Danske Padel Klip
Three timelines: where the game itself came from, and then two countries that took it up and diverged. Sweden built first and hardest, and found the ceiling: 4,200 courts, then a wave of bankruptcies. Denmark started nine years later, grew more slowly, and ended up a recognised national sport. These are the timelines, entry by entry, with the source on every one and an honest note where the record runs out.
Where the game comes from, and how it reached the Nordics at all. One walled-in garden court in Acapulco in 1969, a federation in 1991, a world championship in 1992, a decade-long fight over who owns the professional tour, and 77,300 courts in 150 countries by the end of 2025. Built from FIP publications and padel press, with no primary dataset behind it.
From a court in Fredericia that was built in 2007 and, as far as anyone knows, never played on — through eight dormant years, a championship assembled from nothing in 2018, and admission to Danmarks Idrætsforbund as its 63rd federation. Built largely on the match record, so most entries trace to individual matches.
From a timber court in a shed outside Båstad to the second-largest court stock on earth, a players' revolt over who counts as Swedish, and a correction that took 113 padel companies with it. Built from public sources — the federation, Swedish padel press and FIP.
The Danish timeline draws on the results database behind this site, so it can be precise about season totals, first recorded matches and where the data itself begins. The worldwide page has no dataset behind it at all and leans entirely on FIP and padel press. There is no equivalent Swedish dataset here, so that page leans on published sources and says so. Neither page smooths over a gap: where something could not be confirmed, it is listed as missing rather than guessed.