How Many Padel Courts Are There? 2026 Data for 10 Countries

There are 77,300 padel courts in the world, spread over 24,600 clubs, according to the International Padel Federation's World Padel Report 2025. Our open atlas maps 19,700 of them, in 5,043 clubs you can book online, as of 21 September 2026: about one court in four, each with a club name, a town and a court count attached.

Padel courts by country

These are the ten countries where the atlas has both depth and a population figure to compute density. One row counts every active club our workers find on Playtomic, Anybuddy or Playbypoint, and the courts that club declares.

Counted on 21 September 2026. Populations are the 2024 official estimates used on the atlas country pages. The US court total and its courts per club cover the 119 Playtomic clubs only; the 81 Playbypoint clubs do not publish a court count. Beyond these ten, the atlas holds 101 clubs and 359 courts in Switzerland, 28 clubs in Saudi Arabia and a first handful of clubs in 23 more countries, 35 in all.

How the atlas compares with federation counts

Nobody has a complete census, so the useful check is to put our number next to the official one where a federation publishes it.

The Spanish figure comes from the FIP's summary of the federation's 2024 numbers, the French one from the FFT's padel page (1,240 clubs, 4,050 courts), the British one from the LTA's May 2026 release.

How we count, and what we miss

• What is counted: active clubs with a known location found on three public booking platforms (4,452 on Playtomic, 377 on Anybuddy, 214 on Playbypoint), and the number of courts each club declares.
• What is missed: municipal courts, members-only clubs and any venue that runs its own booking software. Sweden shows it best: many Swedish clubs book through MATCHi, which we do not track, so our 295 courts there are a sample and not a national figure.
• Double counting: 11 French clubs are listed on both Playtomic and Anybuddy. Merged by location, France comes to 416 clubs and 1,737 courts. A club that lists another racket court next to its padel courts can also inflate its line.
• It moves: a discovery run on the morning of 21 September added 37 UK clubs. Our UK city-by-city breakdown, counted just before it, shows 470 clubs and 1,779 courts. A wider run on 24 September, after this count, added Mexico (246 clubs, 244 of them on Playtomic) and South Africa (237 clubs, all on Playtomic): see the city pages for Cape Town and, in Spanish, Mexico City. Read every figure here as a dated snapshot.

What stands out

Spain builds big, Italy builds everywhere

Italy has more clubs than Spain in the atlas (1,429 against 1,218) and 2,700 fewer courts. The average Spanish club has 5.6 courts, the average Italian one 2.9, and Italian clubs are spread over 810 towns against 620. Spain has 14.1 bookable courts per 100,000 people, twice Italy's 7.0 and five times the UK or France. The country pieces go deeper: Spain (in Spanish), Italy (in Italian) and the UK.

Britain is the most bookable market

In Spain and France, fewer than half of the courts the federations count can be found on a public booking platform. In Britain the atlas shows more courts than the LTA's last release. Part of that is perimeter (we include Northern Ireland) and part is four months of openings since May, but the conclusion holds: a British court is almost always a court you can book from a phone. That is also why London evenings are fought over in an app and not at a front desk.

Northern Europe plays under a roof

Where clubs declare the court type, 81% of Dutch courts are indoor, 69% of British ones and 66% of German ones. Italy is split down the middle (51%) and Spain is mostly outdoor (43% indoor). An outdoor court earns little in a wet winter, so northern operators pay for roofs, and a roofed court is a dearer court to build and to book.

The US is still a rounding error

At 0.15 courts per 100,000 people, the US sits two orders of magnitude below Spain. The atlas finds 200 clubs in 124 towns, and 81 of them use Playbypoint, a platform the atlas finds in only three European clubs. Our guide to booking a padel court in the US covers how that changes the booking routine.

Use the data

The full atlas is open under CC-BY 4.0: an interactive map, a free JSON API at padelsnipe.com/api/world/clubs with no key, and a CSV export. If you write about padel and need current court numbers, cite it with a link.

If you play, the count that matters is how contested your own club is. The availability report measures how much faster evening slots vanish than morning ones in five countries, and the release patterns page shows when clubs put new slots online. For a recurring evening slot, Padel Snipe books with your own account when your club's window opens, at the club's price.

Sources

• International Padel Federation, World Padel Report 2025: 77,300 courts, 24,600 clubs, 14,355 courts built in 2025.
• International Padel Federation and Federación Española de Pádel, padel in Spain in 2024: 17,000 courts, one court per 2,800 inhabitants.
• Fédération Française de Tennis, padel in figures: 1,240 clubs, 4,050 courts (page read on 21 September 2026).
• LTA Padel, 1,000,000 padel players in Britain (May 2026): 1,825 courts, 551 venues.
• Padel Snipe open-data atlas, clubs and courts counted on 21 September 2026.