CSK Playoffs List: How Many Times Has MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings Played IPL Final?

Gurpreet Singh | 22/05/2023
CSK Playoffs List: How Many Times Has MS Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings Played IPL Final?

A win in their final league match against Delhi Capitals in the ongoing 16th season of the Indian Premier League has meant that Chennai Super Kings have finished at the second spot on the points table, thereby securing their berth in the playoffs.

The four-time IPL champions have now made it to the playoffs 12 times out of 14 seasons, and have further stamped their authority as the most successful franchise in the coveted league with respect to maximum number of playoffs appearances.

Apart from the 2020 IPL edition (when they finished seventh) and the 2022 season (when they finished ninth), CSK have been among the Top Four teams on the points table each year, except in 2016 and 2017 when they had suffered a ban from partaking in the league.

How Many Times Has MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings Played IPL Final?

Super Kings have made it to the grand finale of an IPL season a total of nine times across 15 complete seasons. Having lifted the title during the 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2021 editions, the ‘Yellow Army’ ended up losing the final five times.

They had lost the final matches against Rajasthan Royals (2008), Kolkata Knight Riders (2012), and against Mumbai Indians three times around during the 2013, 2015, and 2017 editions of the league.

It is worth of a mention that the playoffs system to determine the title holder has been in place only since the 2011 IPL season. During the initial three seasons, four teams used to qualify for the semi-final stage and the winners of those two semi-final fixtures locked horns against each other in the final.

CSK Playoffs List

The below list also includes CSK’s two knockout stage appearances during the inaugural season (in 2008) when they had finished second, and the 2010 season when they had lifted the IPL title for the first time.

IPL season Result
2008 Runners-up
2009 Semi-final
2010 Winner
2011 Winner
2012 Runners-up
2013 Runners-up
2014 3rd
2015 Runners-up
2016 Suspended
2017 Suspended
2018 Winner
2019 Runners-up
2020 7th
2021 Winner
2022 9th
2023 Qualified for Playoffs

NOTE: Top Four teams in the points table after the end of league stage qualify for the playoffs.

Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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Gurpreet Singh

Gurpreet Singh is a Cricket writer at The Sportsrush. His platonic relationship with sports had always been there since childhood, but Cricket managed to strike a special, intimate nerve of his heart. Although his initial dream of playing the sport at the highest level couldn't come to fruition, Gurpreet did represent the state of Jharkhand at the under-14 level. However, almost like taking a pledge to never let the undying passion for Cricket fade away even a tad, he made sure to continue the love relationship by assigning the field of journalism as an indirect Cupid. He thus, first finished his bachelor's in journalism and then pursued the PG Diploma course in English journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC). Soon after and since 2019, he has been working at The Sportsrush. Apart from sports, he takes keen interest in politics, and in understanding women and gender-related issues.

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