05 / Ecosystem
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Member Facilities Worldwide
Pickleball is the fastest-growing sport in America. Padel is the fastest-growing sport in the world. Together, they represent thousands of new operating and developing facilities — and an industry that, until recently, had no central body to support them.
Most pickleball and padel facilities have been open for only a year or two. It’s been the Wild West, with most operators forced to figure things out for themselves. There’s been no shared playbook for programming, no benchmark data on revenue per court, no negotiated insurance program, no curated supplier directory, no professional community of peers.
That’s what the IAPPF exists to provide.
We harness the community spirit inherent in pickleball and padel to bring operators, employees, vendors, investors, and other stakeholders together — collectively developing and uplifting our industries and the sports we all love into a successful, sustainable, and supportive global ecosystem.
We’re not a lobby. We’re not a tournament organizer. We’re not a media company. We’re the trade association every successful facility owner reaches the same conclusion they need: a place to learn, share, save, and grow together.
