🎾 PBM Monthly: The Club Facilities and Revenue Streams Issue

Diving into the latest strategies being deployed by padel operators to enhance their facilities and unlock new revenue streams

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Padel Business Magazine
December 23, 2025

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the latest issue of Padel Business Magazine.

PBM exists for the people building the business of padel, from club owners and investors to tech builders and innovators pushing the sport forward.

Each month, we bring you the stories that matter most: sharp reporting, expert opinion, and original insights you won’t find anywhere else. It’s the clearest view yet of where the sport is heading, and who’s shaping it.

Inside this issue: four major news stories, and one big read that dives deep into this month’s defining theme.

Enjoy the latest news and insight from PBM. This will be our last issue of the year as we break for the festive period🎄 

Our next newsletter will arrive in your inbox in January 2026.

Thanks a lot for reading and we wish you all the very best for the new year✨

The PBM Team

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS

P.S. Next month’s issue will explore hospitality and leisure integration: Multi-sport venues, franchise models, and padel tourism.

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Net news

Diving into the major news stories shaping this month’s theme and beyond: curated reporting and global headlines driving the business of padel forward.

(Left to right) Gary Davidson, group chief operating officer at 54, Enrique Buenaventura, founder of Hexagon Cup, and Luigi Carraro, president of FIP, at the launch of Hexagon World Series in London. Image credit: FIP.

Hexagon Cup has partnered with FIP and 54, the sport and entertainment agency behind the creation of LIV Golf, to create padel’s first official team circuit.

The new Barcelona store will complement Pádel Nuestro’s other outlets in Spain, including its Madrid flagship. Image credit: Pádel Nuestro.

Padel equipment chain is to replace electric vehicle giant Tesla in one of Barcelona’s prime retail hubs.

There was a 42% growth in members registered with national padel federations in 2025 compared to last year, according to FIP. Image credit: FIP.

Padel’s rapid worldwide expansion continued this year, with the sport now played in 150 nations and 20 dependent territories, according to the FIP World Padel Report 2025.

The Padel Club to open five new UK sites 

The new openings will add more than 30 padel courts to The Padel Club network. Image credit: The Padel Club.

Major expansion plans have been unveiled by UK operator The Padel Club, with five new destinations to open across the country.

The big hit

The latest exclusive and original in-depth features, interviews and analysis from Padel Business Magazine. Insight you will not find anywhere else.

Revenue drivers: Padel operators are developing a growing range of income generators as they look to deal with increasing competition and rising costs.

Marbella’s Los Naranjos Padel Club comprises 18 padel courts, two pickleball courts, a gym, restaurant, clubhouse, ‘pro shop’ and physiotherapy clinic. Image credit: Los Naranjos Padel Club.

As competition hots up among padel clubs amid the sport’s rapid growth in popularity, operators in the UK, US, Spain, Italy and elsewhere are looking to establish a growing range of revenue streams.

As well as coaching, tournaments, apparel and equipment, catering, wellness and leisure facilities, clubs are also increasingly looking to sponsorship, new booking technologies and dynamic fee models to help ensure revenues are predictable and sustainable.

Yet the challenge of operating sustainably is intensifying amid rising costs driven by inflation and a shift towards more expensive premium infrastructure.

Read on to get exclusive insight on the latest developments.

PBM Insight Report by Laura Syrett in London, and Brenda Dionisi in Milan.