Pure Padel: Every UK Club in 2026
Every Pure Padel club in the UK in 2026 - open and planned venues, court counts, locations, and Sammy Arora's '30 by 30' rollout.
Pure Padel is one of the two operators racing to define UK padel's leisure-centre era. Founded by Sammy Arora and growing fast on a deliberately diversified mix of indoor warehouses, outdoor canopy courts and traditional outdoor sites, Pure Padel hit 12 clubs by Christmas 2025 and is now expanding across England and Scotland with 8+ further openings scheduled through 2026.
This page tracks every confirmed Pure Padel club: which are open today, which are due to open in 2026, court counts where published, and the venues each club is converting from. Directory pages go stale fast - last verified May 2026.
Which Pure Padel clubs are open?
Seven Pure Padel venues are publicly bookable today
Pure Padel started in October 2023 with three outdoor courts at Alderley Park in Cheshire and has been opening on roughly a one-to-two-month cadence ever since. The mix of openings is deliberate: a flagship indoor club in Manchester, an outdoor site in Leeds for grass-courts demand, and indoor venues at Stockport and Darlington for year-round play. The Lightwater opening in February 2026 was the most recent.
Alderley Park (Cheshire)
Manchester (city centre)
Stockport
Darlington
North Leeds (Moor Allerton)
Nottingham (city centre)
Lightwater (Surrey)
Which Pure Padel clubs open in 2026?
Pure Padel has eight further clubs in the 2026 pipeline, with court counts published for the largest sites. Glasgow and Birmingham were both scheduled for January 2026 openings - confirm the current state on the venue's booking page before planning a session, since padel openings routinely slip on planning, fit-out or supply-chain timing.
| Glasgow (The Forge Retail Park) | Birmingham (Jewellery Quarter) | Solihull (Moseley CC) | Gosforth (Newcastle) | York | Royal Wootton Bassett | Coulsdon (south London) | Liverpool | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status | Scheduled January 2026 (verify) | Scheduled January 2026 (verify) | 2026 (Pure Padel's first Midlands venue) | Scheduled December 2026 | Coming soon (planned 2026) | Planned 2026 | Planned 2026 | Planned 2026 |
| Courts | 10 indoor (incl. 1 competition court) | 5 doubles + 2 singles | 4 panoramic | 10 (incl. tournament-grade show court) | Not yet announced | Not yet announced | Not yet announced | Not yet announced |
| Conversion | 40,000 sq ft former Cineworld; will be Glasgow's first dedicated indoor padel club | New Summer St; converted Land Rover Jaguar engineering plant; 10-min walk from Snow Hill | Streetsbrook Rd, Shirley; on Moseley Cricket Club site; pro shop + bistro café | 40,000 sq ft purpose-built padel warehouse - Pure Padel's first 'Centre of Excellence' | Not yet announced | Not yet announced | Not yet announced | Not yet announced |
How does Pure Padel actually work?
Pay-and-play, Playtomic-bookable, no membership fees
Pure Padel runs on a deliberately accessible model: pay-to-play via the Playtomic app rather than a member-only structure. That makes it easy for casual players to walk on without committing to a monthly fee, and easy for travelling players to book a court at any Pure Padel venue using a single app. Pricing is set per club rather than chain-wide - the 60-minute court rate at a city-centre indoor flagship runs higher than at an outdoor canopy site.
Most clubs also include licensed bars, cafés, pro shops and LTA-qualified coaching. Some sites add co-working space (a deliberate move toward the membership-club model that David Lloyd and Hexagon Health Clubs use, but layered onto a pay-to-play core).
What is Pure Padel's 30-by-30 strategy?
Founder Sammy Arora has set a personal ambition of "30 by 30" - 30 Pure Padel clubs by his 30th birthday. Pure Padel's own about page commits to 30 premium, purpose-built clubs over a five-year horizon. With 7 clubs open by May 2026 and 8+ in pipeline for 2026 alone, the company is running well ahead of the linear pace that target implies.
Arora's stated rationale for diversifying across indoor, canopy and outdoor formats is risk mitigation - quoted in The Padel Paper: "Our model is intentionally diversified to mitigate risk in a relatively new and untested market." That contrasts with Slazenger Padel's all-indoor warehouse-conversion model, which is more uniform but more exposed to industrial-property rents.