Playtomic and Strategy&, the business consulting arm of PwC, on Thursday released their annual “Global Padel Report,” which studies trends in participation, court construction and club economics specific to the emerging racket sport padel. The report found continued global growth, with 8,000 padel courts added in 2025 (bringing the worldwide total to 58,334) and 5,000 new padel clubs (bringing the worldwide total to 20,902). It estimates there were 19.4 million global padel players in 2025.
The U.S. was described as a “high-potential padel market,” but remains nascent. The report found 250 padel clubs in the U.S., and that the country added 330 courts in 2025, both well behind more developed padel markets in Europe and Latin America. Demand in the U.S. is concentrated in Florida, Texas and California, as well as some East Coast markets like New York, according to the report.
The report described several challenges that padel operators in the U.S. face in scaling court and club development in the near term, such as complex zoning, permitting and approval processes; high commercial rents and costs related to importing courts and other equipment; and low awareness of the sport relative to other markets. As such, padel in the U.S. is viewed as a premium product that targets high-income audiences to offset high infrastructure and operating costs.
Still, investment has flowed into several new, North American padel properties of late. The three-year-old Pro Padel League, for example, raised a $15M Series A earlier this year led by Hornets co-owner Rick Schnall, while Virginia-based padel club operator Epic Padel raised $10M last year to scale its U.S. presence.
