Padel club for sale in Spain: buying or opening, costs and payback

An existing padel club in Spain sells via traspaso for about €290,000 on average: half of 14 priced listings ranged from €110,000 to €565,000, roughly €45,000 per court.

A club sold with its building starts at €1.4 million. Opening a six-court indoor club in a rented building costs €275,000–370,000.

Looking at a padel club for sale in Spain?

Below: what clubs cost as a traspaso and with the property, what is actually included, what a court, a roof over it and a start from scratch cost, which permits a club needs given noise and neighbours, what a club earns from bookings, coaching and the bar with staff paid under the collective agreement, how it is taxed and what to check before buying.

The page includes a payback calculator with an illustrative club.

We have reviewed related niches the same way: gym and warehouse and industrial premises — the kind of building most indoor clubs operate in.

What an existing padel club costs

We reviewed 23 listings of padel clubs for sale (milanuncios, tablondeanuncios, negozona, traspasso, profesiolan, idealista and agency websites, October 2026).

Clubs rarely come up for sale, and five listings show no price.

Of the 18 priced listings, 14 are traspasos — a business in a rented building or on rented land: the median is about €290,000, the average about €386,000, and half the properties fall between €110,000 and €565,000. These are asking prices: they come down in a deal.

Courts are a better yardstick. Where the number is given, a traspaso costs about €45,000 per court on average, but the range is huge — from €12,000 to €122,500.

The number of courts alone does not explain the price: clubs with 4–5 courts in the sample average €315,000, those with 6–8 courts €290,000. Revenue, the remaining lease term and the town do.

Examples from the sample: four courts plus a single court in a 1,300 m² building near Valladolid — €60,000 with rent of €1,500 and stated revenue of €100,200 a year; six covered courts in Mérida — €96,000, although the seller says he invested over €300,000; seven indoor courts in the Vallès Oriental near Barcelona — €95,000 with rent of €12,000 a month and revenue of about €400,000 (already sold); six indoor courts in Murcia — €305,000; four indoor courts in a 1,665 m² building in Getafe — €490,000; six indoor courts with a restaurant and car park in Sabadell — €650,000.

With the property, clubs cost an order of magnitude more: a trading club with five indoor courts and a 2,570 m² building in Cantabria — €1,500,000; a building with three indoor courts in Vigo, let to an operator at a yield of over 6% — €1,400,000; a tennis and padel club on 24,000 m² in Estepona — €4,500,000.

What a padel club sale includes

According to the International Padel Federation, Spain has about 17,000 courts and almost 4,500 clubs, with 109,040 federation licences.

Playtomic’s report shows the number of courts in Spain grew only about 2% in 2025: the market is saturated, and a new club more often takes players from the one next door than finds new ones. Hence the features of the deal:

• The building and land usually belong to someone else. An indoor club is typically an industrial building (nave) of 1,300–5,000 m² on a lease; an outdoor club sits on a rented plot. A traspaso transfers the lease, the courts, the roof if there is one, the changing rooms and the bar — not the property. The lease term matters most: courts and roofs are expensive and lose value when dismantled.
• Courts are an asset in their own right. Padel courts are also sold without a club: classified sites carry buyers who dismantle closed clubs. Ask for the installation year, manufacturer and the condition of the glass and turf; turf is replaced every few years.
• Players and bookings. The customer base is the club’s account on the booking system (most often Playtomic), its leagues and its coaching school. Without an export of bookings by hour for 2–3 years, revenue cannot be verified.
• The seller’s legal form. Many clubs are not companies but sports associations (club deportivo) — they have no shares, so they cannot be bought like a company. More on this in the checks below.

What it costs to open a padel club in Spain

Supplier and consultant guides for 2026: a small club costs €100,000–180,000, a medium one €200,000–350,000, a large one €650,000 and up. The main items:

• Courts. A standard glass court costs €15,000–25,000, a panoramic one €25,000–30,000, excluding foundations and installation.
• Roof. For outdoor courts, a roof over one court starts at €48,000 excluding VAT and installation, over two courts at €126,000. A turnkey covered court costs €50,000–70,000. That is why most indoor clubs operate in existing industrial buildings at least 7–9 m high.
• Building. Six courts need about 1,800 m². In the sample, rents for such buildings run from €1.15 to €2.70 per m² a month; buying the building is a separate decision, covered in our article «Warehouse for sale in Spain».
• Project and licences — €2,500–12,000: technical project, acoustic study, municipal fees.
• Changing rooms, reception, bar, lighting — €30,000–100,000 depending on the building.
• Reserve — six months of fixed costs: a club builds its players and pupils over one or two seasons. How to size it is covered in «Cash gap».

Six indoor courts in a rented building come to €275,000–370,000 — about the same as an existing club of that size on a traspaso.

The case for buying: a licensed activity and players who already book. The case against: worn turf, a short lease and a competing club nearby.

Which permits a padel club needs

The general retail liberalisation law (Ley 12/2012), which replaces the licence with a declaration for shops and some services, does not cover sports facilities: group 967 is not in its annex.

Opening is governed by regional laws and municipal bylaws, and a padel club faces two main questions — noise and zoning.

• Valencian Community. The public venues law classes an indoor court as a sports hall and outdoor courts as sports facilities (Ley 14/2010, annex, items 2.3.2 and 2.3.3); opening is by declaration with a technical project (art. 9), and venues for over 500 people need an authorisation (art. 10).
• Madrid. Since 2022 the OLDRUAM bylaw applies: the default is a declaration, with a licence only where there are risks to safety, health, the environment or heritage.
• Noise and neighbours. The sound of the ball and the glass carries, especially from outdoor courts. In April 2025 a Madrid court of first instance, ruling on a neighbours’ claim, ordered a club to stop play on two rooftop courts: an expert report found 97% of measurements breached the municipal noise bylaw. The city council had approved the refurbishment, and the ruling could be appealed. A licence does not protect a club from a civil claim by neighbours.
• Zoning. Courts on a plot and a roof over them are construction that must fit the town plan. In Rincón de la Victoria (Málaga) the High Court of Andalusia annulled a padel complex’s licence because the town plan reserves the plot for public facilities, and the council closed the courts.

When buying an existing club, check which activity and hours the licence covers, whether the roof and the bar are permitted, and whether neighbours have complained.

Coaches and the school

The coaching school is a club’s second-largest revenue line and the way to fill daytime hours.

Catalonia, Madrid, Andalusia and the Valencian Community have sports-profession laws: coaching is a regulated profession, and in Catalonia and the Valencian Community the club that hires the coach is also liable for breaches (Ley 3/2008, art. 13.3; Ley 2/2022, art. 24.5).

Check under the regional law which qualification a padel coach needs before the deal: coaches transfer to the buyer with the club.

What a padel club earns

Revenue rests on court hire for 60 or 90 minutes.

In club price lists for 2026, a 90-minute court costs €15–26 at an indoor club near Valencia and €20–30 in Mijas, while an hour in Madrid costs €10–20; the booking platform’s fee is paid by players on top.

Weekday evenings and weekends are almost full, weekday daytime about a quarter full, so the school, leagues and daytime discounts matter more than the evening price.

Sellers in the sample claim revenue of €1,700 to €4,800 per court a month.

Staff costs are set by the collective agreement.

Under the national collective agreement for sports facilities and gyms, a single-discipline instructor and a receptionist are in group 4: in 2025 their base pay is €1,162.85 a month, 14 times a year, €16,279.89 in total; no tables for 2026 have been published.

The 2026 minimum wage is €17,094 a year, so a full-time post now costs at least that.

Employer social security for sports activities in 2026 adds about 33.65%: a full-time post costs the club about €22,850 a year, around €1,900 a month.

A club open 14 hours a day, seven days a week, needs two to three full-time posts for reception alone.

Padel club payback calculator

The calculator holds an illustrative indoor club with six courts in a rented building of about 1,800 m²: a traspaso of €270,000 (about €45,000 per court) plus €30,000 for new turf, lighting and repairs.

Court hire brings about €17,400 a month excluding VAT: courts are 85% booked in the evening at €28 and 25% booked in the daytime at €16 per 90 minutes, 52% on average.

A school of 100 pupils adds €3,500, leagues and tournaments €600, the bar and shop €2,000: €23,500 a month excluding VAT in total.

Bar supplies, balls and bank fees take 6%, staff €6,700 a month (reception and a coach; the owner manages unpaid), rent €5,000 and other costs (electricity, court maintenance, cleaning, insurance, accountant, booking software, marketing) €3,500.

Pre-tax profit is €82,680 a year, after tax about €66,300, and the €300,000 investment pays back in about 4.5 years.

Two caveats. First, almost all of a club’s costs are fixed.

If revenue falls by 10%, pre-tax profit drops from €82,680 to €56,172 and payback stretches to 6.6 years; at 15%, to €42,918 and 8.6 years.

Break-even is about €16,200 of revenue a month, 69% of the example.

Second, the model has no owner’s salary; hire a manager at the top group of the agreement and after-tax profit falls to about €45,300, with payback at 6.6 years.

How to read this figure and what to compare it with is covered in «Payback period».

Take revenue for the calculation from the hourly booking export, bank statements and VAT returns (modelo 303), not the seller’s word.

How a seller justifies the price is covered in «How to value a business for sale».

Taxes: VAT and modules

• VAT on courts and coaching. Court hire and classes at a commercial club carry the standard 21% rate (art. 90 Ley 37/1992): the art. 20.Uno.13 exemption applies only to public bodies, federations and private sports establishments of a social nature, and the tax authority applies 21% to a trading company that hires out courts. A €28 court booking brings the club €23.14 of revenue.
• VAT in the bar. Food and drink in the club bar carry 10% (art. 91.Uno.2.2 Ley 37/1992).
• Modules. In 2026 the flat-rate regime (módulos) is open only to “sports schools and sports coaching services” (heading 967.2), with no more than 3 employees; sports facilities (967.1) are not included. A club that hires out courts pays tax on actual profit; modules are possible at most for a separate padel school. Modules are available with prior-year revenue up to €250,000 — that is the tax authority’s position, although Parliament has not ratified the decrees extending these limits.
• SL. A club held in an SL pays corporate tax: in 2026, with turnover under €1 million, 19% on the first €50,000 of profit and 21% above. How to take the profit out is covered in «Salary or dividends from a Spanish SL».

What to check before buying a padel club

1. The building or land lease. A business tenant may assign the lease without the landlord’s consent, but the landlord may raise the rent by 20%, and must be notified within a month (art. 32 LAU). The lease may prohibit assignment or change these terms (art. 4.3 LAU). Courts and a roof take years to pay back — the remaining lease term should exceed the payback period.
2. Licence, noise and zoning. Whose name, which activity and which hours the licence covers, whether the roof and the bar are permitted, any neighbour complaints and noise measurements. In the Valencian Community the change of owner is notified to the council within a month of the deal, signed by both parties (Ley 14/2010, art. 12).
3. The seller’s legal form. If the club belongs to a sports association, it has no shares to buy: you buy the assets and contracts, and a buyer company cannot use the VAT exemption the association may have applied — at the same prices, revenue excluding VAT will be lower.
4. Bookings and players. An export of bookings by hour and court for 2–3 years, school pupils, leagues, memberships and prepayments. Transferring the customer database with the business is lawful: the processing is presumed lawful, and if the deal falls through the buyer must delete the data at once (art. 21 LOPDGDD).
5. Debts and staff. The buyer of a going concern is liable for the seller’s tax debts (art. 42.1.c LGT) unless it obtains a tax debt certificate before the deal, issued within 3 months (art. 175.2 LGT); for social security debts (art. 168.2 LGSS); employees transfer with all their rights, and seller and buyer are jointly liable for wage debts for 3 years (art. 44 ET).
6. VAT on the deal. The sale of a whole business capable of operating on its own is not subject to VAT (art. 7.1 Ley 37/1992); a simple transfer of rights and assets usually carries 21% VAT — how to structure the deal is decided with a tax lawyer.

How an existing business is checked before a deposit is described on the traspaso audit page; if you are buying the company that owns the club, you need full due diligence.

If you are moving to Spain for this business

A non-resident can buy a padel club, but a non-EU citizen can live in Spain and run it personally only with a residence permit — usually a self-employment permit, for one year at first.

The golden visa has been abolished, and the startup visa does not suit an ordinary business of this kind.

How the self-employment permit works and how it differs from an employment permit is covered by Relotus in «Cuenta propia in Spain».

The sensible order is to confirm the permit first and only then pay a deposit.

Frequently asked questions

How much does a padel club for sale in Spain cost?

In a sample of 14 priced traspaso listings the median is about €290,000, with half between €110,000 and €565,000 — about €45,000 per court on average. A club sold with its building starts at €1.4 million. These are asking prices.

How much does it cost to open a padel club in Spain?

A small club costs €100,000–180,000, a medium one €200,000–350,000. A court costs €15,000–30,000 and a roof over one court from €48,000 excluding VAT and installation, so indoor clubs usually occupy rented industrial buildings.

How many padel courts are there in Spain?

According to the International Padel Federation, about 17,000 courts and almost 4,500 clubs as of 2024. Playtomic’s report shows the number of courts grew only about 2% in 2025.

What VAT does a padel club charge?

A commercial club charges 21% VAT on court hire and classes and 10% in the bar. The exemption applies only to public and social sports organisations.

How much does a padel club earn in Spain?

In the illustrative example, a six-court indoor club with €282,000 of revenue a year makes about €66,300 after tax if the owner manages it. Sellers in the sample claim €1,700–4,800 of revenue per court a month.

What is the payback period of a padel club?

In the illustrative example, about 4.5 years with a working owner. Costs are almost all fixed: if revenue falls by 15%, payback stretches to 8.6 years.

Can neighbours close a padel club?

Yes, even a licensed one. In 2025 a Madrid court, ruling on a neighbours’ claim, stopped play on two of a club’s courts over noise. Before buying, check complaints, noise measurements and the licensed opening hours.

Key points about buying a padel club in Spain

• A club traspaso costs about €290,000 on average, roughly €45,000 per court; with the building, from €1.4 million.
• Opening a six-court indoor club in a rented building costs €275,000–370,000, about the same as buying one.
• The market is saturated: about 17,000 courts and around 2% growth in 2025; a new club takes players from its neighbours.
• What matters in the deal is the remaining lease term, a licence that covers noise and zoning, the booking export and the seller’s legal form.
• VAT is 21% on courts and coaching and 10% in the bar; clubs cannot use modules; payback in the example is about 4.5 years.

Sources

• Ley 12/2012 — BOE; Valencian Community Ley 14/2010 — alicante.es.
• Sports-profession laws: Catalonia, Ley 3/2008 — BOE; Madrid, Ley 6/2016 — BOE; Andalusia, Ley 5/2016 — BOE; Valencian Community, Ley 2/2022 — BOE.
• LAU, arts. 4 and 32 — BOE; LGT, arts. 42 and 175 — BOE; Workers’ Statute, art. 44 — BOE; Ley 37/1992 (VAT) — BOE; LOPDGDD, art. 21 — BOE.
• Orden HAC/1425/2025 (2026 modules) — BOE; Orden PJC/297/2026 (social security) — BOE; RD 126/2026 (minimum wage) — BOE; V national collective agreement for sports facilities and gyms — BOE.
• Court rulings as reported in the press: Madrid, April 2025 — elDiario.es; Rincón de la Victoria — AxarquíaPlus.
• Market: International Padel Federation (February 2025) — padelfip.com; Playtomic Global Padel Report 2026 — Padel Addict; opening costs — plandenegocio.es, Tent Trading; club price lists — Suma Padel Club, Raquetas de Mijas.
• Padel club sale listings — milanuncios, tablondeanuncios, negozona, traspasso, profesiolan, idealista, fincascostamaresme, spanishestates, October 2026.