The Royal Challengers Bengaluru, also known as RCB, are a professional Twenty20 cricket team based in Bengaluru, Karnataka. The team competes in the Indian Premier League (IPL) – the 2nd most watched sporting league in the world with over 1.1 billion fans. RCB has reached four IPL finals—as runners-up in 2009, 2011, and 2016 – and captured its first IPL championship in 2025.