How Many Padel Clubs Are There? We Counted 1,088

The Numbers

As of 2026-08-23, our directory holds 1,088 verified padel venues across 25 countries: 334 venues in 12 African countries and 754 venues in 13 countries across Asia and the Gulf. Every venue has an exact map position taken from the club’s own published location — a booking-platform profile the club manages, or a directory entry carrying the club’s own embedded map pin. None are geocoded guesses, and entries pinned on country or city centroids (placeholder geocodes) are rejected outright.

Court counts are stricter still: we record them only where the club itself publishes them, typically through its booking inventory. 183 venues meet that bar, with 702 courts between them. The other venues show no court count rather than an invented one — a directory template that lists identical courts for every club is a placeholder, not data, and we found and rejected exactly that pattern during collection.

The three largest counted markets surprised us: Indonesia (108 venues), India (103) and Lebanon (97) — three countries that rarely appear in padel industry coverage at all.

The Method — Counted, Not Estimated

Each venue was verified individually on its own page: its name, its city, and its coordinates as published by the club itself — through the booking platform profile the club manages, or the club’s own embedded map on a structured directory. Coordinates must fall inside the country’s bounding box, and any venue pinned on a country or city centroid — the fingerprint of a placeholder geocode rather than a real location — is rejected and logged.

We also reject what directories get wrong: shopping malls listed as clubs (the club inside the mall is the venue), club cafés listed separately from the club, coach academies listed as if they were a second club at the same address, and one operator listed twice under two names. Chains are counted per physical location, and one venue that is genuinely two bookable facilities (an indoor hall and outdoor courts) counts as two.

Every count on this page is computed from the dataset at publish time — the figures cannot drift from the data they describe, because they are generated from it.

What We Deliberately Don’t Count

Spain, Argentina, Italy, Sweden and the other mature padel markets are not in this count — on purpose. Those markets have thousands of clubs and established booking ecosystems that already document them; a partial list from us would add noise, not knowledge, and any “every club” claim there would be false. Our count covers the markets where no verified public count existed before: Africa, Asia and the Gulf.

That scope makes this a floor, not a ceiling: 1,088 is the number of venues we can prove, in the regions we cover, on the date stamped above. The true worldwide number is far higher — but “far higher” is exactly the kind of claim we won’t put a number on without being able to show the receipts.

Download the Data

The full dataset is free to use with attribution and a link: Africa (334 venues, CSV) and Asia & the Gulf (754 venues, CSV). Each row carries the venue’s name, city, coordinates, court count where published, contact details where published, the source of its coordinates, and its verification date.

Journalists and researchers: cite it as “PadelRevive venue count, 2026-08-23” with a link to this page. If you spot a club we missed — or run one — email us and it will be verified and added free; that correction loop is part of the method.