Mexico Has More Padel Courts Than the US: 600 Clubs Mapped
Mexico Has More Padel Courts Than the US: 600 Clubs Mapped
Our census of Mexican padel lands close to FIP's estimate, and well ahead of the US.
Mexico has more padel courts than the United States. On 2 November 2026 the Padel Browser directory lists 600 clubs in Mexico with 2,552 courts between them. The United States has 430 listings and 1,663 courts, and that US total includes clubs that have not opened yet.
These are clubs we have mapped, not clubs that just opened. The Mexican listings went into the directory on 30 and 31 October 2026 in one census import, so the jump on our side is a week old while the courts behind it have been built over years. We hold no opening dates for them, and nothing here says how many are new in 2026.
The number: 600 clubs, 2,552 courts
The 600 Mexican clubs sit in 161 cities across 31 states. 551 of the 600 have a court count on record, and those 551 add up to 2,552 courts. The other 49 have no count yet, so 2,552 is a floor. Only 190 of the 600 have a website on file, so for most clubs the booking page or Instagram account is the main public record.
Every club in the Mexico directory has its own page with address, courts and booking links where we have them.
How that compares with the US and Canada
| Country | Clubs listed | Courts | Cities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico | 600 | 2,552 | 161 |
| United States | 430 | 1,663 | 238 |
| Canada | 35 | 112 | 23 |
The US gap is wider than the table shows. 77 of the 430 US listings are opening soon or under construction. Strip them out and the US has 353 open clubs with 1,309 courts, which leaves Mexico 1,243 courts ahead.
Canada lists 35 clubs and 112 courts across five provinces. For the US side in detail, see how many padel courts the US has and the biggest US padel clubs.
Other counts point the same way
Our census is not the first to put Mexico ahead. The International Padel Federation's World Padel Report 2024 estimated about 1 million players and 1,500 courts in Mexico, against 90,000 players, 71 clubs and 227 courts in the US, according to The Padel State's write-up of the report.
In March 2025, FIP's focus piece on Mexico put the country at "more than 630 clubs and 2.300 courts", citing its Research & Data Analysis Department. Our 600 clubs and 2,552 counted courts land close to that estimate. The same piece says the Federación Mexicana de Pádel (Femepa) has more than 130 affiliated clubs and around 8,000 registered players, so most Mexican clubs operate outside the federation.
What has changed is the US side. FIP's 227 US courts in 2024 is a fraction of the 1,309 open courts we list today. The US has been building fast and is still behind.
Where the Mexican courts are
Three states hold almost a third of the country's clubs: Jalisco, Nuevo León and Mexico City have 192 of the 600 between them.
| State | Clubs | Courts |
|---|---|---|
| Jalisco | 69 | 307 |
| Nuevo León | 62 | 302 |
| Mexico City | 61 | 196 |
| Baja California | 30 | 190 |
| Sonora | 26 | 148 |
| Chihuahua | 33 | 142 |
Zapopan, part of greater Guadalajara, ties Mexico City for the most courts of any single city at 196 each. Zapopan gets there with 40 clubs to Mexico City's 61, so its clubs run bigger. Monterrey has 137 courts, and Mexicali, on the California border, has 115 across 18 clubs.
The north is the surprise. Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua, three states on the US border, together list 89 clubs and 480 courts.
The birthplace argument: Acapulco, 1969
Mexico's lead has a history behind it. FIP's history page says padel "was invented at Las Brisas, in a house owned by Enrique Corcuera in Acapulco, Mexico" in 1969, because Corcuera did not have room for a full tennis court. Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe played it there on holiday and took it to Spain in the early 1970s, building courts at the Marbella Club Hotel. Spain and Argentina made padel big; Mexico had it first.
What we still don't know
- Courts at 49 Mexican clubs. They are listed without a count, so the true total is higher than 2,552.
- Opening dates. Our records show when a club entered the directory, not when it opened. We can't say how fast Mexico is building from this data.
- Indoor or outdoor at 113 clubs. Of the 600, 338 are recorded as outdoor and 115 as indoor; the rest are mixed or not yet recorded.
- Player numbers. FIP's 1 million is an estimate, and we have no player count of our own.
We will update the Mexico figures as the missing court counts come in.
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