Royal Challengers Bangalore is the team that is going to represent the city of Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, the inaugural Twenty20 cricket tournament to be held in India. The team is owned by the liquor magnate Vijay Mallya, the chairman of UB Group. Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif is associated with the IPL Bangalore team.

Vijay Mallya wanted to associate one of his top-selling liquor brands, either No. 1 McDowell's or Royal Challenge with the team. The latter was chosen, hence the name. The jersey colours of the team are red and golden yellow, the same as the Karnataka state flag, and the logo consists of the RC emblem with "Royal Challengers Bangalore" in standard format.

The first theme song of Royal Challengers was Jeetenge Hum Shaan Se sung by Kunal Ganjawala and Sunidhi Chowhan. However Another unofficial fanclub's theme song called Thakkath Geete has been composed in support of the Red & Yellow team, with the help of TV9. However, the team anthem was created in 2009 by Rediffusion Y&R Bangalore and is called Game for More. The music video was directed by Sanjay Shetty and Vishal from Opticus Films, music was directed by Amit Trivedi (DEV.D and Aamir fame) and lyrics were penned by Anshu Sharma a.k.a. anshubaba from Rediffusion Y&R.

The teams representing 8 different cities of India, including Bangalore, were put up on auction in Mumbai on 20 February 2008 and the Bangalore team was won by Vijay Mallya, who paid US$111.6 million for it. This was the second highest bid for a team in the IPL, next only to Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries' bid of $111.9 million for the Mumbai team.

Bollywood actresses Katrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone, and Sandalwood film stars Ramya and Upendra are the brand ambassadors of the team.