Players who have been retained by the eight teams:
| Sunrisers Hyderabad |
| Shikhar Dhawan |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar |
| David Warner |
| Moises Henriques |
| Naman Ojha |
| Ricky Bhui |
| Kane Williamson |
| Siddarth Kaul |
| Bipul Sharma |
| Ashish Nehra |
| Yuvraj Singh |
| Ben Cutting |
| Abhimanyu Mithun |
| Mustafizur Rahman |
| Barinder Singh Sran |
| Deepak Hooda |
| Vijay Shankar |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| Virat Kohli |
| AB de Villiers |
| Chris Gayle |
| Mitchell Starc |
| Yuzvendra Singh Chahal |
| Harshal Patel |
| Mandeep Hardev Singh |
| Adam Milne |
| Sarfaraz Naushad Khan |
| Sreenath Arvind |
| Kedar Jadhav |
| Shane Watson |
| Stuart Binny |
| Samuel Badree |
| Travis Head |
| Sachin Baby |
| Iqbal Abdullah |
| KL Rahul |
| Avesh Khan |
| Tabraiz Shamsi |
| Gujarat Lions |
| Suresh Raina |
| Ravindra Jadeja |
| James Faulkner |
| Brendon McCullum |
| Dwayne Bravo |
| Aaron Finch |
| Dwayne Smith |
| Dinesh Karthik |
| Dhawal Kulkarni |
| Praveen Kumar |
| Andrew Tye |
| Ishan Kishan |
| Pradeep Sangwan |
| Shivil Kaushik |
| Shadab Jakati |
| Jaydev Shah |
| Rising Pune Supergiants |
| M S Dhoni |
| Ajinkya Rahane |
| R Ashwin |
| Steven Smith |
| Faf Du Plessis |
| Mitchell Marsh |
| Ashok Dinda |
| Ankush Bains |
| Rajat Bhatia |
| Ankit Sharma |
| Ishwar Pandey |
| Adam Zampa |
| Jaskaran Singh |
| Baba Aparajith |
| Deepak Chahar |
| Usman Khwaja |
| Kings XI Punjab |
| David Miller |
| Manan Vohra |
| Akshar Rajesh Patel |
| Glenn Maxwell |
| Gurkeerat Mann Singh |
| Anureet Singh |
| Sandeep Sharma |
| Shardul Narendra Thakur |
| Shaun Marsh |
| Wriddhiman Saha |
| Murali Vijay |
| Nikhil Shankar Naik |
| Mohit Sharma |
| Marcus Stoinis |
| K.C. Cariappa |
| Armaan Jaffer |
| Pardeep Sahu |
| Swapnil Singh |
| Hashim Amla |
| Kolkata Knight Riders |
| Gautam Gambhir |
| Sunil Narine |
| Andre Russell |
| Kuldeep Singh Yadav |
| Manish Pandey |
| Suryakumar Yadav |
| Piyush Chawla |
| Robin Uthappa |
| Shakib Al Hasan |
| Chris Lynn |
| Umesh Yadav |
| Yusuf Pathan |
| Sheldon Jackson |
| Ankit Singh Rajpoot |
| Mumbai Indians |
| Rohit Sharma |
| Kieron Pollard |
| Lasith Malinga |
| Harbhajan Singh |
| Ambati Rayudu |
| Jasprit Bumrah |
| Shreyas Gopal |
| Lendl Simmons |
| Ranganath Vinay Kumar |
| Parthiv Patel |
| Mitchell McClenaghan |
| Nitish Rana |
| Siddhesh Dinesh Lad |
| J Suchith |
| Hardik Pandya |
| Jos Buttler |
| Tim Southee |
| Jitesh Sharma |
| Krunal Pandya |
| Deepak Punia |
| Delhi Daredevils |
| Jean-Paul Duminy |
| Mohammad Shami |
| Quinton de Kock |
| Shahbaz Nadeem |
| Mayank Agarwal |
| Jayant Yadav |
| Amit Mishra |
| Shreyas Iyer |
| Zaheer Khan |
| Sam Billings |
| Sanju Samson |
| Christopher Morris |
| Carlos Brathwaite |
| Karun Nair |
| Rishabh Pant |
| C.V. Milind |
| Syed Khaleel Ahmed |
| Pratyush Singh |