IPL 2026 Fixtures and Results: Dates, Venues, and Time Zones

The IPL 2026 schedule is now an archive. The final took place on 31 May in Ahmedabad, with Royal Challengers Bengaluru beating Gujarat Titans. When checking an earlier fixture, match the season, stage, venue and time zone before treating a saved calendar entry as the final record.

The confirmed playoff calendar

BCCI’s 6 May playoff announcement provides the dates and venues below. These are historical fixtures. The final result is separately documented in the official final report; the announcement itself is not evidence of a match outcome.

Why two schedule copies can disagree

A fixture list is published at a particular point in time. Later notices may change the venue or add the remaining phase of the tournament. An older image can remain widely shared after that happens. A familiar logo or polished layout does not tell you whether the dates are current.

For the 2026 final, the playoff announcement specifically explained a move from the originally designated Bengaluru venue to Ahmedabad. Keep that dated notice with the archive instead of assuming every copy of the early calendar remains correct. When the question is where a completed match was played, the match record is the deciding reference.

League-stage records: use the right phase

The second-phase announcement placed the remaining league matches between 13 April and 24 May 2026. It identified afternoon starts at 3:30 pm IST and evening starts at 7:30 pm IST. Those are published scheduling slots, not a claim that every match began without delay.

IST here means India Standard Time, UTC+05:30. Asia/Taipei is UTC+08:00, so Taipei is two hours and thirty minutes ahead. These conversions apply to the stated slots. Use the actual match record for a delayed start; do not overwrite a scheduled time with a result timestamp or the time a highlights video was uploaded.

What to include in a fixture record

A useful archive row contains the match identifier, both teams, the local date, the announced start, the actual venue and a link to the result. If the schedule changed, add the later notice as a second reference. That is enough to distinguish two meetings between the same teams without guessing from a thumbnail.

The result field should describe the recorded outcome, including any revised-target notation that appears in the scorecard. Do not convert a rain-affected game into an ordinary full-length comparison by dropping that note. For an abandoned match, a missing winner is part of the result rather than a data-entry mistake.

Find the full match record

Use the official IPL matches section and select the 2026 season before searching by teams or stage. This article gives a sourced calendar summary and verification method; it does not present a partial list as the complete 74-match ledger. For the broader tournament context, return to the 2026 season guide.

If you want to compare lineups from a particular fixture, continue to our team comparison. If you are unfamiliar with overs or revised targets, use the scorecard guide. Record the date and result first; assess the performance separately.

Before using this archive for travel or purchases

These matches have finished. An old venue listing or ticket link is not an offer for a future match. Check a new dated announcement before booking travel or paying a seller. If the match year, venue or authorized ticket source cannot be confirmed, stop the transaction rather than relying on a 2026 calendar screenshot.

Sources: BCCI playoff schedule, BCCI second-phase schedule and IPL final result. Dates are historical 2026 records; the time-conversion table is calculated from the stated UTC offsets.

Updated 4 October 2026. Prepared with AI assistance; source checks use the official records linked above. Calculations and interpretations are identified separately from match facts.