section_path: Rivalries/Chennai Super Kings
section_name: Chennai Super Kings
paragraph_text: Chennai Super Kings
  
  The epic rivalry with Chennai Super Kings is called Southern derby. The Super Kings beat the Royal Challengers in the final of the 2011 IPL, the only meeting between the two teams at an IPL final.
  
  CSK had an upper hand over RCB in the subsequent seasons from 2012 to 2023, winning 14 out of the 20 encounters, including in 2015, where both teams faced off 3 times in the same season with CSK winning all 3 of them.
  
  The seasons 2024 and 2025 saw the tide turn in RCB's favour. In 2024, RCB knocked CSK out of the IPL by winning their last game of the season, which was also considered a virtual quarter final as the winner of the game would have made it to the qualifiers. RCB were required to win the game with good margin to not only equal CSK at 14 points on the points table but to also better them in terms of net run rate and qualify in the 4th spot. It came down to wire at the Chinnaswamy where RCB were required to defend 35 runs in the last over to win, but more importantly not give away more than 16 runs to ensure qualification. Yash Dayal's last over ensured RCB gave away just 7 runs to win 6th game on a trot that season, and qualify.
  
  In the 2025, for the first time, saw RCB win all of their games against CSK in a season while also win at Chepauk, CSK's home, after 17 years. The last game at Chinnaswamy, saw a repeat of the event of the previous season's game. Yash Dayal again defended 16 runs in the last over to ensure RCB's win.
  
  The epic rivalry with Chennai Super Kings is called Southern derby. The Super Kings beat the Royal Challengers in the final of the 2011 IPL, the only meeting between the two teams at an IPL final.
  
  CSK had an upper hand over RCB in the subsequent seasons from 2012 to 2023, winning 14 out of the 20 encounters, including in 2015, where both teams faced off 3 times in the same season with CSK winning all 3 of them.
  
  The seasons 2024 and 2025 saw the tide turn in RCB's favour. In 2024, RCB knocked CSK out of the IPL by winning their last game of the season, which was also considered a virtual quarter final as the winner of the game would have made it to the qualifiers. RCB were required to win the game with good margin to not only equal CSK at 14 points on the points table but to also better them in terms of net run rate and qualify in the 4th spot. It came down to wire at the Chinnaswamy where RCB were required to defend 35 runs in the last over to win, but more importantly not give away more than 16 runs to ensure qualification. Yash Dayal's last over ensured RCB gave away just 7 runs to win 6th game on a trot that season, and qualify.
  
  In the 2025, for the first time, saw RCB win all of their games against CSK in a season while also win at Chepauk, CSK's home, after 17 years. The last game at Chinnaswamy, saw a repeat of the event of the previous season's game. Yash Dayal again defended 16 runs in the last over to ensure RCB's win.