Gilles Moretton's team promised it: padel will have his own license. The FFT has been working on this theme for several months now. Where are we ? What are the next deadlines?

Elements to take in the conditional. We will try to take up all the elements that have already been discussed.

The objectives of creating a 100% padel license

  • Recognition

Offer padel its license to distinguish it from the other sports offered by the FFT. On paper, the reasoning seems obvious: padel is a sport like any other and as such, it deserves to have its own license.

  • Census

How many licensees actually play padel? A question that we have a hard time answering precisely.

This is, moreover, a problem encountered by many other countries, starting with Spain for other institutional reasons which we will not discuss here.

Today, an official padel player must have played at least one approved padel tournament in the last 12 months. Which gives us around 15.000 female and male competitors.

How many people play padel without ever taking part in approved tournaments? Certainly many more than padel players in competition mode.

Today, it is therefore estimated that there would be around 100.000 practitioners in France.

  • Possible economic lever for FFT

Padel licenses can also be a source of revenue for the FFT. It has promised that it will remain reasonable, but for a player who plays tennis, padel and beach, a single license will certainly cost less. We can see that the debate will largely focus on this theme in the coming months.

Federal padel and tennis license 2021

The conditions of the single license

The FFT has already made progress on this single license. But beware, nothing is validated yet and many things can still evolve.

To date, here is what has emerged:

  1. Padel should have its own unique license
  2. There would be a tripartite Club, Federation and League retrocession (editor's note. A point that had already been addressed previously by the FFT. For the moment nothing has yet been validated. And we can expect changes at this level the)
  3. The License would only be issued by clubs with padel courts
  4. Only licensees Padel could participate in approved padel tournaments

More generally, if we do not yet have this famous single license dedicated to padel, the FFT is working and trying to address all the technical points to offer it to us in 2022.

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovered padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since then, padel has been part of his life. You often see him touring France to cover major French padel events.

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