Ultimate Table Tennis

Ultimate Table Tennis
Current season, competition or edition:; 2026 Ultimate Table Tennis
Sport	Table Tennis
Founded	2017
First season	2017
Owner	11Sports Pvt Ltd
President	Vita Dani
Administrator	Table Tennis Federation of India
No. of teams	7
Country	India
Most recent; champion	U Mumba TT ; (2026)
Most titles	U Mumba TT; (2025, 2026), Goa Challengers; (2023, 2024)
Broadcaster	Star Sports
Streaming partner	JioHotstar(India) YouTube(Rest of the world)
Website	Website

Ultimate Table Tennis(UTT), officially known as Butterfly Ultimate Table Tennis for sponsorship reasons,^[2] is a professional level table tennis league in India.^[3] Launched in 2017, it consists of 7 teams.^[4] The league is under the auspices of Table Tennis Federation of India.^[5] The current champions (2025) are U Mumba TT who defeated Jaipur Patriots in the 2025 finals.

Falcons TTC won the first season with a 14–9 score against Shazé Challengers. Dabang Delhi TTC won the second season with a 11–7 result against defending champs Falcons TTC. Chennai Lions won their season three victory with an 8–1 score against defending champions Dabang Delhi TTC. Season four saw Goa Challengers winning with an 8–7 game against defenders Chennai Lions. Goa Challengers defended their title with an 8–2 win over Dabang Delhi TTC in season 5.

Format

A tie is an encounter between 2 teams and consists of 5 matches. Every match consists of three games. Every game is played up to eleven points. The team, that have won the most games of a tie is the winner.

Golden Point rule:

If a game is tied at 10-10, the next point in the Game shall be known as the Golden Point and the winner of such Golden Point shall be the winner of that Game point

No.	Type	Player A	Player B
1	MS	Indian / Foreign	Indian / Foreign
2	WS	Indian / Foreign	Indian / Foreign
3	XD	Foreign / Indian or Indian / Indian	Foreign / Indian or Indian / Indian
4	MS	Indian / Foreign	Indian / Foreign
5	WS	Indian / Foreign	Indian / Foreign

Teams

Current teams

Kolkata Thunder Blades

Pune Jaguars

U Mumba TT

Locations of the seven UTT teams

	City	Debut	Coaches	Owner
Ahmedabad APL Pipers	Ahmedabad, Gujarat	2024	Sourav Chakraborty Francisco Santos	SG Sports
UP Prometheans	Uttar Pradesh	2026	Abhishek Yadav Chris Pfeiffer	Mukesh Sharma
Dabang Delhi TTC	New Delhi, Delhi	2017	Srivatsa Chakraborty Petr David	Radha Kapoor Khanna
Goa Challengers	Panaji, Goa	2019	Parag Agrawal Elena Timina	Shrinivas Dempo Vivek Bhargava
HVR Kolkata Thunder Blades	Kolkata, West Bengal	2025	Jubin Kumar Tobias Bergman	Uneecops Group MVikas Group
PBG Pune Jaguars	Pune, Maharashtra	2025	Sachin Shetty Julien Girard	Punit Balan Group
U Mumba TT	Mumbai, Maharashtra	2019	Jay Modak John Murphy	Unilazer Ventures Pvt. Ltd.

Former teams

Team	Debut	Dissolved	Owner
Falcons TTC	2017	2018	Rizwan Amlani
Shazé Challengers	2017	2017	Vivek Bhargava
Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas	2017	2017	Oilmax Energy Pvt Ltd Stag International
Maharashtra United	2017	2018	DHFL
Warriors TTC	2018	2018
RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata	2017	2019	Sanjiv Goenka Utsav Parekh
Puneri Paltan TT	2019	2024	Insurekot Sports Pvt. Ltd.
Bengaluru Smashers	2024	2024	Punit Balan
Jaipur Patriots	2024	2025	World of Krida Private Limited
Chennai Lions	2019	2025	S Rangarajan Rekha Murthy GS Ravi Vinay Chandra

Editions and results

There have been five seasons of Ultimate Table Tennis. Goa Challengers have won the league two times in 2023 and 2024. Dabang Delhi TTC have been in the finals thrice and won it once. Chennai Lions have been in the finals twice and won it once.

Year	Final			Venue	Total Teams
Year	Winner	Result	Runners up	Venue	Total Teams
2017	Falcons TTC	14–9	Shazé Challengers	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, Mumbai	6
2018	Dabang Delhi TTC	11–7	Falcons TTC	Netaji Indoor Stadium, Kolkata
2019	Chennai Lions	8–1	Dabang Delhi TTC	Thyagaraj Sports Complex, New Delhi
2023	Goa Challengers	8–7	Chennai Lions	Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune
2024	Goa Challengers	8–2	Dabang Delhi TTC	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai	8
2025	U Mumba TT	8–4	Jaipur Patriots	EKA Arena, Ahmedabad	8
2026	U Mumba TT	8-5	Dempo Goa Challengers	Dr. Shyama Prasad Indoor Stadium, Santa Cruz, Goa	7

Squads

Season 1 (2017)

Team	Players		Coaches
Team	Male	Female	Coaches
Falcons TTC	Par Gerell Liam Pitchford Sanil Shetty Arjun Ghosh	Wu Yang Lee Ho Ching Sutirtha Mukherjee Priyadarshini Das	Francisco Santos Soumyadeep Roy
Shazé Challengers	Li Ping Andrej Gaćina Soumyajit Ghosh Manav Thakkar	Han Ying Petrissa Solja Mouma Das Moumita Datta	Elena Timina A. Muralidhara Rao
Dabang Smashers TTC	Marcos Freitas Kou Lei Sathiyan Gnanasekaran A. Amalraj	Hu Melek Tetyana Bilenko Madhurika Patkar Mousumi Paul	Ilija Lupulesku N. Ravichandran
DHFL Maharashtra United	Wong Chun Ting Joao Monteiro Harmeet Desai Ronit Bhanja	Liu Jia Fu Yu Krittwika Sinha Roy Pooja Sahasrabudhe	Ferenc Karsai Arup Basak
Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas	Panagiotis Gionis Quadri Aruna Jubin Kumar Abhishek Yadav	Doo Hoi Kem Polina Mikhailova Manika Batra Selena Selvakumar	Vesna Ojsteršek Sandeep Gupta
RP-SG Mavericks	Tiago Apolonia Stefan Fegerl Sharath Kamal Birdie Boro	Sofia Polcanova Sabine Winter Archana Kamath Amrutha Pushpak	Peter Engel Sachin Shetty

Season 2 (2018)

Team	Players		Coaches
Team	Male	Female	Coaches
Dabang Delhi TTC	Yoshida Masaki Cedric Nuytinck Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Sanish Ambekar	Sakura Mori Adriana Diaz Archana Kamath Manika Batra	Andrei Filimon Sachin Shetty
RP-SG Mavericks	Kou Lei Mattias Karlsson Harmeet Desai Siddhesh Pande	Doo Hoi Kem Sabine Winter Ayhika Mukherjee Mouma Das	Elena Timina Arup Basak
Falcons TTC	Liam Pitchford Álvaro Robles Sanil Shetty Ronit Bhanja	Bernadette Szocs Matilda Ekholm Sutirtha Mukherjee Priyadarshini Das	Vesna Ojsteršek Soumyadeep Roy
Empowerji Challengers	Simon Gauzy Tiago Apolonia Manav Thakkar Arjun Ghosh	Lee Ho Ching Georgina Pota Divya Deshpande Prapti Sen	Peter Engel A. Muralidhara Rao
Maharashtra United	Kristian Karlsson João Monteiro Anthony Amalraj Utkarsh Gupta	Elizabeta Samara Lily Zhang Madhurika Patkar Selena D. Selvakumar	Francisco Santos N. Ravichandran
Yoddhas Warriors TTC	Quadri Aruna Chuang Chih-Yuan Sharath Kamal Ravindra Kotiyan	Sofia Polcanova Hana Matelova Pooja Sahasrabudhe Sreeja Akula	Ferenc Karsai Sandeep Gupta

Season 3 (2019)

Team	Players		Coaches
Team	Male	Female	Coaches
Chennai Lions	Tiago Apolonia Sharath Kamal Anirban Ghosh	Petrissa Solja Madhurika Patkar Yashini Sivansakar	Peter Engel A. Muralidhara Rao
Dabang Delhi TTC	Jon Persson Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Parth Virmani	Bernadette Szocs Krittwika Sinha Roy Naina Jaiswal	Vesna Ojsteršek Sachin Shetty
Goa Challengers	Álvaro Robles Amalraj Anthony Siddhesh Pande	Cheng I-Ching Archana Kamath Shruti Amrute	Elena Timina Arup Basak
Puneri Paltan TT	Chuang Chih-Yuan Harmeet Desai Ronit Bhanja	Sabine Winter Ayhika Mukherjee Selena Selvakumar	Francisco Santos Parag Agrawal
RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata	Benedikt Duda Sanil Shetty Manush Shah	Matilda Ekholm Manika Batra Prapti Sen	Zoltan Batorfi N. Ravichandran
U Mumba TT	Kirill Gerassimenko Manav Thakkar Jeet Chandra	Doo Hoi Kem Sutirtha Mukherjee Moumita Datta	Jiaqi Zheng Soumyadeep Roy

Season 4 (2023)

Team	Players		Coaches
Team	Male	Female	Coaches
PBG Bengaluru Smashers	Kirill Gerassimenko Sanil Shetty Ankur Bhattacharjee	Natalia Bajor Manika Batra Poymantee Baisya	Vesna Ojsteršek Sachin Shetty
Chennai Lions	Benedikt Duda Sharath Kamal Payas Jain	Liu Yangzi Sutirtha Mukherjee Prapti Sen	Jörg Bitzigeio Somnath Ghosh
Dabang Delhi TTC	Jon Persson Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Anirban Ghosh	Barbora Balazova Ayhika Mukherjee Sreeja Akula	Slobodan Grujić A Muralidhara Rao
Goa Challengers	Álvaro Robles Amalraj Anthony Harmeet Desai	Suthasini Sawettabut Reeth Tennison Krittwika Sinha Roy	Elena Timina Parag Agrawal
Puneri Paltan TTC	Omar Assar Manush Shah Snehit Suravajjula	Hana Matelova Archana Kamath Anusha Kutumbale	Zoltan Batorfi N. Ravichandran
U Mumba TT	Quadri Aruna Manav Thakkar Sudhanshu Grover	Lily Zhang Mouma Das Diya Chitale	Francisco Santos Anshul Garg

Season 5 (2024)

The 2024 Ultimate Table Tennis league saw 48 players, including 16 internationals. Two new teams namely Ahmedabad SG Pipers and Jaipur Patriots made their debut in season 5 of UTT.^[6]

Team	Players		Coaches
Team	Male	Female	Coaches
PBG Bengaluru Smashers	Alvaro Robles Amalraj Antony Jeet Chandra	Lily Zhang Manika Batra Taneesha Kotecha	Elena Timina Anshuman Roy
Ahmedabad SG Pipers	Lilian Bardet Manush Shah Jash Modi	Bernadette Szocs Pritha Vartikar Reeth Rishya	Francisco Santos Jay Modak
Dabang Delhi TTC	Andreas Levenko Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Yashansh Malik	Orawan Paranang Diya Chitale Lakshita Narang	Vesna Ojsteršek Sachin Shetty
U Mumba TT	Quadri Aruna Manav Thakkar Akash Pal	Maria Xiao Sutirtha Mukherjee Kavyasree Baskar	John Murphy Anshul Garg
Goa Challengers	Mihai Bobocica Harmeet Desai Sudhanshu Grover	Liu Yangzi Yashaswini Ghorpade Sayali Wani	Zoltan Batorfi Subhajit Saha
Puneri Paltan TT	João Monteiro Anirban Ghosh Ankur Bhattacharjee	Nina Mittelham Ayhika Mukherjee Yashini Sivashankar	Jorg Bitzigeio Parag Agrawal
Jaipur Patriots	Cho Seungmin Snehit Suravajjula Ronit Bhanja	Suthasini Sawettabut Sreeja Akula Moumita Dutta	Ronald Redep Somnath Ghosh
Chennai Lions	Jules Rolland Sharath Kamal Abhinandh PB	Sakura Mori Mouma Das Poymantee Baisya	Tobias Bergman Subin Kumar

Season 6 (2025)

Team	Male	Female
Team	Players		Coaches
Ahmedabad SG Pipers	Ricardo Walther Snehit Suravajjula Divyansh Srivastava	Giorgia Piccolin Manika Batra Yashini Sivashankar	Chris Pfeiffer Somnath Ghosh
Chennai Lions	Kirill Gerassimenko Payas Jain Sudhanshu Grover	Fan Siqi Nikhat Banu Jennifer Varghese	Jorg Bitzigeio Soumyadeep Roy
Dabang Delhi TTC	Izaac Quek Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Sourav Saha	Maria Xiao Diya Chitale Suhana Saini	Julien Girard Raman Subramaniam
Goa Challengers	Tiago Apolonia Harmeet Desai Ronit Bhanja	Zeng Jian Krittwika Sinha Roy Sayali Wani	Parag Agrawal Elena Timina
Jaipur Patriots	Kanak Jha Jeet Chandra Yashansh Malik	Britt Eerland Sreeja Akula Pritha Vartikar	Sachin Shetty Pavel Rehorek
Kolkata Thunder Blades	Quadri Aruna Ankur Bhattacharjee Deepit Patil	Adriana Diaz Selena Selvakumar Ananya Chande	Jubin Kumar Tobias Bergman
PBG Pune Jaguars	Alvaro Robles Anirban Ghosh Mudit Dani	Dina Meshref Reeth Rishya Taneesha Kotecha	Vesna Ojsteršek Subhojit Saha
U Mumba TT	Lilian Bardet Akash Pal Abhinandh PB	Bernadette Szocs Yashaswini Ghorpade Swastika Ghosh	Jay Modak John Murphy

Season 7 (2026)

The 2026 Ultimate Table Tennis league will see 42 players, including 17 Olympians. UP Prometheans will be making their Debut.

Teams	Players	Players	Coaches
Teams	Male	Female	Coaches
Ahmedabad APL Pipers	Adrien Rassenfosse Payas Jain Sanil Shetty	Kavya Bhatt Manika Batra Sofia Polcanova	Sourav Chakraborty Francisco Santos
UP Promtheans	Manav Thakkar Ricardo Walther Sudhanshu Grover	Liu Yangzi Sayali Wani Swastika Ghosh	Abhishek Yadav Chris Pfeiffer
Dabang Delhi TTC	Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Youssef Abdelaziz Raegan Albuquerque	Sutirtha Mukherjee Divyanshi Bhowmick Maria Xiao	Srivatsa Chakraborty Petr David
Dempo Goa Challengers	Divyansh Srivastava Abhinandh PB Alvaro Robles	Bernadette Szocs Syndrela Das Ananya Chande	Parag Agrawal Elena Timina
HVR Kolkata Thunder Blades	Ankur Bhattacharjee Jeet Chandra Eduard Ionescu	Taneesha Kotecha Ayhika Mukherjee Zeng Jian	Jubin Kumar Tobias Bergman
PBG Pune Jaguars	Snehit SFR Omar Assar Mudit Dani	Diya Chitale Pritika Pavade Sayanika Maji	Sachin Shetty Julien Girard
U Mumba TT	Manush Shah Lilian Bardet Akash Pal	Anna Hursey Nithyashree Mani Anusha Kutumbale	Jay Modak John Murphy

League standings

Season 1

Position	Team	Ties		Matches	Points
Position	Team	Played	Won	Matches	Points
1	Falcons TTC	5	3	27	78
2	Shazé Challengers	5	4	24	73
3	Dabang Delhi TTC	5	3	28	69
4	DHFL Maharashtra United	5	2	21	64
5	Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas	5	2	18	61
6	RP-SG Mavericks	5	1	17	60

Season 2

Position	Team	Ties		Matches	Points
Position	Team	Played	Won	Matches	Points
1	Dabang Delhi TTC	5	3	23	63
2	RP-SG Mavericks	5	4	20	58
3	Falcons TTC	5	4	21	56
4	Maharashtra United	5	2	15	49
5	Warriors TTC	5	1	13	47
6	Empowerji Challengers	5	1	13	42

Season 3

Position	Team	Ties		Matches	Points
Position	Team	Played	Won	Matches	Points
1	U Mumba TTC	5	4	16	44
2	Chennai Lions	5	3	14	42
3	Goa Challengers	5	3	15	41
4	Dabang Delhi TTC	5	3	13	41
5	RP-SG Mavericks	5	1	10	30
6	Puneri Paltan TT	5	1	7	27

Season 4

Position	Team	Ties		Matches	Points
Position	Team	Played	Won	Matches	Points
1	Dabang Delhi TTC	5	3	14	42
2	Chennai Lions	5	2	14	41
3	Puneri Paltan TT	5	3	14	38
4	Goa Challengers	5	2	13	36
5	Bengaluru Smashers	5	3	15	35
6	U Mumba TT	5	2	8	33

Season 5

Position	Team	Ties		Matches	Points
Position	Team	Played	Won	Matches	Points
1	Bengaluru Smashers	5	4	16	48
2	Ahmedabad SG Pipers	5	3	17	42
3	Dabang Delhi TTC	5	3	14	41
4	Goa Challengers	5	3	11	37
5	Chennai Lions	5	2	13	37
6	U Mumba TT	5	2	12	36
7	Puneri Paltan TT	5	2	10	31
8	Jaipur Patriots	5	1	7	28

Season 6

Position	Team	Ties		Matches	Points
Position	Team	Played	Won	Matches	Points
1	Dabang Delhi TTC	5	4	15	44
2	Goa Challengers	5	3	16	44
3	U Mumba TT	5	3	15	42
4	Jaipur Patriots	5	4	16	41
5	Kolkata Thunder Blades	5	2	14	36
6	Pune Jaguars	5	2	9	34
7	Ahmedabad SG Pipers	5	2	8	30
8	Chennai Lions	5	0	7	29

Season 7

Position	Team	Ties		Matches	Points
Position	Team	Played	Won	Matches	Points
1	Dempo Goa Challengers	6	6	19	56
2	HVR Kolkata Thunder Blades	6	4	16	49
3	U Mumba TT	6	3	18	48
4	Dabang Delhi TTC	6	3	16	45
5	Ahmedabad APL Pipers	6	2	11	36
6	PBG Pune Jaguars	6	1	12	34
7	UP Prometheans	6	1	8	32

References

↑ "Ultimate Table Tennis: India's first-ever professional league for the sport to begin from 13 July". Sportskeeda. 26 June 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
↑ "Ultimate Table Tennis | India's Premier Professional Table Tennis League". ultimatetabletennis.in. Retrieved 6 April 2026.
↑ "All you need to know about Ultimate Table Tennis". ESPN India. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
↑ "All about Ultimate Table Tennis". The Hindu. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
↑ "Ultimate Table Tennis 2018: Captains of six teams unveil trophy as tournament set to begin on Thursday". Firstpost. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
↑ Sportstar, Team (20 August 2024). "Ultimate Table Tennis 2024: Preview, schedule, squads, streaming info and all you need to know about UTT season 5". sportstar.thehindu.com. Retrieved 20 August 2024.

External links

Official website

[Sportskeeda-1] "Ultimate Table Tennis: India's first-ever professional league for the sport to begin from 13 July". Sportskeeda. 26 June 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.

[2] "Ultimate Table Tennis | India's Premier Professional Table Tennis League". ultimatetabletennis.in. Retrieved 6 April 2026.

[ESPN-3] "All you need to know about Ultimate Table Tennis". ESPN India. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.

[The_Hindu-4] "All about Ultimate Table Tennis". The Hindu. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.

[Firstpost-5] "Ultimate Table Tennis 2018: Captains of six teams unveil trophy as tournament set to begin on Thursday". Firstpost. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2019.

[6] Sportstar, Team (20 August 2024). "Ultimate Table Tennis 2024: Preview, schedule, squads, streaming info and all you need to know about UTT season 5". sportstar.thehindu.com. Retrieved 20 August 2024.

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