Ahmedabad: The fifth season of the ProKabaddi League is about to get underway next month and after four spectacular editions, the latest one promises to be bigger and better. The new season will feature a record 12 teams, making the competition the biggest of its kind in the country.

Four new teams added for the upcoming fifth season of ProKabaddi League are from Gujarat, Haryana, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh. Of them the name of the Gujarat team has been revealed by industrialist Gautam Adani, the head of the Adani Group, on Twitter. The fifth season of the ProKabaddi League is about to get underway next month.

The team from Gujarat will be known as the FortuneGiants. The new team from Haryana, owned by the JSW Group, have been christened as the Steelers.

Kabaddi is a reinvigorated avatar of an ancient sport originating from India, happy to announce our @ProKabaddi team name @FortuneGiants pic.twitter.com/l1wIlAuCii

— Gautam Adani (@gautam_adani) June 14, 2017

The Gujarat team performed well at the player auction last month. Their defense will be managed by Iranian Fazel Atrachali, who is a two-time Pro Kabaddi League winner, one-time runner-up and the best defender from the previous edition and Abozar Mohajermighani, who was bought at the auction for a whopping Rs 50 lakhs. The Gujarat team has another strong foreign player Seongryeol Kim, who was part of the South Korea team that won the bronze medal at the World Cup in 2016 and has prior PKL experience to his name.

Leading the side in the raiding department will be former Telugu Titan Sukesh Hegde who formed a great partnership with Rahul Chaudhari at the Hyderabad side.

The second raider will be Mahendra Ganesh Rajput, who was bought for a sum of Rs 25 lakhs and has tons of Pro Kabaddi experience in the bag. They also will rely on raider Sachin, whose services were purchased for a hefty Rs 36 lakh sum at the auction.