Once is not custom, we are going to be interested to the remuneration of arbitrators in the padel.

A referee from padel international on behalf of the International Federation of Padel (FIP) is remunerated €700 to €900 excluding tax per week.

Let's try to see more clearly by trying to compare with other sports such as tennis and football.

Like he usually does, the FIP remains silent to requests for information. It will certainly be necessary that one day, this Federation starts to become more transparent and respects the media which seek to inform their readers. But that's another debate.

Operating mode

For the moment, the FIP has not set up specific grades as in tennis. All referees, whether officiating for 3 or 10 matches over 2 or 5 days, will be paid the same.

The arbitrator stays, depending on the needs, between 7 and 9 days.

FIP referees intervene mainly on the main FIP tournaments and the circuit Premier Padel.

Padel vs tennis

The comparison is difficult because tennis is currently a much more organized and professional sport than padel. Inevitably, the padel should follow in the same footsteps, become more professional and the indemnities will also evolve for these referees.

However, it is interesting to observe that the indemnities of an arbitrator in the padel on behalf of the FIP in an event Premier Padel are globally equivalent to the allowances of a referee of a Future tournament in tennis

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The higher you are, the more you get paid.

The higher the grades for a tennis referee, the greater the allowances. The higher the categories of events in tennis, the better the referees are paid.

In addition, it is necessary to differentiate the line umpire from the chair umpire in tennis. What we don't have in the padel.

We have managed to obtain a document on the compensation of referees in tennis.

Note that the allowances have certainly evolved a little because the document dates from 2019 and that it is a document that comes from the Luxembourg Tennis Federation. The terms and compensation may change depending on the Federations.

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For major tennis tournaments (Grand Chelem), we can reach more than 6000€ gross / month (for employees) depending on the rank, skills and notoriety of the arbitrator.

Padel vs football

In football, the allowances are obviously more important. We offer you a document from the French Football Federation which concerns the 2021/2022 season and allows us to have an overview of the compensation for referees.

We will not analyze the document as a whole, but note that the main referee of a Ligue 1 match receives €3061 gross. We are obviously a long way from the indemnities of 900€ for a referee of padel over more than a week.

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Sources: Luxembourg Tennis Federation and French Football Federation

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovers the padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since padel is part of his life. You often see him touring France going to cover the major events of padel French.

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