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How many padel courts fit on a full-size football pitch?

On a full-size football pitch, 68 × 105 m, 20 padel courts fit with the LTA clearances, also with a competition layout.

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The calculation

Why 20 courts

Dimensions: A 105 × 68 m pitch, the size recommended by FIFA, 7,140 m² in all. A padel court is 20 × 10 m, but it cannot go just anywhere:

  • Orientation: outdoors, the long axis of each court runs north–south, so that low sun is not in the players' eyes. Tennis courts and pitches are usually laid out the same way.
  • Access zone: 8 × 2 m kept clear at the side opening, centred on the net (the LTA's 8 m × 2 m player access).
  • Between courts: 1.5 m, as the LTA guidance recommends, and the same to the walls.
  • Route to the exit: 1.2 m clear from every court to the entrance.
LayoutCourtsWhat changes
LTA clearances20Access zone on one side, 1.5 m between courts
Competition202 m clear all round and an exit on both sides
Court 20 × 10 mClear access zone (8 × 2 m)Column or entrance

Flat, open surface with one entrance in the middle of a long side. Fencing, stands, access and levels change the result: enter them in the planner and see it at once. Covering the courts with a canopy is in padel court cost in the UK, and it usually needs planning permission.

Other surfaces: a tennis court · a widened tennis court · two tennis courts side by side · a five-a-side pitch