State of Padel in Canada 2026: Statistics on Courts, Prices and Growth

Canada has 119 padel courts at 36 venues across five provinces, and more than half of them opened in 2025 or 2026. We counted every venue in October 2026 and checked each one against the club's own website or booking page. We then added Google search data, prices from every club that publishes them, and figures from the International Padel Federation's 2026 report.

All figures are as of 29 October 2026. Every venue is listed near the end of this report.

Padel in Canada at a glance

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How many padel courts are in Canada?

Canada has 119 padel courts at 36 operating venues. That includes six outdoor courts at four venues that close for winter. Another 13 courts are planned but not yet open.

Other published counts don't match ours or each other. One figure, 29 courts and 50,000 players, is attributed to the World Padel Report and still turns up in articles about Canadian padel. It dates from early 2024, before most of today's clubs opened.

The directories we checked overcount. PadelDrops lists 64 padel facilities in Canada, but its indoor and outdoor totals add up to 52. It also lists five facilities in Manitoba, and we couldn't confirm any of them. Manitoba's first padel club, in Winnipeg, hasn't opened yet.

TrustPadel lists 44 clubs and 133 courts. We checked every listing:

• 15 were duplicates, old names of clubs already listed, closed, or places without padel courts.
• One was Privé Padel, a club in Montauk, New York, listed under Ottawa.
• The other 29 are real, and the list still misses seven venues on ours.

The International Padel Federation (FIP) puts Canada at more than 100 courts in its 2026 World Padel Report, which is close to our count. FIP doesn't publish a venue list for Canada, though, so its number can't be checked club by club. Ours can: every venue is listed further down this page.

Where Canadians play padel

Ontario has the most courts, with 54 across 16 venues. Quebec follows with 33 courts at 10 venues, then Alberta with 21 at five, British Columbia with 10 at four, and Nova Scotia with a single court.

Adjust for population and the order changes. Alberta has 4.1 courts per million people, ahead of Quebec at 3.6 and Ontario at 3.3. British Columbia is the third most populous province but has only 1.8, about half Ontario's rate. Population figures are Statistics Canada estimates for 1 July 2026.

Eight of Canada's 13 provinces and territories have no padel courts at all: Manitoba, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Most of the courts sit in three metro areas:

• Greater Toronto Area: 48 courts at 12 venues, including Burlington, Mississauga, Oakville and Vaughan.
• Montreal area: 31 courts at nine venues. That's all but two of Quebec's courts.
• Calgary: 17 courts at four venues, more than the whole of British Columbia.

Together, those three areas hold 96 of Canada's 119 courts. Tap any dot on the map below to see the venues in that city.

Canada's biggest padel venues

1. COURTX Oakville, Oakville, Ontario: 10 courts
2. The District Padel & Pickleball Club, Mississauga, Ontario: 8 courts
3. True Padel Club, Calgary, Alberta: 7 courts
4. Maison Athlétique, Montreal, Quebec: 7 courts
5. A.E. Cross (Alberta Padel Association), Calgary, Alberta: 5 courts

The average Canadian venue has 3.3 courts, close to FIP's world average of 3.2.

Is padel growing in Canada?

Yes, and most of that growth is recent. The sport isn't new here: Bill Stamile built Canada's first padel court in Calgary after bringing the game over from Argentina in 1992 (CP24), and the country's first FIP-standard glass court went in at A.E. Cross in Calgary in 2018. But of the 119 courts open today, 71 are at venues that opened in 2025 or 2026.

Counted by the year each venue opened, today’s venues held 20 courts by the end of 2022. That rose to 48 by the end of 2024 and 119 by October 2026.

This method only counts venues still operating. It also dates each venue's courts to the year it opened, so courts added later at an existing club show up under its opening year.

FIP's 2026 report shows the same jump. It counts 41 new courts and 10 new venues in Canada between 2025 and September 2026, the most of the five emerging padel countries it tracks in the Americas. It estimates Canada's court count will grow 85% over 2026 as a whole.

Google searches back this up. Search interest in padel across Canada in 2026 is about six times its 2022 level.

Padel has also caught up with squash. In 2022, Canadian searches for padel ran at less than a fifth of squash's level. In 2026 they're nearly even, and padel drew more searches than squash every month from May to August.

Where interest and courts don't match

Québec searches for padel more than any other province. On Google Trends, which adjusts for each province's total search volume, Québec scores 100, followed by Ontario at 79, British Columbia at 63, Alberta at 50 and Nova Scotia at 38.

Alberta ranks only fourth for interest but has the most courts per person. British Columbia is the opposite: it's third for interest but has about half Ontario's courts per person.

Interest isn't zero where courts are. New Brunswick, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador all show up in Google's padel searches, and none of them has a court yet.

Indoor and outdoor courts

About three in four Canadian padel courts are indoor: 87 of the 119. Eleven venues are outdoor only, and four of those had already closed for the season when we checked in late October.

How much does it cost to play padel in Canada?

The median price is $20 per player per hour at peak times and $17.50 off-peak. That's across the 31 venues that let non-members book and pay per session. It assumes four players splitting one court, which is how most Canadian clubs price their courts.

Prices range from $7.50 per player per hour at Rideau Sports Centre in Ottawa and Lake Country Padel in BC to $26.67 at peak times at T10 Padel in Vaughan. Many clubs sell 90-minute slots rather than single hours, so a peak-time game works out at around $30 each.

Memberships change the maths for regular players. They range from discount plans like Padel Ranch's at $23 a month to unlimited play at The District for $199 a month plus tax. A few clubs, including The District and the Calgary Padel Club, are built mainly around memberships.

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Is padel the same as pickleball?

No, but it's one of the questions Canadians most often ask Google about padel. "Is padel the same as pickleball" and "difference between padel and pickleball" were among the fastest-rising padel searches in Canada over the last five years.

Both sports are mostly played in doubles on a court smaller than a tennis court. That's where the similarity ends:

• Padel is played on a 20 x 10 metre court enclosed by glass and mesh walls, and the ball can be played off the walls. Players use a solid, perforated racquet and a ball similar to a tennis ball, and they serve underhand.
• Pickleball is played on an open 20 x 44 foot court with a paddle and a plastic ball with holes, and there are no walls in play.

Pickleball is still far bigger in Canada. In 2026, Canadians searched for pickleball about ten times as often as for padel.

Who runs padel in Canada

National bodies

• Padel Canada (the Padel Association of Canada) is Canada's member federation of the International Padel Federation. Founded in 1993, it keeps a national list of places to play. It worked with FIP to host the North and Central America World Cup qualifiers in Toronto from 31 July to 2 August 2026.
• The Canada Padel Federation also describes itself as a national governing body. Led by president Roberto Alongi, it runs the Founders Cup in Calgary and raises money toward a national padel centre through a 50/50 draw.

Provincial and university bodies

• Four provinces have provincial associations: Padel BC (founded in 2017, per the Canada Padel Federation), the Padel Ontario Association, Association Sportive Padel Québec and the Alberta Padel Association. The Alberta association runs the courts at A.E. Cross in Calgary.
• McGill students launched the Canadian Universities Padel League. It grew out of the McGill Padel Club, set up in February 2025 as Canada's first university padel club.

Canada on the world stage

Canada has hosted the FIP World Cup once, in Calgary in 2008. The following year, Canada's junior boys finished third at the junior world championships in Seville.

Canadian players are still rare on the international circuit. In 2025, three Canadians (two women and one man) played in CUPRA FIP Tour events, out of 5,141 players worldwide. In FIP's junior Promises events, seven Canadian boys competed that year, and Canadians won two under-12 titles.

FIP's economic model, built with OpenEconomics, estimates that padel generated about C$95 million (€61 million) of GDP in Canada in 2026. It also supported 633 full-time jobs, from about C$30 million (€19.4 million) spent on the sport. That works out to C$2.51 per Canadian, compared with:

• C$3.53 in the United States
• C$34.35 in Spain
• C$43.64 in Sweden, the highest in the world

On courts per person, Canada is level with the United States. Canada has 2.8 courts per million people, against about 2.9 in the US, where FIP counts more than 1,000 courts. Britain has 2,445 courts according to the Lawn Tennis Association, which works out to about 35 per million.

What's next for padel in Canada

Five more venues are in the works. Three have announced 13 courts between them, and two haven’t said how many:

• Courtside Social has applied to the City of Vancouver for eight courts at 3680 Marine Way. That would almost double British Columbia's total.
• Winnipeg Padel Club plans four indoor courts and would be Manitoba's first padel venue.
• Élans in Laval is taking pre-opening bookings for one indoor court ahead of a 2027 launch.
• ROYALMOUNT in Montreal will open seasonal outdoor padel courts with Kopa Padel in May 2027. The number of courts hasn’t been announced.
• Ballantrae Multi Sport Complex in Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario, will include padel courts, with up to $8.75 million in federal funding. Construction is set to start in 2027. The number of padel courts hasn’t been announced.

Every padel venue in Canada (October 2026)

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Frequently asked questions

How many padel courts are there in Canada?

Canada has 119 padel courts at 36 venues as of October 2026, based on a venue-by-venue count. Ontario has the most with 54, followed by Quebec with 33 and Alberta with 21. The International Padel Federation's 2026 report puts Canada at more than 100 courts.

Is padel popular in Canada?

Padel is still small next to pickleball: Canadians searched for pickleball about ten times as often in 2026. But search interest in padel has grown about six-fold since 2022 and now roughly matches squash. More than half of Canada's courts are at venues that opened in 2025 or 2026.

Where can you play padel in Canada?

Padel venues operate in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia and Nova Scotia. Most courts are in the Greater Toronto Area, the Montreal area and Calgary, which together hold 96 of the country's 119. All 36 venues are listed in the table above.

How much does it cost to play padel in Canada?

The median price is $20 per player per hour at peak times and $17.50 off-peak, assuming four players share a court. Across Canadian clubs, prices range from $7.50 to $26.67 per player per hour. Many clubs book in 90-minute slots, so a peak-time game usually costs about $30 per player.

Is padel growing in Canada?

Yes. Seventy-one of Canada's 119 courts are at venues that opened in 2025 or 2026, and FIP estimates the country's court count will grow 85% over 2026. Five more venues are planned, including Manitoba’s first.

How we built this report

• Count period: 21 to 29 October 2026.
• What counts as a venue: a place with at least one bookable padel court, public or members-only. Coaching services, associations and booking apps don't count.
• What counts as a court: padel courts only. Pickleball and tennis courts at the same venue are excluded.
• Where the list came from: Padel Canada's and the Canada Padel Federation's lists, club websites, booking platforms (Playtomic, CatchCorner, CourtReserve, MATCHi, PlayByPoint and others) and news coverage. We used the Padel Lands and TrustPadel directories only as leads.
• How each venue was checked: against the club's own website or booking page. Venues that were duplicated, renamed, closed, without padel courts or not yet open were removed.
• Seasonal venues: outdoor venues closed for winter are counted, because their courts are still part of Canada's court stock.
• Prices: taken from each club's booking or rates page, for one non-member playing one hour of doubles. Court prices are split four ways and converted to one hour. Prices are as listed by each club; some include sales tax and some don't. Guest fees that non-members must pay are included. We used standard rates, not promotions or seasonal discounts.
• Population: Statistics Canada estimates for 1 July 2026 (Table 17-10-0009-01). For the country comparison: ONS (UK, mid-2025) and the US Census Bureau (July 2025).
• Search data: Google Trends, Canada, October 2021 to October 2026, using the topics Padel, Squash and Pickleball. 2021 is excluded from the yearly averages because of a change in Google's data collection in January 2022. October 2026 is a partial month.
• FIP figures: FIP World Padel Report 2026, published 14 October 2026.
• Currency: FIP publishes in euros. We converted at the Wise mid-market rate on 29 October 2026 (€1 = C$1.5613).
• Limits: courts are dated to the year their venue opened. Private courts not open to bookings may be missed.

We'll update this report every year.

Sources

• FIP World Padel Report 2026, International Padel Federation (14 October 2026)
• Canada's population estimates, second quarter 2026, Statistics Canada, Table 17-10-0009-01
• Provisional population estimate for the UK: mid-2025, Office for National Statistics
• National population estimates, July 2025, US Census Bureau
• Padel participation figures, Lawn Tennis Association (October 2026)
• Google Trends, Canada, October 2021 to October 2026
• EUR to CAD mid-market rate, Wise (29 October 2026)
• Where to play, Padel Canada; club list, Canada Padel Federation
• What is padel and why is it so popular, CP24 (25 May 2026)
• Canada invests in one of the nation’s largest community and recreation centres, Government of Canada (30 October 2026)
• ROYALMOUNT to add outdoor padel courts in Montreal in 2027, Retail Insider (26 October 2026)
• Club websites and booking pages for all 36 venues (linked in the table above)

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