosted inside the co-founder school, not on a rented pitch somewhere else.
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YEAR ROUND
Open to students and the local community, in season and out of it.
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PLAY. LEARN. COACH.
Train with the technology, get coached by your Super Coach’s programme.
BE FIRST THROUGH THE DOORS
Register now and we will tell you the day Bengaluru opens.
Registered players get first call on trials, the opening session and their place in the first intake. A parent completes it — it takes two minutes and costs nothing.
A player cannot register alone. The account is the parent’s, and they approve every registration.