GROW-PADEL.

Awaiting word, September 2026. A pan-European project to address the growing pains of padel — infrastructure, safeguarding, and coach education.

Editorial note

§ 1Padel is the fastest-growing racquet sport in Europe, which means it is also accumulating the fastest set of growing-pain problems: an unregulated coach labour market, inconsistent safeguarding practice, and a club infrastructure being improvised country by country. GROW-PADEL, if accepted, puts a cooperative structure underneath the growth.

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Padel coach certification framework
§02
Safeguarding protocol for padel clubs
§03
Infrastructure audit and toolkit
§04
Cross-country benchmarking, 5 countries

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