IPL 2018: Teams with most playoff appearances without a title

#1 Royal Challengers Bangalore – 5

RCB is one of the most popular teams around the globe.

It baffles everyone that the kid of squad Royal Challengers Bangalore have year after year and they still haven’t won a single edition of the IPL.

After a poor inaugural season where they finished seventh (second last), they finished at the third position and then qualified for the final after winning the semi-final against CSK. However, they lost in the final to Deccan Chargers by six runs.

In 2010, they had a similar season where they were good through the league stage but faltered in the semi-final against Mumbai Indians.

In 2011, the team was rebuilt around Virat Kohli, the Bangalore-franchise reached the final after topping the table. But once again, RCB lost against a strong CSK team.

In 2012 and 2013, they narrowly missed out on the playoffs berth as they finished fifth in the next two editions before falling down to seventh in the 2014 season.

In 2015, the Kohli-led side reached the playoffs on the back of some thrilling rain-curtailed games. However, RCB (who were third on the points table) were knocked out after they lost to CSK in the Qualifier 2.

In 2016, they had a fantastic season and it looked like finally, RCB would get their hands on the elusive trophy.

However, it was not the case as the Bangalore franchise lost the final to SRH by eight runs. RCB has reached five IPL playoffs out of which three are finals.