UK Padel Tournaments Calendar 2026: A Guide

The headline event is the Premier Padel London P1, a stop on the global Qatar Airways Premier Padel Tour held in London in early August 2026. It brings the world's top men's and women's players to the UK for a week of elite competition, and it is the one fixture every fan should try to see live or stream. Premier Padel is the top professional tour, so the London P1 is by some distance the highest standard of padel played on British soil. Tickets are sold through the event's official channels, and the matches are streamed free (our guide to watching padel explains where).

Domestic competition is organised by the LTA (the Lawn Tennis Association, which governs padel in Britain), and the 2026 calendar features more than seventy official events. They are graded from 1 to 5. Grade 1 is the British Tour, the highest domestic level, attracting the best home ranked players and the most ranking points. Grade 2 is a strong national standard that often feeds into the British Tour. Grades 3 to 5 step down through regional and club-level competition, with Grade 5 aimed at players entering the competitive game for the first time. This grading runs through the whole calendar, so you can find an event pitched at your level wherever you sit. Padel (an enclosed-court racket sport) shares this LTA competitive framework with tennis.

Beyond the London P1, the calendar to follow is the LTA Padel British Tour (the Grade 1 series), which moves around the country through the year and is where Britain's best compete for national ranking points. Grade 2 events act as the rung just below, and there is a steady stream of Grade 3 to 5 tournaments at clubs nationwide for club and improver players. Junior and masters age-group events run alongside the open competitions. Because new tournaments are added regularly as the sport grows, the smartest approach is to filter the LTA's competitions listing by your region and grade rather than memorising fixed dates.

Entering is straightforward. You need to be registered with the LTA, then you browse the competitions calendar on the LTA Padel website, filter by grade, region and date, and enter online before the closing window. Lower grades are open to anyone of the right standard, so you do not need to qualify to play a Grade 4 or 5 event. Pick a grade that matches your level, enter with a partner, and you are in. If you are new to competition, start at Grade 5 and work up, and read our beginner's guide first to make sure the basics are in place.

The single authoritative source is the LTA Padel website's competitions section, which lists every sanctioned event with its grade, venue, dates and entry status, and lets you filter to find tournaments near you. For the professional tour, the Premier Padel website carries the global schedule and confirms when the London P1 and any other UK-relevant stops take place. Because the sport is expanding so quickly, these official listings are always more current than any fixed calendar published elsewhere, so bookmark them and check before you plan. To compete regularly rather than one-off, our guide to UK padel leagues covers the season-long option.